Some folks…

…have opened this new place…

…here in the Tunku Osman area right next door to this coffee shop.

As far as I am concerned, this is one of the worst locations especially on working/school days as parking is practically impossible and it sure does not help one bit that they open during the busiest hours, 8.30 a.m. till 3.30 p.m. I certainly would avoid this area after school hours at around noon as the parents of the students at the school at the back would flock here to pick up their kids instead of going to the front entrance on the other side.

I guess like that beef noodle place that I blogged about not too long ago, the best time to go would be on Sundays and that was exactly what we did – after the church service…

…on Easter Sunday morning when finding a place to park the car would be quite a breeze.

It looks like a pretty decent place…

…a little inclined towards things Vietnamese…

…and since they can’t get an authentic sun hat for the decor, the Melanau one will have to do…

Hehehehehe!!!!

I saw the Vietnamese coffee strainers/filters on the counter so I went closer to see what brand they had on the shelf…

Hmmmm!!!! Trung Nguyen, one of the leading brands in Vietnam. I did blog about it once when I got a packet from my niece, the one working in Singapore. Well, as long as it is not one of those that came out of an animal’s you-know-which-hole, I would be fine with it.

My missus wanted the grilled chicken rice…

…and one look at it, I am sure you would not blame us for feeling a little disappointed the moment it was served. The chopped bits of carrot and whatever beside the rice was coleslaw and they certainly were not all that generous with the chicken…

…but if I remember correctly, that was only RM5.50, not too expensive. I suppose it tasted all right, not anything to shout about – my missus did not say anything about it.

I asked for the nasi lemak special…

…and therein lay another disappointment. The rice hardly had any santan (coconut milk) richness and fragrance and there wasn’t any ikan bilis (dried anchovies) by the side and the salsa-looking thing…

…was actually the sambal and to give credit where credit is due, it actually tasted quite nice despite the fact that it did not look anything like the real thing. The drumstick was all right, nothing great that would get me to want to order this again ever.

I ordered the panini egg and beef…

…for my girl and she was put off the instant it was served – they had just used ordinary bread instead of panini in which case they should have called it an egg or beef sandwich (the other option available is tuna)…and Vietnamese bánh mì, it certainly wasn’t!

It tasted quite good though and my girl loved the beef brisket…

…inside the beef ones. I went to ask where they got it from – I had not seen any in town – and the girl told me that it was a joint order together with one of those (expensive) branded coffee places in town. Hmmmmm!!!

The sweet young girl was running the place all by herself with the help of her very nice mum. According to the latter, everything served here is msg free which is one good thing, I would say. However, I don’t think I would be coming back again for any of the things we had ordered…except maybe for the beef sandwiches and I will call them that till they start serving them with the right kind of bread – those grilled lines on the toasted sandwich bread sure do not count.

I did notice though that everyone else was having the beef bihun (rice vermicelli) and it so happened that an ex-student, now a dentist in town, dropped by and he too ordered that…and later, he told me that it was good and worth a try. I wonder if that was anything like the celebrated Vietnamese pho but I guess to find out, it will have to wait till the next time I drop by.

Incidentally, Huai Bin dropped by my place yesterday to pass me this…

– Hokkaido red bean Kit Kat! Obviously, he brought that back with him on his recent trip to the Land of the Rising Sun. I really appreciate how people are so thoughtful, carting home a little something for everybody while on their travels. Of course I have not tried it yet – that will have to wait till my girl comes home this weekend. Aren’t we parents all the same? Thanks so much, Huai Bin…and to you too, Ling.

Outside inside…

My girl wanted the seafood curry rice (RM17.50)…

…for lunch last Saturday so there we were back at this place again for that. We had that a number of times before and loved it very much.

I asked my girl if it was all right and she said yes, but the fish was not well-cooked inside. My guess was that the chef did not defrost it completely or it was that kind of frozen fish fillet that was kind of jelly-like inside. The prawns were great, nice and firm and there were mussels, squids and everything else in the thick and rich curry gravy…

Truly a delightful dish!

I ordered the chicken egg roll (RM12.00)…

…from the Indian cuisine menu for the ladies to try. I tried it once before and thought it was really nice…

…and yes, they too thought it was indeed very good…but personally, perhaps it would be nicer if they had served it a little tilted like this…

…to subtly reveal what was on the inside and also to add a little bit of colour to the otherwise dull and colourless presentation.

I decided to try their nasi goreng amplop (RM14.50)…

…which I guess, is the Indonesian variation of the Thai-style Pattaya fried rice. It was nice, the fried rice, wrapped in the omelette and the fried chicken wing but my favourite remains unchanged – their opor ayam…or my missus’ favourite, the kalio ayam, would probably be a better choice as well.

This was their special for the day, the ikan kembung sumbat served with kerabu and skinless/skinned brinjal with its very nice special sauce (RM17.00)…

For the uninitiated, the ikan kembung is one of the many varieties of fish found in this region. My missus had that and she asked for the side to be extra spicy and indeed, they were – VERY spicy but she said it was not really so, just nice, just the way she would like it.

I was not very clear regarding the explanation given but it  was something like they had to take out the bones of the fish and mix prawns and whatever else that made up the filling to stuff the fish so even though it looked like any other ikan kembung on the outside, maybe a little fatter than usual, it was nothing like the  usual inside…

I thought it tasted something like the filling in lor bak/ngor hiang (meat roll) but with seafood, not meat.

My missus enjoyed it…

…very much but my girl and I had to help her a bit with it as the serving was quite big and unless one is a big eater like me, it would probably be better to order this to be shared by two…or one can also order a soup like the sup tulang, for instance, from the menu to go along with it and that would be great for three.

Times…

This is new (2.291548, 111.828176)…

…though I really wonder whether there is a need for the s in the name as the meaning then would be quite different. It is located among the blocks of shops along Brooke Drive on the left if you are driving towards town, just before the bend into Kpg Nyabor Road that will take you to the Sibu General Post Office on your right.

My guess was that it would be another of those coffee places that are sprouting all over town like mushrooms after the rain…

…and this one has an upper floor…

…so one can choose to either sit upstairs or downstairs and enjoy the coffee…

…which does seem a little cheaper than most here…

…and pick the cake…

…or whatever…

…one would like to choose to have…

…to go with it.

I did not have any of those though as I only dropped by that day to buy a few of these…

…home to try – the curry chicken pie and the chicken potato pie (RM2.50 each).

My girl preferred the chicken potato…

…but I felt the curry chicken…

…was a little nicer – no, not a lot nicer, just a little.

However, though I thought both were good, I would not be rushing back for more, that’s for sure. The nice ones here are bigger and a whole lot tastier but those are getting more and more expensive – RM3.80 at the moment.

 Sighhhhhh!!!!

Heads or tails…

Good Friday is a day of fasting and abstinence for us…but not for me. Being over 60 years old, I am exempted but yes, I do abstain from meat though not just on this day but every Friday throughout the year…as far as I can.

I read somewhere that fasting does not mean one has to go without food completely, just two snacks and one small meal in the day but anyway, we usually have a bite of something light in the morning, a cracker or a toast or an egg perhaps and nothing for the rest of the day, no lunch, no 10 o’ clock or 4 o’ clock tea and in the evening, we would have dinner as usual.

That was what we did this year too and at sundown, we went here for dinner…

…After the somewhat prolonged service that afternoon, the ladies were in a rush to go to the washroom and so they did, leaving me to grab a table and place the orders.

The rule in the past was not to eat meat on Fridays but we could eat fish instead. Maybe that was because fish came easy then and meat was more of a luxury – some of us would recall those times when we only had meat once a year, Chinese New Year! Times sure have changed and these days, some fish may be worth its weight in gold…so it would not be much of a sacrifice to go for fish and seafood instead of meat, actually.

They had lajong and as my girl did not get to enjoy that the last time I took her to go and have some, I decided to order that without a second thought. I was asked to choose whether I wanted the head or the tail. Hmmmm…I would have loved the head but when it comes to fish, my girl prefers the tail so that was what we had in the end…

I was wondering why I was given the choice. Usually, it would be one slab of it, big enough to go round and I was thinking that perhaps, they had run out of all that was in between and all they had left was the head part and the tail part. When it was served, it looked like it was a very small one cut into two – hence, the head or the tail but it was no matter, as despite the size, there was a lot of it to eat (RM21.00)…

…and it was very fresh – so smooth, so soft and so sweet – and we sure enjoyed it to the max. My girl was never a fan of steamed fish before this so that was why we never ordered it whenever we ate out – she did not mind those served at banquets that she got to attend but no, she would never ask for it. She must have enjoyed it so much that night that it prompted her to remark that now, she could understand why there were people who would go out of their way in search of places that served very nice steamed fish.

For the vegetable dish, I asked for the midin (wild jungle fern), ching chao (RM8.00)…

…which was nice but I spotted some very very thin strips of ginger in it. Normally, I would use ginger when I fry the ferns with our traditional Foochow red wine but for ching chao, it would just be finely-chopped garlic. I guess there is no steadfast rule as to what goes where and when – to each his own.

Knowing how my girl loves sotong (squids), I ordered this big plate of salad sotong (RM10.00)…

…for her to enjoy and indeed, she did! In fact, she said that she liked that more than the very nice honey pepper prawns (RM12.00)…

…that we also had.

That was supposed to be the “small meal” for the day and when I was ordering, I kept emphasising to the lady that I wanted everything very small, just enough for two…and she kept saying yes. I would say the servings would be enough for 4 or 5, at least. I wonder if one can order servings enough for one or not – otherwise, the next time around, I would have to drag along one or two other persons…and order enough for two. Anybody keen on tagging along? LOL!!!

All dried up…

This is pian sip, the soup version of the meat dumplings…

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…the way we grew up eating them.

When I was young, we seldom ate out. Our house was not within walking distance and we could only get to town on a bicycle or by bus. Walking was completely out of the question. That was why we only got to eat at a coffee shop after the Sunday service in church and most of the time, we would go for the once-a-week treat of kampua noodles so the pian sip, soup had to take a back seat.

I did ask for the pian sip for a change on a few rare occasions and I can remember how hot it was and how I invariably ended up having to endure a burnt tongue the rest of the day. Perhaps that was why somebody came out with the idea of serving the dumplings dry…

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…or maybe they had them that way before, just that we did not know of it then.

Called kiaw in Kuching, ours are different from the wanton dumplings elsewhere – the skin is different. These days, you can buy it any day anytime at the wet market in town from the stalls selling tofu and taugeh (bean sprouts). I remember going to buy it once at a shop opposite the fire station here and one would have to buy by the kilo…and obviously, that would be a whole lot of skin! I don’t know if it was available at the market or not then but what I do know is at that time, one could buy the dried version of the skin…

…to cook at home and that was what my mum did quite regularly.

I have not eaten that for a long, long time now – ever since I got married or ever since we started living on our own. Maybe my missus never used to cook that – her house was a couple of minutes from the town so I guess whenever she felt like eating pian sip, she could just walk to the nearest coffee shop for that – no need to go through the hassle of cooking one’s own, those days when kampua noodles was 50 cents a plate, 30 cents without meat and my guess is a big bowl of pian sip at the time would be 50 cents as well.

The other day, I felt like cooking that so I went and bought a packet…

…from the shop near my house and no, it is not all that cheap at RM3.20 a packet, considering that you can get a pack of 5 packets of instant noodles for just a little bit more than that, less than RM4.00.

First, I boiled some water in a pot, half-filled, before adding 3 cloves of garlic and some meatballs…

…and when it had resumed boiling, I added a bit of chicken stock cube (in place of msg) and two tablespoons of fish sauce (in place of light soy sauce – we do not have that in the house). I let it simmer for a while to let the taste of the meat and everything come out and go into the soup…

…before turning off the heat. Of course, there is no way of wrapping the meat in the skin so this is the only way one can go about cooking it.

I chopped some spring onions that I had growing outside our house and fried some sliced shallots in a bit of oil till golden brown…

…and put those aside for garnishing later. I also drizzled a bit of the shallot oil onto the soup for that delightful fragrance. Of course, it would be great if I had used lard instead of our regular cooking oil but I did not have any.

My mum would cook the dried pian sip skin in the soup and it would be all right come lunch time, still a lot of soup but we usually had one big pot of it and by dinnertime, it would have all dried up and all we had left to eat would be the skin and the meat, no soup. That was why I boiled the skin separately till soft and then place it in a bowl before adding the soup and the meatballs and garnishing…

There you are! It sure looked great, don’t you think? Well, take my word for it – it tasted great too…

…especially for someone like me who would enjoy anything in nice clear bone-stock soup.

Incidentally, I found that I had to boil the skin for quite a while. Initially, when it had turned soft, it would still be a little chewy, something along the same line as kueh chap, not quite like pian sip. Cooked pian sip skin is so very very soft and smooth one can just swallow without much chewing – just let it slide down your throat.

Of course, now that fresh pian sip skin is so easily available, one might as well go for that and wrap the meat inside, the way it should be. These dried ones would probably be good for sending to people elsewhere, especially the ones overseas who may happen to be craving for it…plus this would be a lot easier to keep for use.

FOOTNOTE:
Gee!!! This is my 3,000th post…with over 1,900,000 views and over 80,000 comments. Not too bad, eh? For a small-time blogger from a small town where nothing much ever happens. Thank you all for your support – keep dropping by and do feel free to comment…anytime. Always love to hear from you…and yes, a very Blessed Easter to one and all!

The movie in my mind…

In my post on the fun fair here in town the other day, the discussion in some of the comments gave mention to some of the amusement parks in Singapore going way back to a long long time ago. I was quite sure that the fair was no longer active at Great World when I was there in 1973 but it says here in wiki that it was not till 1978 that they actually closed it down.

One thing that I can remember for sure was that there was a cinema in that amusement park, the Globe, showing reruns of old movies that I had missed when I was in school as I was not allowed to attend most of the good shows that hit the silver screen at the time on school days and one that I clearly remember was this one – S.W.A.L.K Melody and my favourite song from the soundtrack…

Now that we are on the topic of the old cinemas in Singapore, I remember going to the Lido along Orchard Road/Scotts Road to watch this movie from which this theme song was taken from…

…but that was not in 1973. I think it was the end of 1969 or early 1970 when I visited Singapore for the first time. Of course, while I was there 1973/74, I did see a lot of movies at a number of the cinemas there including the Orchard at Grange Road and the movie and theme song that has stayed in my mind all these years would be this one…

Memories light the corners of my mind
Misty water-coloured memories of the way we were…

Ah yes!!! I remember I went to the Jurong Drive-in too but I cannot remember what movie we watched that night…and of course I went to shows at the Cathay as well…and the Capitol – I remember the little coffee house/ice cream palour beside its entrance along North Bridge Road and yes, there was the Odeon at North Bridge Road where I watched the Poseidon Adventure and it was around that time, I think it was the following day that we received news of this tragedy at the mouth of the Rejang River…and I think it was at the Odeon too that I saw The Towering Inferno and when I came out of the cinema, there was a massive fire at some of the rows of old shophouses in the vicinity. Talk about coincidences!

I do not go to the movies anymore these days not at those prices one would need to fork out to see one. Why, they are no longer called cinemas. Now, they have cineplexes or the one here in Sibu is a trioplex – with three halls. I think there are others elsewhere with a lot more and trying to buy a ticket can be quite a pain especially if there is a box office hit showing at the same time…and one would have to be careful not to buy a ticket for the wrong movie. Oh dear!!! Needless to say, you would be hard-pressed to ever get to see something like this outside…

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– something some of us may remember, a regular feature outside some cinemas around at the time.

What about you? Is there any movie that you hold dear to your heart, memories of when you watched it at a cinema…

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…a long long time ago?

She did that…

My late aunt, the eldest of the siblings and the matriarch in the family after my maternal grandma passed away, used to cook steamed minced pork with soy sauce and she would always add an egg on top. I remember I enjoyed that a lot but I never asked how she did that and how I could go about doing the same.

My missus would cook the same at home a little differently, following her own family recipe. If I am not wrong, she would add chopped Bombay onion and thinly sliced shitake mushrooms…and what we call tang chai aka tianjin preserved vegetables (which I can’t say I am all that fond of) and the dish would taste exactly the same everytime unlike me and my half-baked efforts at cooking anything.

Anyway, we had some leftover plain porridge the other morning from the night before so I decided to steam a bit of minced pork with cincaluk – the same way that I cooked the chicken the other day with those fermented shrimps and tuak, our traditional ethnic rice wine. Of course, I had run out of the wine so I decided to do without it.

Firstly, I mixed the minced meat with some cincaluk, a few slices of ginger, one stick of serai, cut into two and bruised…and some daun kesum (laksa leaves)…

Oopsss!!! I forgot all about the chili, but never mind – we can dab our own pounded chili later if we would like it hot.

After that, I broke an egg into the bowl…

…and mixed it well with everything in it. This was to bind everything together in the process of steaming. I steamed that for around 15-20 minutes and then I took it out to add the egg on top. Once I had done that, I put it back into the steamer to continue with the steaming till the egg was cooked…

Hmmm….I do not recall what my late aunt’s used to look like – I can only remember how I enjoyed eating it. For one thing, since she used dark soy sauce, there was a lot more contrast and hers did not look so pale. I should have added a bit of chili and/or sprinkled some chopped spring onion for that badly-needed colour.

The egg looked like it was overdone but when I checked, I found that it was all right, the yolk was still runny…

…inside.

It tasted great but I missed the tuak – with the wine, the chicken had an edge over this dish…

…so the next time I cook this, perhaps I should try adding some traditional white cooking wine – the one we use for cooking kacang ma chicken. I am pretty sure it would be nicer.

Anyway, since I still had some minced meat left, yesterday, I decided to cook this dish the way my late aunt did it – no onion, no tang chai, no wine. I just marinated the meat with soy sauce, a bit of sugar and pepper and cornflour. Don’t ask me about the cornflour – I went and browsed through some recipes and saw that they added that, that or tapioca flour. I also read that they mixed the white of the egg with the meat and left the yolk to be placed on top like this…

I should have done it my own way – add one whole egg and mix with the meat and break another egg on top…and I could not resist adding lots of chopped spring onions seeing that I’ve a lot growing out of a pot outside.

It tasted really great though – I sure would want to try again and I’ll make sure that I get it right next time.

Back to work…

The one-week mid-term holidays were coming to the end and it was almost time for my girl to head back to work. That was why I wanted to take her some place for a specially nice lunch, one where she could get to enjoy what she truly loved…and in the end, she chose to come here for her favourite spinach and egg pizza (RM28.00)…

…aka the Bracio di Ferro.

I know jolly well that she loves lasagna a lot but that day, she was hesitant and did not want to order that…and knowing her only too well, I could guess the reason why – these things do not come cheap and she insisted the pizza would be enough for our lunch. That was why I just went ahead and asked for it (RM18.00)…

…anyway and of course, she enjoyed it so very much…

…and of course, that pleased me…a lot!

The mum wanted the teriyaki chicken chop (RM16.00) that she had before and enjoyed very much so we had that too. Yes, it was nicely done, very fragrant from the grilling…

…and we loved the coleslaw a lot too. It sure was different from when she had it before…

…and we would say it was very much nicer this time around.

The following day, Sunday, we sent here back to her school but it ain’t so bad actually as time really flies and it is already Maundy or Holy Thursday today so she will be coming back again this afternoon. Tomorrow, Good Friday, is a public holiday here in Sarawak and the school is taking Easter Monday off, so it will be an extended long weekend here for us. Nice!!!

Fairground…

There was a fun and food fair here last week probably held in conjunction with the launching of the Visit Sibu Year 2017 and if I am not mistaken, it is still going on right now until the Ching Ming weekend, 3rd April.

My girl and the mum did go the Friday the week before when she came back from her school for the week-long holidays but they said that they went early at around 5 something so most of the stalls were still closed and it looked like there were not that many compared to the food fairs in previous years.

That was why when we went again, we made sure we did not go so early, this time at around 6.30 p.m. There was this old-school Ferris wheel…

…that thrilled us to no end way back then in the 50’s. I would have thought they would have something a lot more interesting and exciting these days. I don’t recall having this…

…in our time but I guess that is more or less the same thing as the Ferris wheel, possibly a little more exciting with the feet dangling precariously over the edge in the air like that. We did have the carousel or the merry-go-round where we could ride  the horses and go round and round and they did not have that. I did see a small one with what looked like aeroplanes or spaceships – I guess in principle, that is the one and the same thing.

There was also a big area with all the Doraemon-themed rubber inflatables, probably all the slides but I did not bother to go closer to check. There were also those bumper cars that you can enjoy in air-conditioned comfort at the amusement centres in the malls and a lot of those fun-fair games stalls, nothing much to shout about really.

As for the food stalls, we stopped by this one…

…but seeing that it was so expensive, RM10.00 each, I was not all that keen on buying…

…but my missus insisted so she bought one…

…for us to try. It was nice, period.

On the other side, there was a stall where they made these Chinese chive pancakes…

They were selling for only RM3.00 each…

…and they even had free samples for anyone interested in tasting it but we had no intention of buying so we did not bother.

I spotted this lady from the hawker centre near my house selling her satay and there were a whole lot of others selling all those Sibu Foochow delights…

…and those selling burgers, Taiwanese sausages…

…and so on and so forth. There was even a stall selling these pies…

…but no, I did not grab any. The boy said they were still in the process of heating them up and I would have to wait for at least half an hour. I just told him I could always drop by the shop anytime for those should I feel like having any and left.

We stopped by this stall…

…that my girl and the mum went to on their earlier visit. The fried or koi (yam cake) was not good but the sio pao…

…was not too bad, chunks of meat inside, even though the outer appearance sure needed a lot of improvement and I would say the same about the curry puffs…

…too. Well, the ladies wanted to go back there as they bought the Sibu Foochow sio bee…

…as well that day and they turned out to be very nice plus they were only 60 sen each, a whole lot cheaper than elsewhere…and my girl wanted to buy some of the frozen ones to take back to her school to eat there.

On the whole, I found it all rather unexciting and most disappointing. If it was intended to promote Sibu for the Visit Sibu Year 2017, they should have handpicked the very best in town to set up their stalls here – the best Sibu kampua noodles, the best kompia, dianpianngu and all the attractions…like how when they had a Penang food fair some place, they would get the best cendol people, the best char kway teow sellers to go and showcase the best of the best in the state…and not leave it to any Tom, Dick or Harry to set up the stalls according to their whims and fancies. If this is all I can expect to find in such future events, don’t count on seeing me there ever again, thank you very much.

Pick one…

My girl wanted to go back to this place again that day to see what other pasta dishes they have on their menu. She had the Alfredo the last time and I ordered the house pasta with extra roast pork minus the prawns for her and the mum to try and yes, they liked it.

Water is on the house and this time around, they came in these nice mugs…

We promptly placed our orders and sat there waiting.

In the meantime, the nice waiter assumed that we would be sharing so on his own accord, he gave each of us one of those smaller individual plates. I do appreciate his initiative – that, I must say, is very good – but unfortunately, I noticed that one of the plates was chipped…

They should ask the people concerned to be more careful in handling the crockery and considering the fine dining prices that they charge, if they want to maintain their image as a classy place, they should get rid of all those chipped plates and not use them anymore. Actually, I spotted one the first time I was here but I did not mention it…but just in case it is starting to become a habit, that has left me with no choice this time around.

I ordered the aglio olio pasta with chili flakes (RM18.00)…

…and asked for their very nice homemade sausage (RM23.00) that I had the first time I was here for the ladies to try. They liked it, tasted something like those chorizo sausages, they said. The pasta was more or less like what they call their house pasta but it was nice and we enjoyed it very much.

My girl picked the seafood cioppino (RM39.00)…

…and that came with one HUGE freshwater prawn – if you go for those overrated very popular prawn noodles in town or elsewhere, one this size (cut into halves to make it look like you’re getting two) would set you back by at least RM30.00 or perhaps even RM50.00. There were also some of those not-very-cheap mussels…

…and sotong (squids) in the pasta…and yes, it was nice but personally, when it comes to tomato-based sauces, I would prefer bolognese even though I am not entirely fond of that either.

My missus ordered their baked cheese rice (RM17.00)…

…with pork from their set lunch menu so it came with a free drink, one ice-cold Ribena – it is a little cheaper if you opt for chicken and another option that I can’t quite remember now, fish, I think. They certainly were very generous with the meat and of all the three, I thought this one was the nicest of the lot.

I spotted some guys at the bar section enjoying the German pork knuckle but it was so huge that the 5 or 6 of them could not finish. It looked really very nice but I think I would have to find a few people to come here together with me if ever I were to get to try that.

All in all, it was a good lunch albeit a little heavy, service was great – everyone was very pleasant and friendly and other than the chipped plate that would call for a bit of attention on their part, we did have to wait quite a bit for everything to be served (but my more-patient girl retorted that great food would take a bit more time) plus I do wish they would turn down the music a bit. Maybe they can turn up the volume after 9.00 p.m. perhaps for those there for the drinks…