Does anybody know…

Does anybody know where I can get really good chicken rice in Sibu? The rice, that is. I find that the one here is nice but there is a need for some quality control. At times, it is just so-so, not really worth the trouble of making my way into town and going through the hassle of finding a parking space to go and eat. I liked the one here at our Sarawak’s own chicken rice franchise as well but I have not been since, not there nor any of the other outlets in town, so I do not know whether it is always this good or we just caught them on a good day.

This used to be the best in town but once, we found it rather disappointing but I did give it a try recently and thought it was not too bad, not as nice as before but it was good enough. Well, last Saturday, my girl said she would like to go there for the chicken rice and she did not want any of the pork so these were what we had…

– the chicken, steamed and roasted, and also the roast duck and we also had the stewed eggs…

All in all, inclusive of three plates of rice, the total came up to only RM17.00 plus. However, we did not think the rice was all that nice that day – it was all right, nicer than many around but no, it wasn’t anything like what it used to be.

And does anybody know where the beef noodles people have gone to? We liked it a lot and had gone there a few times just for that but when I walked around the place that day, they were no longer there! A lady selling mee sua was sitting at her stall, looking rather lost and forlorn. She did not seem to be getting any business at all and talking about business, it was lunchtime on a Saturday and the place was not very crowded, nothing like what it was like before. Does anybody know whether that was because of the poor economy in our country right now or people have moved elsewhere…where the food is nicer?

After lunch, my girl wanted to drop by the bakery round the corner, the subsidiary of our very own Sarawak fast food franchise, to buy some buns to bring to her school to eat in the week ahead. You see, with the current scorchingly hot and very dry weather we are experiencing right now, their water supply – they depend on the rain for that there – is running very low so there may be a need for water rationing and she does not want to do any cooking to avoid a whole lot of cleaning and washing up after that so as to save whatever little water they may have.

I just waited in the car and when she came back, she told me she had bought me these red velvet muffins…

…to try. I remember I had bought the same before from another outlet of this same bakery, except that it was one whole loaf and yes, it was pretty good and so were these…

…that my girl bought that day, soft and moist, but of course, I was wishing I had the cream cheese frosting to go with it. It is the combination that I enjoy and love a lot and without the frosting, it would boil down to being…just a cake. Still, it was way nicer than these but I think those were cheaper. I don’t see those around anymore – I guess they did not sell very well so nobody is stocking up on them anymore.

And does anybody know where I can get really really good red velvet cake in town, complete with the cream cheese frosting and all?