Spoke too soon…

I said I would not want to go back there again and I guess I spoke too soon as it so happened that I had no choice and was at that same restaurant with my family for dinner the very next evening! Tsk! Tsk! LOL!!!

Well, my niece (my brother-in-law’s daughter), the one working in Singapore, flew home to vote and also to celebrate Mother’s Day with her grandma and mum and my missus (her aunt)…and also the latter’s birthday. They wanted to book a table here but it was full and it was full here too – the boss said we could go and wait at around 7.00 p.m. Those who had booked for 6.00 p.m. might have finished by then and we probably would be able to grab a table. My brother-in-law was not keen on the idea especially with my mother-in-law coming and she is not all that mobile at this point in time. So, that left them with no choice…and there we all were that night but my mother-in-law had a last minute change of heart and she did not join us.

For my missus’ birthday, my niece brought home this assortment of cakes from Cedele in Singapore…

…but it fell apart in the course of all that travelling – from Singapore to KL and then to Sibu. The one with the candle on top was the banana something which wasn’t banana cake actually. It turned out to be just chocolate cake and in the cream in between the top and bottom halves were slices of fresh bananas. The green one next to it, anti-clockwise, was the gula Melaka and I loved that one – I think the cake was pandan and it kind of reminded me of nyonya kuehs which I have a soft spot for. Next was the double chocolate, the same chocolate cake with lots of chocolate cream and chocolate all over, followed by two big slices of the carrot cake that we had the last time and the ones with the yellow stripes on top were the sea salt and again, it was the chocolate cake but this time, the cream on top had sea salt in it so it was very lightly salty and not all that sweet. Generally, I found that they were all too sweet and/or too rich with all that cream that I could barely manage one slice if I were to eat it on my own – but sampling a bit of each was fine.

Ok, so there we were back at “that restaurant” and since it was partly a birthday celebration, we had their fried mee sua (longevity noodles)…

…which was all right, a little moist – just a little and no, it was not anything to get me jumping up and down with delight.

This, however…

…has been my favourite ever since they first opened their doors and started this restaurant – their signature dish, the braised pork belly served with these steamed buns…

…and yes, it was as good as ever…

…and I just could not resist having one…and another…and just one more! Forgive me for I have sinned…but I had been good all this while and had not had any for quite a long time now. Hehehehehe!!!

We also had the hot and sour (Szechuan)  soup…

…but I just had a sip before I realised that those thin strips could be bamboo shoots so I just left the rest untouched. I did think, however, that what we had here was nicer, more sourish and tastier.

The sweet and sour fish fillet…

…was not nice – especially since the batter coating had gone all soggy and other than the aforementioned, we also had these two dishes that we had the night before – their bean combo, the Four Heavenly Kings…

…and the butter prawns…

I guess they just ordered it like that and did not request for the creamy version so this was what we got.

We did not order any rice and when we got there, the waitress said that there were so many people and therefore, we had a choice of either plain water or Chinese tea and those were the drinks we had that night…and the bill came up to a whooping total of RM180.00, double of what we paid for our dinner here not too long ago…but no, I shall not say it again as with my mulut masin, I might just find myself back there again sooner than I thought I would.