On Sunday, I had to send my girl back to her jungle school as usual so my Kuching cousins and company had to be left to their own devices.
However, they were not really left on their own as I had arranged for my friend, Mary, to prepare her awesomely special chicken rice for them here so there they were at around noon for the steamed kampung (village free-range) chicken…
*SK Hii’s photo on Facebook*
…and the out-of-this-world rice…
*SK Hii’s photo on Facebook*
They had been going around here and there eating this and that and at first, they thought they did not want too many bowls of the rice but once they tried, they actually wanted more but they had to refrain from ordering a second helping as they had to save some tummy space for the rest of the day. Yes, it was that good!
They also ordered their seafood glass noodles salad…
*SK Hii’s photo on Facebook*
…and yes, they liked it a lot too.
After I came home, I had a nap and a good rest before venturing out in the evening to meet them here for dinner. They had made a prior reservation at the restaurant and had ordered this plate of pork ribs…
…which tasted great but we all agreed that what we had at the Italian fusion restaurant two nights earlier was a whole lot nicer.
They wanted the Foochow fried noodles…
…and they loved it to bits. “Next time, we will just come here for this,” one declared, “No need to try anywhere else!” I would agree that it did taste really good though it looked kind of pale and I am more accustomed to the ones that are a shade darker.
They also wanted the bitter gourd with salted eggs…
– one dish that they had acquired the taste for here in Sibu and they have loved it since…and yes, they do it pretty well here too.
I ordered this fried midin (wild jungle fern) with belacan (dried prawn paste)…
…to see if it was any better than what we had the night before but no, I thought it was more or less the same though it did look a whole lot nicer. There would be other better ones elsewhere, not here. Having said that, there can be no denying that it was good enough and I saw my niece, the one home from Perth, Australia, piling a whole lot onto her plate. I guess she was making the most of the opportunity as she would not be able to find it there and who knows when she will be coming back this way again for this.
I also ordered a few of the celebrated Sibu Foochow sio bee…
…from this restaurant for them to try but it did not seem to get them all excited. I thought the ones here were nicer than those that we had for lunch the day before but I don’t quite recall them being so small and looking like that. I could have sworn that they were somewhat different and a whole lot bigger!
Other than the aforementioned, we had the signature dishes of the house – their fried pek chio or ikan bawal putih (white pomfret)…
…and also their checkerboard duck…
…and we had these mochi stuffed with mango…
…for dessert.
I think the bill came up to around RM250.00, a little bit more than what my girl forked out for our dinner that night at the Italian restaurant (around RM210.00) but there were only 7 of us while this time around, there were 9 – they had other guests joining us that night for the dinner.
...STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS! 