Always good…

Only the people at the Payung Cafe here…

…would place a tray of buah pinang (areca nut)…

…on the counter and that is decor…and whatever these are…

…they sure look nice as well. That’s Payung Cafe for you – unique, one of its kind and I would say the same about the dishes that they serve here.

My girl wanted their Bangladeshi lamb curry (RM19.00 with rice)…

…for lunch and when we got there, she wanted the green curry (RM16.00 with rice)…

…as well and the pomelo salad (RM8.00)…

…to go with our orders.

The green curry was exceptionally good that day, spicy and bursting with flavours but not too much to the extent of being overpowering, just right and we liked how there were a lot of terung pipit (solanum torvum)…

…in the dish, a must-have in every green curry.

I asked for a plate of rice (RM2.00) and we shared the aforementioned orders so our lunch that day came up to only RM35.00 and no, we did not have any dessert.

Actually, we dropped by there because one fine day, for some reason or other, my dad asked my missus to cook some kacang ma chicken for my bed-ridden mum – he does not eat that himself as he doesn’t have the acquired taste for it. Well, we’ve run out of the traditional Chinese white wine and right now, we are still waiting for the next supply of some really top quality ones. No point cooking if the wine is not good – it would not be as satisfying, and at times, far from it, in fact.

Well, since they do it pretty well here (RM15.00 without rice)…

…I thought we could go and buy some…

…for my mum to eat and when we have the wine, we can cook our own for her…and since we were going, I asked my girl whether she would want to have lunch there and she said yes.

I also bought this – ikan keli (catfish) cooked Foochow style (RM14.00 without rice)…

…with soy sauce and lots of ginger for my mum. I could see a lot of chilies in it so hopefully, she will not find it too spicy.

We certainly enjoyed the lunch and after that, off we went to send the stuff to my parents’ house for my mum to enjoy, fingers crossed.