All in…

For RM350.00, less than SGD or AUD120.00, you can get this package deal at this restaurant…

…at Jalan Chengal here in Sibu (2.285006, 111.834170) for 10 persons…0r 12, if you can manage to squeeze in two more into one table

There is this Four Seasons platter…

…for starters, only four – not as many as what one would usually get at the restaurants here for their regular dinner packages but these were good enough. I loved particularly the fish roll wrapped in bean curd skin and deep fried, served with its special red sauce – very nice!

At this unbelievable price, you cannot expect to get the not-be-named soup and any of those exclusive expensive soups but this one…

…I would say, is very much nicer than any of those gooey, all-corn-starch thick and sticky soups. This is a bowl of very clear and refreshing soup with lightly-fried golden hardboiled eggs, slices of chicken, some Chinese cabbage and these very very nice meatballs…

I don’t know how nice they are actually as my girl loved it so much that I gave her mine – there was just enough to go round, one each.

This stewed chicken…

…is literally served in a wooden barrel ( or on the outside, at least) and is very very good too. I would put in a special request for fresh baby corn though…or they can just leave that out all together – I really am not a fan of those canned ones.

The steamed fish…

…Teochew-style is very nice too but no, at that price, you can’t jolly well expect to get white pomfret (pek chio/bawal putih)or any of the worth-its-weight-in-gold fish. Somebody said this was the “golden pomfret” (kim chio), not as fine and smooth as the white variety and the taste is not as strong as the black ones (or chio/bawal hitam), probably something in between the two. I think my missus has bought this from the market before and we’ve had it at home, most probably deep fried or as a sweet and sour fish dish.

And talking about sweet and sour, there is also this pork dish…

…sweet and sour, no less.

I hear this…

…is very popular in Singapore – bayam served with deep-fried century eggs and lots of whole cloves of garlic. I have never had this before and I must say I do enjoy the bayam though I can’t say I am a fan of century eggs deep fried.

Lastly, just to make sure that you will not go home hungry, there is this plate of fried rice…

…followed by a huge plate of fresh fruits – that day, we had watermelon, honey dew, pomelo and so on.

So what do you think, all in – 8 dishes, including the fruits, for RM350.00?