Can’t resist…

It had been ages since we last had Thai, not since our favourite place called it a day owing to some internal problems that I shall not elaborate upon but I sure miss the place – all the lovely dishes served, all the nice people around.

Well, left with no other choice, the other night, we decided to drop by the other Thai place…

…in town…

…for dinner.

I was delighted to notice that they had a Christmas tree outside…

…and a small one inside at the cashier’s counter despite the fact that this place is Muslim-owned and they make up the majority of their clientele.

On our previous visits, we had a few hits and misses – not everything was to our liking and since we had a better place to go to, we had not been back here but not too long ago, my girl came with her Malay friends/colleagues and she said the sweet and sour fried sea bass (RM48.00)…

…was good so we ordered that.

Yes, I would say it was very nice – we sure enjoyed that very much except that the rest of the fish – the head, bone and tail was over-fried till it was so very hard that it was virtually impossible to salvage anything from it to eat and enjoy.

Before we went, I said that we would just order that and the seafood tom yam soup (RM25.00)…

…to go with rice. Yes, that tasted great and of course, for that price, it came across as no surprise that we only got three not-very-big prawns, two lokans (clams), no fish but a lot of fish balls, sotong (squid) and enoki mushroom…

Nonetheless, we ended up ordering the som tam/papaya salad (RM15.00)…

…as well and it was good and my girl wanted the pad Thai (RM13.50)…

…too – she had that on her previous visit and I guess she liked it a lot and wanted to have it again. Actually, she wanted to try their boat noodles, very prominently listed in their menu but we were told that they were not available, no reason given.

On my part, I could not resist ordering my favourite Thai dessert, the mango sticky rice (RM16.50)…

…even though the price was a little on the steep side plus the serving was not all that big but thankfully, it was very nice and well worth it.

The total, inclusive of drinks, came up to RM129.10…and the cashier did ask me if I had a 10 sen coin and I said no. Much to my delight, she just waived it and charged me RM129.00 only. Yes, it was only 10 sen but I do appreciate the gesture and like I have said many times before, little things do mean a lot!

I would say that was a pleasant dinner and yes, we certainly would want to go back there again.

SAKHON THAI RESTAURANT (2.308351, 111.820696) is located at No. 67 & 69, Jalan Kuda 2, Kampung Nangka, right across from Cabe Ijo in the next block, both facing the main entrance of Bisonte Grocer & Deli.