My lucky day…

Last Sunday, we wanted to go and check out the new hypermart in town – the previous one did not last very long, just opened around May last year and we planned to have lunch here on the ground floor of the mall.

When we got there, we saw a very long line of cars on the other side of the road, all queuing up to wait for their turn to drive into the megamall. Gosh!!! They could not even drive into that big place! We decided right away that we would go and check that place out some other day and  headed to the town outlet of that same café for lunch.

They were having a Vietnamese coffee promotion right now so my missus and I had that (RM7.90 each)…

…while my girl had a fruit juice. I had had Vietnamese coffee elsewhere before that was quite good and the one here was no exception but at that price, I certainly would think twice about having it again.

My girl had their creamy pasta (RM18.90)…

…and she sure enjoyed it a lot – she said it was nicer than a lot of places in town.

They were having a PRAWN-LICIOUS promotion too and I decided to pick one of the options in their special menu – their freshwater prawn noodles in creamy tom yam soup served in a young coconut. When it was served…

…to say that we were impressed would be an understatement. Those gigantic prawns…

…would be selling for some RM80 a kilo at the market and you would not get all that many when they are that big, maybe 5 or 6 and we got two of the crustaceans. I just bought some at the market the other day, RM55.00 a kg and what I got were around half the size!

Much to my delight, I found that there was this pinkish orange stuff…

…in the heads. This is so nice (though some say all the cholesterol is in the prawn’s head and the body is fine) and I have a feeling that there is a conspiracy between the sellers and the people at the restaurants. They seem to have this in all their prawns but when I buy any home, there’s none at all in the heads.

The creamy tom yam soup was absolutely delicious and the noodles were perfectly done. There was enough in the coconut for five bowls of this size…

…so I do think this can be shared by two or perhaps even three. The coconut was very young and of course, we scraped off all the flesh inside to enjoy.

This was priced at RM38.90 but at this point in time, they were having a 20% discount on all the items on their menu so that would work out to around RM30.00 only, around the same as at some coffee shops for one prawn only, cut into halves and their prawns are not as big plus theirs would just be the regular Foochow noodles soup with the prawns added and prices may go up to even RM50 or 60 for just one prawn, depending on the size. I don’t know how true it is but I heard the ones at this very popular place here are now RM45.00 a plate/bowl with only one and a half not really big prawns cut into halves so it would look like three prawns and anyhow, I am not keen on going back there for theirs because of the msg overdose I encountered the last time I went.

That certainly was a delightful lunch and when I checked their Facebook page, I found out that they only have this prawn promotion at their town outlet that we went to, not the one we originally wanted to go at the megamall. Gee! It sure was our lucky day!

CAFE CAFE, Sibu  (2.287387, 111.826487) is located somewhere in the middle of the block of shops along Jalan Chew Geok Lin – the Tua Pek Kong Temple and the Seven-storey Pagoda is to the left, across the road from the bank at the end of the block.