My ex-Kanowit students had planned a get-together at their classmate’s restaurant that Saturday afternoon after the wedding on Friday before going our separate ways.
However, we were there just two nights ago and I did hear that my ex-student, the owner of that restaurant, has a son…
…who has branched out to open his own restaurant…
…so I suggested going there instead and everybody…
…agreed.
While waiting for the food, they took out their old photographs…
*Ex-student’s photograph*
…and everyone was stunned to see that after 40 years, I could still remember the names of so many of their classmates when I asked them where so and so was at this point in time. Sometimes, I truly amaze myself! LOL!!!
Ah Lee brought along yet another tengalan but I was at the back of the restaurant at the time and by the time I got back to the table, the waitress had cut the fish up…
…so it was not a pretty sight. Nonetheless, it was really good and all of us enjoyed it to the max.
The fried midin (wild jungle fern)…
…and mani chai/cangkuk manis…
…were all right, pretty much like what one can get anywhere and everywhere else but the prawns…
…and sweet and sour pork…
…were really great and very much to my liking.
However, it was the claypot yam…
…that I enjoyed the most and I kept going back for more till there was none left.
They were saying that they would use the money left over from the reunion they had some years ago in Penang to pay for the lunch but the mother of the bride was free to join us that afternoon and she quietly went and paid for everything!
She even insisted on giving me a BIG ang pao even though I said that I was fine and could pay for all my expenses and just being invited to her daughter’s wedding was such a special honour and privilege already. Not everyone would remember their teacher, much less want the old fogies around for their special occasions. Gee!!! She gave me more than enough for the air fare and the hotel as well, thank you so so much, Sok Hiong!
Thank you also, Ah Lee, for the tengalan and everybody for everything and not forgetting Pek Suan for the Tan Kim Hock durian dodol…
– so thoughtful of you to bring all of us one each all the way from Melaka.
Hopefully, the plans for the next reunion there next year will materialise and we will all get to see one another again. In the meantime, take care and here’s wishing one and all blue skies and everything nice! God bless, everyone!
KWANG CHIN SEAFOOD 广进小厨 (1.530845, 110.367471) is located at the ground floor, Sublot 3, Lot 33, Soho West Phase 2, Jalan Wan Alwi in Kuching, two doors away from CS Supermarket, Kuching Soho branch.
...STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS! 