Ever since…

The 2nd of November was All Souls’ Day so of course, we, together with my sister, went to visit my parents’ burial place to offer flowers…

…and prayers. Like what we always did when we got back into town at around noon, we went for lunch first before heading on home.

Ever since that time when I first set foot on this place, I had always wanted to go back there for their too kha pui (pork trotter rice)…

…and since that was the place we picked that day, I wasted no time at all in ordering that.

It was, by no means, cheap – that was RM19.00! The guy said that it would depend on the size of the trotter…

…and prices might range up to around RM25.00.

I was all right with the price – after all, I had always wanted to try that and finally, I did. However, I would not say that it swept me off my feet – the ones my missus cooks at home would win hands down. It was nice albeit being rather watered down, unfortunately…and it was all skin and tendon, hardly any sign of any meat at all plus the sauce that came in a small bowl was so diluted, it could pass off as a soup!

My girl loved her pork ribs soup with their own handmade noodles…

I had that the first time I was here and yes, it sure got my thumb of approval.

She also wanted the pan-fried shui jiao (pork dumplings)…

She loved them the first time she came here and ever since then, she will always order those everytime she comes here. I did not have any – that platter I ordered for myself was big enough for me to handle but the mum had one and so did my sister – she finished off the rest all by herself! LOL!!!

My sister had the beef tendon soup with handmade noodles…

…while my missus had the same soup but with yellow noodles…

…and she asked for hers to be super spicy so it came across something like that infamous mala hotpot favourite.

Other than the pork trotter rice, I did not take note of the prices of all the other items but the total came up to around RM81.00 for the four of us, inclusive of drinks. We felt that was a delightful enough lunch, the place was air-conditioned and not crowded, comfortable enough and we sure wouldn’t mind going back there again sometime.

THANKSGIVING DINSUM CAFE (2.321373, 111.839286) is located at No. 12, Ground Floor, Lorong Teng Chin Hua 1, in the block of shops right behind the Sing Ang Tong Kindergarten/Methodist Church.