One year ago…

Gosh!!! It had almost been one year ago when we last dropped by here, on New Year’s Day, 2021.

Well, I had to go to town again the other day to stock up on my prescriptions – yes, it had been a month already – so I asked my girl if she would like to go some place for a nice lunch and we agreed to drop by here for the things we loved so well and had not had for such a long time.

Of course, we had her favourites, their sweet and sour fish fillet…

…and their lemon chicken…

…which we feel is the best in town!

For our vegetable dishes, we wanted midin (wild jungle fern) but they did not have that but they had paku (a different variety) so we had that, ching chao (plain fried)…

…instead. Actually, we wanted it fried with belacan (dried prawn paste) but it came out like this and because it was very nice, we just let it be.

We also had the cangkok manis fried with egg…

…and for the soup, we had the Foochow tauhu tear (bean curd soup with canned oysters)…

Everything was so nice and we sure enjoyed ourselves to the max especially when we had not dined out like this for such a long time, such a welcome change from our day-to-day routine.

I paid RM70.00 for the 5 dishes for the 3 of us and I would say for the amount of pleasure derived, it was worth it. Usually, I would have to fork out around RM50-60.00 for a meat dish, vegetable and soup but this time round, I insisted on ordering more to buang gian (appease the craving) and I did not bother to ask them to cook for two – the smaller servings would be enough to go round and it would be cheaper this way.

Of course, the prices have gone up and I am sure it is no exception here. Their fried noodles, usually 50 sen more than elsewhere, is now RM5.50 a plate…

…and with the extra char siu that we would always ask for, the total would be a whooping RM6.00.

Obviously, nobody cared as when we got there at around 11, the place was full so we had to sit at one of the vacant tables on the pavement outside. The lady boss said we would not have to wait too long as they were all having their fried noodle dishes and true enough, before our orders were served, they had all finished eating and left so we adjourned inside where there was just another table that was occupied, also a family of three but with one little kid also having their lunch there.

Y2K CAFE (2.294220, 111.825753) is located in the Tunku Osman area, round the corner from that block of shops where the branches of AmBank & RHB Bank are located with its back entrance facing the side (right, not the main one) entrance/exit of Methodist Secondary School.