Lunchtime…

Good Friday was a public holiday in Sarawak and some schools here took an extra day off on Monday, Easter Monday so they had a longer weekend break, unlike those in the peninsula.

I told the ladies in the house not to cook anything that day and come lunchtime, we dropped by here for a bite to eat.

My girl wanted their chicken chop (RM25.00)…

…and their special garlicky mashed potatoes (RM8.00)…

She did not know that they would give a bit of the latter with the chicken chop, she said. Had she known that, she would not have asked for it. In the past, they used to give those pickled julienned strips of cucumber and carrot but obviously, they do not do that anymore.

She did manage to finish all of it though and I also ordered their mushroom soup (RM8.00)…

…for her as well. I did try a bit and I thought it was very rich and creamy, very strong on the fragrance and taste of the fresh shitake mushrooms but I did not like how it was a bit too salty for my liking. Maybe it was just me, especially when we get by with very little salt and no msg in our own cooking at home.

My missus and I shared the Payung rojak (RM12.00)…

…and it was so very nice. They have tweaked the recipe for the sauce a bit, adding less gula apong (nipah palm sugar) and a lot more lime juice so it was not as thick and sweet as before. I must say that I liked it a lot more this way.

We also shared their kacang ma chicken (RM16.00, with rice)…

This is the only place where we can get to eat this in town and boy, it was so good with the extra Chinese white wine and ginger added that it literally swept my missus off her feet.

The total for all that we had came up to RM69.00, very reasonable, I must say, considering how we enjoyed ourselves so much that day!

PAYUNG CAFÉ (2.284049, 111.833014) is located at No.20F, Lanang Road, Sibu, Malaysia, back to back with the multi-storey car park of the Kingwood Hotel which faces the majestic Rejang River.