Some other time…

We had planned to go out that day for a chicken rice lunch when suddenly, the weather changed and there was a heavy downpour. Left without a choice, we decided to cancel our plans and just settle for a simple lunch of canned food at home.

Come last Sunday, the weather was good, very bright and sunny and seeing that it was the last day of the Hari Raya school break, I thought it would be a good time to go for the lunch that we were forced to put off till some other time earlier.

We had decided on the place already so we drove straight there, no second thoughts about that. There were quite a lot of things on their menu that we could choose but we opted for the simplest and easiest way out and settled for the RM48.00 set for 2-4 persons.

For RM48.00 per set, we got this plate of their beautiful, sweet and juicy steamed chicken…

…and their braised pork belly…

We were asked to choose two vegetable dishes from their list and we picked the mani chai/cangkok manis fried with egg…

…and also their ladies’ fingers…

We had to order the chicken rice (RM2.50 per bowl) separately as it was not inclusive in the set…

…but there was free flow of the very nice salted vegetable chicken soup, on the house. I would not say that the rice was so good but it was not too bad, a lot nicer than most of the other chicken rice places in the town but I still like the one my missus dishes out at home when she happens to be in the mood for this. LOL!!!

The standard chicken rice chili dip…

…was very good, just that it was not spicy. It certainly would be a whole lot nicer if it was so there would be a bit of kick in it.

My girl is more into roasted chicken so we ordered half of that only to be told later that they had run out of it. I also saw some stewed eggs in the glass display cabinet and was so tempted to order those as well. Luckily, I was able to resist the temptation as it was quite a struggle for the three of us to finish that aforementioned set. As a matter of fact, I was quite sure there was enough for 5 or 6 people! Of course, we could not finish everything so we asked for the leftovers to be packed for us to take home.

The place was pretty crowded that afternoon, probably because it was Mother’s Day but I did not feel uncomfortable at all because it was rather spacious – all the tables were placed far apart and even though they were somewhat busy, service was efficient and prompt.

All things considered, we certainly would want to go back there again the next time we feel like having some chicken rice.

TING KEE CHICKEN RICE (2.292362, 111.825681)…

…is located at No. 85, Jalan Kampung Nyabor, to the extreme left of the block of shops directly across the road from RH Hotel.