Irresistible…

This place opened in February, 2020 before the outbreak of the pandemic and believe it or not, I had been here ONCE only (but I did drop by their outlets in KL a number of times before that)! One reason was, of course, because of the pandemic and another was how the place was always crowded, very often packed to the brim with customers queuing outside! My girl and the mum did drop by once or twice though.

Well, we decided to drop by there for lunch on Saturday and though it was pretty crowded, there were still tables available in their main dining area. Perhaps it was the middle of the month or they have lost some of their customers to that relatively new place round the corner in that same locality.

I had the dry kway teow…

…with the very delightful steamed chicken (RM17.45)…

…simply because I decided I would want to have a change from the kway teow soup…

…that I had that one time when I was here before.

Unfortunately, I was given the thigh and that was red meat, not white but I just cast caution to the wind and went ahead and ate it. I guess once in a long long while is not going to be too detrimental to my well-being!

The kway teow had some kind of dark sauce…

…in it and I would say it was quite nice when tossed together with everything in the bowl, just that I would not say that it got me jumping with delight. I do think the soup version was a whole lot nicer.

Moving on, my girl wanted the char kway teow (RM17.83)…

…with all those prawns and cockles…

…that the mum had once when the two of them dropped by here. She loved it so much then but this time around, she thought the serving was bigger but it was not as nice. They probably would need better quality control of what comes out of their kitchen, obviously.

My missus had the mee mamak with chicken (RM19.81)…

*Can you see the chip in the plate, already yellow with age? There were three in that plate alone!*

…and she said it was nice, just that she did not elaborate any further than that so I guess it did not get her all excited.

For our drinks. my girl had their red bean & cincau (RM10.85) and the mum had their barley cincau (RM6.51) while I asked for their stevia white coffee (RM9.43). Stevia was the sugar substitute they used so I guess it was quite all right for me to order that to drink – I had not had coffee for such a very long time…ever since I started on my low-sugar diet!

Browsing through the menu, I spotted this…

…that I found absolutely irresistible. There is gula Melaka in it and even though that isn’t so bad compared to regular sugar, I shouldn’t be taking that…or not too much of it, anyway…and boy, did I enjoy it or what?

The egg custard pudding and sago pearls in santan (coconut milk) with gula Melaka (RM7.45)…

…was absolutely out of this world, so good that it literally swept me off my feet. I enjoyed it thoroughly though not without a sense of guilt! I promise I would not order it again should I happen to drop by here another time, cross my heart!

Service was excellent and efficient – our orders came out very fast but I could not help noticing that some of the plates were CHIPPED!!! Gee!!! At those prices that they charge (RM89.33, RM94.70 with the 6% SST), they should get rid of those and replace them – for heaven’s sake, do not be a disgrace and ruin your reputation. Surely you do not want to come across as one of those no-class-at-all cheap places!!!

PappaRich (2.291606, 111.821291)…

…is located at Lot 23-35, Jalan Lau King Howe in the block to the right of the Lau King Howe Hospital Museum, to the left of the Sushi King outlet there.