Too much to handle…

We dropped by this restaurant for lunch the other day as I was told that it did not matter even if there were just the three of us and all the tables were those HUGE Chinese banquet ones for 10 persons. Of course, some friends had forewarned me that I must ask for smaller than small servings because even then, we would end up getting too much to handle!

The soup that we ordered, their sea cucumber soup with crab meat, came…

…and goodness gracious me! That is the regular bowl that they usually use to serve the soup for 10 people at any Chinese banquet! We ordered that before but there were six of us and we did manage to finish most, if not all, of it.

Thankfully, it was, like the first time, very nice – just like sharks’ fins soup minus the offensive stuff but I just had a small bowl with a bit of black vinegar added…

…all to myself and that was enough for the entire meal. In the end, we asked for the rest, at least half the bowl, to be packed for us to take home and have it for dinner that evening.

We also had the broccoli with three types of fresh mushrooms before and my girl loved it a lot so we had that…

…again. We managed to finish half of it and yes, we also had the rest packed for us to take home.

For our meat dish, I asked for the Marmite pork ribs…

…which was, at best, all right but no, it did not taste anything like Marmite as I have always known it to be since time immemorial. I’ve seen them selling the sauce at the shops so perhaps, they used that instead of the real thing which, like Bovril, does not come cheap, not at all!

I thought it tasted all right but was a tad too salty. No, I don’t think it was anything I would want to order again even though I’ve seen a lot of people talking of the Marmite-whatever dish that they had and enjoyed so much, their Marmite crabs, for instance. We did manage to finish all of it so we did not have to get it packed for us to take home as well.

The total for the food came up to a whooping RM85.00 but looking at the size of the servings, I wouldn’t say I was surprised. Perhaps if we had ordered 2 dishes for the 3 of us, there would not be too much for us to handle but usually, we would have a meat, a veg and a soup. I guess it would be better to reserve this place for big parties when there are lot of people coming together for dinner, not just the three of us…and in the meantime, we can just go and enjoy what they have at their chap fan (mixed rice) stall at their food court outside.

The GRAND WONDERFUL RESTAURANT is right beside the GRAND WONDERFUL FOOD COURT (2.309601, 111.845163)…

…to the left, in that same building where the GRAND WONDERFUL HOTEL is located, along Jalan Pipit, off Jalan Dr Wong Soon Kai, on your right. You can also go in via Jalan Pipit from Jalan Pahlawan – go straight ahead till you get to it on your left.