Always together…

In my previous post, I mentioned that my cousins and their entourage came to town and it so happened that the eldest was celebrating her 42nd wedding anniversary on the 20th of December and the youngest sister, who was in Sibu at the end of October and fell in love with the dinner we had here, insisted on going back there for another round to celebrate the very special occasion.

We ordered this beautiful cake…

…from Marcus (Delta Lane 3) specially for the loving couple for the symbolic cake-cutting to start off the dinner.

We had the hot plate combination again…

…and this time around, I told them to leave out those dumplings with the green skin. They were nice but because we did not eat them all up quickly and because of the fire down below to keep everything warm, the skin got stuck to the stainless steel plate and was burnt pitch black. I sure enjoyed everything and the soup/sauce too even though I would prefer the spinach they had that last time instead of the broccoli.

When I went to make the reservation, I was told that they would no longer serve the pork ribs the way we had it that previous time here so I asked for what we had the first few times we were here – the ribs coated with some nice and sticky sauce…

…with the pickled jellyfish by the side…

As always, the latter was a hit but the ribs could have been better – they were not really fall-off-the-bone tender this time around.

My cousin wanted the yam basket/mixed vegetables…

…so I included that in my order and yes, they enjoyed it all right.

We had this lamb dish…

…when we came for dinner here with my niece, the one working in Singapore and I thought it was very good. That was why I had it in the menu for the dinner but it turned out that the “Aussies” are not into lamb. How ironic! Especially when the lamb would be so nice and fresh over there. Well, it didn’t really matter as everybody else loved it – I overheard someone saying that it did not feel like it was lamb! I guess that was because there wasn’t any of that smell of lamb that would put off quite a lot of people.

We had the cod fish again, deep fried…

…and yes, it was good. and so were the butter prawns…

…even though I did not get the creamy version that I asked for yet once again. I even brought along a photograph to show them but unfortunately, it all fell on deaf ears, it seemed.

I tapao-ed their Fuzhou fried noodles…

…home once and even though it did not taste quite like the real thing, we thought it was very nice. Given a choice, I wouldn’t have included it in the menu that night but my cousin insisted – the grandkids from Down Under seemed to enjoy it a lot and no, I did not hear anybody complain so I guess it was all right.

Another cousin, residing in Bintulu, drove over with her hubby to join us that evening and she brought me some of her very awesome fruit cake…

…that she gave me the last time she was in town and we got to meet for breakfast and I loved it so much! Thank you so much for the thought and the lovely gesture.

The dishes came out very fast and service was excellent! We asked them to help cut the cake and distribute it to everybody and they did it so very nicely – we all got a slice each on a little plate. The servings were huge as always even though I asked them to cook for 6 only per table of 10 so we had to ask them to tapao the leftovers to take home and yes, they did everything for us too. I did ask my cousin and she said that dinner was RM515.00 per table, not including the drinks and they thought it was really cheap and so worth it!

Yes, we had a group photograph that night taken for memory’s sake…

Everyone looked very happy in it and I sure am glad to say that I seemed a whole lot better, very thin now and old but not so sickly as in some recent photographs that I had taken.

Thanks, on behalf of all in my family, to my cousin for the scrumptious dinner treat. A Happy Anniversary once again and may God bless the two of you with many more in the years ahead. Cheers!!!

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.