The Sunday before my cousins and their entourage came to town, we dropped by the café for lunch because I wanted to discuss with Andy and make sure everything was going all right in preparation for the dinner I would be hosting there that Wednesday night.
All this while, I’ve enjoyed their Bangladeshi lamb curry but I never tried their chicken that they have added to their menu. That was why I ordered that…
…that day to see if it was to my liking or not. After all, I am supposed to stay off red meat these days so I can’t have the lamb any longer. It was nice, very strong on the spices added but somehow, I still prefer the lamb.
My missus insisted on having their kacangma chicken…
…even though I told her that we would be having that for our dinner in a few days’ time. Of course, she enjoyed that to the max!
My girl had their beef bolognese spaghetti…
This would be on the original menu if one were to hold a buffet dinner here and yes, they do it really well with their own-made bolognese sauce using fresh tomatoes, different from all the rest elsewhere – those would come across to me like bottled tomato sauce and are not to my liking. I asked for that to be changed as beef is red meat and I am avoiding that as well so in the end, we had the creamy mushroom sauce pasta which was nice too.
The following day, Monday, my girl and the mum went out and I told them to go for lunch themselves and not to worry about me – I would grab a bite to eat somewhere on my own. They went to this place that we have been to a few times now and they had the mushroom soup…
…that my girl said was nicer than the nice one that we had here. They also shared the buffalo wings…
…and the seafood cheese baked rice…
Yes, they enjoyed all three so it sure looks like we will be going back there time and time again whenever we feel like it.
In the meantime, some friends of mine dropped by this Sabah fish noodle place that we went to try not too long ago at this coffee shop…
They did not have any with the milky soup when we went and I saw in the photographs that my friends had that there so of course, we headed straight back there for lunch that Wednesday.
My girl had the milky tomato soup (RM14.90)…
…with fried fish while I had the one with salted vegetables (RM11.90)…
My girl said what she had was all right but it was not anything to get excited about. I did not enjoy mine very much. What I had on our previous visit, the clear salted vegetable soup (and the fish too) was very much more to my liking.
Business did not look very good – there was a couple at another table, that was all! I guess the prices are not very encouraging so people would think twice about coming here to eat this. My missus asked for the Foochow fried noodles (RM6.00)…
…from the people at the chu-char kitchen at the back of the coffee shop and she said it was nice and of course, the price, being less than RM10.00, would be regarded as a lot more reasonable for anyone thinking about grabbing a bite to eat outside.
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 while CHEFWAY CAFE (2.300560, 111.843429 is at No. 18 & 20, Ground Floor, Lorong Dr. Wong Soon Kai 4D and JIN JIN CAFE (2.312977, 111.847257) is located past Delta Mall, if you are coming from town, at the corner among the shops at the junction of Jalan Gambir and Jalan Dr Wong Soon Kai, formerly Jalan Pedada.
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