Celebrate…

Those people in government service have it so good these days. After the 10th year, they will be due for a what they call a time-scale promotion which means that they will be able to jump up one step in their salary scale.

Our time, we had to wait forever and for any promotion, the school inspectors would come and give you a hard time and they might or might not give you your promotion eventually. The worst part was with the promotion, they might transfer you to the middle of nowhere and for this reason, most would not bother especially those already happily settled with their families in the comfort of their own homes.

My girl got her first promotion in 2019, if I am not wrong, and because of the pandemic and everything, she did not get her arrears until quite recently – the increase in her salary for two years. That was why when we went out for lunch the other day, Sunday, she insisted on picking up the tab to celebrate and give us a special treat.

We dropped by here, with my sister as well, and I ordered their nasi lemak with curry chicken (RM17.45)…

It sure looked very good but no, I was not impressed. The rice was not lemak enough and I did not think the curry chicken was all that nice – what we cook at home would win hands down. The sambal was very nice but it was extremely spicy. All things considered, I didn’t think it was anything I would want to order again the next time I drop by here.

My sister had the Hainanese steamed chicken rice (RM17.45)…

…and she said it was all right.

My girl and the mum shared the otak-otak fried rice (RM19.72)…

…and the two of them were praising it to the skies. We had the otak-otak on our last visit and my girl enjoyed it, this Muar-style and that was why she wanted it again. The two ladies were talking about traces of the long salted fish and hay bee (udang kering) in the fried rice and how it was very much to their liking.

When we were here the other day, we were somewhat disappointed because most of the items on their dim sum menu were not available. They seemed to have overcome their teething problems and we managed to get to try their steamed BBQ chicken bun (RM10.90)…

…which turned out to be quite good but they were very small, much smaller than the regular sizes we are more used to.

The golden lava buns (RM10.90)…

…were good too – I loved the salted egg custard filling inside.

We had the chicken dumpling/siu mai (RM8.80)…

…and the chicken and chive dumplings (RM8.80)…

…the last time we were here. I guess my girl enjoyed those so she ordered them again.

My missus had their cendol (RM6.13)…

…but she did not say anything about it so I am not sure as to whether it was any good or not.

The glutinous rice with chicken/lo mai kai (RM10.90),,,

…was a let down. I certainly would not order that again…

…the next time we drop by here for dim sum.

We certainly went overboard with our orders – I did feel that we ordered a bit too much that day and the total, inclusive of our drinks, came up to RM149.60 but since this was some sort of a celebration, I suppose it was quite o.k.

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.