Big Mouth

A friend recommended this chu char stall in Big Mouth Food Centre in Jalan Dogan. A former Tsui Hua Lau cook is operating the stall. Well, Kuchingites (the older generation including myself) would remember this well known Chinese restaurant in Ban Hock road in the 80s. Back then only very few famous Chinese restaurants around, one being this. Been there few times for family and wedding dinners.

The restaurant underwent renovation and upgrading in late 90s (or probably later, sorry, can't remember well the exact time), but unfortunately due to unknown reason (maybe financial or business crisis), it closed down not long after that. The building since then have been left empty. 

So how surprised we were when a friend told us that one of the cook is now at this coffee shop. That was what we looked forward to last Sunday. 

Open early in the late afternoon, we reached there around 5pm, after we picked the two older kids from their Barbie movie outing. Of course we were the first customers there!! But soon, customers came pouring in.

We seated at the back of the shop where we can see the cook and staff at work in the kitchen. Hubby and I did the ordering and we requested for medium size for our dishes.

Not long after we took our seat, our first dish arrived. 

Roasted chicken is highly recommended and we agreed that it was so good!!! Crispy glazed skin and tender, moist meat, really finger licking good!! The crackers on top were equally tempting, the kids fought for that! Lol.

Next on our table was seaweed soup. They were really generous with the seaweed which at the bottom with the chicken and pork slices and green. Tasted comfortable, not overly seasoned.

Hubby wanted omelette so he ordered this stir fried onion, black fungus and carrot omelette. Thick texture. 

Four heavenly kings as they called this stir fried sambal vegetables. The kids hardly took it so we had a lot of leftover. Overall it was appetizing; not too spicy, the same was just nice. 

Soon the salted fish and minced pork soft beancurd was served on our table. I love soft tofu, and this dish didn't disappointed me. I ate most of the soft tofu so you know how tasty was it. 

We were full by then so we requested for our last dish to be packed. Pork leg!! One whole pork leg with gravy and pack of mantao.

It was huge so we divided it into two portion. One kept in freezer while another part we took the following day. 

Used air fryer to heat up the leg. And steamed the mantao and heat up the gravy, the pork leg was ready for our consumption!! I didn't pour the gravy onto the leg as the kids may not enjoy it, so whoever wanted the gravy, can scoop it for themselves. 

Our dinner cost RM214!! And that was cheap considering we ordered medium size for all dishes. A bit too much for us as we packed most of the leftover home; we didn't expect the medium portion to be that huge. Next time we must order small size.