New Capital

We had a sumptuous dinner in this old, retro-like but well-known restaurant in town, New Capital Restaurant on Saturday night. Suituapui did posted on this restaurant and its specialty dishes few times, and lady luck was with me in this trip. An uncle of hubby invited us to dinner in this restaurant in the town centre.

It was hard to find parking and we were lost at first as unfamiliar with the route but we managed to find parking in front of Ambank and took a short walk to the restaurant.

Uncle has ordered the dishes firsthand so when we were seated, we were served with this delicious white and black fungus appetizer. It was delicious and it was easy to prepare. I believed they used the sesame dressing such as Kewpie for the dressing to the fungus. Maybe I could prepare it at home one day.

Their oil rice was unusual from what we usually served in Chinese restaurants. Fragrant and fluffy; we enjoyed it.

Their roasted pork belly was surprisingly good. But I enjoyed its stir Foochow fried noodle the most.

Their fried rice was equally tasty; well cooked with generous ingredients in it.

By this time, we were already half full but more food came to our table. I don't know what soup was this but I would named it the mushroom corn soup. Something like sea cucumber soup but I didn't find any sea cucumber in my soup and what we had was milder in taste.

Another amazing specialty dish of this restaurant was the deep-fried white pomfret. Crispy deep-fried flesh with sweet sour dressing.  It was so easy to eat as they have pre-cut the flesh.

And to balance all the carb and protein, we had 2 vegetable dishes. One was mixed vegetables (at back of the deep fried fish) that I didn't managed to take photo of. Another was this bean curds, mushrooms and green dish.

The soft bean curds was fried first before been added to the mushrooms and vegetable. I could only take one toufu as by now, I was too full to digest anymore.

I couldn't guess how much was our dinner but thanks to hubby's uncle for picking up the tab. It was totally an enjoyable feast. The restaurant itself was nostalgic, eluded the change of time. The food? Simply good.

Late lunch

I used to buy my lunch from this eatery during our 1.5 year stay in Sibu from 2013 to 2014. Sibu Thomson Corner in Jalan Pedada.

After our hearty kampua and mixed pork soup breakfast, we rested and spent few hours in my sil's house while hubby went out to "yam cha" with few old classmates of his. By the time he was back, it was almost 12 noon. But no one complained of hunger (because the kids were busy with gadgets), so we only decided to go out for a very late lunch around 2pm.

Thomson Corner came to our mind as we were sure that most eateries would close around 2pm.  And we wanted something fast as we would be having an early dinner that evening.

There was a crowd in Thomson Corner but we were still able to find a table in the shop for lunch. 

Hubby and sil each had its nasi lemak special (RM6.20 per plate).

I noticed a new dish on the menu. Sambal nasi ikan pattaya (RM8.00) so I picked that as my lunch. The sambal and fried rice pattaya were nice enough but nothing fancy abut the fried fish fillet.

My girl had its nasi ikan pattaya (RM6.20).

First day of SST implementation but luckily no tax in this eatery.

The next morning

First night, we went to Hong Fu for Filipino crispy pata as my girl missed it. We had few dishes that evening including this tasty stir fried crabs with eggs.

Crispy pata

Crabs!

The next morning, it was raining in Sibu so we only looked for our breakfast when the rain has slowed down. We drove all the way to this Best Harvest Cafe in Lanang road for kampua.

My sil directed us to this coffee shop and she commented it served nice kampua and mixed pork soup.

So I had this white kampua and the lovely soup. The noodle was just right for me. Not too oily and the noodle texture was firm. So, for someone who never fond of Foochow kampua, you could say that I gave this place a thumb up for its kampua.

The fragrant wine in the soup was good enough to warm the body in such cold morning.  Everyone was enjoying the balls in the soup. Livers? No for me.

Weekend In Sibu

We spent our last weekend in Sibu. We drove all the way there on 31/8. It was actually decided less than 2 weeks ago that we would be spending a weekend there.

Hubby had a class reunion dinner in Island Club on the 31/8, and since it was a 3-days weekend, we took the opportunity to be back for a short holiday.

Since we moved back to Kuching in 2014, this was the first time that we really stayed in this town for a couple of days. And a quick time to visit my hubby's side of family.

The kids' first meeting with their cousin (1+ yo). My sister-in-law's baby girl. And my MIL also came over from Kapit and had a one night stay with us.

We started our drive at 6am after a quick breakfast in McD's. Once we reached Sibu around 1pm, we went to this restaurant for  local and one-of-the-kind lunch.

We were served with crackers before our dishes arrived on our table.

We had its signature deep-fried lokan that was stuffed with meats.

Tasty and sweet but somehow it tasted sweeter than before. Anyway it was more  of a sweet rather than savoury dish.

The paku lemak was good like I remembered it to be; spicy and tasty. Ate a lot of it with my rice.

We loved its fish umai, so fresh, tasty, spicy, sour, with onion and everything.

Last was its grilled lamb. Somehow it wasn't as nice as I could remembered. The lamb was alright, not that tough or dry. However the dipping sauce wasn't right. I used to love its mint sauce. This time, the sauce was too sweet. No mint hint in it. Maybe they changed the recipe of the dressing, I wasn't sure.

Overall our lunch plus drink was RM130. With full tummies, we headed to my sil's house for an afternoon nap and settled in before picking up my mil from the wharf and dinner afterward.

Special for me

One of the best Sarawak laksa is from Golden Arch Cafe. It has been a while since I had its laksa there. Reason being it is hard to find a decent parking and another is the food choice. Other than laksa, there isn't any special about this place and food. We seldom go there for breakfast.

However lady luck was with us one Saturday. We managed to find good parking and table for our breakfast. Jan and Jay had school that Saturday so there was only three of us. This was what we had for breakfast.

Hubby ordered this fried snack and lek tau suan from the Garden Cafe, which was behind the Golden Arch Cafe while waiting for our order.

Hubby shared this mixed pork soup and noodle with Jamie.

The soup looked good, right? I didn't tasted it because I had this special Sarawak laksa to deal with. RM6.50 for this special bowl with two big prawns. Packed with flavours but slightly oily so I didn't dare to finish the broth.

Personally I prefer the smaller and de-shelled prawns but since hubby ordered this special for me, I didn't mind at all.  Thanks for being thoughtful, hubby. 

Craving for it

It has been ages since we dined in Pandan Thai Delight at RH Plaza. I used to love its pandan wrapped chicken; moist and flavorful.

Hubby asked what's for lunch one Sunday and I told him that I was craving for tom yum. So to cut the story short, that was how we ended up here.

We were the only customers then but while we were dining, the place started to fill up with lunch goers.

The place was much the same, it was how I remember it to be. But now they have expanded to the next shop. Business must be good as they have the been there for years and from one shop to two shops.

It was a very hot afternoon so I had this sago honey dew in coconut milk. So good yet not too sweet.

We had 2 rice dishes, one was pineapple fried rice and another plate of crab meats fried rice. Both were nice but I preferred the former one as more interesting, fragrant and flavorful.

Stir-fried water spinach with garlic accompanied our fried rice. Simple but tasty and crunchy.

And of course I got my dose of tom yum goong. So satisfying. I nearly finished the whole serving by myself. Bet I wouldn't be craving for it anytime soon. ^^

We also had another soup; namely beef green curry. It was fine with me but I didn't really fancy the creamy Thai green curry. However my man loved it so much. Full of sliced beef and eggplants in the curry.

Our bill came out slightly over RM110 plus drinks. Thought it was reasonable as the food was good. No complaint from me. Next time when we feel like getting our fix of Thai cuisine.

Birthday weekend

It was a birthday weekend, as Jay and I celebrated our birthdays.  We spent mostly at home last week and we took a rain check for our birthday lunch on Sunday.

On Friday, we treated ourselves to not one but two nice mille crepe for tea. 

Then came Saturday, after their swimming lesson, we had a birthday song, candles blowing and cake cutting  & eating at home for the birthday boy. 

On Sunday, we were eating out all day.  For breakfast, we went to McDonald's for its breakfast set. In the afternoon, we went to Aeon Mall for food and shopping.

We had our lunch in Sushi King. New on the menu, their super size noodle and we had this Udon to share around.

Close shot of the udon. I liked it because of the seaweed.

We also had this salmon sashimi as side dish.

And 10 plates of sushi on the conveyor. We tried this Deep fried fish which we enjoyed very much that we had 2 plates of it!

After that, we spent on shopping in Aeon and caught a 6D cinema experience where we screamed our lungs out! It was a fun yet tiring afternoon. 

After few hours of resting at home, we went out again for grocery shopping in nearby supermarket and had our late dinner at the same time. Then everyone knocked out slightly before 10pm in anticipation for the school. 

That was how we spent our Sunday before the school reopens today.