A meal for the festive season

Besides visiting Eastern Wishes again, we also visited Goh Teo Kee again. This was our third visit, and we wanted to have the dishes that we had liked from our first visit there.

The food was good, but the portions were huge, and we found that we had probably ordered too much. Plus it was Chinese New Year season, so the prices were higher than usual. The whole meal cost over RM200.

water chestnut prawn balls

They allowed us two pieces per person. One each would have been enough...

salad prawn

This dish was huger than before, with bigger prawns (two prawns for each of us). No wonder the price was a lot higher!

Thai sauce soft shell crab

sambal belacan sweet potato leaves

As good as ever! We have had it 3 times and we love it each time. It tastes exactly the same every time too! This one's a keeper. :D

curry pork ribs

This is something that we tried for the first time. The curry was very good, and the dish would be perfect if there were no mantou (those buns on the side). The mantou were dense instead of fluffy.

A second visit to Eastern Wishes

I had posted about our first visit to Eastern Wishes.

We went there again during Chinese New Year, but this time they didn't have any mantis prawns, so we had to make do with other dishes.

claypot tofu (small) - RM12

The tofu was not good... somehow we never like the tofu here!

crispy black pepper squid (big) - RM26

Unfortunately the squid was less crispy this time, so it was not as good.

crispy kangkong (medium) - RM14.50

This was quite good, but there was some sweet sticky sauce on it (like honey) which made it less crispy. I would have preferred it without the sauce.

fu yong omelette (medium) - RM12.50

green curry chicken (medium) - RM19

The fu yong omelette was as good as before, and the green curry was good! Although overall, there are three dishes that didn't live up to expectations, so this visit was a little disappointing.

Bulgarian specials

We paid a visit to Vintage Bulgaria in Tanjung Bungah. We actually wanted to go to Ingolf beside it, but it was a rather last-minute decision and we did not make a reservation. Ingolf was full, so we ended up trying Vintage Bulgaria beside Ingolf.

First impression: It is pretty expensive...

But then the dishes were pretty good (though the price is still expensive for the taste :P )

crown roast pork, RM89.60

The crown roast pork was enough for 3 people. The vegetables, salad, and potatoes that accompanied it were all very good too.

tender chicken chop, RM29.20

The waitress kept recommending this when we looked for a chicken dish. She said the sauce was special. I guess the sauce is quite good, but I'm not sure it's so special. Seems like some oriental-style sauce?

The side dishes (salad and potatoes) are exactly the same as the ones that came with the roast pork.

viewing the crown from another angle so that we can see the other side dish of potatoes

zoom in on the vegetables, which is the same as the vegetables inside the crown

A while after we started eating, the waitress brought us a few cheese-filled rolls. She told us that it was complimentary, and that it was cheese. The rolls were good, the pastry was a little crispy outside and there was slightly gooey cheese inside, not too much cheese though.

There were actually five rolls for the five of us, but I took the photo a little late. :P And also, our tower of ribs fell down after we served about half of it onto our plates, and that piece of carrot you see there is from the ribs.

Afterwards, a friend told me that these rolls are called banitsa. I searched it up, and found that there are a variety of fillings that can be put into it.

We also ordered two bottles of mineral water for RM11.40 (the other drinks were too expensive), so the bill came up to RM130.20 (no extra charges).

A bridge of cheese

On the third day of Chinese New Year, we were in Queensbay Mall, and a lot of eateries were full, so we ended up in Mr. Dakgalbi. (I have posted about my visit there before)

We ordered a 2-pax dakgalbi set, and a side dish of fried dumplings. There were four of us, but the dakgalbi portion was big, so this was enough.

baby octopus dakgalbi set, RM70

This set was on promotion, otherwise the normal price was RM80+. So we took this set which came with chicken and baby octopus, instead of the normal set which only had chicken.

I was a bit surprised that they didn't stir the cheese into the noodles for us. When the stir-fry was done, the waitress separated out the noodles from the other ingredients, then just scattered the cheese in the middle and let it bubble until it was all melted, then told us it was ready. In a way it does look nice, with a cheese bridge. However we immediately mixed everything up by ourselves before eating.

fried mandoo, RM13

The dumplings were rather chewy (the skin), so I didn't like it that much. The taste was okay though.

The prices are nett, with tax included (no service charge).

Nyonya Spices

A few food posts will be coming up (in conjunction with CNY). First one is our Chinese New Year's eve reunion dinner, which we had at Nyonya Spices. We had never been there before, but we had heard that it was good, and it was offering a CNY set at RM188 (non-inclusive of 10% service charge).

yee sang

crushed peanuts, salmon, and sauce that accompanied the yee sang

four seasons
clockwise from top: pie tee, fried fish (not crispy, unfortunately), lor bak, and lastly, a salad of deep-fried anchovies and thinly sliced kacang botor

jiu hu char

kari kapitan

tau yew bak

tau yew bak (the same dish, just a different angle to show more of the meat which was hidden by the edge of the bowl)

The kari kapitan and tau yew bak were very good (very flavourful!). The jiu hu char was not so good. The dishes in the four seasons dish were all rather mediocre, I think the anchovy salad (kerabu) was the best.