Juliette was waiting to play in the swimming pool that Grandma has bought with her older cousin Natasha. Grandma said never mind, we can get it ready for Chinese New Year instead. My brother in law is very busy at work so was unable to come back from Singapore.
We had some visitors visit us, Jasmin's niece and also both Uncle Kong and Uncle Meng. We had separate makan sessions with them before Xmas too.
With Uncle Kong we had a late nite supper at a Wan Tan noodle shop opposite Golden Mansion Restaurant in Melaka. Did you know the Wan Tan noodles in Melaka and Muar taste very different then the ones in KL. The flavour is different and so is the colour. I'll take a picture next time to show you the difference. Same like prawn noodles, in Muar, it is fried whereas in KL, it is soup based. It seems each time i see the food, i gobble it down before i can manage to take a picture....LOL.Then we had a meal with Jasmin's niece, Yi Wen (I think the spelling is correct) and her fiance, Chee Jin. We had a small meal in Golden Mansion Restaurant, since Chee Jin is not into spicy food we had to order dishes that were quite "Ching" hehehe....
On the next day, we all went to Sibaraku in Mahkota Parade. The decor of the place was great and had that high class look, also the price was what attracted us, RM 130.94 for 6 pax (Rm 18.90 ++ per person). It was a Japanese buffet styled theme, so we went in with great anticipations.....alamak...the sushi spread (about 5 plates) was sorely lacking, they also had takoyaki and some mini apam balik, but the main dishes or meals were via the teppanyaki. The chef was ULTRA slow and incompetent, choosing to cook dishes to his convenience. It took too long and the catch of the buffet is to only allow you a time of 2 hours to eat there. Half the time, the things we ordered did not come or was replaced by something else, and when i ordered a portion of vegetables, it became four portions. Very very poorly managed and also lacking in service. If i had a choice, I'd think twice before i step in to this place again.
The food tasted ok, nothing too shout about, the price is so so, but they could have provided better service, such as having more chefs at the center counter then only one. Later we noticed that so happened that the chef assigned to our teppanyaki counter was the slowest of the lot. I noticed the other chefs utilizing the whole cooking area as compared to my chef who decided to do all his cooking in one corner of the whole "U" shaped cooking area. Just my luck.
It's all good, since the consoling fact was that we got to buy Uncle Meng a meal in Valley Square Restaurant after the day he was baptized (which was on Xmas by the way). For this, we decided to treat Uncle Meng and his son, Jeff to a meal in Valley Square. My bad...i decided to take pictures of the guests rather then the food. But i can tell you what we had.
- Kai Lan Stir Fried
- Butter Pork Ribs
- Asam Fish
- Stewed 3 layer pork
- Egg Omelet
- Bean curd with Crab Meat and Veg
- Lor Hon Chai
- Mongolian styled Ostrich Meat
Now is that menu impressive or what ? The damage was around RM 194.00 which i think was really reasonable considering that we had 11 people on the table.
All in all it was a simple and happy occasion, just that we miss Raphael, Fon and Natasha. This time around Xmas was kinda quiet.Never mind....we'll meet up in Chinese New Year, where it will be Juliette's first CNY and also haih....time for us to cough up the Ang Pows too, since its the first CNY that we are married and celebrating too heheheh ....
(I'll be posting up the pictures later)
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