Our girls ditched us on Sunday. We were supposed to go out for lunch together but when they heard that daddy was going to our regular neighborhood kopitiam for a quick lunch, suddenly, everyone had something cropped up at the eleventh hour. The girls are bored of eating the same old food at the eatery. Just mention that we're going for Korean or Japanese, all their online classes and projects will be unbelievably postponed or someone would say that she got the dates mixed up 😐
With just hubs, mil and I, hubs decided to venture out of our neighborhood as the mil suddenly had a craving for Pan Mee at Eight Treasure Restaurant, a small neighbourhood restaurant in Taman Connaught that attracts a continuous queue of zealous diners. The last time we were there about a month ago, the Pan Mee was sold out when we reached the restaurant at around 11-ish a.m. The Pan Mee is one of the restaurant's star dishes and is replete of ingredients and flavor. Eight Treasure serves good old traditional homecooked comfort food.
We ordered two bowls of Pan Mee and another two bowls for takeaway for the girls.
We ordered a portion of Hakka Yong Tau Foo. A portion comes with 8 large pieces of stuffed 'liu'. We also ordered another potion for takeaway for dinner. Each piece of stuffed 'liu' has a generous wedge of homemade fish paste. This is my absolute favorite dish. My late grandmother used to make very toothsome Hakka Yong Tau Foo, bouncy fish balls, fried fish cakes and stuffed 'liu' with fish paste that she made from scratch from fresh fish. The Yong Tau Foo and 'liu' cooked in fermented bean paste from Eight Treasure taste very similar to the ones that my late grandmother made. I should learn how to cook this dish one day when I have no more Grab Mom duties to do and no kids to mind.
The horse grass-fed chicken, steamed and served with minced ginger is another crowd-puller. If you're used to eating antibiotics and hormone reared chickens, you will find such a huge contrast with horse grass-fed chickens. The meat of horse grass-fed chicken is very flavorful and firm with no chicken odor. For someone who does not fancy eating steamed chicken, this chicken is my only exception. It is cooked to a tee and I give it a 10/10 rating for taste and freshness. But the price is a shocker @ RM120 a chicken. We ordered half a chicken and the entire plate of chicken was polished clean with no leftover for the girls.
While we were waiting for our food to arrive, hubs segued into Sun Ming Restaurant to get takeaway roast duck, char siu and siu yoke. This restaurant is well known for their charcoal roast duck. But I'm not a fan of ducks. These roast meats were for our lunch the next day.
While we were waiting for our bill to arrive, we saw the owner packing homemade dumplings (Jiao Zi) for a customer and we ordered two boxes @ RM26 a box as the girls love dumplings. I'm happiest when we don't have to cook.😁
