Thursday, March 13, 2014

Fish and fish

Normally we only find economy or mixed rice stalls available during lunch time but this shop in OUG has it for dinner. Many people were there with tiffin containers selecting food from the many dishes available as takeaways to eat at home for dinner with their families. I noticed that this shop serves many type of fish dishes so when we were there, each of us took a different type of fish dish and as expected fish dishes are more expensive.

Can you see the fried pieces of fish?

A whole fried pomfret fish, chicken pieces with bitter gourd, lotus root and rice - MYR8.5

粉葛 or 'fan kot' (Cantonese) or 'fen ge' (Mandarin) or Chinese Kudzu Root (Pueraria lobata) or Japanese Arrowroot with pork soup - MYR2 for a small bowl.

My dinner - a slice of steamed barramundi fish (siakap) - not clearly seen in the photo because it was broken into pieces as I just took a part of a whole slice and then the lady in charged saw it and then scooped the rest of the slice of fish for me so that's why the slice of fish is in many sections; stirfry shrimps with french beans, and fresh mustard greens - 芥菜 ("jie cai"  - Mandarin  or "gai choy" in Cantonese) - MYR9.5

So for dinner we spent MYR20 and it was just economy rice.

12 comments:

  1. Expensive! You know years ago when I was studying in the local Uni in PJ, I was only paying RM2.50 for 3 dishes!

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    1. That price must be many years ago, right?

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  2. Usually I had economy rice I just put two to three different dish portion!!!

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    1. We did that too - just choose 3 different dishes.

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  3. Fish is expensive nowadays especially pomfrey. Not unusual if they charge rm4-5 for a whole fish.

    Look familiar. Is it the shop near Pao Chien? There lastvtime got sell double boiled old coconut suop. I love that.

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    1. I do not know the shop Pao Chien. This shop is located in the same row as the 7-11 opposite BHP petrol station.

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  4. Over here, the fish is also expensive...

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  5. Hmm, I hardly have mixed rice as dinner, usually have it for lunch only, hehe!

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    1. Yes, usually mixed rice stalls are opened during lunch time only.

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  6. Indeed fish is very expensive. But fish is the best!

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    1. But some says that fish contains mercury which is not good.

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