Went to Sek Yuen instead

We had to eat lunch earlier today.

Seeing we have not gone to the Pudu FishHead (Sisters) place for a while, we went.

True enough, it was a bad idea. The police can easily declared the large number of people waiting as an illegal assembly and arrest those hungry people.

A little disappointed, we went to the nearby Sek Yuen restaurant instead. My father in law used to have his birthday dinners in this place. Ya, this is an old restaurant.

So everything is old here. The waiter, peeped in to see the cook, the lady manager, the male cashier and myself, all old. Pictures on the wall. Some old and some new ones taken to purposefully depict old angles in black and white. They have no cabinet like structure for hot water to refill you cha. Instead the hot water is obtained from the kitchen in a large kettle. The old male cashier has this big abacus on his table to ring up your bill.

The men all wore white pagoda thin and smooth collarless T-shirts. Naturally their hair were combed back slickly with hair cream keeping them in place.

There was a music station on, playing only old Shanghai style Cantonese songs. I wonder what station was that.

The food. We ordered the famous pipa duck, stir-toss choy sam and local sauce/oil cold bean curd.

Took this picture after we started eating.














The choy sam was excellent, sweet and juicy, not oily at all. The duck was good. Drier than the Paramount Sunrise version. I understand here, they still use wood to cook the duck. The duck was a bit chewy though.

The bean curd was horrible. I have never tasted coarser bean curd than this. No hint of sourness here though. Not cold at all, the way I like it.

Here is a picture of some of the fellow people who provided the ambiance today.