The wedding - Epilogue

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epilogue

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It seems a few of you have become addicted to reading this blog especially on the continuing saga of Madeline and Vincent. So here is a little something to tide you over just before I start gallivanting all over the world again. I already have India (Gurgaon and Bangalore) and Germany (Frankfurt/ Waldbron) lined up for July and Singapore for August.

It seems that according to Cantonese practice, it is customary for the mother-in-law (wife's mother) to treat the new groom and his family to a dinner BEFORE the birthday of the groom in the first year of marriage. As Vincent's birthday was in early July,my mum, the surrogate mother-in-law, decided to have the dinner today 27th June. In addition, it is also my birthday this weekend. So we essentially killed 2 birds with one stone!

The usual suspects were there. On Vincent's side, there were his parents, his brothers, Edmund and Lawrence. On Madeline side, there was my mum, wife, son and my mother-in-law (who stays with me ).

We had the dinner at Restaurant Jun Kee in Taman Midah. This restaurant used to be fronting the main Cheras road and had expanded to three shop lots at the back of their previous location. They still maintain the restaurant in the old location, while operating the new air conditioned restaurant. I had always been partial to the fish head curry that they served. If anyone want to give this place a try, their address is
31,33,35, Jalan Midah 3,
Taman Midah
56000 Kuala Lumpur
Tel: 03-091335142

The dishes ordered for the night was Kampung herbal chicken. Kampung chicken being free range chickens, which is supposedly better than the ones reared in battery. Less Fat and less oily! It seems like every major restaurant in town serves this dish today. The one served in Jun Kee was tender and steamed just right!. Cost was RM56 per chicken. We had 2 as the chicken was rather small sized. Too bad that by the time I got to photograph it, the waiter had already "dissected" it.

Then there was the Fish Head curry. Wonderful!! Even Alex, who normally do not take much rice for meals managed to down a whole bowl of rice because of the fish head curry. The curry was not too spicy and the fish does not have that fishy smell/odor. There was also long beans, brinjals and okra in the pot. Madeline says that was one of her favorite that night. This dish came to RM28.

Next, we had the 2 styled kailan. Again, it seems that every restaurant of some worth serves this too. The kailan that night was okay. Acceptable, but not something worth shouting about. This dish was RM25.00

We also had Ku Lo Yoke - pork that was smothered with batter and fried with capsicum, pineapple and large onions. Alex favorite. Rm25 for this dish.

We had another fish, but this time it was assam steamed fish. It is served with lady's fingers (okra) and brinjals. This dish was more expensive RM35. Maybe it was because the fish was freshwater and also still swimming before being prepared for the table.

Another vegetable dish was asparagus fried with prawns. The prawns were the large prawns, not the shrimp like prawns that many other restaurants uses. For that we had to pay RM60!!

And as this was supposed to be a sort of a birthday dinner, there was also the requisite longevity noodles - which I forgot to photograph!!That dish was Rm30.

Vincent and Madeline also presented to my wife, Alex and myself 3 adorable cuddly bears. I think they intentional picked the 3 different sizes to portray the father bear, the mama bear and the baby bear. What does that make Madeline? GOLDILOCKS!!

We were all stuffed up to you know where by the time we finished. I thought the bill was reasonable.

Burpp!!!!!!