After taking photographs together with my brother Haris and sister-in-law Zun at the Pavilion KL, they invited Phillip and me to join them and some friends for dinner. They said they have acquired a liking for Middle Eastern food and would us to try it out at a Lebanese restaurant, which was new to them. So I said we would be delighted because we have not tasted such fare.
Zun was quite an expert at driving on KL roads. While she effortlessly weaved in and out of the roads, and from the main trunk road to the side roads, I tried to make a mental note of the journey. But with my bad sense of direction, I gave up after a few minutes. On the way to the restaurant, Zun remarked that this new place we were going to was cheaper than the one they went the night before. She has done some research on the internet on the food and its charges are reasonable.
Within minutes we arrived at the restaurant located at a side road off Jalan Ampang, KL. It was actually a double story detached house converted to a restaurant. By this time the place was already quite packed with customers. At the entrance everyone had to take off their footwear and walked in on thickly carpeted flooring. I also observed the thick colourful red canvas separating the smaller rooms on our way in.
We were shown to our table (that looked like a conference room table) in a room, which we had to ourselves. After looking at the menu, Phillip and I could not decide what to order as all the dishes were foreign to us. We thought we better leave the ordering to the experts – Haris and Zun – but no mutton for Phillip as he didn’t like the taste of this meat. “Good, we can order a spring chicken for Phillip, it comes with some rice”, Harris suggested. Finally, we had the Captain recommending the dishes to us.
Before long, we had these dishes: a plate of barbecue meats or Kebab, a plate of salad, a backed spring chicken with rice, a plate of unleavened bread, a plate of barbecued lamb . We also ordered a pot of piping hot minted tea, served along with our meal. The dishes were all big helpings and everyone ate their fill. The taste of baked chicken and roasted meat is different from those of the western or chinese cuisine. We thoroughly enjoyed the chicken, rice, salad, barbecued meats and could hardly eat another bite after two and the half hours of eating.
We had good company with Haris cracking his jokes and everyone sprinkling a dash of life matters across the table. We all went home filled and each family took home some packed meals of food that we did not finish as we do not believe in wasting them. Zun and Harris finally sent us to Kelana Jaya LRT station where we had parked our car. It was a good dinner with good company and we had a great time thanks to Haris and Zun.
Just wondering, what will we would be exploring next.
