It was Gabriel’s birthday and despite everyone in the midst of rushing their final year projects, thesis and assignments, we gathered together to celebrate his birthday at Delifrance, a newly opened cafe at Dataran Pahlawan. Prior before this, I bought a RM20 worth of “Buy 1 Free 1″ coupons and hence, we headed out to try out the cafe and ate our hearts out. The gang members are Gabriel, Jeremy, Alexander, Vincent, Raymond, Chi Ho, Jerry and yours truly.

Gabriel has been using his Nokia 3315 for the past 4 years and was the last person among us to use a colour screen mobile phone. It was his birthday and there was no better time than this to change his mobile phone. Before we went to Delifrance, Gabriel went to buy his “toy”. He had laid his eyes on Motorola ROKR E2, which looked very similar to his Nokia 3315, and in no time, he paid RM600 for it. I don’t know why he opted for Motorola, but beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

Put your hands together and welcome Gabriel to the world of colour screen hand phones!

In no time, we were at the entrance of Delifrance, making it ourself comfortable with the sofa seats. Looking through the menu, apart from selling breads, they do serve complete meals which includes starters, pastas, salads, pies, pizzas, main course, desserts, hot and cold drinks and many more. The prices are in between the range of RM11.90 and RM22.90, very reasonable and affordable for a small town like Malacca. Since we had “Buy 1 Free 1″ coupons, all I did was ordered 2 of each dishes that looked promising so that we could try most of the food and enough to share among ourselves.

First to come was the spaghetti with meatballs. You can’t go wrong with spaghetti and true enough, they did it fairly good. The sauce was good, with chunks of meats in it with no too sour or sweet tomato based sauce. The meatballs were just another commercialized meatballs that you can buy from the frozen department. However, it tasted quite good despite being a little hard and not juicy enough. The garlic bread was crispy and went well with the sauce.

Lamb stew was next and this was quite good too, although our first visit tasted much better. I think they slightly overcooked it, hence, the chewy and rubbery texture on the meat. It came with a serving of salad (Kind of pathetic, I would say.) and 2 scoops of mashed potatoes. I love their mashed potatoes, a lot. The lamb was covered flooded with yummy-licious mushroom sauce and the plate was dried up by the time we finished our stew.

We had lamb shank too! Soft, tender and succulent meat, flooded in a pool of I-don’t-know-what-sauce sauce. Again, our lamb shank during our first visit tasted better too. How good was the lamb shank? Just look at Raymond and the answer is clearly showed to you. However, I feel that something is missing from this dish, especially the sauce. Maybe they need more ingredients for garnishing and flavouring purposes.

The beef brisket tasted weird for my liking. It’s basically a big piece of beef meat (I have no idea which part.), served in a sweet, sour and spicy sauce. It tasted really weird because of the combination of all three flavours. The meat was good though, but definitely not the sauce. I don’t recommend this unless you really want to try and have a niche for weird flavours.

Before that, I ordered some bread as our starters. However, it arrived when we finished our main course. It’s basically toasted bread with three different toppings, mainly the prawns, tunas and vegetables. These people took advantage of me, snapped up all the yummy toppings, leaving me behind with the vegetables only. This is so unfair! -roars- However, I had the free of charge dessert all to myself. It’s basically croissant topped with vanilla ice cream and a little bit of chocolate syrup.

The bill came up to RM190, with a total of 10 dishes and 8 glasses of iced peach tea. Gabriel forked out RM100 to sponsor the meal while the balance was divided among the 7 of us, which was about RM14 for the dinner. I guess the bill would have gone to RM250 if not because of the “Buy 1 Free 1″ coupons.

Of course, its impossible that we don’t do stupid things when we are hanging together.

Finally, a group photo of the “Rumah Bahagia” members, except Sanjev who has gone to India.

Happy birthday, Gabriel.

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