Whenever there’s good things, events or news that happened among us (Chun Kit, Chee Yong and me), we would definitely share the happiness together and certainly, there’s no better way than to celebrate the news with food.

It was Li Sui’s birthday (July 18), Chee Yong’s birthday (July 19), their 4th anniversary (July 18) and most importantly, Chee Yong has found a job. Quadruple news within two weeks, we aren’t good friends if we don’t celebrate under the expenses of Chee Yong. Ha! After all, our friendships means more than that just few hundred bucks, right? -coughs-

Apart from the four of us, we have Wen Fa (Ah Fatt) joining us too. They drove down from Tampin to Malacca on Friday night while I waited for them at Melaka Raya. I parked my car at the road side and hopped into Ah Yong’s Toyota Innova. It took us quite some time to decide on what to eat and we finally settled for a typical Chinese restaurant along the main road of Melaka Raya. The restaurant’s name is “Good World 好世界”.

We sat down and started ordering our foods. With no budgets in our big boss’s mind, we ordered whatever that pleased our eyes and tummies. Certainly, it was a very good idea as we ordered a total of 7 dishes including prawn 清蒸明虾, duck 枇杷鸭, chicken 原酒蒸鸡, tau fu 砂煲豆腐, cold plate 拼盘, pork 扣肉花包 and dessert. Imagine, 5 of us eating 7 dishes! What a feast!

First up was of course the cold plate. It came with 5 different varieties, including dumplings, meat balls, salads, more meat balls and more meat balls. Honestly, I don’t know what they were but definitely they had meat in it. Ha! It tasted good actually, except for the salad and dumpling which tasted rather bland.

It was followed by the clay pot tau fu which tasted just like any other clay pot tau fu you can have in any other restaurants. They wanted to order hot plate tau fu actually but I protested a little because there wasn’t a dish that contained vegetables. Oh well, we are carnivores anyway.

Pork dish was next. It was served with man taus 馒头 and a plate of pork simmered in tau cu sauce. Just take one piece of the pork, wrapped it with the man taus 馒头, put some sauce and eat it. The man taus 馒头 was a bit cold though.

The soup of the herbal chicken was just at the right level, not too strong yet not too light. However, the chicken they used was extremely skinny and thin. There were barely any meat in it also. Disappointed.

I didn’t like the sweet sour plum sauce used in the duck dish. It wasn’t thick and sweet enough for my liking. However, the duck was very crispy but like the chicken, it was a malnutrition duck. Thin and bone-y. However, it has more meat than the chicken though.

The last dish was none other than the steamed prawns. Under the prawns was a layer of steamed eggs, garnished with spring onions and ginger. The prawns were huge and was still quite fresh. Not very juicy but still firm.

The table sitting not too far from us were looking at our table, wondering how many dishes we had ordered. Each time the waiter brought a dish to our table, they would look at our table and gossip a little. The look on their face was amusing. Ha! We had our desserts, longan with sea coconuts. Just the right dish to end our 7-course meal. We wanted to add in peach too but didn’t manage to as Ah Kit stopped me from doing so.

The bill?

Cold plate (RM40) + prawns (RM40) + pork (RM18) + tau fu (RM12) + duck (RM20) + chicken (RM18) + desserts (RM16) + rice (RM5.60) + peanuts (RM2) + tea (RM2) + wet towels (RM2) + 5% government tax (RM8.80) = RM184.40.

Cheap? I don’t know but sure it was one heck of a dinner for the five of us! Most importantly, it was free! And just when you thought it would be quite some time before we eat like gluttons again after our Sakae Sushi outing.

We then proceeded to Xuan Cafe for another round of drinking session, not beers but green tea. -sweat-

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