: : Anchor House Restaurant : :
For muslims, you might want to skip this posting as it’s on non-halal food.
Had dinner today with my parents, cousins, nephews and Uncle. We went to a restaurant called Anchor House along Jalan Nenas @ Pineapple Road. It’s a very old restaurant that is famous for it’s suckling pig.
We started off with some clear vegetable soup mixed with fish. Very nice but they did not use enough chicken stock. So, the taste wasn’t quite there but it was alright.
Then, the victim star of the show came out. Yep, the sucking piglet! Looks great, doesn’t it? We all ate the skin first and after that, the dish was taken back into the kitchen to be cut into smaller pieces.
These are the cut up pieces of the meat. It’s common in Sarawak to eat this part. In West Malaysia, only the skin is eaten and the rest of the meat thrown away. What a waste of a good piglet! The meat is one of the best park and it’s extremely sweet. Also ordered some stir-fried Chinese cabbage but it look so unappetizing that decided not to take a picture.
We also ordered some adult kailan @ chinese broccoli to eat. It’s crunchy and not bitter at all. Cooked with oyster sauce. A bit stingy with the black mushrooms though. Supposed to have a lot of mushrooms everywhere! Cheh!
Also ordered some oyster omelette. Dad mentioned that it wasn’t real oysters but rather, banacles. Oh well. Didn’t take alot but everyone else did.
This is steam ikan kurau @ Threadfin or Mullet. Hmm… the fish seems a bit too tough to be steamed. Grilling it would have been better. But, they did cook it with Chinese wine. Wah!
After having dessert (honey dew and oranges), Dad called for some kayu balak @ timber wood, nickname for toothpicks. Intriguing holder : a miniature Guinness Stout can! Hahaha!!
Tomorrow is dinner’s at my auntie’s although a bit malu to take the picture.
Cheerio!