Dinner in Cameron Highland

Thursday, June 04, 2009

Finding a budget place for dinner in Cameron Highland is not difficult. Just go to the main road of Brinchang town and you can notice there are 2 rows of Chinese restaurants lining along the road side and brightly lit with colourful signboards.

If you stroll along these shops you will be flagged down by the ever so swift talking “touts” to persuade you to dine at their restaurant.

There must be around 15 or so restaurants on both side of the main road and almost all of them offer steam boat dinner.

As for us, we already have a steam boat dinner last night so we prefer to have a rice dinner tonight. Our regular eatery place for this is the one next to a “Ramasamy” mini market and is called “Restaurant Makanan Laut Cameron Highlands”.

So we are here tonight again at this place and while driving a while ago I could see that all the restaurants here were very crowded probably it’s school holiday season.

It took me quite a while to find a parking bay in Brinchang town. The whole town is normally bustling with holiday makers at night because here is the place for dinner in Cameron Highland and also there is a night market in town, which is a must visit for all the tourists here at night.

Under such situation, It is virtually impossible to find a parking bay along the main road and the small open car park in front of the Supermarket Jimat unless you are lucky.

So I normally have to try the nearby side roads and alleys for parking.

Settling down in the restaurant, our orders for tonight are:

1. Steam oyster mushroom;

2. Hot plate Japanese bean curds;

3. Sweet and sour prawns;

4. Fried mixed veggie.

5. Chinese tea “Pur Earl”.

Steamed oyster mushroom is always my favourite. I enjoyed the sweet Chinese wine taste of the still boiling gravy and the fresh, tender white mushroom. It came with heating fire under the plate like steam fish servings so the gravy is steaming hot when served.

The Japanese bean curds were cooked with slices of Chinese cabbage and carrot and thin egg omelette at the plate base. The gravy was tasty so no complaint.

The sweet and sour prawns have medium sized prawns first deep fried and cooked with sweet and sour sauce. It came with chopped cucumber, tomatoes and big onion. Prawns were fresh and the flavour good.

The fried mixed veggie has cabbage, cauliflower and “choy sam. Gravy tasted sweet and no complaint also.

On the whole we enjoyed the dinner. We have to order extra rice for myself and my son and this is a proof of the reasonable tasty dishes we got tonight. Total bill came to RM64.50.

The only complaint was there seemed to be quite a few house flies keep descending on our tea cups and dishes. I have to be alert at all times to wave them away as soon as they landed on our table.

So in all the dining and tea places we visited today and yesterday in Cameron Highland we have problem with the houseflies landing on whatever food and drinks on the table.

Can they look into this problem seriously？？?