CNY Eve Dinner @ Ipoh East Ocean Seafood Restaurant
It was the eve of Chinese New Year and as usual, I celebrated my Chinese New Year in Ipoh.
Previously, we would prepare food at home for the CNY Eve Dinner but this year, as there were less people to have the dinner with, we decided to eat out instead.
The restaurant of choice was the Ipoh East Ocean Seafood Restaurant in Ipoh Garden South. As we got there, I was told that we had to book the place way in advance as the place was packed with people. No booking means no entry to the restaurant.
After we got in and got our table, I overheard my cousin reminding a person over the phone that her booking was at 9pm and so I naturally asked, why eat dinner so late? The explanation was that the place was so packed with bookings that there were 3 sessions organized by the restaurant.
There’s the 5pm slots, 7pm slots and the 9pm slots. Of course, the 7pm slot was the hardest to get and we managed to get one. The one that was the saddest was the 5pm slot but then, there’s not much of a choice if you’d want to have a reunion dinner right?
The reason why the 5pm slot wasn’t the more popular ones is because, imagine you had your dinner at 5pm. By 9pm, you’d be hungry again! right?
End up, you’d be going for supper and for those that is concious about their body, they’ll be complaining about weight gain!
Anyway, so far, that’s the food we ate for the dinner and after that, we proceeded to Jusco to just walk about and got another Yee Sang dish from Sushi King. Yup! FOOD!
We got it for our midnight supper after we got back from the temple, my cousins and I went to one in Menglembu to have our 1st prayer of the chinese calendar year (and for me to snap photos, which I’ll be posting at a later post).
I realized that I never sleep early when I’m in Ipoh but heck, who would want to sleep when you could have some ‘profitable’ fun during Chinese New Year, right?
The Sushi King Yee Sang
Back to the topic of food, I can’t say that the food was great as it’s just common dishes that was pre-prepared by the restaurant just for this occasion so everything was very … ‘manufactured’. Maybe their normal dishes would taste good but I could only say so after I actually try them.
The SK’s Yee Sang with the beautiful slice of fillet before it enters my mouth.
