Hot Chilli Hot!

Ace is developing a healthy curiosity about all dishes tat we say are "slightly spicy"...due to his fascination with spicy toufu from Spring Bamboo Restaurant...

Now, whatever we label as "sllightly spicy" would always be followed by a "Can I try?" request from Ace.

Sometimes, it is a little too spicy for him and he would want to down it with lots of water.

Sometimes he would actually like it and want to eat it too! Sometimes, he just wants to add the sauce to his rice.. whatever his choice, I am happy that Ace is starting to eat slightly spicy foods and can truly eat together with us no matter what we choose to eat;)

The other day, Max was surfing the internet and he says there is a restaurant near our place that has alot of vegeterian options... so we decided that we will try it when we have the chance.. the restaurant is called NANKING.. and they claim to sell Asian Fusion.. I noticed this restaurant but did not think to try it because I see it as those "indian-style" chinese restaurants where they cook chinese foods according to the indian palette....

The other day, after Max's soccer game which ended pretty late, we decided to go Nanking for dinner and it would be easy to head home after that since it is a few minutes drive away from home...

We ordered some satay.. which is actually some veg meat (the mian jin type) heavily brushed with hoi sin sauce.. matched with a strange peanut sauce...

They also served us some pickled veg tat tasted like Achar.. but less tasty...

Even though the satay was slightly spicy, Ace loved it cos it was flavourful but I dun really like it.. it was ok but it was so so... not quite up to MY standard of Zi Zai veg satay:) hahahah

The dumplings were ok but the skin was a little too thick for my liking...

The mock duck is goodness gracious! The same type of meat int the satay in a simlar but actually different sauce.. more of the "slightly" and less of the "different"... what a let down...

The munchurian balls lacked punch.. nothing compared to those sold in Red House!

The only tasty dish of the night was the fried kang kong!:) wahahahahahaha...

And as we sat there for 35-40 min for our meal, we saw 2 tables of filipinos and another maybe 7 or 8 tables of INDIANS!

Moral of the story... NEVER visit a so called chinese restaurant in Dubai unless:
1) You see chinese people inside
2) Malaysian or Singaporean has eaten there before and certified it DECENT

And the cost of the meal was similar to what we would have paid if we had gone to Sino Chai, the slightly more upmarket Taiwanese Restaurant tat Ace favours...

Max says he will NEVER want to come back again..

But leh, like my friend George always said, "Everything happens for a reason, whatever happens will always be a positive experience for me.."

And so it is.. cos in trying to get to this restaurant, we discovered a really huge indian bookshop that sells all types of books and stationary you can ever think of! Even charts and games for children too!:) We have driven past this road so many times and I have walked past this road many times but NEVER have I noticed that there is a bookshop here!:)

We are definitely coming back to explore this place a little more...... we found some cheap story books tat look like some knock offs.. there is cheong version of Captain Underpants and some adult novels as well.. we suspect they are printed in india or something...

I never knew my neighborhood has so many hidden treasures.. I am glad we decided to continue to stay in this neighborhood:)

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