Food: Char Siew Fan @ Barbecued Pork Rice

Have you come across the feeling of not knowing what to eat week after week when you have to eat out? Now that my passion for cooking and baking has gone into hibernation mode because A) I'll be moving real soon despite 'soon' being in a few months time, B) My kitchen is in a mess and C) I hate cooking in a shitty kitchen, so we've been eating our for most of the weekends. Although when I google up recipes every now and then, I get the itch to wanna cook or bake, but here am I refraining from doing so, containing my excitement till the day I get to officialize my 'new' kitchen by cooking one heck of a scrumptious meal for my hubby as a celebration for owning our very first property. Moving on. So, week after week we have an additional chore to think real hard of WHAT to eat and WHERE to eat. And in Sri Muda, there just aren't that many good food around. All the nice food you can get in this tiny puny Sri Muda, you can count with like 1 hand. So usually for breakfast we go for either Robert's Corner roti canai or we buy some kampung chicken eggs to make soft boiled eggs with bread for the adults while chocolate cream bread or cereals for the kid or Malaysia's national food, Nasi Lemak. If we didn't have it this week, we would have it the following week. And then comes lunch, where we would play a game of asking one another "What to eat?", "I dunno. What to eat ah?". We go on for a bit and we usually settle for the sucky chicken rice or Pasembor/Indian Rojak or char siew fan or noodles. When it comes to dinner we usually escape the headache by joining Kevin's family for dinner so the tough decision making would befall on whoever it is and we have the luxury of just going along and sometimes complaining. The hardest part is us having to consider Ezra. He's basically the ultimate key to which our decision making on what to eat falls on. We have to get something that he will eat and mind you, to feed a picky 3 year old toddler is not easy. When they're that small and young but already have the ability to think and be selective, it makes me want to claw my own eyes out when I pick the wrong menu for a meal because I would need to think of a different food to feed him if he refuses to eat what I buy. I do know he won't starve himself but I do not enjoy seeing such a sour puss look he has on his face when he's being force to eat something he doesn't enjoy.  He hasn't been a big fan of rice when we first introduce solid, but nevertheless we decided to introduce this Char Siew Fan from Restoran Spring Golden because we both like it. Keeping our fingers crossed when he took his first mouth full of RICE and char siew, he chewed and swallowed and then he kept going at it mouth after mouth, we were delighted! Probably because it has a sweet sauce to complement it. Which kid doesn't like sweet? Ever since then, this Char Siew Fan has become our Sunday lunch choice by default. Like almost every Sunday that I'm starting to get very sick of it. Anyways, this char siew by far is the best I've tasted. Unlike the normal char siew which is usually just lean meat coated with hoisin sauce or whatever sauce, these char siew has two layers which consist of fat and tenderized meat which is accompanied by their secret recipe sauce which makes the char siew sweet and the meat ohhhh so tender that it sorta melts in your mouth. The shop is usually crowded by lunch hours and you've got to be there early for their char siew. Aside from char siew, they have siu yuk or roasted pork, roasted chicken and roasted duck. And they do serve noodles and vegetables as well. Mind you these char siew aren't exactly the cheapest. For a packet of Char Siew Fan, it cost RM 7 ish. The Char Siew Fan in the picture has extra rice and char siew since a packet is way too much for little Ezra. And since we have two kids to handle, we usually have it tapao-ed just so we can take our time to eat and feed at the comfort of our home.

Restoran Spring Golden Char Siew Fan