Dinner At Restoran Makanan Laut One Two Nine, Ipoh

On Thursday night, our initial plan was to have fish head curry for dinner in Menglembu, Ipoh. Halfway through our journey, we passed by a restaurant and I pointed out to my friend and asked whether she had tasted the food there. She replied yes and that the food there is good.

Since it was threatening to rain and for the past few days there were thunderstorms, we made a u-turn reverse back to this restaurant.

Since it was a weekday and 8 pm in this area is almost past the peak dinner hours, the restaurant was not packed with customers.

 We order a deep fried home made tofu with toppings of onions, deep fried dried shrimps and spring onions. The tofu is very smooth but the sauce is too salty.

 Steamed fish pieces with ginger paste.

The fish was steamed just right and very tasty.

 Asparagus stir fried with baby corn, carrots, capsicum, mushrooms, etc.

The above three dishes were our initial orders.

 Then we added the deep fried pork rib with sticky sauce.

There were 5 long pieces of pork ribs.

Well marinated and favourful but have to use our hands to eat.

My lady friend insisted on paying the bill for this dinner for 4 people.

After our dinner while we were still sipping the Chinese tea, we noticed some people crowding around the fish tanks at one corner of the restaurant.

I went and peered over their shoulders to check what the attraction was.

I saw someone holding something like a ball in his palm.

Then hubby went closer and snapped a photo of that ball.

What do you see?

I saw a weird looking face, looked like an alien!

Then one of the staff took a net to scoop out a fish swimming in the tank.

It was a slow moving fish.

This is the back portion of the weird looking fish.

The side view of the fish. This is no ordinary fish. This is the puffer fish.

The restaurant has 3 puffer fishes just for show or for attraction only.

These 2 balls are puffed up puffer fishes. The puffer fish puffs up with water or air when it is threatened. Puffer fish is claimed to be the world's 2nd most poisonous vertebrate. It is highly toxic when eaten and has no antidote. But the meat of some species is considered a delicacy in Japan, Korea and even China. The chefs have to be specially trained to know which part is safe to eat.

Restoran Makanan Laut One Two Nine (One Two Nine Seafood Restaurant),
129, Lengkuk Desa Rishah 1, Taman Desa Rishah, 30100 Ipoh.
Tel: 05-281 4621, 010-801 8911 (It is next to the Restoran Hung Ting)

Don't let the sparkle and the smooth taste of strong wine deceive you,

For in the end it bites like a poisonous serpent;

it stings like an adder.

(Proverbs 23:31-32, TLB)