Dinner a la Arabia

After visiting the SU/FES office (meeting, among others, Uncle Jason on his way home, Michael, Kim Cheng, Karyn and a host of FES staffworkers) and dropping by Drop Zone, we attempted to visit Jonathan Gan at the University Hospital. He's a young Victorian of only 15 or 16, suffering from brain cancer. Apparently it's getting worse. But our efforts were in vain; Jon was already discharged.

So after a brief stopover at Tee Ming's, Soo Tian and I left PJ from the Taman Paramount LRT station. We were somewhat late, and managed to reach KLCC just in time to pick up tickets for the Contemporary Chamber Concert and get ourselves into the Dewan Filharmonik Petronas; by God's grace, the Putra (which is slow enough) did not suffer any unnecessary delays, and took an average of two minutes to travel between stations.

After the concert (at which the MPO's Principal Conductor Matthias Bamert was present), we decided to try something unusual for dinner. So we went Arabian at the al-Marjan Restaurant on the top floor. After some deliberation, we settled on the buffet, which cost us about RM40 each. Nevertheless, it was certainly money well spent as the buffet was superb!

Soo Tian tucks into lebanese bread and salad. The many yoghurt-based dips were excellent, and certainly one of the things I like most about Middle Eastern cuisine.


Soo Tian, grape cordial and main course. Lift the chalice!


Dessert was no less special. We had Earl Grey tea and some fruits and cookies, after two kinds of rice-based pudding; one was with milk, the other saffron.


All in all, a most fulfilling day. Many thanks to our kind Iranian host at al-Marjan. Perhaps we will support Iran in the World Cup!

And for the one thing I did not get to do, I have this to say: my prayers go out to you, dear Jon. Hang in there; God is merciful.