Back to Kebaya for lunch today. Itโs one of the many fine dining places in George Town thatโs now re-opened for dining in, after the 2-month COVID Lockdown. Penang has not experienced any new COVID cases for the past 20 days, and is now one of the designated โgreen statesโ within Malaysia.
Of course, the โnew normalโ requires several restrictions: social distancing of at least 6 feet between tables, temperature screening of guests at the entrance, no more sharing platters, and each diner were served individual bento boxes.
Iced pandan-jamsine tea.
Our lunch bento box consisted of grilled pork satay, ikan asam (tamarind-flavoured barramundi) with sireh (betel leaves), prawn & pineapple curry, green mango salad, chap chai (Nyonya mixed vegetables) and achar (pickled cucumbers).
Desserts are kueh kochi (steamed mochi rice cakes with grated coconut/palm sugar filling) and durian pound cake with kaya (coconut jam).
The number of tables have been reduced by about a quarter, but the restaurant was already half-filled by 12.30pm.
