paper baked chicken @ teck sing restaurant

after our exploration of gunong pulai, we returned to johor bahru via pekan nanas and the pontian highway passing pulai springs and universiti technologi malaysia along the way. when we were nearing tampoi, traffic came to a crawl because of the ongoing construction of the flyovers. it took us about half an hour to clear the bottle-neck.

victor suggested going to taman sentosa for herbal chicken lunch. i assumed that we would be going to the famous bamboo restaurant for our midday meal. instead he suggested the restaurant next door - teck sing restaurant - which also served the herbal chicken but named the dish 'paper baked chicken'.

we did not eat the chicken in the restaurant; we bought takeaway but we did order the noodles and ate them in the restaurant. teck sing is air-conditioned and occupies two shop houses. it offers a greater variety of dishes. there were pictures of sbc stars who have visted the restaurant and, also hanging on the wall, were awards and newspaer features about the restaurant.

as i was leaving the place, i checked the restaurant next door. it was so different from before. there was hardly any customer. bamboo restaurant has outlived its former glory. that's why, i feel that even an eatery needs to continuously upgrade and to offer something new to entice its customers to keep going back.