Well, she was. Annie-Q was back in town – I guess everybody would know it by now as I did mention this in an earlier post. She’s gone back to KL now after an eating frenzy during the few days she was in town. Those of you who are her friends on Facebook would have seen the many photos of what she had been eating while she was home.
She arrived on Thursday and the next morning, we met for breakfast at that coffee shop in Sg Merah with the very nice coffee. I had the pork porridge special…
…which I like a lot and I’ve featured it before quite sometime ago.
Believe it or not, we were so busy trying to catch up with one another that I did not take the photographs of the things that Annie and her family had…and that’s not all! We went out for dinner that night and I forgot to bring along my camera so all of you will not get to see what we had, lucky you! LOL!!!
I think we’ll just wait and see whether she will post them in her own blog or not. No point having the two of us posting on the same things – like those bloggers attending the same event and sharing more or less the same details and photographs.
In the meantime, my missus and I had something else on our own. We went back to one of the stalls at this coffee shop that I used to frequent until one time when we were not too pleased with what we had. This time around, my missus had the chao chai hung ngang (preserved vegeatbles with big mihun)…
Annie would love this, I’m sure. I wonder if she had any when she was in town. Well, my missus like the one here – she said it was sour enough.
I had the mihun in clear soup…
…which had minced pork, liver, egg and a whole lot of things inside and of course, there was mihun as well.
I would very much prefer kway teow (flat rice noodles) though but this was good too and I would love it even more if they could cut down on the msg just a little bit. Other than that, it was just perfect…but I’m afraid it was not exactly cheap. I paid RM10.00 for the two so that works out to RM5.00 each, I guess – and looking at my old post on this, it was only RM4.00 when I first had it in 2008. Ah well…what is cheap these days? That’s the way it is these days and no matter what, things are never gonna change – we’ll just have to learn to put up with it and live within our means… Sigh!!!
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Hey, not all your readers are friends with Annie Q, you know.I so want to see what you all ate…*pouting*.
Prices in Sibu boleh tahan jugak,ah…5 bucks for a bowl of noodle!
Anyway, I bought my noodles already but only tommorrow I’m going to goreng…wait for big boss to balik from Melbourne..although my brain kept on going as what else I am going to add in…hehehe…too botak lar your noodle tu…mesti kasi more rencah….women mah!!
Hahahahaha!!! Make it a seafood noodle dish – add fish balls or fishcake slices, sotong, mussels….and you can pound the chilies instead of slicing them – will bring the taste to a whole new level. Not friends of Annie, can also click the link and go to her blog and see mah….if she posts on it, that is.
Hi Shereen, i will share the pictures in FB and tag Arthur. kekekekkeke
Hmmmm…even FB, photos trickling in…VERY slowly. LOL!!!
Thanks, Annie…hah…now we are friends already…wink!
LOL!!! Can contact herin KL… She can bring you to the best places to eat. Slurpssss!!!!
I’m a friend of Annie of fb… wakakakaka… so can peep what she makan when she was back in Sibu.
A few photos out – the first day she arrived and breakfast the next morning… LOL!!!
Cleffairy, you jangan action lar…I also friend with Annie already…wakakaka
Wah! Like that, I do not need to post her photos already lah… Everybody can go to Facebook and see…
Ya,I caught on Annie’s facebook mentioning her return to Sibu,so did she tag along her two boys? funny,how come no mentioning of kolo mee here in this post,may be the posts to come?
I know you have all your posting waiting in line, taking turns to go “now showing” one right?
Too bad,never had a chance to meet Annie and her two boys
You big-shot, Penang godfather…have to go all the way to Penang to pay homage mah! How to meet like that? Hehehehehe!!!! Ya, her two boys were here too – they came back to visit her grandfather, hubby did not come with them, busy printing money…
Kampua lah! Sibu’s is kampua mee, Kuching’s is kolo mee…and Sabah’s is konlou mee…and peninsula is huan tan mee. Muahahahahaha!!!!!!
I think Annie had kampua two or three times when she was home. Well, just wait a bit – there will be a kolo mee post coming up soon – already in the queue.
Arthur, i had my kampua fix everyday, I didn’t miss out any day. LOL
Eugene, looking forward to meet up with you and your two boys one day too.
Ask Penang godfather go to KL lah…then can meet everybody there. He only wants to go to Thailand and don’t we all know why?
Here today, gone tomorrow. That’s how I felt too. Never tried that porridge at CS, it looks good and the mihun too. Guess I tend to eat the same stuff every day, not very adventurous. Good thing I don’t have to blog about what I eat!
Hah!!! Then you will have identical posts every day. People are already complaining that I post a lot on kampua and kolo mee (see Eugene’s comment up there, for one)…even though they are from different places – and even the taste is different.
The porridge is nice…my favourite in town – but I do wish they could give century eggs with that. 
How come you never took the camera along? I thought all along it stays by your side! Maybe too much excitement about meeting the blog-ger? tskkk….
Ok, hope Annie Q will post up the pictures soon… she normally takes a few days.. , right Annie? hahahaha…
I keep my camera in my tattered and torn Kiew Brothers (Woe Lai Yea) bag – shy lah if I brought it along, go for dinner with people. Hahahahaha!!!! Well, hopefully, Annie will put up the photos. In a way, it is good also as we will not be posting on the same things – like those bloggers attending the same event. They have more or less the same photos, the same people, the same everything…. You’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all.
hahhahahha…Claire, you know me very well!!! Sometime not days..it’s weeks.
Slow and steady… Good thing I only started blogging after I retired. Otherwise I would not have so much time to do everything either. Working mother some more, not easy trying to juggle everything.
No worries, Annie… I oso take ages to post up what I baham… too lazy to upload the pics. Line slow… lazy to wait. Tsk tsk tsk.
Slow! Talk about slow! This Sell-Con…@#$%&*!!!! One good thing has come out of this – I am now the MOST patient person in the world.
I know too well cos I am also a lady ma.. a procrastinating one too! there are so many photos left in my folders collecting dust and webs… haiyah…
Women. Hehehehehehe!!!!
chao chai hung ngang?!! Nvr hv something like tht, but it sure looks appetizing!
Traditional Foochow dish. There’s also the soup…cooked with chicken, pork bones or fish slices. I like that – eat with rice…but not a fan of chao chai hung ngang.
oooh, pork porridge special?? how special is that?? haha.. and that preserved vege beehoon, sounds interesting, have not seen that before actually..
If pork porridge only, I think you only get porridge and minced pork. If special, you get the liver, the intestines and the egg. So like that, consider special lor! Come, come to Sibu…and you can see that! Traditional Foochow cuisine.
eating frenzy! i love your choice of words STP. haha. So when she was having the eating frenzy, you must have been the devil’s advocate, by the side having fun too
No lah – went out twice with her only, the rest of the time she spent with her mum and her family.
Haiz, how come forgot to bring the most important thing…your camera. I love the special pork porridge and the clear soup mihun. Oooppps…chao chai hung ngang…ewyeeeeee, sourish. No thanks!!!…
Old man, very forgetful mah. You don’t like kah? My missus likes it extra-sour. In Kuching, you can eat this at Mekong coffee shop, opposite Heritage Restaurant.
P.S. How did your fried noodles go? Hubby liked?
Haven’t tried yet. Probably this weekend. 1st time heard people tossed the noodles with soy sauce and sugar before they are put into the wok. Curious about it and just want to try your way.
Ok…nothing sensational – just nice and worth cooking/eating. See my reply to Shereen’s comment – can add more stuff other than prawns so as to have a real seafood noodle dish.
Your wife’s preserved vege noodles look so appetizing ! I’m now swallowing my saliva….. so torturing!!! I want to eat, i want to eat. Now u make me crave for salted vege soup (kiam cai t’ng)
I guess in essence it is more or less the same thing. Here, they have mihun in kiam chai th’ng with fish soup… Very popular too but not my favourite.
oooh i love meehoon soup – any kind of soups! love soup dishes
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u guys eat livers and stuff like that? i used to discard all the internal organs as i found their taste blueekkkkk hahaha!
Ooooo….I love them! Butcan only eat a little and once in a while – not good for health and for some old people, they may bring about gout attacks and all kinds of ailments.
Yeah lor, you and Annie share different set of readers mah. So even though if she puts it up in her blog, we won’t get to see it if you don’t put it up in yours…
When she posts on it, I’ll let everybody know and everybody can hop over mah – good for her traffic as well. All the same mah – semua friend-friend… True or not? Between bloggers also got issues and politics one kah?
*shy* Now the whole world know that i am on a eating spree when i am home. But it is true , must feast all the food i miss and the food that i can’t get from here.
Yes, your bowl of porridge, my mum also said is the best in Sibu town, my grandma love it a lot while she still around. She passed away 12 years ago, now you know how long that porridge stall had been there. We went back to Choon Seng to have the kampua on Sunday morning, and we ta pow some porridge for my grandfather, that is how i ter-see that nice plate of mee goreng, but no chance to try. LOL
No, i didn’t get to eat chao chai hung ngang this trip, but i get to drink the soup at Bukit Lima restaurant there. My mum ask them to cook, just the chao chai and tomatoes and egg, specail make for us, nice, but a bit too sour.
Oh ya, that day when i on the way to your house, i saw this Mei Le coffee shop! hahahha..i told my mum, you’re frequent to that coffee shop.
Pictures will be up soon in FB, but in my blog sure will take some time!!! hahahahhaha. Looks like Claire knows me very well too!
I’ve seen the few most recent ones… Aiyor!!! I look so fat! Must not eat for at least three months now.
Ya, she can try some of the things at Mei Le – quitenice, all. Very near Soon Hock where you had your 1st kampua upon arrival in Sibu.
Did you manage to eat all that you wanted to eat while you were home, Annie? Sure looks like not enuff time to makan!
Certainly not. Still so many things she did not eat, so many places she did not go… Even the last day already, I had to go and tapao the tee peang and send to her to eat – otherwise, she would have missed that too. I wonder if she got to eat kompia or not even…LOL!!!
Arthur,
You better go on diet for a month…or else when I arrive, Mel won’t kenal you when she balik.You’ll be extra bulat…lol.
Never mind… I’ll just sit there and watch you eat and drool….
Ohhh… pork porridge… I dun take pork… but I tink kucing and family would love to try this.
They have fish porridge in the peninsula…but not in Sibu, or at least, not that I know of.
u know the best time to visit Annie Q ? Right after her return from Sibu. I went over to her place on Tuesday to collect the goodies from you (*thank you, thank you*) and she gave me some dabai. yumzzzzz…
Welcome. Oooooo….dabai! I’m not buying even though I love them so very much. Why? RM25.00 a kilo….and some RM30.00 a kilo. Like eating black gold! Tsk! Tsk!
chao chai hung ngang…havent come across this dish before.Perhaps only can get it at Sibu? It looks appetising enough though….
Can get in Kuching and I guess can get in all the towns in Sarawak where there are Foochows. Funny why you don’t have it over there. It’s preserved vegetables with ang chao – I think they’re from China but I’m not too sure. Not a fan…
Chao chai hung ngang…..slurp. One of my favourite food. I had once in Kuching in June but it did not taste orginal. Now I’m thinking whether to go back to Sibu for 2 or 3 weeks before going to Kuching. Really tempted to go back for 3 weeks and hubby says OK as long as I bring my laptop (work) back so that I can read urgent mails and he can send tasks for me to do. I don’t think I will work much but I told him I will settle my work before I leave and do the rest when necessary in Sibu. Of course I have to commit something because I am drawing a salary also. However, when I ‘mengular’ there nobody will tell him. Ha Ha!
Wah! Working for hubby and drawing a salary… How nice! I wonder what job that is. Any vacancy for me? I’ll be unemployed by the end of September – jobless, penniless… Sobssss!!!!
Ya, you can find chao chai hung ngang in Kuching but like everything else, you will need to know where to go. My Foochow relatives like the one at Mekong Cafe, opposite Heritage Restaurant (behind the shops across the road from Grand Continental, Ban Hock Road). Wah! Come back on holiday still need to work, so kesian… Must be big business, big money! 
Small business only. That’s why husband and wife have to ‘pao ka liao’. I am drawing salary because I am working at home, managing his and partner’s business like book keeping, calculating workers salary, admin stuff among other things. We don’t have other employees so have to do everything on our own.
I had ‘Chao chai hung ngang’ at Tabuan food court because I just happened to be there to pack lunch for family. I saw a stall there and just ordered because of sudden craving. So I will need to go to the ‘correct’ place next time.
Ya, everything everywhere – must go to the right places as not all are good. Oh dear – I wouldn’t know how to do all those things…so you can’t employ me. LOL!!!
I love the pork mihun noodles that you had! I remember always having something similar when I was in Penang, only that I chose maggi noodles instead of mihun
Maggi noodles? Eeee…I thought in Penang, they serve something like this with kway teow…and they call it kway teow th’ng? I would prefer kway teow to mihun, that’s for sure.
I love the soupy dishes that you had served in black bowls. Somehow the colour contrast worked well. Fpr me, nothing could be nicer in the cool mornings than to sit down at a kopitiam to have a bowl of soupy noodles and a nice cuppa hot beverage.
Wow, so you use your blog as a price-checking tool
+Ant+
Yes, ain’t that great? We can keep track of how much they’ve jacked up the prices… Otherwise, they will do that quietly and we do not even realise we’re being robbed in broad daylight. Yup…nice for cool days but pretty hot here – hazy some more. I hear it’s raining and flooding over your side… How nice. Hehehehehe!!!!
How nice it is to spend time with a fellow blogger friend!
It certainly is… What is life without friends…and all the caring and sharing?
wah…wah…WAH!!! Those “usus” inside the porridge is always my favourite. Hubby always wanna puke out when he sees me eating intestines…..
LOL!!! So very nice….. Just don’t eat too often – all the innards. High cholesterol, they say.
I would love those noodles..
The mihun or the hung ngang or both?
oh we call that rice porridge as Aros Caldo here… yum yum
we usually take this as breakfast and perfect for cold rainy seasin
Ya, we have it for breakfast too but I like porridge on hot days – if on cold days, I would be going to the toilet all the time. It’s all water… LOL!!!
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