I do not usually go out at night except occasionally for dinner and I should be home quite early. So good, eh? But when Kpenyu was here, I was up till the wee hours of the morning…or almost! LOL!!!
He wanted to go and buy sio bee (meat dumplings or siew mai) at the pasar malam (night market) and believe you me, I had not been to the night market for years as I could not stand the heat and the crowd and I did not think that the food was worth making a trip there for. But Kpenyu wanted the almost meatless sio bee stuffed with a lot of minced mangkuang/sengkuang (turnip) that he had grown used to those days when he was growing up, and so we went…
The night market in Sibu is different from those in the peninsula where they move from one place to another each night in a week. Ours is permanently at one place, something like Jalan Petaling in KL…
We only walked around the food stalls even though there were many others selling all kinds of things. I saw the guy who sells chicken wings at Simpang Tiga – the ones that I love a lot but I was quite full, so I did not buy any. And the guy who sells apam balik near my house in the afternoon was also there…
I don’t know if he’s there every night but I had a feeling some of them were there because of the Ching Ming Festival – to cash in on the crowd coming back to Sibu for the festival or for people to buy and present as offerings at the graveyards the next morning.
After that, we went to Taman Selera Muhibbah for drinks and sat till closing time – 11.30 p.m. Yes, we’re very good people here… Hahahahaha!!!! The following night, I picked Kpenyu up after his high school reunion bash at Kingwood Hotel and we headed to Hijau, the fun pub at the RH Hotel here…
There was a Filipino band but if you ask me, I think they would render Simon Cowell speechless. I bet the guy would definitely run out of adjectives to spice up his caustic remarks. They’re definitely a far cry from the ones I used to find at my favourite hangout in KL. Those that I had seen there so far were all so talented, entertaining…and definitely worth the time (and money), not this one! We were there for just one set, thank goodness, and left before my poor ear drums succumbed to the excruciating bashing! LOL!!!
...STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS! 