Keep searchin’…

Once, there was a lady who ran a kampua noodle stall at a coffee shop across the road from Sacred Heart School where I was teaching. Her noodles were more expensive than elsewhere but were very nice and there were a lot of customers eating that or her Sarawak laksa which, at the time, was the best in town…and her lor mee was very nice too. Then she moved to another coffee shop in the town centre and I never went to eat at her stall ever again after that. Subsequently, I saw her at this coffee shop at Sungai Merah but she was not selling her kampua noodles anymore, just her Sarawak laksa and the lor mee. I guess that was because there was already a kampua noodle stall at the shop and they did not want to have a conflict of interest.

I heard that she fell sick…so I do not get to see her at the stall anymore. Her husband is running it now and the other day, in my search for the best lor mee in town, I went there to try…

It seemed darker than what I would get elsewhere but tastewise, it was quite good….not great, just quite good…

And for lunch, my daughter and I went to this coffee shop across the road from what is now called Mitsu Shabu Shabu – Loke Ming Yuen where I usually went for the beef noodles, as my daughter wanted to eat the fried mihun with sambal and clams. I have not eaten at that stall since the time when I had fried kway teow served in what looked like a saucer. It was way too expensive for way too little so there was no way I would go back there again. However, it seemed that the lady had closed shop or moved elsewhere as the one running the stall was not her…and what she cooked was very different from the mihun that my daughter loved a lot…

She did not even use fresh clams, just those canned ones which are hard and not so nice. My daughter did not want to eat it and would rather have my salad chicken rice (RM5.00) instead…

This stall has been operating there for a long time and business seemed pretty good. My daughter said it was nice – especially the fried chicken…but I wouldn’t know as I did not get to eat it myself but from the look of it, I think the Pattaya chicken rice at Thomson Corner would be much nicer…and if I remember correctly, cheaper too!