Uptown girl…

No, Christie Brinkley wasn’t there. Neither was Claudia Schiffer, just Mandy who took us to Damansara Uptown. I quite like the place and for the uninitiated, it’s about the size of  the town centre in Sibu, maybe even a little bigger and there are more tall buildings plus all those popular outlets like Starbucks, Old Town, Baskin’ Robbins and others that cannot be found in Sibu. We went to this coffee shop there…

Nope, despite the name, it has got nothing to do with the old man in Kelantan. LOL!!! We had the bak kut teh…

…which I found to be just right and not too strong for me. My missus loved the peppery pork intestine soup…

…but I thought it was at best, just ok. The pork soup with kway teow was very nice…

…and according to Mandy, the way they cook it is different from that of the Penang kway teow th’ng in the island republic. We also tried the Penang char kway teow and found it to be very nice, definitely a lot nicer than what I had earlier at Jalan Alor…

There was this stall that claimed to sell “Sarawak hometown mee“…

…so I just had to order a plate to give it a try…

It was very nice and a lot better than what I had at the Asia Cafe in Sunway. Though it did not taste exactly like the best kolo mee in Kuching, it came quite close and I would think that it was more like the kampua noodles in Sibu. For one thing, it never claimed to be either, so I would not have a bone to pick this time. So, if anybody is dying to know what kampua noodles taste like, just hop over and give it a try. I’m sure you’ll find it to your liking.

Unfortunately, I would not say the same about this bowl of mee sua that I had at a coffee shop along Jalan Alor though…

I saw some Chinese newspaper cuttings displayed at the stall, so I thought it must be quite nice. Well, firstly, it was totally different from the mee sua in Sibu served in chicken soup cooked with ginger and Foochow ang chiew (red wine) and secondly, it did not taste very nice at all. The wine was so strong that I felt intoxicated after eating it and it was VERY sweet. Besides, the soup was murky or cloudy as if the mee sua was cooked in it, not separately and drained.

Now comes the worst part! This miserable bowl of not-so-nice mee sua cost RM12.00, believe you me!!!

One thing’s for sure, you will never see me going there and having this ever again! Period.