All for nothing…

I have been here before and so has CK aka Superman and he even posted a photo of this in his blog…

That was sometime ago in February-March and the banner is still there. Literally, kerja kosong in Hokkien would mean cho liao kang or wasted effort or all for nothing. Perhaps that means that they will not get paid, so that is why they are still looking for helpers up to this date. LOL!!!

I had one disappointment after another with what I had there…but that morning, I had this craving for mee sua (longevity string noodles) served in chicken soup cooked with Foochow red wine…

*Pic stolen from Gerrie’s Facebook photo album…LOL!!!

Now who were the people to blame for that? The members of the Dimong Gastronomic Society aka The Gluttons’ Club who had been going round eating that in Kuching and posting the irresistably alluring photographs on Facebook.

I remember on my previous visit, I saw one stall serving the Foochow delight and since the coffee shop was on the way to my parents’ house, I decided to stop there to give it a try. Unfortunately, they did not have that – the lady said that they would only sell it on Saturdays and Sundays. Tsk! Tsk! In the end I settled for her pi-tan (century egg) porridge…

…which was actually meat porridge (minced pork) plus a century egg cut into slices and a poached egg for RM4.00 or perhaps, it was RM4.50, I can’t remember exactly now. It was very nice but I missed the pig liver and the intestines that they had in the one at the coffee shop in Sungai Merah.

I bought a packet of mee goreng (fried noodles) at the Malay stall for my mum and this only cost RM3.00…

…but I discovered that there were some prawns in it and my mum, being allergic to crustaceans, would not be able to have that.

So, in the end, I took that home and I had that for lunch. It was very nice but a bit on the sweet side like they had added sugar or something. I did not really mind as long as it was not an overdose of monosodium glutamate as in the case with many Chinese noodle stalls here.

Well, considering that both the porridge and the mee goreng were pretty good, the stop at the coffee shop that morning was certainly not all for nothing, after all…