Count to 10…

When my nephew was home for Chinese New Year recently, he kept telling me about this food court at the basement of Lot 10 in KL where, according to him, the hawkers/stall owners were all finger-picked by Francis Yeoh from among the best in KL and the surrounding areas. So when Annie-Q suggested meeting up for lunch that day, I proposed dropping by that place…

…which was very near the hotel where I was staying and I could just stroll there and reach my destination before I could finish counting to 10.

It turned out that Annie had been there before and had a post on it in her blog. She gave specific instructions for me not to order anything until she arrived as she would know what was good there.

I got there earlier and strolled around the place…

…to look at what they were selling and I must say that one would be spoilt for choice there. There were all kinds of stuff – you name it, they have it.

When she arrived with her twins – Fearles & Cruz, she went about ordering for everybody. Upon her strong recommendation, I decided to have the Hokkien fried noodles…

…which, judging from the sign, was charcoal-cooked…

She had the Cantonese fried noodles herself…

…and she ordered roast duck and pork plus rice for her sons…

There was a stall serving German cuisine named Bavaria – the only Bavaria that I knew was the one selling BMWs, if I’m not mistaken. Annie ordered the bratwurst sausage from there for me to try…

…and though it was not the best German sausage I had ever had, it was good enough for me – coming from a town where the only sausages and frankfurters I could get would be those miserable frozen ones from Ayamas and the like at the local supermarkets.

I tried a little bit of Annie’s noodles and I thought it was o.k. The roast duck and pork were very nice – the boys hardly ate anything…and no prize for guessing who cleaned up the plate. LOL!!! As for my Hokkien noodles, they were really very good, much better than any that I had had elsewhere…but the portion was so very small and the price – RM8.90! It certainly isn’t cheap to eat there, I would think.

In the meantime, Bananaz contacted me and I told him to join us for lunch at this particular place. Unfortunately, by the time he got there we had finished eating – the reason being the fact that he had to drive all the way from Kajang. He said he had already had lunch and did not want anything to eat though I suspect he was shy and opted to go hungry instead. Poor fella! LOL!!!

Gosh! I am really flattered and deeply honoured that he actually went through all that trouble to meet me. Thanks, Bananaz…and it was indeed a pleasure to get to meet you in person and thanks also for the coffee. He was so nice as to walk me back to the hotel and since there was sometime left before I had to go to the airport, we had coffee at the hotel cafe and chatted for a while.

And thanks also to you, Annie, for lunch. It certainly was nice seeing you again even though it was only for a while. I guess the next time I will see you and your family again would be in Sibu and it will be my turn to treat then! I’m certainly looking forward to that…