In my last post, I mentioned how I had to rush back to the hotel to change and freshen up for my lunch date but don’t worry as I did not have any secret rendezvous up my sleeves, not at all. Actually, I had agreed to go out with Bananaz who was home in Kulim for the Ching Ming Festival and he drove over to Penang to spend the rest of the day on the island. We had agreed earlier to go for lunch with his one-time working associate, Edmund, who happens to be my very old friend as well. Small world, eh?
We went to this place (GPS: N 05° 25.292′, E 100° 19.540)…
…and there we saw this mobile Indian hawker…
According to Bananaz, the guy used to park his vehicle outside his office when he was still working in Penang and he would buy food from him for lunch. I really liked the fact that he was dressed up so smartly like a real gentleman. Bananaz and his friend who came with him all the way from KL shared a small bowl of Penang assam laksa…
…and we also had these cucur udang (prawn fritters)…
…and kuih talam…
…both of which were nice but not something so great that I would want to come back all the way again for.
It was already way past 1.00 p.m. – almost 2, I reckon so most of the food stalls there were closed except for one lor mee stall. I ordered a small one (I wouldn’t be able to manage a big one – not after all that we had for breakfast and at the New World Park) and got this…
Actually, I had wanted to try the dry version but I did not order it right. This would be exactly the same as the lor mee that we have in Sibu except for the spoonful of sambal belacan that came with it.
The guys insisted that they ordered another one for me and Bananaz ate that bowl on my behalf instead. Eventually, what I had wanted originally came…
It was not really dry – in fact, it was swimming in some dark sauce like wantan mee and eyewwwww!!!! I wouldn’t want that chicken claw and thankfully, Bananaz helped me with that. LOL!!!
It turned out to be a mixture of mee (yellow noodles) and mihun (rice vermicelli)…
…and I really loved it! It was very nice indeed and I particularly enjoyed those slices of pig skin. Yum! Yum!
After that, we adjourned to a bread shop a stone’s throw away for “tea” but you will have to wait till another day for my post on that. I will blog on it eventually…so do be patient, eh? Hehehehehe!!!!
...STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS! 