Julia…

I once had a delightful pair of twins in my English tuition class – Judy and Julia, who were always amused by the fact that I could never tell one from the other. Maybe I still can’t…but I have not seen them together since that time when I was teaching them. Judy is now in New Zealand – not too far away from Wellington where my daughter is currently…and she was home for the holidays at the end of last year. We did get to meet then when we went for lunch here and she was at my birthday dinner too.

Julia is presently home from Glasgow, Scotland for her summer holidays and we got together for lunch here together with Alfie. I had the set lunch (RM9++) and from the options given, I chose the curry sotong (squid)…

…which was very nice. It came with rice, a slice of cucumber and some nasi lemak sambal on top and fried paku (jungle fern)…

…which tasted really great and I liked the fish ball/salted veg soup as well…

All that came with a complimentary drink – an orange cordial but I had to have my kopi-o-peng (iced black coffee)…so I ordered that as well.

Julia had the Singapore fried mihun (RM9.00++)…

…which did not look that appealling but she said it was not bad.

Alfie had the tom yam spaghetti (RM12.00++)…

…which looked even worse. This used to be my favourite and in the past, they had the spaghetti tossed in very nice sourish and spicy tom yam sauce, not drowned in all that gravy like this. The presentation was nicer then too – with the mussels and prawns and chili on top…not buried underneath the pasta. But Alfie said it was all right.

Hopefully, the two were not just being polite (and headed for kampua noodles right after that) but whatever it was, I really enjoyed meeting Julia again after all these years, and Alfie too, and had a great time chatting with them. I certainly hope the feeling is  mutual.

Well, the summer hols would be quite long so who knows, Julia and I may get to meet again – maybe when Ryan’s home from Russia. I wonder when he will be back in town…