Gold…

Emas in Malay means gold and this one…

…along Jalan Morshidi Sidek (the road leading straight towards Wisma Sanyan/Parkson) facing the primary school, is not the same as this one at Kampung Datu that was once very popular for its Sarawak laksa. I have not been to the latter for a while but I hear business is no longer as good as before and the laksa isn’t as great either. I bet the guy running the stall would be a lot more amiable now than before – he certainly was not the friendliest guy I had had the displeasure of encountering.

Well, Wednesday was a public holiday here owing to the installation of the new Malaysian King so I thought I would go downtown considering that if I ventured out a little early, traffic would not be heavy and parking would be a breeze and I was right! A friend had posted on Facebook a photograph of the tomyam kampua noodles that he had at one of the coffee shops in the vicinity and he said that it was very nice so I went hunting for it in order that I could give it a try for breakfast.

I did not see the stall initially but instead, I saw this coffee shop and somebody told me sometime ago that the Sarawak laksa (RM3.50) was very nice…

I decided to try that instead and when it was served, I must say that I was not impressed. It seemed too lemak (too much coconut milk) and that would make it become something like the (nyonya) curry laksa or curry mee. But when I tasted it…

…I found that it was not really lemak, just right, and was very nice, in fact. I loved the very fragrant and spicy sambal balacan (dried prawn paste) that came with it. Nice, very nice indeed!!!

Be forewarned, however, that the coffee there certainly leaves a lot to be desired…

See how diluted my glass of kopi-o peng was! Tsk! Tsk!

Still, if it’s laksa that I’m looking for, I would certainly consider going back to this place…and I definitely will have to go to that part of town again sometime to try the elusive tomyam kampua noodles. I’ve managed to locate the stall eventually so it would not be a problem looking for it the next time around.

On that same day, seeing that we were planning to go out for dinner that night, I told my missus not to cook and I tapaoed this for our lunch…

– (roast) chicken (drumstick) rice with one stewed egg and extra roast pork added…

…and one packet like that cost RM6.50. What do you all think? Expensive or not or do you think it is quite reasonably priced? Come, let’s hear your opinion on this…