Changed my mind…

I’m having some renovation works at my house so the other morning, I drove to this dim sum place to buy some char siew pao for the workers to eat during their breaks but unfortunately, it was not open – I guess Mondays are their off days.

In the end, I decided to stop at this coffee shop, a few doors away – often fondly referred to as the one with the yellow chairs…

It is noted for its cheap chicken rice but the price has gone up from RM2.50 for quite sometime now – it used to be RM2.00 only. I’ve tried it once before here and I thought it was quite all right – not the best, but o.k. By the way, the one that I went to has since closed down – ever since they opened this one and I’m not too sure but I think the one at Jalan Maju – facing the Rejang Esplanade is still there.

I wasn’t there for the chicken rice though – I usually do not eat that so early in the morning. My main intention that morning was to try the kampua mee (noodles) that somebody said on Facebook was “the best in Sibu”, available 24 hours a day. But when I went in, I saw a stall selling kuih chap and claypot noodles and I changed my mind there and then.

I ended up having the latter – the claypot noodles (RM4.50)…

…and I really liked it a lot! It tasted great and went very well with the chili dip that came with it…

I used to love the claypot noodles at a coffee shop at Rejang Park but somebody told me that the guy had passed away and the stall had been taken over by a lady selling kampua noodles and anyway, the ones at that stall had yellow noodles unlike this one. The lady here uses the ee-mee…

…which is actually the right type of noodles to use – my cousin from Bintulu gave me some that day but to date, I’ve yet to cook those.

This is the kampua mee stall at the shop…

I decided to tapao some home to try so that I would not have to go all the way there again. Personally, I thought that it was good, not the best but good enough and better than what I had here…and if I were to go back there again, I would definitely have the claypot noodles again and enjoy it to the last drop…

…or maybe I will try the kuih chap the next time around…