Happiness is…

This is the Happiness Cafe here in Sibu…

…with the towering Wisma Sanyan, the tallest building in the state of Sarawak, in the background. I guess if you have a rough idea of the layout of the town, that should give you a fair idea as to where this coffee shop is located. This is actually the back part of the shophouses in this area. Note the spiral staircases – those have been around as long as those shops have been around ever since the 60s…or maybe even the 50s.

I dropped by there one morning as somebody said that the tomyam kampua mee (noodles) was very nice…

…and I just had to go and give it a try.

This is the stall that sells the noodles at RM4.50 a plate…

…and I must say that it is not really cheap, not at all.

You will get a lot of stuff with the noodles though – the stewed pork slices, the minced meat and the meat and the fish balls plus a bit of vegetables as well…

…and if you look carefully, you can see a bit of the tomyam sauce…

So, was it good? I would say that it was not bad at all with the slightly sourish and spicy taste but given a choice, I think I would stick to our good ol’ original version of the kampua noodles. For one thing, that would be a lot cheaper with the usual price of RM2.50 a plate at most places, depending on where you go.

The coffee here is quite good…

– not the best but better than the other two coffee shops that I have been to in the vicinity.

Well, if you are still blur as to where this coffee shop is located, it is along Jalan Morshidi Sidek – the road that leads straight towards Wisma Sanyan, facing the Chinese primary school right in the centre of town.

Do take note as to how clean Sibu is in this photograph and the others that I have featured in the previous posts and that is really something, considering that in the 60s and the 70s…and perhaps even up till the 80s, it was considered the dirtiest town in Sarawak and perhaps in the whole of Malaysia but ever since the facelift some years ago and with the persistent effort of the town authorities, it is no longer the miserable dirty ol’ town that it was a long time ago and has become a town that any Sibu-ian can be proud of. I most certainly am!