Was it good for you…

Obviously it was good for smallkucing and his papa but everyone thought the kampua noodles at this particular place were bland, lacked the fragrance of fried shallots and lard and were definitely not as nice as what they had the previous morning.

Yee Ling wanted to try the very nice Penang hay/har mee that I had sometime ago just before they left for the airport for their flight home but unfortunately, the stall was not open for business that morning . Thus we decided to proceed to that coffee shop at the other end of the same block but unfortunately, they had not started cooking the zhaochai hung ngang yet even though it was already well after 7.30 a.m. by then.

Everyone else had the kampua noodles and they were not impressed while I decided to give the Sarawak laksa (RM4.00!!!) a try. It probably was even worse than the kampua noodles, I must say, and I did not even finish half of it. The tiny shrimps were not fresh at all and I could smell it from a distance – I simply put them aside as soon as it was served. I did not want to risk it and I did not touch the miserable looking sambal belacan either – it looked like bits of mice or cockroach droppings. Eyewwww!!!!!!

I did enjoy the baked sweet potatoes though. These were from the mini dimsum stall in that same coffee shop…

I had seen somebody’s photograph of these on Facebook and I must say that I liked these a lot more than what we had at the dim sum place before. Whatever the creamy stuff on top was, it certainly did wonders to enhance the taste…and at RM2.00 per plate, I thought the price was pretty reasonable.

Now, these sio bee (steamed meat dumplings) were extremely cheap…

At 5 for RM2.00, that would work out to 40 sen each, much cheaper than what I had here. They were all right, quite nice…and everyone liked it with the chili dip provided. Yee Ling’s daughter seemed to like it  a lot and Mandy went and ordered some more. She also ordered these har kau (prawn dumplings)…

…but nobody was impressed. The prawns used were of low quality, not really sweet and on the whole, the dumplings were not very tasty.

While we were there, fellow-blogger Mery came to join us as she had promised to send Yee Ling and the girls to the airport…so after a while, it was time to them to leave…