Promiscuous

My missus and I stopped by here for lunch as I wanted to order one whole vanilla mille crepe on behalf of Annie-Q  for her mum on the occasion of Mother’s Day. Sigh!!! I’ve been to this place so often and I’ve eaten most of the things on the menu that I would want to eat…and I can’t have the ones that I like either as that would mean that I would not have anything to blog about…unless I keep featuring the same things over and over again.

That was why I ordered the wanton QQ noodles – dry (RM6.20)…

…even though I did not really want to try that, just that it was something that I had not had before. Well, I think QQ is actually a transcription from Chinese (Hokkien) meaning “curly” or “firm/springy” depending on the intonation. I do not know why they call their pian sip (meat dumplings), wanton as these are not the same, not at all – the colour and texture of the skin are different and these are definitely our own local pian sip. Period.

Incidentally, I usually spell wonton or wanton as wantan for if I’m not mistaken, that is how it is pronounced in Chinese…and besides, as far as I know there is an English word, wanton, meaning excessive. Nevertheless, I decided to look it up via google search and imagine my surprise when I discovered that it also means “a sexually immodest or promiscuous woman”. LOL!!! Imagine asking a friend, “You want some  wanton or not?” Hmmmm…I didn’t know that! We certainly get to learn new things every day, don’t we? LOL!!!

Anyway, back to the noodles that I had…

…I must say that it was just so-so, nowhere near the noodles that I would cook for myself in the morning for breakfast. The deep-fried pian sip…or if you insist, wanton, were good though – nice and crispy.

I also ordered the wanton soup (RM4.20)…

…and although the soup was nice and the dumplings were tasty, the skin was a bit too thick and hard – not soft like the nice pian sip that I can find at a  couple of other places in town. I have seen on more than one occasion people rolling the pian sip skin to make it flatter and thinner before using it to wrap the minced meat inside – perhaps, the people here did not do that and just used the skin the way they got it from the market…and hence, it wasn’t all that great to me…

I must say that I prefer the fried ones a lot more.

My missus had the sizzling black pepper beef kampua that I have always recommended to friends who drop by this place – in my opinion, it is one of the best choices that one can find on the menu…but the price has gone up from RM8.80 the first time I had that to RM9.20 now (and it certainly looks like they do not give as much beef as before anymore)…and the kompia with pork belly/three-layer pork has gone up from RM3.90 to RM4.20 for a set of three.

I certainly hope that they will not make a habit of this – increasing their prices according to their whims and fancies or I would have to look for other cheaper watering holes in town, never mind if the food isn’t as nice – as long as it is something that an old man like me, surviving on my measly pension, can afford. Tsk! Tsk!!!