She loves you…

It’s the 16th of May, the official date for Teachers’ Day in our country. Hence, I would like to wish all teachers a very Happy Teachers’ Day, all the very best in your endeavours and may God bless you all abundantly in your selfless pursuits to carve out meaningful lives among those under your charge…

Now, to get on now with what I have to share with everybody today, truth be told, somehow, I just can’t seem to recall exactly how I happened to stumble upon this blog but as soon as I had read the review, I wasted no time at all in heading straight to the place…

…to try the kueh chap…

If I may quote her exact words, she said, “Here is, to the best, kueh chap (thin square sheet noodles served with braised pork broth flavored with spices and all the pork spare parts) in Sibu, probably in Sarawak even (I have tasted almost all of the famous kueh chap in Kuching before making such remark),” and when somebody put it like this, “Should I have request for the last meal in my life, this would be it,”  wouldn’t you want to go and give it a try? Well, I would and I did!

This stall in the shop…

…was very well-known once for its bak kut teh. It was so popular that at any time of the day, it would be overflowing with people, all enjoying their specialty. Eventually, the popularity waned and the crowd gradually thinned. I heard that the man had died and his family members took over and they were not as good at it so the customers started to stop coming. I went there once not too long ago and was not exactly thrilled by it – I thought that it was over-peppery and lacked the strong herbal taste that would usually be present in any bak kut teh.

I never knew they had kueh chap until I read the aforementioned post…

but personally, though I felt that it was quite good, the soup/gravy seemed a bit cloudy and the taste on its own did not sweep me off my feet. I would think that I enjoyed what I had here a lot more.

However, I must say that the sambal or chili dip that came with it was simply out of this world…

I don’t know exactly what was in it but I could sense some ginger and a squeeze of calamansi lime and perhaps, even belacan (dried prawn paste) and when eaten together with this, the kueh chap did seem really delicious, after all.

I wouldn’t mind going back there again for a bowl (RM4.50)…but unfortunately, I have to refrain from over-indulging in those pig innards and stuff for fear of a gout attack. Once in a long while would be fine, I think…