Ho ho ho…

This is Huai Bin‘s favourite beef noodle place in town…

I do recall having tried it once before when it was still located at the Cathay Cinema, now Star Cineplex, building but I do not remember being wow-ed by it. Anyway, my daughter, Melissa, is back in town for her holidays so the other morning, I took her there for breakfast.

The place was filled to the brim and if the crowd was the gauge to judge how good the food would be at a place, one would expect it to be really very good here. They’ve their menu on the wall…

…so you can just pick what you want from the list. Ooops…sorry for the angle! I’m sure everyone has heard of a horse’s ass – this one’s a bull’s…and that’s supposed to be the tail – don’t you start getting any ideas now! LOL!!! In case you’re wondering, that mee golok is supposed to be kolo mee…or what they usually call mee kolok in local Malay. I assure you that it has no connection whatsoever with that infamous town at the Kelantan/Thai border.

I had their mee golok daging campur (RM4.50) – the dry version with beef, tendon, tripe and all…

…which came with a tiny bowl of beef soup…

…or at least that was what it was supposed to be.

I would not say it was nice, not at all…but at least, it was edible – this much I would say. The soup did not have any beef fragrance at all – I honestly think I could come out with much nicer plain beef soup at home using Bovril.

One point in their favour was that they left the jars of chili sauce on the table so one would be able to help oneself to as much as one likes…

It was very nice and it certainly looked like that was the only thing that I liked there.

My daughter had the mee daging lembu (RM3.50)…

– the soup version with just the beef and nothing else.

She did not like it and complained of the overpowering taste of the taugeh (bean sprouts) in the soup. I tried a bit and I could get what she meant. I thought the broth had hardly any beef flavour and was not worth the calories, not at all. So I told her to just leave it and we could go for something else a whole lot nicer for lunch later…and she did! If you ask for my humble opinion, I would tell you without a second thought that if you want nice beef noodles, you can try this place – frankly, I would think that theirs would be many times nicer despite the commotion from the carwash cum tyre shop right next door.

After breakfast, we went to walk around Wisma Sanyan right across the road to while the time away and it was well after noon when we went here for the nasi kerabu and of course, Melissa loved that a whole lot more. Funny how, according to her, she can’t get any nasi kerabu in Sungai Petani…in the state right next to the one where this originated from (Kelantan) or perhaps, they have that there but she is unaware of it. Imagine having to come back all the way to Sibu to enjoy that!