Dollars and sense…

I went to my regular car wash shop the other day and while I was waiting at the coffee shop beside it, I decided to have something to eat.

If I’m not mistaken, that place has changed hands several times since the first time I ate there and I remember somebody telling me that the people running the place now used to operate at a place about 100 metres from the Sibu prison and they have moved here. The kampua noodle stall is no longer there and it is now a completely halal place selling nasi campur, roti canai and all kinds of fried stuff. I ordered the mee goreng special (fried noodles special) and this was what I got…

The noodles tasted good and the normal ones would probably come with a fried egg, sunny side up…

I do wish people would not use those metal rings for their eggs and fry them in a wok instead so that there would be that nice golden fringe that I love a lot. This egg is somewhat miserably overdone, I’m afraid and I must say that I can do a whole lot better if I were to fry my own. Tsk! Tsk!

For the special, you will get a huge chunk of fried chicken…

…that has been marinated with kunyit (tumeric). I wished they had not given me breast meat as that served to substantially reduce my enjoyment of it.

One point in their favour is that the special with all those extras cost only RM7.00 compared to the mee mamak at the cafes around here like this one or this one…but then of course, this is at a coffee shop and I would think RM7.00 is relatively pricey as well…compared to other places like the RM3.50 ones that I used to have at that old lady’s stall in Sungai Antu. I haven’t been there for quite a while so perhaps I should drop by one of these days to see if the price has gone up or not. For one thing, I loved her mee goreng…and she would give a bit of her very nice masak hitam (beef) which is anytime better than any fried chicken.

Well, stay tuned, folks! I’ll get back to you soon on this…