Good with the bad…

When Annie-Q was back here in Sibu with her twins, they went with her mum to this coffee shop, Twin Corner, to the left of the Paramount Hotel in the vicinity of the Kampung Datu shops and she loved the roti canai as well as the other things there.

Well, my friend, Philip, is back in town from the US and the other morning, we went there for breakfast. He ordered the roti telur…

…which was indeed very good and I particularly loved the dhall dip…

…which was fragrantly tasty – it was thick and you can see all the dhall beans in it unlike at many places where the dip is watery with bits of long beans and what have you…and has hardly any taste of dhall. I would say that it is even nicer than the one at the Bandong stall that I like a lot but if I’m not mistaken, it is slightly more expensive here which is to be expected as the stall is located in  a coffee shop and they would have to pay the rent and what not. I tried a bit of the sambal by the side and found that it was great as well.

The tomato crispy noodles (RM4.00) that I ordered from the Malay noodle stall there…

…was closer to what one would find in Kuching – the gravy is not so heavily adulterated with tomato ketchup compared to what I have had at the other places in town but unfortunately, there were only those few miserable shrimps and some sotong (squid) in it. I tasted a shrimp and found that it had a strong smell so I quickly spat it out and put all of them by the side of my plate – it was quite obvious that they were not very fresh. Otherwise, I would say that the noodles were not too bad.

Philip ordered their fried kway teow (flat rice noodles) with egg gravy (RM3.50)…

…otherwise known as wan tan hor, and we could tell from the moment it was served, judging from the appearance, that it would come nowhere near what we had here…and we were absolutely right.

All things considered, the roti canai or roti telur is certainly worth going back there for but I don’t think I would want to order anything from the noodles stall anymore the next time around.

Knowing how thoughtful and generous Philip is, I was pretty sure that he would not come back empty-handed and I was right! He brought me these all the way from the US – the made-in-Canada Ma Ling luncheon meat and the US-made condensed milk…

Thanks so much, Philip. That is so very nice of you and it certainly was great seeing you again and of course, we’ll go out again sometime to see if there are any more yet-to-be-discovered great eats in town…

Oooooo…luncheon meat!!! And Ma Ling no less…

Yum! Yum! My favourite since I was small, fried with sliced Bombay onion and egg. Care for some, anyone? Hehehehehehe!!!!!