Round here…

This is new around here, not far from where my house is, along Brooke Drive but the other end of it and not near the town centre…

There is this newly-completed building on the opposite side of the road, the side where my house is…

I don’t know what it is but it looks like a church…or perhaps, they call it a temple.

Anyway, like everywhere else in Sibu, where there are shops, there is a coffee shop…

…and the other day, I decided to stop by to see what they have there.

I was surprised to see a familiar face here – the man and his wife used to run a Sarawak laksa stall here and then they closed shop to travel overseas to visit their children living abroad…and then, they came back and I suppose, not ones to sit idle at home, they started a new stall here. I asked him what he was doing at this part of town instead of taking care of their stall at that other place and he told me that the one here was his daughter’s and he was helping her out a bit.

I was tempted to try their tom yam mihun with udang galah (giant freshwater prawns) at RM6.50 but I decided against that as it was a bit too early in the morning and my tummy might not be able to handle it. I decided to try their beef noodles instead (RM4.00)…

…but it was just so-so. It was nice enough, nicer than here, but I would not think it was really great and if I were to drop by this place again, I would much sooner go for something else. I also tried the kompia (RM2.00 for 3)…

…which was good though I felt the ones here were a bit nicer but at 80 sen a piece, theirs were more expensive and I really do not fancy driving all the way there just to have those. These would do fine, I think. Maybe I would drop by again sometime to see if they have anything nicer…

Well, that was the morning of the day when my friends, Simon and Helen, in Kuching flew into town  and of course, I took them here for lunch…and ordered the usual favourites for them. I tried the Payung chicken with rice…

…which was actually chicken cooked with yogurt. It was pretty good but since I prefer things more exotic and spicy, I think I would very much sooner order some of the other items on the menu whenever I drop by here…or at their new outlet.

The boss let us try their new tomato salad…

…which did not really tickle our fancy as we did not really like the smell of the fried shallots sprinkled on top. The dressing was spicy…and personally, when it comes to tomatoes, I would prefer it with our own salad dressing – the way we would do it in our family with crushed peanuts and all.

Needless to say, Simon and Helen tried their jelly pisang and reminisced on our good ol’ Ban Chuan days while I had their durian ice cream with a special request for extra durian. Oooooo….that was good! Yum! Yum! LOL!!!!