This little town…

Last Saturday morning, Melissa and I made our way to the airport here in Sibu to welcome her coursemate…

…all the way from Trengganu to this little town.

I would say that he’s very lucky to be posted to a school in the town proper and of course, we would be here to help him in any way we can.  – the least we can do after all that he and his friends did for Melissa when they were in Wellington, New Zealand.  I remember once there was a severe earthquake and in the middle of the night, he and the others went to Melissa’s studio apartment on the 9th Floor to help her move to their house as it would be much safer there till it was all right for her to go back.

Of course, as with anybody else coming to Sibu, I would make sure that they would get a Sibu kampua welcome and since the halal one that we tried the other day was not all that great, I took him to this place instead. I had their kampua before and I thought it was very good (RM3.50)…

I did not order the special (RM4.50) as I was still abstaining from prawns and other kinds of seafood but that was what I ordered for Melissa’a friend…

I’ve mentioned this before in my previous posts that here, for just RM1.00 more, you will get the special – five very nice prawn fritters with whatever you order. I was glad that he liked it very much and he even had to ask how he could go about ordering that if he were to go out and eat on his own – they certainly do not have that in most places in the peninsula so it came as no surprise at all that he was not familiar with it.

Melissa had their mee jawa special again (RM4.50)…

…and after that, we took him to his school to report for duty.

Hmmm…the nice boy did not come empty-handed, not at all! He brought along two huge packets of keropok ikan (fish crackers)  all the way from his home state for us…

I’ve always loved the ones from there – smallkucing has given me some a couple of times already.

Well, all the best to him and here’s hoping he will enjoy working and staying here in Sibu, Sarawak – Bumi Kenyalang (Land of the Hornbill) which I am pretty sure he most certainly will…