Somebody told me…

Somebody told me the the mee sua at this coffee shop here is very nice so I just had to drop by to give it a try.

It is the standard practice in most, if not all, of the coffee shops and restaurants here to bring out the cutlery dipped in a mug or glass of hot boiling water and at some, they will give you the water and you will have the choice of either the plastic spoon and chopsticks or the stainless steel fork and spoon from those placed in a special holder on the table. You help yourself to whichever you want to use and promptly dip them in the water yourself. So it was at this particular coffee shop…and I was quite tickled by the mug that they were using that morning…

That’s really so cute, don’t you think? LOL!!!

The coffee was pretty good that day…

– not exceptionally fantastic but it was good enough for me which is more than what I can say about the same at some other places in town. Even if it is just a glass of coffee that you want, what more to say the things that you would like to eat, you really must know where to go so that what you get would be to your satisfaction.

So how was the mee sua? Well, exactly like what my friend told me, it was red in colour, very very red indeed…

…but these days, it’s not the colour that I’m looking for but the fragrance of the traditional Foochow red wine used.

I’ve been told that if I use the cheaper version of the wine – the one that has not been completely filtered and there is a bit of the ang chao residue in it,  then, my mee sua would be red in colour…but not necessarily fragrant compared to if I use the very much stronger unadulterated clear (or light red or orange, to be exact) red wine.

Thankfully, there was some of that red wine fragrance in what I had that morning…

…so I quite enjoyed it and there was a lot of ginger used in the cooking of the soup. All things considered, I would say it was good enough but at RM6.00 a bowl, I thought that was a little bit steep. Perhaps, if they can reduce the amount of mee sua in the bowl and the number of pieces of chicken from 3 to 2 and have more of the very nice soup, they may be able to sell it at RM5.00 a bowl which I would think is more reasonable by our local standards.

After having had my fill that morning. I headed on home…and it so happened that the postman was doing his rounds along my lane at that point in time and he gave me my mail…and among the bills (What else? Tsk! Tsk!), there was this very-much-welcomed relief…

…and inside, there was this very lovely souvenir key chain from that “fine” republic down south…

…from my dear friend, Claire, in Ipoh who was there recently over the Independence Day weekend.

Thank you so much, Claire…and thank you especially for remembering me when you’re out there having all that fun. I owe you one! 🙂