Stars…

Sometime last week, my missus and I went around looking for some new places in town to eat and we ended up in the vicinity of Ulu Sungai Merah, past the Giant Hypermart if you’re coming from the town centre, to this coffee shop…

…opposite the Wonderful  Supermarket and Departmental Store.

It certainly seemed as if there wasn’t much life around there at that time of the day but we managed to find a stall that was open and my missus had the ayam penyet (RM6.50)…

She was thrilled to see the chili dip as the colour gave her the impression that they made it using cili padi but unfortunately, it was not hot at all…or at least, not to her. What she ordered was all right – I would not say it was all that great compared to the rest that we had had before at some other places in town. They certainly were very generous with the meat though – one whole drumstick, thigh and all.

I decided to give their sour duck rice (RM4.50) a try…

…as I love duck and it sounded like something I would enjoy.

Well, it was nice – the duck cooked with a lot of ginger and I guess it got the slight sourish taste from the preserved vegetables in it…

…but I would prefer the meat in bigger chunks or slices as it was quite a hassle going through all those little bits and wondering whether it was meat or ginger.

It turned out that the young man running the stall as an ex-student of the school where I was teaching before I retired. He said that he could recognise me even though I never taught him way back then. Hmmm….unfortunately, there wasn’t any special discount nor a special lunch treat seeing that it was my first time patronising his food stall. Sigh!!!!

All in all, I thought what we had that day was not too bad but I sure would not want to go all the way to eat that. Perhaps, the next time, I would venture there at night as I think there would be a lot more life then with most of the shops in the area going full swing till late and there are also some hawker stalls around that look quite interesting.

Moving away from the post proper, the postman dropped by sometime last week and passed me this…

…and inside, there were these…

– my favourite meatballs gravy from IKEA!

Thank you so much, Melissa – you shouldn’t have troubled yourself getting me those and sending them…but it is certainly most appreciated, of course.