Be careful what you ask for…

We were here…

…among the shops in the Sungai Antu area, opposite RTM Sibu, again last Saturday as Melissa wanted their nasi kerabu (RM5.50)…

…for lunch.

I did not feel like having that as the previous morning, I had fried some rice, kampung-style…

…with long kiam hu, the very special salted fish that is so much nicer than the ordinary/usual ones… and I also added some of the air budu that my Trengganu friends gave me when they came to town.

So I asked for a plate of char kway teow (RM4.00)…

…for myself and I sure liked what I was served. I would say that they did it very well and Melissa did try a bit and immediately declared that she would order that next time.

My missus asked for the mee goreng (fried noodles) with a special request for extra pedas (spicy) and got this (RM3.50)…

It was kway teow!!! Ah well, when you go and eat at such places, be prepared for such little blunders sometimes. We are quite used to it, those people at places such as this one  getting your orders mixed up and what not, so we just confirmed that it was not meant for somebody else, served to the wrong table…and once we were sure that it was definitely meant for us, without further ado, my missus dived into it!

It was very nice too but we could not understand the difference as kway teow goreng (in Malay) is, in fact, char kway teow (in Hokkien), the one and the same thing but when we asked the girl waiting at the tables, she said if we asked for kway teow goreng, we would get what my missus got and if we asked for char kway teow, then it would be like what I got…and I could not, for the dear life of me, understand how this very confusing confusion came about but never mind! Personally, if I only had to pay 50 sen more to get some six prawns…

…or maybe more, without any second thought, I would definitely go for the char kway teow here, not the kway teow goreng.

The bottom line here is that we should be careful what we ask for so as to get what we may have in mind…HOPEFULLY.