Move over…

This used to be here…

…but they closed shop to concentrate on the selling-like-hot-cakes instant kampua enterprise. Then, somebody took over but that one was rather short-lived and as I was driving past that day, I saw that some new people were running a coffee shop at this location now.

I noted that there were a few stalls at the place including this kampua stall…

…and the Taiwan fried chicken rice one next to it and the food stall right at the back against the wall sells roti canai and other halal selections…

To the right of the latter, I saw a stall selling mee sua, pek ting eyok, dianpianngu and so on but I was not in the mood for those that day.

I saw somebody eating a plate of tomato kway teow and it looked pretty good but I did not think I would want that either. Anyway, I went straight ahead through that door to the chu-char (cook & fry) place right at the back of the shop and ordered their Foochow-style fried noodles (RM3.50)…

I am not sure what those Chinese characters in red on the sign said – perhaps somebody can help to translate that. As for the noodles, I would say that they did it pretty well – very nicely done and I would not mind having that again the next time I drop by this place but of course, I would want to try the rest of the stuff that they have here as well. Sigh!!! So many things to eat, so little time. LOL!!!

It turned out that my ex-student’s family was running the coffee shop and the kampua stall and I spotted these flowers…

…given to him by another ex-student, his classmate, I guess, on the occasion of the opening of the shop.

While I was there, I saw Eric’s mum and sister having their breakfast and Eric himself and the rest joined them later. Eric’s the guy who started the original instant kampua venture which has been spreading like wild fire. It seems that since then, everyone has jumped on the bandwagon including some bakeries in town, I noticed. Anyway, his mum ordered me this glass of coffee to try…

I understand that Eric is trying out these sachets with the coffee from Ipoh.  Well, I am not really a fan of kopi susu (coffee with milk) as the milk makes me sleepy but I thought it  was pretty good though not as nice as the very much stronger one here but my favourite would still be the blended kopi-o-peng (iced coffee) here with the ground coffee powder from the very nice butter/margarine roasted coffee beans from our very own Mui Hock.

It certainly was nice bumping into my ex-student and also Eric and his family that morning. Sure is a small world, isn’t it?