Why not…

If you drive around the kampung (village) areas in the town at night, you will see a lot of these roadside stalls…

…many of which are selling burgers. I know some of them are rather nice (and cheap too) but they open quite late and I would have had my dinner so I never bothered to go and try…but my nephew was telling me about this one where they make their own patties and they’re very very nice! He strongly urged me to go and give it a try and I thought why not? That was why that night, after the movie, my girl and I drove there, at the junction…

…of this road…

…and Jalan Bandong to buy and take back home for supper.

Unfortunately, when we got there, we were told that the guy making the patties had gone on an umrah (pilgrimage) and would not be back until a fortnight…and he would never tell anyone how he did it – it was his own secret recipe…so while he was away, they had to use the usual patties sold at the shops and supermarkets.

They would have their own fried chicken burger as well but by the time we got there that night, they were all sold out. I was not all that keen on those actually as I imagined they would be something that we would be able to get anytime at Colonel Sanders’ even though the guy kept insisting that his was very good and I should go back the very next day to try.

Well, since we were already there, I thought we might as well buy whatever they had and promptly placed our orders. This handsome guy was the one cooking the patties…

…and the egg…

…and toasting the buns and once they were done, this one…

…would put the tomato, cucumber and lettuce and all the sauces…

…and wrap the burgers up…

I liked how he was wearing a plastic glove – these bits of effort on their parts to observe some kind of cleanliness sure deserve to be appreciated.

My girl had the beef & cheese (RM2.50) while I had the double beef & cheese plus an egg special (RM4.50)…

…and to our delight, they were actually very nice – despite the fact that they were using those commercially-available patties…

No, I did not go back for their fried chicken burger but I certainly would go there again when the other guy comes back from his umrah so I would be able to try both the burgers with the original beef or lamb patties…and the fried chicken. I guess that’s what they call killing two birds with one stone, right?

P.S.:
It’s Christmas every day, they say…and looking at how the gifts keep coming, I, for one, would certainly say that it is true, so very true. Yesterday morning, Nancy, my ex-English tuition student’s mum, dropped by my house to give me these awesome ngor hiang a.k.a lor bak (meat rolls)…

…that she made herself and the packet of asam paste plus two tilapias and a bagful of stingray meat – I’m thinking of cooking the latter with the aforementioned paste..

Then, in the afternoon, just as I was getting up from my nap, I got a call from my good friend, Richard, to tell me that he would be at my house in 5 minutes…and there he was at my door to pass me the lovely butter cake from the Mita Cake House in Kuching and a packet of Scottish butter shortbread fingers from Marks & Spencer, no less…

Sigh!!! Everyone is so very nice, so very kind and generous and I really do not know how to reciprocate other than to say thank you so so so much and pray that God will bless them all abundantly in the days ahead. Cheers!!!