Don’t believe a word…

Don’t believe everything you hear!

Sometime ago, I was told that the chef from this original place left and ventured out on his own here…so I went to give it a try. Somehow or other, I never went back again, not that it was not good but perhaps, it was a little out of the way. Then I saw people talking about the giant prawn noodles at a place in the vicinity and sharing photographs of what they had on Facebook…and I just assumed that must be at this same place but no, it wasn’t. It was at another shop in the next block. Then I heard that there were two guys who left the original place but they split and one decided to set up a place of his own.

Well, I dropped by that place again as my friend, Philip, who was home from the US at the time, would always drop by the original place for the much coveted prawn noodles everytime he came back so I took him there to give this one a try…and I probed to get some background information about the chef/cook…and no, the cook wasn’t from that place. I was told that he was, at one time, at the Thomson Corner – not the present ones but at the original one at The Catholic Centre, beside the Sacred Heart Cathedral, opposite SRB St Rita. Yes, I remember I did go and eat there way back then and the food was pretty good but I did hear that they moved here eventually. Maybe one of them did not go over with the rest of them, I wouldn’t know and I did not want to ask any further questions for fear of being regarded as being so kay po or overly-inquisitive.

When I went with Philip that second time around, I decided to give their fish noodles (RM12.00)…

…a try and yes, it was very good. They certainly were a lot more generous with the fish than here…and that plate of the same cost RM30!!! *faint*

I did not want the soup version so I had it Foochow fried noodle-style, with the sauce/gravy and I would say that they did it really well. The noodles were well-fried and had the very nice wok hei fragrance…

…and they used tapah – one of the most coveted fish around and of course, it does not come cheap.

Needless to say, Philip would not settle for anything less than the prawn noodles…

In the earlier post, I mentioned that I heard that there were three sizes, RM25.00 for small, RM50.00 for medium and RM70 for large but when we went, we were told that they had only two – RM30.00 for small and RM50.00 for large…and this time around, they had one more size, RM40.00 for medium. Philip did not want the bigger sizes and opted for the small…

…which was already so very big, as long as a pair of chopsticks…

Seeing is believing! Of course, he enjoyed what he had and said that tastewise, it was as good as at the old place and of course, here, the prawn was so very much bigger.

Incidentally, I’ve cooked one of the three boxes of the Three Cheese potatoes that he brought me all the way from the US…

As always, it was very nice but this time around, it was a bit too salty as I added some bits of smoked ham in an attempt to bring the taste to a whole new level but I don’t think I should have done that…

Besides, when I was boiling the water and it boiled over when I added the milk and again when I added the cheese, seasoning and what not that came in a pouch inside the box. Probably, that reduced the liquid substantially and hence, it turned out saltier than the previous times when I had it.

Never mind! One down, two more to go and I certainly would be more careful the next time.