Something to shout about…

I was driving past this hawker centre…

*Archive photo*

…at Simpang Tiga here in Sibu that morning and I decided to stop by to see what they had in store for breakfast. Unfortunately, most of the stalls were not open even though it was already past 7.30 a.m. – they obviously do not subscribe to the fact that it is the early bird that catches the worm.

This one…

…was and it certainly seemed to be getting a lot of the business, not that everybody had much of a choice, but at this time of the day, all they were serving was their American breakfast…

I looked at the menu and I thought I would be getting all the items listed for what the guy told me – RM3.50! Unfortunately, it turned out that one would have to make a few choices and what I got in the end was this…

– an omelette, one slice of toast with a bit of margarine on top and a spoonful of baked beans. Gee!!! I thought that was expensive – I would expect a sausage, at least, even if it had been one of those rubbery ones sold in the frozen sections in most supermarkets…but of course, it was not their fault. No sausage was mentioned in the menu and I did get some baked beans by the side. The omelette was very nicely done and to my liking…but on the whole, it really was NOT something to shout about. I would want to go back there again though, but not for this.

Truth be told, I am rather keen on dropping by to try the other things on their menu – the pili-pili (I think they mean peri-peri) chicken, the Moroccan chicken, the Shajira – whatever that is…and I do love ayam percik! If the photographs on their Facebook page…

…are anything to go by, they sure look really good!

In the meantime, I’ve dropped by this place again and this time around, I had their fried bihun (RM3.00)…

…and yes, it is the same recipe again – one size fits all! Their noodles were great, the kway teow was all right but when it comes to their bihun, to me, it is NOT something to shout about either…but then again, one man’s meat is another man’s poison. I may not feel it was all that great but others may like it this way – we’ll never know.

It was a public holiday (Labour Day) yesterday…and Monday will be a holiday too replacing Sunday which is another public holiday (Wesak Day). So what have you been up to? Enjoying the extra long weekend, I hope…