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This used to be one of my favourites in town when it came to kampua noodles…and piansip (meat dumplings/wantons) or the combination of the two…

*Archive photo*

Why, when my (blogger) friends came over from the peninsula in 2012, I even took them here to try…

*Collage from www.inhouseling.com* (You can read her post on the trip here.)

At the time, there were some young Indonesian girls doing most of the work including the cooking. Their Mandarin and Foochow sure put me to shame…and they were friendly and did their job well. The lady boss and the hubby would take over sometimes but usually, they would just leave everything to those helpers of theirs. Then they left and were replaced by some new ones but the last time my girl and I dropped by, we did not like what we had and we never went back there again.

Last Sunday morning, however, I did drop by to tapao (takeaway) some of the noodles and dumplings for our breakfast before we sent my girl and her colleague/friend back to their school after lunch at around noon. The Indonesian maids were no longer around and the lady boss, her hubby and daughter were manning the stall all by themselves. I placed my order and walked a couple of doors away to this place to buy some siew yoke (roast pork) and when I got home, this…

…was what I had!

For one thing, like most everything everywhere else, the price for a regular plate of kampua noodles or piansip has gone up by 30 sen…which, of course, is a lot more than a mere 6% of the RM2.50 originally but then again, it is also RM2.80 at most other places around here these days. Maybe there has been some kind of agreement among them, a conspiracy that we do not know of. Sigh!!!

Now that the people are doing it themselves, it has regained the taste – what it was like previously and the way that I liked it before. However, there are others around town that I like more but this one is just round the corner from my house, so the convenience plus the fact that they do open very very early in the morning (and they open on Sunday afternoon too – the last I noticed), would be a drawing factor that will keep me coming back…once in a  while.