A few days later…

After our delightful lunch at one of the hawker stalls here, we went back there again a few days later as I wanted to pick up a few things at the supermarket opposite…and we decided to drop by there for a bite to eat.

I saw the girl at Stall No. 10 that I was chatting with on our previous visit, busy frying her cucur (fritters)…

…so I ordered RM1 to try…

– for that amount of money, you will get 6 of them and yes, they were very very nice and went absolutely well with the dip which, I thought, had a hint of rojak sauce. She did say that they were selling cucur bubuk too but there wasn’t any hint of the dried shrimps in these so I guess they must be the plain vegetable ones.

No, we did not go back to the stall with the African guy but stopped by this one instead…

My missus wanted the kampua noodles but I urged her to try the ayam penyet rice as the sambal in the photograph looked really nice and she agreed to my suggestion. Unfortunately, despite it being almost 11, the lady said the ayam penyet was not ready so my missus had to go back to her original choice – the lard-free halal kampua noodles (RM4.00)…

It was good, not bad at all but RM4.00 is really too expensive when I could get something that is a whole lot nicer here for only RM3.00.

I ordered the nasi lemak special…

…for myself and asked for the sambal kerang (cockles) for which I had to pay a ringgit extra so in total, that cost me RM6.00.

I should have gone for the sambal sotong (squid) instead of the sambal kerang…

…as they used the canned ones and I think there were around 3 inside only and I was kind of disappointed that it was not spicy at all, not even a little bit. The rice was very nice, not hard and dry like some and quite lemak (rich with santan/coconut milk). The small miserable-looking piece of chicken was nice too and I loved that salted fish that they gave with those few peanuts, in lieu of the ikan bilis. All in all, I would say it was not too bad but I would much sooner fork out another RM1 to go for this one…

*Archive photo*

…that I had at this pork-free place here with the double-the-amount very spicy and so very nice sambal and the generous serving of the masak hitam beef plus the peanuts and ikan bilis and everything else in that one much much bigger and a lot more satisfying plate.

Ah well, as they say, we would not know unless we tried…and yes, I’ve tried and now I know better!