Out of sight…

If you’re driving along the main roads in the vicinity of Sungai Merah here, you would not be able to see this coffee shop (2.328072,111.840428)…

…right behind this big supermarket…

…that faces the Catholic & SIB churches there and also the Chinese cemetery across the road.

I’ve been here…

…once before because my car workshop is in the block of shops directly opposite and I will drop by the area regularly like when it is due for servicing, for example, when I need to change the engine oil or get some routine checks done.

I remember I had the kampua noodles from this stall…

…in front once but I did not blog about it as I did not bring along my camera that morning. However, I did take a snapshot of what I had using my mobile phone camera and shared it on Facebook and yes, I would say what I had was pretty good – quite typical of the taste of the authentic kampua noodles that most everyone here would be accustomed to.

That was why I had the same…

…that morning except that this time around, I asked for the pian sip kampua or the noodles without the slices of boiled meat, coloured red to pass off as char siew, but with the pian sip or meat dumplings instead.

The noodles were well-cooked, not overdone till a bit too soft and soggy like what I had in yesterday’s post, and it had the fragrance of the shallot oil/lard plus there was none of the msg overdose, unlike at some other places, that would put me off right away. The pain sip…

…had a bit more meat in it than most elsewhere in town and the skin was thin and smooth as well.

All in all, I would say that was a good breakfast for RM4.20…

…including the glass of kopi-o-peng (iced black coffee) and the not-too-bad complimentary soup.

I noticed that they had a chap fan (mixed rice) stall at the back and they had started cooking for the day so I went to have a look. I thought the braised soy sauce pork leg looked good and even though the ang chao (the red yeast residue from making the traditional Foochow red wine) pork did not look as red as when my missus cooked that, it did look like it would be nice too…and so did the rest of the dishes that were ready. I wouldn’t mind going back there for lunch one day…