Sold out…

I saw on this Facebook page that they were selling noodles with those huge freshwater prawns at the coffee shop (2.306645, 111.836521) at the Rejang Park commercial centre here for only RM12.00, so much cheaper than here…or here…or even here! It was just around 11.00 a.m. that morning and they were all sold out, no more prawns and no more noodles. The lady told me that I could book for the next day if I wanted – she said that they had bookings every day, some 10 plates, some 20 plates. Goodness gracious me!!!

I did not bother, of course, and though we could have ordered a few dishes to go with rice at this same place, I decided not to do so and went here instead for our brunch – I heard that the fried noodles (RM3.50)…

…at the stall here was very nice…and yes, it was! It was on a Friday so I put in a special request not to have any meat in the dish.

I remember I had the bubur cacar and the kompia from the stall here…

…before and even though this is indeed a very popular place among the locals especially in the afternoon, I was not too impressed then.

Of course, I would not expect anything filled to the brim like this…

…but I had the ang tao peng (RM2.20)…

– the iced red bean, anyway and I did have to fish around in the bowl quite a bit to catch sight of any of those much coveted beans…

Yes, they do it quite well here, the beans, I mean – mushy enough and still nice and whole, not like some lump of paste that you may find elsewhere.

However, having said that, it was not lemak (rich) enough for want of a little more santan (coconut milk) nor was there any gula Melaka (palm sugar). I have not gone there for a while now but the last time I had it, I would say the ones here were the nicest in town…but no, it did not come anywhere near what I had in Kuching…unfortunately. Hmmmm…I wonder when I would be making a trip to Kuching again but in the meantime, I guess I can just make do with what I can manage on my own…

…like what I cooked the other day with the boiled tapioca that we had sitting in the fridge and some sago pearls added – very lemak and sweetened with gula Melaka. It was very nice but I think it would be nicer with sweet potatoes and yam…and maybe, buah sukun (breadfruit) as well. I’ll try that next time…