I was wrong…

If I remember correctly, it was Huai Bin who mentioned in passing that the fried noodles from the stall at the back of this place was very nice. Fried noodles? Stall at the back? Gee!!! I never noticed there was one there or if I did, I never gave it any due attention as there were so many stalls around and one would be spoilt for choice. I guess everybody would have picked something to order and enjoy before reaching that section…

…which is not all that visible actually because of the structure in front.

When my girl was in primary school, I used to pick her up at the end of the day and if the mum was on morning shift, there would be nothing to eat in the house so we would have to drop by some place to have something that she liked before going home. One place that we used to frequent quite a lot would be this one, since moved here, and she enjoyed the rice platter with sweet and sour pork ribs by the side. Back to this one, we did go and see what they had on their menu once when we went there for the very nice beef noodles and when my girl saw that they had “set meals“, she said that she would want to go back there for one of those but she never asked for it again. Maybe she has forgotten. Probably it reminded her of those days when she was still so very young and carefree…or she did enjoy it quite a lot.

Anyway, we did drop by the other day and I ordered what I thought was something like the pork belly with salted fish…

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…that we would have occasionally when we were eating out. The nice guy asked me if I would like it hot and I said yes – usually, it can be a little spicy with the dried chili added. My missus wanted the same so we requested for two of that.

When it was served…

…I was sort of surprised that it was nothing like what I was expecting.

Oh dear!!! There wasn’t any sauce and I would want to have that with the rice so I had to mix it with the meat to eat and at times, I had to resort to the soy sauce and chili dip…

…that they gave.

This is what we call kiam sor too bak (salty crusty/crispy pork)…

…and to give credit where it is due, it was really very very nice, nicer than any of the same that I have had elsewhere…and yes, it was very spicy with the chili added and also very fragrant with all the ingredients thrown in.

I went back to have another look at the menu and yes, I was the one who was wrong! Somehow or other, I had perceived it to be something it wasn’t…and on the menu, it stated: “Salted pork/fish” and not salted fish pork. Thankfully, it was good and we enjoyed it very much. I sure would want to go back there again to try whatever else they may have in store…