This wasn’t in our plan…

I mentioned in my previous post that I had to drive to my girl’s school on Monday and bring her back to town. This wasn’t in our plan. We sent her to her school on Sunday as usual and she was supposed to hitch a lift back the following day. A colleague of hers commutes daily as he stays with his family here in Sibu. However, his baby fell ill so he took the day off…and it wasn’t till almost 10.00 a.m. that I received word from my girl regarding this and we were on our way.

We got there at around 12 noon but since we left right away, we did not have time to cook anything nor did we stop somewhere to buy something for our lunch. That was why we stopped at the Selangau Bazaar on the way back and for a change, instead of going to the chap fan (mixed rice) shop facing the market, we decided to go back to this one that we went to once, way back in 2013.

My girl said she wanted the Foochow fried noodles that we had the last time and I tried discouraging her as I did not like how the sauce was clear (RM3.50)…

All this time, ever since my growing up days, the sauce had been dark because of the soy sauce and other things added. I do not know how or when they started doing it this way – and yes, they do it like this too at a number of places even in Sibu and needless to say, once I see that, I would never go back there again.

Well, she and the mum went on and ordered that and it turned out that she did not enjoy it very much as she thought there was way too much msg in it. Thankfully, I ordered this plate (RM12.00)…

…of roast pork…

…and roast chicken…

…to share. The pork was a little way too fat but the chicken was good.

I ordered the dry version of their fried noodles (RM3.50)…

…for myself and yes, it was good too and yes, there wasn’t too much msg in it.

So as soon as we had had our lunch, we went on our way…back to Sibu.