Still there for me…

We were early that day, still too early for lunch so we went to one of the malls in town to loiter around. That was when I got a message from my friend, Annie, from KL who was home for a few days, asking me if I was home. I told her where I was and she said she was on the way to pass me these…

– more of the lovely own-made wine-infused Chinese sausages and all the goodies from Marks and Spencer.

The All Butter Viennese in the yellowish orange packs have always been my favourite but somehow or other, for reasons unknown, they have dropped the word Viennese but I guess these would be the same as those that I have had in the past – I have yet to open them though. I did try that box of Viennese Kisses as the expiry date was closer, around the end of the month and yes, they were very nice – exactly the same with the wonderful buttery fragrance but they were very small, each around the size of our 20 sen coin, the old ones – not one of those rather confusing new ones.

Thank you so much, Annie. You really shouldn’t trouble yourself to bring me all the nice things everytime you come home – your mum gets you everything so I really don’t know what to give you in return to reciprocate. Sighhhh!!!!

Back to the mall, we stopped by there as we wanted to go for the nice popiah (spring rolls) here…

…among the shops in the area behind it. I wonder what the name means in Mandarin. If I am not wrong, jia in Foochow means by yourself and li means come so if we put that together, it means come by yourself or come on your own…or it can also mean do it yourself or help yourself (like when one is inviting, at a dinner, someone to eat the food laid out), depending on the context.

The last time I was here was in May last year so I was not sure if the lady was still there and I sure was delighted when I got there and I spotted the stall and I did not hesitate to order a few to share (RM2.50 each)…

However, the lady was not around and the young man, probably the son, did not seem all that generous with the mangkuang/sengkuang (turnip)…

…and gave a lot more of the green vegetables instead but it was still very good and I sure would not mind coming back again for more.

I saw a girl eating mee sua and it looked very nice, served in a really big bowl and I thought I would like to have that as well.  However, upon reaching the stall, I noticed that they also had claypot noodles (RM5.50)…

…and I decided to order that instead to try. It did not look all that great and there were not a lot ingredients in it other than some fish balls and those imitation crab sticks, that I left all behind, and a bit of the curly vegetables. Other than that, I didn’t think they used the regular yee mee – it sure looked like those dried egg noodles…

…available in packs at the shops and supermarkets here and they lacked that special fragrance and taste and the texture was not there either. It tasted all right though but with all the choices at this particular place, I probably would not be ordering that again.

My missus had the Foochow-style noodles, soup (RM4.00)…

…and it looked and tasted really great just that we would love to have some green vegetables in it.

I saw someone at the next table eating what looked like those Singapore fried Hokkien prawn noodles (RM8.00) from this same stall selling all the fried noodles and stuff and it did smell good! No prize for guessing what I would be having the next time I drop by here! Hehehehehe!!!!