I’d come for you…

The last time we dropped by here, I saw somebody eating the Singapore fried Hokkien prawn noodles and I thought it looked very good and I could detect the very nice fragrance too so I made up my mind there and then that I would come again just for this (RM8.00)…

Unfortunately, looking at it more closely, it did not seem as great. There were two rather small udang galah (freshwater prawns)…

…cut into halves so it looked like there were four. There was no sotong (squid) and the sambal and calamansi lime…

…that came with it did not save the day. We used to have a really good one here – the guy was a chef in Singapore before he came back and opened his own stall here but he did not stay long at one place, moving here and there and at one time, he even moved to Ipoh where his wife came from. I have no idea where he is right now and whether he is still in the business.

I used to enjoy it very much when I was in Singapore in 1973/1974 and I sure enjoyed the one that Alfred, my Singapore friend, went through all that trouble to bring all the way for me to enjoy, wrapped in the opeh leaf, the way it should be. This one, of course, came nowhere near and I sure would order something else instead should I happen to be around here again.

My missus loved their Foochow fried noodles during our previous visit and this time around, she decided to try their KL Hokkien mee (RM6.00)…

…which was not to her liking as she did not like all the pork fat crusts in the dish.

My girl’s sambal bihun (RM4.50)…

…was very nice – it had the much coveted wok hei fragrance but I thought it was a little too light on the sambal so anyone who is more into that would find this somewhat disappointing. Looking at it, we thought that was tang hoon (glass noodles), not bihun (rice vermicelli) but we were not too sure and we did not bother to ask to find out.

Of course, since we were there on a Saturday, the popiah (spring roll) stall was open. The lady was nowhere in sight and there was a young boy and a young girl running the stall and doing everything. My guess was they were the lady’s children enlisted by the mum to help out since they would not need to go to school on weekends. What impressed me a lot was how the two seemed so very happy the whole time, smiling away and enjoying what they were doing.

I ordered the dumplings (7 for RM5.00)…

…that I knew my girl would like and I also requested for the very nice popiah (RM2.80 each, 2 for RM5.00)…

The lady did appear later and she did stop by our table to say hello…and yes, those were her children. Some people are truly blessed to have such wonderful kids – many these days would not bother to lift a finger to help to do anything and would rather while their time away online on their ipad or smartphone.

Well, we would come back again sometime for the popiah, of course, and the next time around, we’d probably try something else to see if there is anything else here that is worth dropping by for.