Not my plan…

I saw on Facebook that there is a new supermarket in town so we went to check it out. It turned out that it wasn’t quite ready yet – they were still working on it on the upper floors and only the ground floor was open for business. It wasn’t their supermarket though – I am not sure if there will be one – and instead, there were shelves and shelves of stuff that reminded me of our Supersave stores with all the cheap made-in-China products or one of those DIY shops. Of course, we did not stay long there and we adjourned some place else after a while.

We headed to this coffee shop…

…in the vicinity for brunch as I had heard sometime ago that they had opened up this place as well, other than the food court that I had blogged about a few times. I had been wanting to drop by to give their chicken rice a try and I think we did drive past once but what we saw did not really impress us so we did not bother to stop.

This time around, my mind was set on having their chicken rice but when we reached the place, I saw that they had these pork knuckles…

…with rice (RM5.00) and I decided to have that instead. Perhaps I should have asked for the chicken rice instead as it wasn’t really nice, very watery and a little too strong on the star anise for my liking.

My missus wanted the Foochow-style noodles, soup (RM3.50)…

…and when it was served, one look at it told us that it would not be anything to shout about and we were right.

I also noticed that they had changs (dumplings) with sambal filling (RM3.50)…

…and needless to say, I had to order one to try. So far, I had not come across any in town with sambal filling – all the time, it would be meat or or tau sar (red bean paste) and none that would get me rushing back for more…but I did have some very nice ones in Kuching once.

My missus did not like it but I thought it was quite good…

 …and in the end, I bought three to take home to heat up and enjoy for my breakfast or tea over the next few days.

After our disappointment that morning, I don’t know if we would ever go there again to try some of the other things they have on their menu though I may want to go and buy their sambal changs again but then again, at RM3.50 each, perhaps it will not be all that often, I’m afraid.