That’s why…

I saw this photograph of the Sarawak laksa…

*Friends’ Kopitian photo on their Facebook page*

…on their Facebook page and it sure looked good and that was why I decided to drop by the place to give it a try.

The people running the kampua noodles and chap fan (mixed rice) stall have called it quits and right now, this young and handsome guy…

…has taken over and among the things on his menu is Sarawak laksa, RM4.00 for the regular and RM6.00 for the special. Unfortunately, he was out of prawns that morning so I decided not to have it then – another day, perhaps.

I did order a bowl of his pian sip, soup (RM2.50)…

…to try and it was very good. I loved the soup and the dumplings had quite a bit of the minced meat filling inside plus it was very nicely seasoned so it had a taste that was not quite the same as the ones elsewhere. Other than that, it was cheaper than most places by 30 sen where this same thing is going for RM2.80, sometimes more and the kampua noodles here is also going for that same price, RM2.50 a bowl. I did not order it that day and since I liked the pian sip, I sure would want to go back there one of these days to give that a try.

They are still selling the Chinese kuehs like the people running that stall before and these fried or koi (yam cakes)…

…were going for 5 pieces for RM2.00, the same as the fried tapioca cakes by the side. The latter sure seemed a lot more popular – there were only a few pieces left.

From what we gathered, these were home made and left there for sale – they did not make them themselves. I did wish though that they had covered everything…

…probably with cling film/wrap or some plastic sheet if they do not intend to buy those containers with covers or perhaps they could do what they do at some of the Malay kueh stalls here – put a few pieces in a little plastic bag, ready to go like, for instance, in the case of the or koi, they could have 5 in each selling for RM2.00…

…I did notice that they have done it with some of the items available and that way, at least, one can be 100% sure that the flies would not be able to get to them before somebody buys them and takes them home…

I don’t know if the rest of the stuff is any good or not though – we did not buy any to try, just the or koi and the tapioca cake and they were both to our liking.

That morning, my missus had the Foochow noodles, soup…

…and she said it was good and I had the Foochow fried noodles…

…that I had had before and enjoyed a lot.

Well, we would be back again, that’s for sure, perhaps for the kampua noodles or the Sarawak laksa or something else. We’ll see!