Other side of town…

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…is on the other side of town, along Jalan Wawasan – you turn left at the roundabout where the university, private college and international school are located and the Sg Merah police station and also the Batang Igan Bridge are straight ahead and considering its somewhat distant location, I was rather surprised to see quite a lot of people eating there when I dropped by that morning.

The kopi-o-peng kao or the iced black coffee, extra strong (RM1.50)…

…was quite good and cheaper than a number of places here.

Well, if you are wondering what took me all the way there, it was because a friend shared a photograph of their fried laksa bihun on Facebook and it looked good. I did not order that though as I thought I would like to try the fried laksa mee mamak (RM4.00)…

…instead.

It was very nice – my missus said it was nicer than what she had here that day and in comparison, it was definitely a lot more substantial and very much cheaper. I thought it was good too but those of you who are familiar with cooking your own Sarawak laksa would know how you would need to sieve the broth to collect all the blended stuff in the sambal and throw away. It was not too bad but I could feel it in the noodles…

…so perhaps they could use those that would not need any sieving or work out some way to get the flavour of the sambal for use when frying the noodles. Otherwise, I would much sooner go for the soup version – the nice girl gave me a little bowl of the broth to try and it was quite nice, just a tad salty but I guess with the bihun and all, it would be o.k.

My missus had their Foochow fried noodles (RM3.50)…

…and she said it was all right and there was quite a lot of meat buried under the noodles just that it lacked that much-coveted wok hei fragrance.

I saw on their Facebook page what I thought was Kuching kolo mee but when I asked, the girl said it was their kampua special (RM5.50)…

…but nonetheless, I decided I would want to give it a try as well. It was quite good, not quite like kampua noodles and not like kolo mee either but tossed with the minced meat and all, I would say that I did enjoy it. There were a few of those frozen meat balls and fish balls in it…

…and thankfully, the brand that they used was not the same as those smelly ones that I had here but still, should I happen to drop by and have this again, I would request for those to be omitted and replaced with more of the pian sip (meat dumplings) instead.

Considering the distance, I would not say I would be back all that soon but should I happen to be around that part of town, I certainly would not mind stopping by here again for a bite.