My girl wanted the peri peri (they call it pili pili) chicken (RM9.00)…
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…for lunch that day so we went back to the SEDC Hawker Centre (2.306428, 111.818982) opposite the MDS Supermarket at Simpang Tiga here in Sibu.
It can get rather hot these few days and I was feeling like having some ais kacang/ang tao peng (iced red bean) and I had a very nice one…
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…from Stall No. 10 on our previous visit. However, as soon as the ladies were seated, the guy from Stall No. 3 came to take our orders. Somebody was telling me that their ABC (air batu campur) or something was nice so I went ahead and ordered my ais kacang from them and got this…
Good grief!!! The horrendous red colour!!! My missus insisted it was rose syrup, not colouring, but whatever it was, I did not like the dominant smell and taste of the essence. Give me my gula Melaka…or my gula apong, any of the two, not this. Mixed with the evaporated milk in it, the taste reminded me of the air Bandong that we used to enjoy as kids on our school’s sports days (along with the free MILO drinks) but I remember they used Grenadine, Sun Valley brand, for that. Come to think of it, I have not seen the cordial for a long time now…or maybe I just wasn’t looking.
They were a little bit more generous with the beans…
…than the other stall but both of them used the canned kidney beans, Sunstar brand – it’s just over RM3.00 a can (Ligo sweet corn size) and one can just buy that and enjoy eating till kingdom come. No, I did not enjoy it and I barely finished half of it and no, I would not want to order it again should I happen to drop by here anytime in the future.
My girl got what she wanted and the mum had the same. Yes, it was deep fried again like the last time, not nicely grilled/barbecued like in the past – that was a whole lot nicer, I must say. I did not feel like having that so I went to the “VARIOUS OF DISHES” [SIC] stall beside it…
…to see what they had for the nasi campur (mixed rice). Note how everything was kept covered in those containers – they will open the lids when you want to have a look and select what you want.
I picked 4 meats (RM6.00)…
– the sotong (squid), the sambal egg and also the fish (ikan tongkol) and the salted kembong…
They had fried French beans but it did not look like something I would enjoy. On the whole, I would not say that what I had swept me off my feet – I do know of a few places that were nicer and I would not go out of my way to come here for this but the salted kembong sure helped whet the appetite in no small way. Salted fish is my weakness! LOL!!!
It was a good enough lunch but I was wishing the whole time that I had ordered the ais kacang from the other stall, not this one…
...STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS! 