Someplace else…

My friend/ex-classmate, Robert, was telling me that the guy here had moved someplace else further in along Hock Chew Kay (Foochow Lane) and likewise, the kolo mee lady from here. I did not really like her kolo mee – I thought it was not quite like the real thing and as for that guy, that was the only time we had what he dished out. No, it was very good but somehow or other, for no reason in particular, we never went back.

Well, there aren’t that many blocks of shops around that area so it really was not a problem locating the one I was looking for (2.290484, 111.832252)…

…or at least, I thought that would be the one. In fact, I did drive past that day when I was in the vicinity to look for the celebrated Ang Kau kampua but it was not my intention at that point in time to go and check it out.

I don’t know if this was the same lady – she did look similar, maybe a little slimmer/thinner than before…

…but before I could order the kolo mee, somebody called me from the other side of the coffee shop. It was my ex-colleague, the lab assistant – also retired like me – and he recommended the lor bak mee (RM5.00)…

– stewed pork noodles, with half an egg and green vegetables by the side and he said that somebody else suggested that to him, an ex-student from our school.

It was all right though I would not say that it really tickled my fancy. I am not all that fond of all that sauce with tossed-dry noodles like the wanton mee that I had had before at some places. I was wishing the whole time that they would serve the stewed pork with rice the way they do it here – the meat was very nice, very well done and I was sure I would enjoy it a lot more with plain rice…and at RM5.00 only, it would be very much cheaper than that other place (RM7.20, if they had not jacked it up since).

I also had their liver soup (RM4.00)…

…which for reasons only known to them, had two pian sip in it. Yes, this was very very nice, a perfect balance, not too overpowering with the taste of the liver and the traditional Foochow red wine.

The liver was very nicely done, not overcooked and hard, and very thinly sliced but there was so much of it that after I had eaten quite a lot already, there was still so much left…

…so for fear of a gout attack, I just had a bit more and left the rest behind. Maybe next time, I can ask for less liver and a few more pian sip instead.

If anyone is interested, these are their opening hours…

…and they are closed on Thursdays.

My missus had the creamy fish (head) bihun (RM7.00) from the stall further inside and I would give them the thumbs up for using fresh fish and not the cheap frozen fish fillet…

I did try a bit…

…and yes, I would say it was quite nice, a possible option that one may want to consider picking from the many choices from the three stalls at the coffee shop.

I did not see the aforementioned guy though but there were two sections to the coffee shop with a lot of very large dinner tables all around so perhaps, the guy will only show up at night or probably, around lunchtime at the earliest.