Used to love you…

I used to love their meat porridge (RM4.00, the special)…

…a lot – I would say it was my favourite in town so the other day, I went back there with the intention of having that.

I saw a lot of people having it too so I guess they all feel the way I do – they all love it as well! I don’t know what would be in the regular but the special had a few pieces of liver and three tiny bits of pig’s intestine other than the usual minced pork and egg…

Yes, it was still good but I was wishing the whole time that they would give people the option to add one or perhaps, even half a salted egg or century egg and pay a bit more. I do love those with my porridge.

My missus ordered the fried pek koi (rice cakes), RM4.00…

…from the chu char/chap fan place at the back. It looked like here, they would cook it like those Foochow fried noodles, with a little bit of dark sauce/gravy. Well, she said it was nice so I guess that was all that mattered.

I saw the couple at the third/”new” stall…

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…sitting there rather pathetically while all the rest were enjoying such brisk business so I decided to order their lor mee (RM4.00)…

…to give it a try and see if it was anything like the lor mee we used to love long ago. It was nice, that much I would say, and it sure had a lot of added ingredients on top but no, it did not have that slightly-sweet, corn starch-thickened and lightly five-spice powder-flavoured gravy that we would associate with the really good authentic lor mee that we had had in the past.

As I was leaving, I saw a lady having their Sarawak laksa but I did not go near enough to have a look. Times are hard, prices of things keep going up and here, we have the two trying to make an honest decent living – I do hope their business picks up, enough to make ends meet, at least.