How we met…

This is Mak Met…

…the very enterprising lady behind Mak Met’s Breakfast Station. From its humble beginning as a little stall with a couple of long tables under a big colourful umbrella at the corner of the shops at Bandong here, it grew and grew and grew, offering a whole lot of things to pick and choose including the very nice Sarawak kek lapis (layer cake). There will always be a lot that one would want to buy here especially during the fasting month of Ramadhan…

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…and now, it is a shop…

…in its own right.

You can still buy all those kuihs…

…that have been around all this while and it is best to go earlier in the morning or they may be sold out and you will just have to grab those leftovers or go away disappointed.

You may buy some things that you want here instead of having to make your way to a shop elsewhere just to grab that one item that you are looking for…

…and there are noodles too, fried…

…or kampua (halal) and though that looks rather small, there is actually quite a lot in one packet plus it is only RM1.00 each!

I love the Sarawak laksa (RM3.00)…

…here and my girl and the mum enjoy it too so I would drop by sometimes to grab a few packets home. That is enough for fill one big (Chinese soup) bowl, more or less the same as what you will get at the Sarawak laksa stalls at the coffee shops outside but of course, for RM3.00, you are not getting any prawns, that’s for sure…and anyway, most of the time, all you would usually get, despite having to pay more, would be around three miserable small ones that may be quite bland and not all that fresh. No worries, they are quite generous with the shredded chicken, the thinly sliced omelette and the taugeh so we do not miss those prawns one bit, not at all, and the sambal is very nice too.

Another thing I would buy from here too would be the nasi kerabu…

Of course, you may not get the whole works like at our favourite place in town but that one is around RM6.00, the last time we had that and it is available only on Saturday mornings…and this is only RM4.50. I certainly would give them the double thumbs up for not using those banned-in-Sibu polystyrene containers otherwise I would just walk away and never buy anything from them ever again!

For one thing, they are always venturing into some new things time and time again and right now, there is this handsome young boy there…

…making those Japanese takoyaki…

…for sale. I am not into those things so I have never bought any to try – perhaps one of these days, I may just give it a go…