Missed it…

It had been quite sometime since we last dropped by here despite the fact that we liked what we had on those few occasions when we had lunch there. The guy was asking me to try his giant freshwater prawn (udang galah) noodles for only RM15.00 at the time as he was having a promotion then and though I said I would come back for that, I never did.

Well, finally, I did go back that day but I had missed it, the promotion and it was selling at its regular price of RM20.00 a bowl. He said he had run out of the slightly smaller prawns but he would give me one huge one for RM18.00 and that was what I had…

One this size with those long legs/claws would be selling for RM60 and above at the wet market and you would probably get around 6 or so only.

The prawn was very good – fresh, firm and succulent…

…and it had that much coveted rich and creamy orange stuff in the head but I did not think the noodles as a whole was all that great. It was all right, of course – with that prawn in it, it could not possibly be otherwise but I had had nicer Foochow noodles, soup elsewhere…even without the crustacean in it.

My missus wanted to try the Foochow pork with some fried cangkuk manis  by the side (RM8.00)…

We were thinking that the meat that looked something like char siew (barbecued pork)…

…was marinated with ang chao (the lees or the residue of the fermented red yeast rice from the making of Foochow red wine) but no, the guy said he used tau joo (fermented tofu) to do that. Yes, it was very nice, something like what we liked very much here, served with their cincaluk (fermented shrimps) dip, except that I am not going back there anymore, not after that very expensive dinner when we were served that not-nice-at-all steamed lajong.

The one my missus had here was very nice and the guy said that he would be selling that at RM50.00 a kilo for Chinese New Year but at this point in time, we are still contemplating as to whether to order that or not. As a matter of fact, he has a set menu of a number of dishes priced at RM288.00 available for the Chinese New Year Eve reunion dinner, to be collected by 3.00 p.m. that afternoon…but it was all in Mandarin so I would not know exactly what were in the list…and anyway, I do not think we would be having that as chances are most of the dishes would not be gluten-free.