I didn’t plan it…

This is a really old restaurant dating back to the 90’s…

…when I was staying at a housing area not far away from here. I did blog about it a few times here and here and here, for instance but that evening, I did not plan on dropping by here, just that I took the wrong turn and as we were driving past, my missus said we could just stop here for our dinner and be done with it.

Well, I do know it has its following – some people do like eating here quite a lot and my father, for one, loves the sea cucumber soup so my sister would come and tapao that home time and again for him to enjoy. Personally, I do not think I am a fan, nothing more than a place where I could go for something to eat sometimes.

That evening, my missus saw somebody at the next table eating this (RM4.00)…

…which turned out to be just bihun soup. She was somewhat disappointed as she was expecting some of the sourish chao chai (preserved vegetables) taste but there was none.

I had the Foochow fried noodles (RM4.00)…

…and I could not help noticing that they were using chicken instead of pork – chicken is a lot cheaper. It was all right but I do prefer the one here…or here.

I did order a few dishes to go with our noodles – the fried midin (RM7.00)…

…was not what we wanted. I had asked for ching chao, fried plain but what we were served had the traditional Foochow red wine in it.

The sweet and sour pork ribs (RM12.00)…

…was mostly bone even though it tasted quite good.

Inclusive of drinks, the bill came up to RM30.00 which was all right, just that I did not quite fancy the lingering after-taste of msg in the mouth long after we had left the place. I guess a lot of people are fine with it, hence the popularity of this place but ever since we hardly add any salt to our cooking and no msg most of the time, I think we have become somewhat sensitive to the stuff and would prefer going to places where they do not have these additives or less of those, at least.