Street of memories…

I blogged about Old Street here in Sibu before, now renamed Jalan Chew Geok Lin – after the founder of Wah Tat Bank, one of Sibu’s own banks at the time and it was located along this street…

…a few doors away from where my father’s shop (No. 8) was. Initially, my father was sharing with his father, my grandfather, who had his own business at the time and his shop had the same name as this coffee shop that I went to check out that day.

Now, in that same vicinity, there is this coffee shop…

…so of course, I was intrigued and kept on wanting to drop by to see why it was thus named and finally, I did.

I don’t think those pictures on the wall…

…were of Old Street in the old days…

…and if they were, it sure did not look anything like what it looks like today…

I think the shop is Chinese-owned but I noticed that the employees were Malays – one of them told me that they only serve chicken there, nothing else…

My girl wanted their roasted chicken rice, drumstick (RM4.50)…

…and yes, it was good. I did try the rice and I thought it was much nicer than many around here where one might as well be eating plain rice and would not be able to tell the difference.

My missus ordered the fried noodles, wet (RM4.00)…

…and she liked it. I must say that it had a lot more ingredients than many around here for that same price or sometimes, even more.

I had the nasi lemak, chicken curry (RM6.00)…

…and the rice was quite lemak, not lemak enough to get me all excited but a lot more lemak than many that I had had before including the one at the Malay/Muslim stall at that coffee shop round the corner. The sambal was great, a little spicy and the chicken curry was all right, a little sweet but all right.

The Malay girl who took our orders recommended their special for the day, the ABC soup (RM5.00)…

I’ve heard mummy-bloggers and friends blogging or talking about it but I really did not know what exactly it was. All I knew was the other ABC, the air batu campur.

In the end, we decided to give theirs a try so we ordered a bowl…

…to share and even though there weren’t all that many things inside – just quite a lot of chicken and potatoes, some tomatoes and bits of Bombay onion, we all agreed that it was really very nicely done and we all loved it very much. I sure would not mind ordering it should we happen to drop by here again.

Incidentally, this place, just two doors away, that we checked out earlier this year has closed down – either they have moved elsewhere or called it a day…and we did drive past this Korean place a few days earlier and my missus saw a FOR RENT sign on the wall – I guess that one too is in the same boat, so to speak. Sighhhhh!!! Things sure aren’t looking all that good these days, are they?

OLD STREET CAFE is located at UniCity (2.342337, 111.831781) is located along Jalan Wawasan, on your left if you are coming from Bulatan Teng Chin Hua in the vicinity of the University College of Technology, Sarawak, Kolej Laila Taib and Woodlands International School, heading towards the Batang Igan Bridge.