Gotta be there…

I’ve loved the hay peah (prawn fritters)…

…from this place in Kuching, formerly Peterson Corner…

…since I can’t remember when – it was a long long time ago, way back in the days before I started blogging.

Once I wanted to buy some to take back home to Sibu but the old guy simply refused to sell to me. He insisted that I would not know how to fry it to perfection and would ruin his reputation so if anyone wanted to eat his hay peah, one had gotta be there in the flesh to enjoy it on the spot, piping hot from the wok.  After much persuasion, however, he finally relented and sold some to me.

These days, you can buy any number of pieces that you want and the other day, my good friend, Lim, went back to Kuching for a couple of days and when he came back, he brought me a pack…

…of eight.

It came with the very nice chili sauce…

…but of course, if you go and eat it there, you will get it with a generous topping of crushed peanut…

…and should you run out halfway, you can always ask for more, no problem at all.

I deep-fried them till golden brown one morning for breakfast…

…all eight of them and yes, I really enjoyed them very much. It sure has retained that quality of being, to me, the best hay peah in Kuching…

…crispy and crusty and so very tasty.

A cousin of mine in Kuching says that it is not as nice anymore but there is none available here or even if there are, they will all pale in comparison, no question about that.. For one thing, the old man is no longer fussy about people buying the fritters to take away to wherever and I did notice on my last two visits that he did not do the frying himself – he just left it to his workers. Maybe that is the reason behind this.

Anyway, thank you so much, Lim, for buying them for me to enjoy and thanks also for the super extra spicy nasi lemak sambal that your friend made – it was absolutely out of this world!

This hay peah stall is located at GOH CAFE, formerly called Peterson Corner, (1.551939,110.336656) along Lorong Satok No. 3 in the blocks of shops behind the ones facing Satok Road where KFC is located. You can turn in at the KFC junction and go straight along Lorong Satok 7 and turn left – there was a small roundabout there, dunno now and go straight ahead. You will see the shop on your left as you get near to the back of the hotel (Regal Court facing Palm Road) or you can go turn left in front of KFC and go straight ahead and round the corner after Mita Cake House.