If I had a million…

There is a rather popular Hokkien song entitled “若是我有一百万“ or literally translated, If I had a million. Unfortunately, that is something I can only dream of…but looking at the volume of business the people here…

…seem to enjoy every day, they would have made their first million a long time ago already, I’m sure.

This is one of my niece’s favourite places in town, the one working in Singapore and every time she comes back to town, she would go and eat there and as far as I know, she loves the prawns…

…no, not those small seawater prawns but the huge freshwater udang galah (bamboo prawns) or what we call in Hokkien, tua thow hay (big-headed prawns) that cost a bomb if you go and buy them at the wet market, what more to say, if you go and eat them at a restaurant.

Well, we went there the other evening and ordered those for our dinner. Those were the medium-sized ones, just four of them, that I used to buy at RM45.00 a kilo but ever since it shot up to RM60.00, I had stopped buying. I guess if I had a million, I would not give buying these prawns a second thought, not at all.

We also had our usual, the Sibu Foochow-style tofu soup with canned oysters…

…and they do it really well here – exactly the way it should be, very authentic and I could detect the fragrance and taste of the oysters in it. They do not add so much at some other places here and some would even add other ingredients like thin strips of Chinese cabbage, carrot and what not and that would affect the taste, not quite like the real thing.

I did not know why the cangkuk manis fried with egg…

…took a long time to appear – I do not think it would be that difficult to cook but come to think of it, everything took quite a while and one would need to be quite patient to go and eat here. Yes, even before sundown, at 5 something in the evening, there will be a lot of people there already and from the bags and bags of stuff lined up on the counter, one would know that many had (probably called and) ordered all those dishes to take home for dinner.

We also had this fried pork marinated with tauju ( 豆腐乳/fermented bean curd)…

…and this much I would say, that it was probably the best I ever had around here. I could actually detect the taste of the fermented bean curd and we all loved it!

It certainly was a very nice dinner and another reason for its popularity would probably be because it is inexpensive to come and eat here – what we had that night, inclusive of rice and drinks came up to RM57.00 only and we had those giant prawns…plus parking is a breeze. We certainly wouldn’t mind dropping by here again.

MILLION CAFE (2.307090,111.840880) is located at the commercial area in  Rejang Park, Jalan Teruntum, facing the very big car park area at the back of the shops, beside the Sibu Volleyball Association Stadium and the surau.