Time for tea…

This place, literally translated to mean drink tea…

…is not all that new and we did drive past…

…a few times but it was always packed with people spilling onto the road so we never wanted to stop to check it out.

The Sibu Twin Towers, otherwise known as the Waterfront Residence…

…is located about 100 metres ahead, round the corner and if you are wondering where the other half of Mr. Bean’s  citron-green 1977 British Leyland Mini 1000 Mark 4…

…is, it is stuck to the wall inside the coffee shop…

…and this is on the other side of that same wall…

…in the left section of the coffee shop. Those of you who can read Mandarin would probably know what that is all about but unfortunately, it is all Greek to me.

I decided to try the Malay/Muslim stall…

…there and had the nasi ayam penyet (RM6.00)…

…and yes, what you see is what you’ll get! There was that not-so-penyet (clobbered) over-fried piece of chicken drumstick, kind of hard and dry, with the rice and some raw cabbage and cucumber served with the somewhat watered-down nasi lemak kind of sambal. I would say that I can easily get the same a whole lot better at quite a few places elsewhere.

The sup tulang (RM7.00)…

…was just as disappointing. It looked like it was freshly-cooked and of course, I quickly removed the supermarket factory-produced fried shallots on top as soon as it was served and it came as no surprise that the meat was as tough as leather…

…and the soup was just o.k. If you are looking from some very nice sup tulang, you can go for the truly delightful one here instead – as for the one here, you can just give it a miss.

The ladies ordered their choices from the chu-char (cook & fry) stall at the back – I heard that the guy was here before and yes, we went there quite  a number of times and yes, we did like what he dished out. Well, he has moved here now, so I’ve been told.

My girl had the hung ngang (the big bihun) in the egg in traditional Foochow red wine soup…

…and she said it was very good. The mum had the sambal kway teow…

…and she too liked what she was served and was singing praises of the huge see ham (cockles/kerang) in the dish. I think each of the dishes was RM7.00 and I paid RM14.00 for the two, if I remember correctly.

I did meet an ex-colleague of mine the other night and I asked him what was nice here – I saw him sharing photographs of what he ate here a couple of times because when I walked around, I did not see anything that really tickled my fancy. He said the aforementioned stall at the back was good and the pan mee from the stall next to that Muslim/Malay stall as well, the dry version in particular.

Well, I’m not really a fan of pan mee, wet or dry, so you will not see me in a hurry to go back there again, that’s for sure.

LIM TEH is located at No. 42, Ground Floor, Lorong Lau King Howe 1 in the vicinity of the Lau King Howe Hospital Memorial Museum round the corner from the Waterfront Residence, aka the Sibu Twin Towers.