What I meant to say…

I dropped by here again the other morning because I saw a friend on Facebook sharing, among the photographs, one of the Foochow fried noodles, wet/with gravy for only RM2.50. Now that is indeed very cheap, cheaper than the kampua mee at many places around town.

They have quite a sophisticated system here – you just take your seat and one of the volunteers will come with his/her tablet to take your orders. They will key them in at the cashier’s counter on the other side and the order chit will come out via this machine, that grey thing on the counter…

…where the chu-char (cook & fry) section is. One of the ladies will keep a copy and hand the other copy to the cooks there.

The one who came to me could only speak Mandarin, it seemed but anyhow, I managed to tell him what I wanted or so I thought until I got my receipt…

Kering (dry)? Now, that certainly was not what I meant to say and no, it was RM3.00 a plate, not RM2.50. Still, it was very much cheaper than at other places where the going price for fried noodles is now RM4.00, at least. Never mind, I thought, I would just eat what I would be served and this (RM3.00)…

…came eventually.

A friend who happened to be there that morning said that the serving was small but I replied that it did not matter as it was so much cheaper. However, looking at it, I think it seemed like there was less than in a regular plate of the noodles because they were not using a flat plate…

Other than that, there certainly were a whole lot more ingredients…

…than what one would get elsewhere.

I did not see the sign for the ginseng soup with rice (RM5.00) anymore but there were other things in its place. For one thing, everything  was in Mandarin and that was Greek to me. This…

…caught my attention though – what looked like claypot stewed pork belly and yam with rice…

I sure would want to give it a try but it was way too early in  the morning for rice. Perhaps I shall come back for this another time.

LAUDATO SI is located in what was previously known as the Catholic Centre in the compound of the Sacred Heart Cathedral and St Rita’s Primary School.