Uninvited…

I often see people sharing photographs of food on Facebook and their friends would say, “Bojio!” Initially, I was kind of puzzled as jio in Hokkien means urine, so bojio would mean no urine. Eventually, I realised it was supposed to be chio or invite, which incidentally also means banana…

…in the dialect.

This place has been around for sometime now, a couple of months at least but it is somewhat out of the way, on the way to the airport and we would pass by every week when we send our girl to her school in the jungle but on normal days, I would not be heading in that direction for no obvious reason.

I decided to make it a point to go over and check the place out…

…yesterday morning and at a closer range, the full name of the place is actually “Don’t say bojio!” literally translated as “Don’t say I did not invite you!” This place next door has closed down already, it seems, and the pub at the far end corner next to it as well. Times are hard.

I was early so only the kampua mee stall in front…

…and the chu char (cook & fry) kitchen at the back were open. It turned out that the aforementioned was run by some nice Indonesian guys and according to one of them, they had been doing it for a long time. Perhaps they were at another place before.

I ordered the kampua mee babi hitam (kampua noodles with stewed soy sauce pork)…

…and I could not resist asking for the stewed egg…

…as well.

All in all, that was only RM5.00, RM4.00 for the noodles and the slices of meat and the minced meat by the side and RM1.00 for the egg. In my opinion, that was reasonably priced especially seeing how generous they were with the toppings and most importantly, I thought it was really nice.

I sure wouldn’t mind going back there for more of the same again or perhaps, I would try something else the next time around. We’ll see.

DON’T SAY BOJIO (2.312758,111.8549007) is located along Jalan Deshon, right across the road from SMK Rosli Dhoby and the technical/vocational college beside it.