Feels like forever…

New? This place…

…has been around like forever! As long as I can remember, it has been there but I never stopped by to see if there was anything good there even though my house is just around the corner. Maybe they added the word “new” to the name because it has been taken over by some new people, I wouldn’t know.

I think quite a while back, I did see a lot of people eating the kampua mee there once when we went next door for lunch and yes, it did look good but to this day, I never dragged myself there to try.

That day, I went to the aforementioned kampua mee stall and there was this grumpy-looking fat boy there who completely ignored me the whole time I was standing there. I proceeded to the next stall – there was a lady and a young boy and they too did not bother about me. Finally, I went to the last stall…

…and a nice and friendly lady came quickly and asked me what I wanted. She thought I was a Hokkien because I spoke to her in the dialect but I told her, no, I was a Foochow just that I could not speak the dialect all that well. For reasons unknown, we grew up speaking Hokkein at home even though my dad was Foochow and my mum was Foochow/Melanau.

As usual, I had the kopi-o-peng (RM1.80)…

…and it was good and I ordered the mee sua in traditional Foochow red wine chicken soup (RM7.00)…

…from the lady and much to my delight, it was really very very good, almost as good as the out-of-this-world one I would have here so it sure looks like I do not have to wait till somebody’s birthday before I could get to enjoy something, not 100% as nice but pretty close.

I loved the poached egg, in place of the usual hardboiled egg…

…especially when it was perfectly done with the yolk still soft and runny.

I guess it is confirmed now – the price has increased and a bowl of mee sua here would set one back by RM7.00, not RM6.00 or RM6.50 or anything less anymore but then again, what hasn’t? Even at RM7.00, I would say this one is worth the price especially when compared to the many not-even-half-as-nice ones around. I certainly would come back here should I feel like having this again.

NEW HEE’S FOOD CORNER (2.311365, 111.846638) is located along Jalan Pedada, now Jalan Datuk Wong Soon Kai, the very first one in the block of shops to the left of the Delta Mall, with the Astro Sibu office at the other end of that same block.