Back in action…

There was a fire at this coffee shop at Rejang Park here in February last year so it was closed a long time for restoration and renovation works.

A long time ago, the kampua mee stall here was my favourite – there were a few Indonesian girls helping out and honestly, their proficiency in Mandarin and our Foochow dialect put mine to shame. I don’t know what happened but one fine day, they were no longer there and somebody else took over the stall. I did not like what I had from the new people so I never went back there again.

It has been back in action for a while now and is looking much nicer than before. Why, I think it even has a new name…

…I don’t think that was what it was called before but I cannot for the dear life of me remember what it was.

There is a stall further in, selling mee sua, pek ting eyok (Eight Treasures), that kind of stuff but I did  not feel like going for those that morning so I just ordered the kampua mee from the stall in front…

…run by this elderly man assisted by a lady, most likely his wife.

The kopi-o-peng (iced black coffee) was RM1.50, just so-so, but the kampua mee (RM3.00)…

…was pretty decent.

I liked how they did not use those horrible plastic plates and bowls and they did not bother to colour the boiled meat red…

In my growing up years, the meat was always red but no, it was not char siew (barbecued meat), just a rather pale imitation – boiled meat, coloured red and at one time, there was a ban on the colouring used so the practice stopped for a while. These days, there are places using real char siew or stewed pork while others have gone back to colouring it red, some shockingly so. I don’t know what colouring they use and I do hope the ones they use now are safe for consumption.

All in all, I would say that the kampua mee I had was o.k. but then again, there are a few other places around here that are pretty o.k. too and the next time around, I may want to try something from the stall further in or the chu char (cook & fry) place at the back.

HAO U DUO CAFE & RESTAURANT (2.307007, 111.836691) is located right next to the post office in the Rejang Park Commercial Centre, along Jalan Teruntum.