Despite being Sibu born and raised, my girl is not all that crazy about kampua mee but lately, she has acquired the taste and she does like the ones at selected places in town. Well, last Sunday, after the morning church service, I took her here to try the lady’s kampua mee – maybe she would like it, maybe she would not.
When the lady was running her own shop, I never took her there as it was so out of the way and besides, when she was in the school in the jungle, she was only home briefly on weekends. In fact, I would not bother to go there at all unless there were family or friends in Sibu for a visit and I wanted them to enjoy what I liked so much and I think my missus did go with me a few times.
She had the “white” (RM3.00)…
…the version with light soy sauce and yes, she liked it very much except that the serving was too big for her so she did not manage to finish all of it. No prize for guessing who licked the bowl clean! LOL!!!
Of course, the mum had hers tossed in chili sauce (RM3.00)…
She likes anything spicy hot with lots of chili and she insisted that my girl tried a bit and no, she did not like it as the chili sauce drowned out the lovely subtle taste of the ingredients, the same reason why I am not a fan of the “black” version (with dark soy sauce).
I also ordered a bowl of pian sip soup (RM3.00)…
…to share. The ladies loved the green vegetables but if I were to order that for myself, I would ask the lady to leave the greens out as they would affect the taste of the soup. A double thumbs up to the lady for using a ceramic bowl, not plastic like what they do at a lot of places and yes, it was nice and everybody enjoyed it.
I did not have any kampua mee myself that morning as on one of my previous visits, I saw somebody having the tomato kway teow from the chu char place at the back and it looked really good and I just had to give it a try. When it was served (RM4.50, the extra 50 sen was probably for the tomato sauce)…
…I was kind of disappointed as no effort had been made to make it look more presentable plus other than those bits of minced meat and the vegetables, it did not have any other added ingredients. However, much to my surprise, it was really very nice and I would rank it among the best in town. I sure would not mind going for that again some time.
CIAK PA BOI CAFE (2.311420, 111.830729) is located in the Dewan Suarah area of shops in the block facing Jalan Tun Abg Hj Openg with Captain Roseley’s PETRONAS petrol station right across on the other side of the main road.
...STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS! 