My ex-colleague dropped by here…
…the other day and had the lor mee that looked very good in the photograph that he shared on Facebook. I asked him where he ate that and he said it was from the kampua mee stall at this coffee shop in the corner. That took me by surprise as I did not know that the fat, not-so-friendly guy sold that.
Well, it so happened that I wanted to go to the bookstore at the mall next door so I decided to stop by there on the way to check it out. I was here twice before for the mee sua, the first time and again, another time and we went there for dinner one evening to try the dishes from the chu char (cook & fry) place at the back. Yes, these two are still there but the stall in the middle, between the kampua mee stall and the mee sua stall, has called it a day.
The aforementioned guy at the kampua mee stall…
…was no longer there – the new guy had no idea whatsover what had happened to him and no, that handsome young and friendly boy in pink is not him – he’s the one behind, blocked from view. This one saw me taking snapshots of the stall and he insisted on posing for the photograph. Actually, he runs the coffee shop there but even though I insisted that I did not see him on our previous visits, he said he is not new and has been there for a long time now. Maybe he’s in school or works somewhere else but with the schools and offices closed during COVID-19, he is able to stick around here to help out.
The instant I sat down, somebody came to take my temperature and get me to record my name and telephone number in a book. I asked for the lor mee (RM6.00)…
…and it came in no time at all. Yes, it was very nice though I would not mind a thicker broth with a bit more egg in it – I could see some bits of the egg but there was so little of it, it might as well not have been there.
The guy did ask me for my verdict but I just told him it was very nice and that’s a fact – I certainly would go back there again to try the other stuff on his menu.
Incidentally, the nice restaurant next door, for reasons unknown, has closed shop and its place has been taken over by people selling fresh meat – actually, it was going to open earlier but COVID-19 struck and it had remained closed until very recently.
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.
...STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS! 
The lor mee looks good. More eggs???… Isn’t that the usual serving of half boiled egg in lor mee.
No, not the hard boiled egg. See my reply to zmun2 above.
It does look appetizing and presentable. 🙂
The guy really wants to be in your photos. 😀
Naughty boy! LOL!!!
If I remember, this is my classmate coffee shop, not sure is it still his. Few years back we were there for breakfast during our school reunion.
Dunno who owns it but it seemed when I was there, there were a lot of students from your former school there, a few of them were wearing the school’s t-shirts.
I have not tried lor mee with egg drop before, usually is hard boiled egg.
The hardboiled egg is an added condiment – the egg drop is an ingredient in cooking the soup or broth but not too much, not like wat tan hor. Have a look at this very nice one here – dunno where he has disappeared to, no more there…
https://suituapui.wordpress.com/2019/01/28/unsung-heroes/
What a happy looking chap.
It did seem so, very jovial and friendly boy!