The one I love…

Last Sunday, we had spaghetti aglio olio…

…for lunch.

I think I did mention in an earlier post that I prefer our local noodles to these Italian pasta. The texture is different and regardless of whatever name, shape or size, it has its own taste or for that matter, the lack of it and it is heavily dependent on the sauces/gravy added but more often than not, they have to be cooked from scratch – the bottled ones aren’t anything to shout about.

I had spaghetti bolognese…

…at a number of places here but the sauce came across to me like something straight from a bottle of ketchup and was not anything I would get excited about. I only like the freshly-made bolognese sauce at Payung Café here with fresh tomatoes and Italian herbs, beef…

…or mushroom…

I am not into those creamy ones either, be it carbonara…

…or alfredo…

…or whatever but I do enjoy it with squid ink…

…with the lovely “smell of the sea”, my girl calls it.

All thing considered, when eating out, if I had to order pasta for myself, I would go for the aglio olio…

I do enjoy that, those that I’ve had here, there and everywhere.

I tried the Bovril spaghetti…

…here and I quite liked it but I would very much prefer that with our local noodles…

…here plus the latter was a whole lot cheaper, being located in a coffee shop.

Anyway, back to the spaghetti aglio olio that we had that day, my missus cooked it with lots of garlic and the leftover New Zealand mussels…

…from the other day with lots of cherry tomatoes and the sweet basil that she planted in our garden.

Yes, I sure enjoyed that…

…very much.

PAYUNG CAFÉ (2.284049, 111.833014) is located at No.20F, Lanang Road, Sibu, Malaysia, back to back with the multi-storey car park of the Kingwood Hotel which faces the majestic Rejang River.