Gone…

Time flies by so quickly! It felt like just yesterday when I went out to replenish my prescriptions and in the wink of an eye, a month had gone past so I had to make my way to the town centre once again and as always, I went real early so I would be the first customer the instant the boss opened his shop for the day, nobody else around. That way, I would be able to get everything that I needed and make my way out of there and head on home in a jiffy. #staysafe #staywell

My problem is I am always early for anything, never late and the boss of that shop is never punctual, at least 15 minutes late so he would never show up at 8.00 a.m. on the dot, 8.15 to the earliest. LOL!!!

Well, I was VERY early that morning and with a lot of time on my hands, I decided to walk around the vicinity and as I was walking past this coffee shop, I noticed that a new guy was running the kampua mee stall…

I went closer to have a look and I saw him heating up some thick gravy in a saucepan. I asked him what that was and he said it was for his lor mee (RM6.00)…

I said I wanted that and I took my seat at a table, waiting to be served.

When it came, my first impression was that it looked really good and when I tried it, I must say that I was quite impressed. No, it did not taste like the lor mee we used to enjoy a long long time ago – it used to be a little on the sweet side with a bit of taucheo (fermented beans) in the egg gravy that had been thickened with cornflour. What I had that morning had a completely different taste of its own and it sure was very nice!

I already had my breakfast before I left the house that morning so I was quite full at the time and I was wishing that the guy had not given me so much noodles…

In the end, I finished everything in the bowl but I left quite a bit of the noodles behind.

While I was sitting there eating, I noticed that the chu-char (cook & fry) stall further in (not open at the time) looked very different from what it was like before…

As far as I know, the fat guy who used to sit there fiddling with his smartphone the whole time had given up but his young assistants had taken over the stall. I went and asked and yes, it was just as I thought – the young boys had called it a day too. They’re all gone now and somebody else is there instead.

I must say that I feel kind of sad as I quite liked the food from that stall, never mind if it was the boss cooking or whether the young boys were the ones doing it. As a matter of fact, I did drop by to eat there a number of times but not since the outbreak of the pandemic. Sighhh!!!!!

KIONG CHUONG CAFE (2.291062, 111.827381) is located along Jalan Kampung Nyabor at the bend where one turns left or right when coming from Brooke Drive, a stone’s throw from Malaysia Hotel in the next block to the right.