Air…

When I first saw people talking about Air Selangor, for a while, I thought they had a new airline until I realised that that was the name given to the water board in the state, given the fact that air is water in the Malay language. Here, we just call ours the Sibu Water Board.

I must say that I am really very impressed by the SWB people here. They will let us know via Telegram or Facebook when there are problems and they will keep us updated via photographs of the progress of the work done every step of the way.

The other day, however, Satuday, when I went upstairs after my dinner to have my bath, I discovered that there was very little water, just a trickle. I did not see any notice at all from the SWB so I was wondering what was going on. I quickly mandi kerbau (bathe like a buffalo) and went to check online.

There was nothing on Facebook but I found this newspaper report on one online tabloid. I suppose it must have been quite sudden and they had to get down to work right away so there wasn’t time to let everybody know. I don’t know when it was done – I did not bother to check but if I am not wrong, the water supply was back to normal by around 10.00 p.m. that night. An ex-student in KL said that was so good unlike over there – they have this water problem so very often and each time, it would take days to get it solved!

The next day, Sunday, we had the beef soup plus kampua mee for brunch so we did not cook any lunch. The SWB posted a notice on Facebook (and I guess on Telegram too but I did not bother to check) that when they fixed the leaking the previous day, they spotted another leak close by so they would have to see to it that very night at 8.00 p.m. Seeing that, I told the ladies that we would go out for a very early dinner at 5.00 p.m. and take our baths when we came back before they shut down the supply. This way, we would not need to wash and clean while we did the cooking and after we had had our dinner.

We went here for my girl’s favourite lemon chicken…

…and yes, as always, it was done to perfection – very nice and crispy with its lovely sweet and sour lemon sauce.

I dare say this one is the best in town compared to all the rest that I have had elsewhere. There wasn’t one that would get me going back for me whereas in the case of this one…

…I sure would not mind having it again and again.

My girl also ordered the kiam sor hu phee (salty and crusty fish fillet)…

…but it was rather salty and very dry. We ate it dipped in the lemon sauce of the chicken dish and that sure helped make it a lot nicer.

The cangkok manis fried with egg…

…with its lovely wok hei fragrance, was very good – one can never go wrong with this dish. It may vary in between places, not exactly the same but I’ve yet to come across one that is not nice.

The Foochow tauhu tear, the tofu oyster soup…

…was good to the last drop. This quintessentially Foochow dish is so simple with so few ingredients…

…just the tofu, the made-in-China canned oysters, a bit of minced meat and egg.

The total for the food that day came up to RM56.00 for three persons – it would definitely be less if we had not asked for the somewhat disappointing fish. Their sweet and sour fish is another one that we would consider to be the best in town but we did not feel like ordering it that day.

Y2K CAFE (2.294220, 111.825753) is located in the Tunku Osman area, round the corner from that block of shops where the branches of AmBank & RHB Bank are located with its back entrance facing the side (right, not the main one) entrance/exit of Methodist Secondary School.