Reasonable…

When I was at the doctor’s clinic the other day, the guy said that he would like to run a blood and urine test so I had to go back there the next day to see the results. Like in the cases of my previous two visits, I was there before 8.00 a.m. to get myself registered at the receptionist counter after which I had to wait till around 9.00 a.m. for the doctor to come in from his rounds at the medical centre.

Yes, I went to the coffee shop next door again for breakfast but no, I did not want to order that very nice Foochow fried noodles, wet/with sauce/gravy, special that I had not too long ago.

However, it was a Friday, our no-meat day, so I asked for the moon/braised version of the noodles with fish only and this was what I got…

Gosh!!! The serving was HUGE! I was thinking that there was enough to be shared by two persons and yes, there were quite a lot of the ingredients added except that they were just the fish and the green vegetables (sawi).

There were only some small bits of the very nice fish (I think it was the labang again – I did not bother to ask this time)…

…though. I suppose if I had ordered the special minus the prawns, they would give me some bigger slices of the fish and a lot more of it.

I sure was pleasantly surprised when I asked how much my plate of noodles was – it was only RM4.50…

…believe it or not – so very reasonable!

In fact, I would think it was really cheap especially when we compare that to a plate of kampua mee with a few paper-thin slices of boiled pork…

…and they charge RM4.00 for that! Incidentally, word has it that they have jacked it up (AGAIN!!!) to RM4.50 now and frankly, I am amazed that there are still a lot of people foolish enough to go there to be slaughtered!!!

I asked one of the Iban ladies working here at this coffee shop and she told me that RM4.50 is the price for all the fried noodle dishes from the chu char section at the back. That sure is a steal, don’t you think?

HAO KE LAI CAFE & REST (2.292095, 111.836698)…

…is located along Lorong Mahsuri 1B, off Jalan Pedada, in the block of shops to the left of the Rejang Medical Centre, main building.