Brother…

Everytime my brother came home from Auckland, New Zealand, he would walk here every morning from our parents’ house round the corner for the kampua mee…

I was not really a fan because I thought that the old lady they were all working for before did a much better job and I enjoyed her noodles a lot more. Unfortunately, she retired, only to reopen elsewhere and retire again after a while – I have not seen her since so I wouldn’t know if she is still around or not.

I can’t remember the last time I had their noodles but the other day, I decided to stop by to see whether it was any better than before. Well, one thing I had to admit was that it was really very popular. The place was crowded and I could not find a place to park my car in the vicinity. I had no choice but to try again a little later and thankfully, there was one car right in front of the coffee shop that was just leaving!

I parked my car and went to place my orders before going to take a seat at one of the vacant tables. In my blogpost on them in 2016, I had this to say about the ladies, “…that morning, I was quite put off by the fact that even though there wasn’t really a crowd, we had to wait for a mighty long time despite the fact that there were three ladies and one young boy helping out as well. Maybe she was a newbie at this thing so she was not all that good at it yet – hopefully, in time, she will be better and her customers would not need to wait…like forever, to be served!”

The young boy was no longer around but no, the three ladies took such a long time that I got quite bored just sitting there waiting! For one thing, they were very chatty – it is a wonder that they had so much to talk about when they get to see one another every day. This is definitely one place to avoid should one happen to be in a hurry to go somewhere after having had a bite to eat.

I liked the kampua mee (RM4.00)…

…very much. If I were of the opinion that they were not that great before, well, I must say that I’ve changed my mind now.

I also tried eating them with the bottled chili sauce provided…

…and I found it to be even nicer that way. Incidentally, they are using the authentic handmade Foochow kampua noodles here – the slightly thicker and straight ones as opposed to the machine-made ones that are thinner and more curly. They use the latter for Kuching kolo mee but these days, many are not bothered to differentiate between the two. Those true blue die-hard kampua mee lovers, however, will frown at the latter and not settle for anything less than the former.

I also ordered a bowl of pian sip, small (RM2.50)…

…or kiaw, if you are someone from Kuching or wanton if you’re from the mainland or elsewhere and yes, I did enjoy that. The soup was very flavourful and the pian sip skin was thin and smooth enough and to my liking. I saw somebody having the dry version and it looked pretty good – perhaps I shall order that next time.

Actually, the people at the chu-char (cook and fry) at the back are very good too but they only open at night.

DELTA SEAFOOD & CAFE (2.307832, 111.825125)…

…is located along Lorong Delta 10, in the blocks of shops somewhere right behind the public swimming pool there.