I remember the first time I set foot on this food court was in September, 2020 and I tried the lor mee from one of the stalls there. It was a far cry from what it is like today, a lot more stalls and a lot more things to choose and enjoy.
When we were there one Sunday morning not too long ago, I saw something being served to a customer at one of the tables and it looked really good. That’s the lor mee, my girl said. She said she would like that with the noodles combined – I think they call it lor mee cham (mixed) in the peninsula…
…but as far as I know, here, everyone has it with yellow noodles, nothing else. My girl and I had it that way when we were in Penang a long time ago and she remembers it to this very day.
Well, it so happened that the weather was good on Monday that day so off I went to the car wash and once it was done, I dropped by the food court for breakfast and of course, I wasted no time at all in ordering the lor mee…
…but I asked for the combination of two types of noodles, the usual yellow noodles and bihun (rice vermicelli)…
…the way my girl would love it!
Yes, it was very nice. The rich thick phak lor gravy was very well done and tasty, not too strong on the five-spice powder (ngor hiang hoon) which would put me off but I was missing the few strands of kangkong (water spinach) that one would usually find in a bowl of lor mee. Other than that, I did not like the factory-made fried shallots the first time and I had forgotten all about it or I would have told the lady I would not want those – I just cannot stand the smell/taste.
All things considered, it was nice and at only RM6.00 a bowl, I thought it was cheap. There was a lot of lean meat slices, aside from the tofu puffs and the hardboiled egg. However, I did not feel there was any difference in the overall taste despite the combination – it was like what it was, lor mee.
My blogger-friend took me out for breakfast here in 2012 and he had the combination of their lor mee and prawn mee…
…and yes, there were yellow noodles…
…and bihun…
…together in the combined dish and yes, I did enjoy that. Unfortunately, I do not remember what it tasted like and I don’t think we can get anything like that here so we will just have to be happy with what we have, never mind that it isn’t anything to get excited about.
GRAND WONDERFUL FOOD COURT (2.309601, 111.845163)…
…is located along Jalan Pipit, off Jalan Dr Wong Soon Kai, on your right. You can also go in via Jalan Pipit from Jalan Pahlawan – go straight ahead till you get to it on your left.
...STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS! 