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I happened to stumble upon a Youtube video showing a family going in search of what they called “mee papan” (wooden board noodles) and of course, my curiosity was aroused. What on earth was mee papan, I wondered? I had never heard of it before. I followed the family in the video clip but unfortunately, the place there were heading to was not open that day!

Eventually, I saw a lot of others as well and I found out from one of them that mee papan was actually sizzling hot plate noodles. In Hokkien, we call it thik pan mee (hot plate noodles)…

Yes, I remember it was the craze at one time, alongside those sizzling hot plate beef or venison or what have you in the Chinese restaurants and yes, I did get to enjoy it before but I cannot for the dear life of me remember where exactly I went for it.

I was enjoying the mee sua here, my favourite in town, one day when I saw the people from the chu-char (cook & fry) section at the back serving that to some customer and boy, it sure looked very good! I made up my mind instantly that I would go back to that coffee shop to give it a try and finally, I managed to do that the other day.

I must say that I was very impressed when it…

…was served. It looked really good and had a lot of added ingredients. I did notice that they had used chicken instead of pork – that is the on-going issue here right now. The price of pork had been shooting up like nobody’s business every other day but of course, it did not matter to me whether they had used pork or chicken or whatever. We should boycott the meat completely to teach those unscrupulous sellers a lesson they will never forget! Tsk! Tsk!

There you are! You can see underneath the hot plate, the wooden board…

…that had given this dish its name.

They added an egg…

…as well and it was perfectly done, just the way I would love it with the egg yolk still soft and runny.

I was pleasantly surprised when I was told that it was only RM7.00 a plate. I had expected more seeing how much ingredients they had added to it…

Yes, it tasted great and yes, I sure would not mind ordering that to enjoy again considering how much more affordable it is compared to a lot of things we have around us these days.

NEW HEE’S FOOD CORNER (2.311365, 111.846638)…

…is located along Jalan Pedada, now Jalan Datuk Wong Soon Kai, the very first one in the block of shops to the left of the Delta Mall, with the Astro Sibu office at the other end of that same block.