Chinese in Pekan Sibu

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2. 4 years ago

The black pepper lamb (RM22.00)…was certainly an improvement from how I remembered it to be. My late father used to buy home from here for everyone in the house to eat, those years when my late mum was bedridden. This time around, the meat was very nice and tender and unlike before, the sauce did not taste like what came out of the bottle like what one would get when eating that once-a-year burger in the hope that one would strike it rich and be very prosperous!

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2. 4 years ago

My girl also wanted their salad prawn balls (RM13.00)…and I would say that this dish was my favourite of the three.

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2. 5 years ago

We wanted fish and settled upon snow fish…also known among the people here as Alaska fish or 鱈魚 in Mandarin which is, in fact, cod. My missus said it would be very expensive as one slice at the frozen foods stores would cost over RM20.00 each and we got two slices but as far as I was concerned, I thought it was perfectly all right as we would not be eating it all that often and besides, my girl enjoys it very much, just like how she loves the just-as-expensive salmon.

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2. 5 years ago

I loved this fried tofu topped with seaweed and garnished with enoki…and whatever else – I certainly would want to order this again the next time I drop by here.

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2. 5 years ago

We had one of their signature dishes, the kampua mee…which was very nice but I think it had been cooked for a while already before it was served so the strands of noodles all stuck together and it was quite a task to toss and shake them loose.

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2. 6 years ago

their sweet and sour giant udang galah (freshwater prawns)… New Capitol sweet & sour udang galah …certainly were like no other sweet and sour dishes that we had had elsewhere and this one was truly a winner!

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2. 5 years ago

We also ordered the lamb with lime sauce…and I only found out that night that they had mayonnaise in it with the lime. It was nice but I think it was nicer when we had it before – the meat was not grilled that well enough.

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2. 5 years ago

This very nice claypot fish dish…which was very nice though I wouldn’t mind a little bit more fish and yam and tofu puffs – the next time I order that, I will certainly ask for more of those and maybe, pay a little bit more.

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2. 5 years ago

We had the sizzling venison on a hot plate…something we had not had for quite sometime and the general consensus was that it was very nice.

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2. 6 years ago

I had these…and also this very nice pork, RM6.00…that was a cut above the sweet and sour fish fillet that I also had, I must say.

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2. 7 years ago

Their own-made tofu…was very good

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2. 7 years ago

This time around, I ordered their bak chang (meat dumplings) with salted egg (RM5.50)…and it was very good – lots of meat inside and one whole salted egg yolk that was very nice and fresh…

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2. 5 years ago

Thankfully, the kampua mee (RM2.80)…was very good – I certainly would rank it among my favourites and it is a little cheaper than a lot of places around town, usually RM3.00…or more.

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2. 5 years ago

I asked for a recommendation and they unreservedly told me the Fish Fillet Burger with Egg and Cheese (RM 3.90) was their bestseller. This actually tasted pretty good! I liked the crunchy fish fillet and the creamy egg with the pillowy soft chu nu miang. Nice!

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2. 6 years ago

She had her favourite sambal fried kway teow here…with a special request for it to be extra spicy, of course and I ordered the same for my girl but I asked for it to be fried “white” or without soy sauce, that is…She did not seem to enjoy it so much though and was struggling with it and in the end, I think she barely finished half of it. I did try a bit and I thought it was all right just that it was not quite the same – I guess we are more used to having soy sauce in our char kway teow and would prefer it that way.

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2. 6 years ago

She ended up having the tom yam hung ngang (big bihun) from one of the stalls instead (RM8.00)…The mum declared that she had it before, praising it to the skies and insisted it was really very good and kept saying repeatedly that they made their own bay kar /ikan tenggiri (mackerel) fish balls and so on and so forth.

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2. 4 years ago

It tasted all right, more like kampua mee, I would say, right down to the chili sauce given. By right, we would get sliced chili soaked in vinegar with kolo mee. The minced meat…looked like it had been reheated over and over again many times till it became rather salty, not something to my liking and the serving was really huge – in fact, I was quite shocked when I saw the lady taking the noodles to cook so of course, I did not finish all of it. All I wanted was something light for tea but there was nothing else.

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2. 5 years ago

I asked for the kampua mee with egg (RM3.00) and got the noodles, kosong (without meat)…and one wok-fried egg…Yes, the mee was great and the egg was done the way I love it!

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2. 5 years ago

Unlike most elsewhere where the broth tastes of black soy sauce and garlic soup, more or less, the one here (RM8.00)…has that exotic fragrance of the spices that go into the cooking and I would say that initially, it took a little bit of getting used to. Once I got the hang of it, I started to enjoy it…a lot!

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2. 5 years ago

Mee sapi/beef noodles (RM6.00) The soup was great, wouldn’t mind if the beef taste had been a little bit stronger and I seemed to detect a hint of sweetness in it. However, despite that, I rather enjoyed it and I loved the noodles and the meat with their special own-made chili dip…which I finished while I was halfway through and I had to ask for some more.

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2. 4 years ago

I ordered the tomato kway teow special that I had before not too long ago, the regular not the special and it was really good. The kway teow was so very well-fried…I could detect the wok hei fragrance as I loosened the strands of the noodles.

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2. 4 years ago

Soon, my order arrived (RM8.00)…- my Foochow fried noodles, the moon version, special with all the liver and innards, char siew, strips of meat, fish cake slices, fried tofu and oh me oh my, it was as good as it looked.

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2. 5 years ago

Fried kway teow (flat rice noodles), wet (with sauce/gravy) I tried it and was glad to find that it was very nice. It had that much coveted wok hei fragrance and the guy was very generous with the added ingredients…unlike elsewhere where you will get bits of meat and green vegetables hardly visible to the naked eye for that same amount of money.

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2. 5 years ago

This is called the Green Dragon vegetable (青龙菜) or the royale chives…which I hear is not available locally and is served at this restaurant by special order. I quite enjoyed it – it had a slight hint of the fragrance of regular chives.

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2. 4 years ago

However, when we heated it up…to eat, we were somewhat disappointed. No, it was not supposed to be that way, nothing like rendang as I know it to be and definitely not like one of my favourites that I had enjoyed before. It wasn’t really like curry either but it was closer to that than rendang – let’s just say it was their version of curry, not the best, of course, but it was all right, that much I would say. One thing I would give them due credit for would be how the meat was very tender.

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2. 4 years ago

It was good – there were lots of ingredients including a few prawns and bits of sotong (squid) , a couple of fried fish slices and some vegetables plus the pork fat crusts (bak yu phok) but I would not mind a stronger wok hei fragrance. Yes, they do not use plastic here too – a pat on the back for that.

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2. 6 years ago

I ordered their fried noodles, moon and sat there and waited. Boy! For reasons unknown, it sure took a mighty long time like that time when I was there for the kampua mee and when it was served…I must say that I was quite disappointed. It sure did not look all that enticing. However, when I tried it, I thought it was quite good…but for RM4.50 a plate, I sure wouldn’t mind a few thin slices of their char siew or roast meat. This place is famous for those or perhaps I was too early in the morning and they were not ready yet – the cabinet at the stall designated for those was still empty

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2. 6 years ago

I had no intention of joining all the cars moving at a snail’s pace so I decided to stop by the aforementioned coffee shop for the kampua noodles…I was delighted to see that they used real char siew (barbecued meat) instead of those wannabes – boiled pork coloured red, and the char siew was really very nice! All this while, I had been grumbling that I could not get very nice char siew here, nothing like those in KL or elsewhere in the peninsula, but this one here wasn’t too bad. Now I know where I can go to should I happen to have a craving for it.

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2. 4 years ago

The kampua mee was in a bigger bowl and the soup…came in an even bigger one, not the usual aluminium bowl that was somewhat small. I sure enjoyed both the noodles and the thick and rich soup with a whole lot of meat, beef tripe and beef tendon in it.

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2. 6 years ago

The noodles came – this…kampua mee kosong with black soy sauce. Now, we never said we wanted it black. I am no fan of it black as the strong taste of the soy sauce would be overpowering and it would drown out the nice subtle taste of really good kampua mee.

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2. 6 years ago

I felt like having their beef noodles, our favourite in town, so I ordered the special (RM8.00)…with all the tripe and tendons…and the meat that all went so well with the chili dip that came with it.

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2. 7 years ago

Their braised pork rice (RM5.00)…Of course I wasted no time at all in ordering that and yes, it was very nice – very generous with the pork…and there was one whole hard-boiled egg by the side. I certainly would much sooner go for this than what I had here for a ringgit more and no egg.

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2. 7 years ago

I remember I quite enjoyed what I had there sometime ago but this time around, the red wine was very sour, so sour that it would have been great had it been a bowl of zhao chai hung ngang. I suspected they did not manage to get hold of a good batch of the wine – sometimes it can be sour – but a friend commented on Facebook that she would go there quite regularly and everytime she had the mee sua, it was sour. If I had known that, I would have gone some place else, not there. I remember it was RM6.50 the last time I had it but it is only RM6.00 now, I wonder why.

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2. 5 years ago

I saw that there was liver and beef tripe too so I had the kampua kosong (without meat)…with this big bowl of liver soup…which was very good. I could not detect the traditional Foochow red wine in it but it was very strong with the taste of the liver plus I liked the special chili dip that came with it. The set was RM5.00 so with the drink, the breakfast I had that morning was RM6.00 altogether.

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2. 5 years ago

Of course, Jas wanted his kampua mee tossed in chili sauce (RM3.00)…which pleased her to no end so much that she was actually contemplating on ordering another plate but I said no, we would go some place else for some other thing.

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2. 7 years ago

I had the “white” (RM3.00)…and I added the chili sauce myself…while my missus had the “white” tossed with chili sauce…I still am not convinced that this is, as what many will insist, the best in town and my missus agrees with me too, that it was all right and there are others elsewhere that are more to our liking. I liked their pian sip before and would have wanted to order that but business must be really good as by the time we got there at around 11.00 a.m., they only had the noodles left – everything was sold out for the day!

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2. 4 years ago

The noodles had its own unique taste, not quite like the regular kampua mee but I would say it was very nice – personally, I still like this lady’s kampua mee more but I wouldn’t mind coming back here again for this one with the extras by the side…and perhaps, they may have other things for me to pick and choose or other dishes that I may want to try.

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2. 5 years ago

Fried pek koi (rice cakes)…so I ordered that and true enough, it was really very good. I don’t know if they made their own but they certainly looked different from all the rest, thin and long like fries.

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2. 6 years ago

Yes, the mee (kampua mee) was nice but I don’t think the taste was quite like what I used to buy from the stall near my house. Maybe it is because somebody else is making it or the taste has evolved into something quite different over the years, I really can’t tell. The pian sip soup was great too and I did enjoy the coffee…

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2. 6 years ago

I asked for the nasi lemak (RM3.50)…not anything to shout about but it would be something one might consider having when in the vicinity. The sambal was very nice but was not spicy at all and I did ask for a little bit of their chicken curry…from the chap fan options to go with my order and in my opinion, it was not as nice as the Chinese/Foochow curry here but it was quite all right.

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2. 7 years ago

The Foochow fried noodles (RM4.00)…was to my liking too, tasty and with the much coveted wok hei fragrance. No, I would not say it was my favourite in town but yes, it was nice enough and I sure will not mind going for it again if I happen to be in the vicinity.

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2. 6 years ago

That morning, it was the brother who asked me to come along and he had the pian sip mee pok (RM3.00)…from the kampua mee stall there.

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2. 6 years ago

Anyway, I saw that they had kompia so I ordered three (RM1.00 each)… theirs is deep-fried which I prefer to the ones elsewhere where they toast them in the oven (toaster) as those can be a bit hard and do not taste as great. Somehow, some things taste better, deep-fried. Yes, they were nice, lots of minced meat filling…inside but considering that the three cost just as much as a more filling plate of kampua mee, I probably would not be coming back for more all that soon.

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2. 6 years ago

The bihun (RM3.50)…tasted great though, a little spicy and I only had to fork out an extra 50 sen for the egg.