The rice was not lemak, only very slightly and the salted fish was like it had been fried a long time ago⦠The sambal was all right, thankfully as it did help make the rice more palatable to some extent and the fried chicken wasā¦like fried chicken.
I also ordered the pian sip, dry (RM3.00)ā¦and that I would say was its saving grace and I quite enjoyed it.
I also asked for a large plate of fried kway teow (RM10.00)ā¦to share and this too was very good and I liked how they went through the trouble of removing the tails of the taugeh (bean sprouts) ā they do not bother doing that elsewhere.
I had the kampua mee pok (flat noodles), white (with light soy sauce), tossed in (bottled) chili sauce with pian sip (RM3.20)ā¦and one thing I noticed was that the mee pok seemed a little narrower and thinnerā¦than those I had elsewhere and boy, they sure gave a lot of it! Maybe that is why people do not mind one bit that they would need to fork out 20 sen more here.
The kampua meeā¦was very good and I loved that the guy used stewed pork unlike many other places where they would give you paper thin slices of boiled pork coloured red in the hope that it would look like char siew.
I asked for the lor mee (RM6.00)ā¦and it came in no time at all. Yes, it was very nice though I would not mind a thicker broth with a bit more egg in it ā I could see some bits of the egg but there was so little of it, it might as well not have been there.
One that caught my attention was their crispy pata or what we call the Philippine pork legā¦Seeing that there were only the three of us, the lady who came to take our order suggested half of it only for RM28.00. Wowwwww!!! I thought the price was kind of steep but never mind! I had not had it for a long time and I would like to see if the one here would be worth coming back for. Well, unfortunately, it was at best, just o.k. and not really to my liking ā I thought it was on the dry side and a bit too hard.
This time around, I asked for their pan mee (RM5.00)ā¦and I would say that it wasnāt too bad. As a matter of fact, I had that a long time ago and I did enjoy it, just that I never came back for more as frankly, Iām not all that crazy about pan mee. To me, itās just something that I may consider having sometimes for a change.
I ordered the kolo mee (RM4.50)ā¦and lived to regret it. It was kampua mee served with the minced meat on top and two fish balls and half of a hardboiled egg, something quite unheard of if you are having kolo mee, the way it should be and some khiew chai (curly vegetable). It did not have that kolo mee taste and there was no char siew plus I was not given the pickled chili in vinegar, just bottled chili sauce.
Their star attraction was their herbal soup (dong gui/ē¶ęø) and the guy did say that they had that but we could not taste anything of the sort in the complimentary soup nor was there any hint of it in the chap-chap (mixed) soupā¦
The kampua mee (RM3.00)ā¦was a bit on the mild side. It could do with a bit more shallot oil/lard but they were very generous with the chili sauce ā they gave one whole bottle of it unlike many places where they will give you a spoonful in one of those tiny saucers ā so I could add all I wanted and I also tossed the pian sip with the mee and yes, I quite enjoyed it after that.
I was quite sure we had their Guiness stout porkā¦before but we decided we would have a go at it again. Much to our delight, it was very nice ā the sauce went so well with the rice but I was not all that fond of the melamine plate it was served in. Well, at least, it wasnāt the coloured or floral ones where the colour may come off eventually like those fake banana leaf plates.
My girl loves vegetable curry and that would be an ideal dish for our no-meat Friday in the season of Lent. True to what my sister said, itā¦was really very nice, a whole lot nicer than the half-baked curry dishes we may get at some Chinese restaurant in town. I asked the lady and she said that we could have beef or chicken curry as well and if we wanted fish, we would have to wait quite a bit as they would need to defrost the fish first.
When it was servedā¦I must say that I was a little disappointed as there was nothing else other than the egg. Thankfully, the noodles tasted all right, not the best nor the worse but I would not mind stopping by to eat this if I happen to be around there and no, you would not see me going out of my way for it.
I saw the kampua mee guyā¦preparing something with a whole lot of pork liver and he told me it was his Sarawak laksa and some customer requested for the liver to be added. He asked me if I wanted to give it a try and looking at the brothā¦in the pot, I thought it looked good so I ordered a bowl (RM5.00)ā¦but no, I did not ask for the liver. It turned out to be very niceā¦