Belut Pulang Ke Lumpur II: A Foodie Goodbye
The next morning, we celebrated the mass at St. Thomas Church. The celebrant was a visiting Vietnamese priest and I was quite shocked to see that the altar boys and parish priest wore non-matching batik. :S. What was more shocking was the fact that he was so openly anti-establishment. Lovely. Just like the ones in Penang. XD. Managed to take a peek at my old secondary school, St. Thomas Secondary School. Saw this sign out front:
Datang dengan harapan. Pulang dengan kejayaan.
I wonder if I qualify? Looked pretty much the same, except for a fresh coat of paint. So many memories there. Breakfast was BKT at Restorang Chong Sun near my brother's primary school. Opposite it was Kedai Ya Mah stationery shop where I would wait for my brother when I was young with a Mickey Mouse popsicle in hand. :). The BKT had a good fragrance and definitely better than what one eats in KL (not talking about Klang, so Klang-ites don't jump me on this one). After that meal, one needs to go church for confession. :P. Next was a stop at Capitol Chicken Rice. A favourite. I still remember the distinctive peppery taste of their dried vegetable soup. Just beside it was the old Golden Cinema. Today, it's a shop selling made in China products. I suspect that it's the source of lantern madness in Kuantan. The whole building was crawling with tanglung! The Hokkien Association used to rent the space for academic prize-giving ceremonies. After receiving my incentive, we would go have lunch at New Capitol and subsequently use the money for Lego!
What's a trip to Kuantan without Mui Heong salted fish? Made a stop at Chen Hing, Jalan Besar to buy salted fish for JJ's brother-in-law. Also bought some dried shrimp for mum and SK managed to buy some Lembing biscuits. Don't know what I'm talking about? Mui Heong literally translates to "rotting-fragrance". Need I say more? :P. Lembing biscuits on the other hand are big, square biscuits baked to a brown complexion and lightly-dusted with flour. One of the specialties from Sungai Lembing. Another specialty from there is Lembing noodles (a curly boric acid-free variety of yellow noodles), but it is no longer sold, as the business died out with the uncle who made it. Went home to pack, then headed for Gambang. On the way there, we stopped by at the famous Restoran Zaman. Nasi dagang was sold out, so we settled for nasi kerabu. Equally good.
"Aik, apasal nasi kerabu ni warna putih?"
"Sama je dik. Nasi tu letak kaler je. Sama sedap."
If this was the case for everything, try to imagine a white nasi kunyit. But anyway, it was delicious, especially with the super-spicy bird eye chilli sauce. SK also packed a piece of roti canai for her granny... and when she ate it in the car... the aroma was so overpowering that I nearly jumped to the backseat! Fantastic! I am craving for it right now... The drive back was worse than the day before. Visibility was bad. I took over the wheel from SK. Stopped by at Sri Jaya to buy pau at Restorang Sin Tong Kok. SK had been eating there since she was a kid. Twenty years and the quality was not compromised. The big pau was my lunch. Heavenly filling of pork and chicken with a hint of rice-wine. Yummy. Also bought loh mai kai, peanut pau and kaya rolls. Reached home at about 04:30pm and had a makan-makan party with mum. Hehe. A good trip back. Kuantan, see you in another decade? Hahaha.
Datang dengan harapan. Pulang dengan kejayaan.
I wonder if I qualify? Looked pretty much the same, except for a fresh coat of paint. So many memories there. Breakfast was BKT at Restorang Chong Sun near my brother's primary school. Opposite it was Kedai Ya Mah stationery shop where I would wait for my brother when I was young with a Mickey Mouse popsicle in hand. :). The BKT had a good fragrance and definitely better than what one eats in KL (not talking about Klang, so Klang-ites don't jump me on this one). After that meal, one needs to go church for confession. :P. Next was a stop at Capitol Chicken Rice. A favourite. I still remember the distinctive peppery taste of their dried vegetable soup. Just beside it was the old Golden Cinema. Today, it's a shop selling made in China products. I suspect that it's the source of lantern madness in Kuantan. The whole building was crawling with tanglung! The Hokkien Association used to rent the space for academic prize-giving ceremonies. After receiving my incentive, we would go have lunch at New Capitol and subsequently use the money for Lego!
What's a trip to Kuantan without Mui Heong salted fish? Made a stop at Chen Hing, Jalan Besar to buy salted fish for JJ's brother-in-law. Also bought some dried shrimp for mum and SK managed to buy some Lembing biscuits. Don't know what I'm talking about? Mui Heong literally translates to "rotting-fragrance". Need I say more? :P. Lembing biscuits on the other hand are big, square biscuits baked to a brown complexion and lightly-dusted with flour. One of the specialties from Sungai Lembing. Another specialty from there is Lembing noodles (a curly boric acid-free variety of yellow noodles), but it is no longer sold, as the business died out with the uncle who made it. Went home to pack, then headed for Gambang. On the way there, we stopped by at the famous Restoran Zaman. Nasi dagang was sold out, so we settled for nasi kerabu. Equally good.
"Aik, apasal nasi kerabu ni warna putih?"
"Sama je dik. Nasi tu letak kaler je. Sama sedap."
If this was the case for everything, try to imagine a white nasi kunyit. But anyway, it was delicious, especially with the super-spicy bird eye chilli sauce. SK also packed a piece of roti canai for her granny... and when she ate it in the car... the aroma was so overpowering that I nearly jumped to the backseat! Fantastic! I am craving for it right now... The drive back was worse than the day before. Visibility was bad. I took over the wheel from SK. Stopped by at Sri Jaya to buy pau at Restorang Sin Tong Kok. SK had been eating there since she was a kid. Twenty years and the quality was not compromised. The big pau was my lunch. Heavenly filling of pork and chicken with a hint of rice-wine. Yummy. Also bought loh mai kai, peanut pau and kaya rolls. Reached home at about 04:30pm and had a makan-makan party with mum. Hehe. A good trip back. Kuantan, see you in another decade? Hahaha.
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If he decides to fly FireFlyz, we can make it next month. :P
@Anon:
LOL. Maybe... :P
@Nicky:
Rosy?
@Cheryl:
Hyatt!
@MrD:
Not rich yet.