Jan 19

Quite an ordinary coffeeshop but there’s one noodle here that’s a bit different, Vietnam Noodles. Basically its still clear stock soup with thick meehoon like noodles, almost like laksa noodles. Topping for the noodles includes vegetables, normal fishball, fried fishball, pork, pork balls and prawns! There is not much wow factor in it but its quite nice and good when you don’t feel like anything heavy but greedy for choices of toppings :)

The other thing that looks good here is the char koay teow… well, its just ok but with a bit of banana leaf on the plate, perception also different, that’s how I got conned to order, hahaha… but it was ok!

GPS: N3 09.021 E101 32.561

Jan 14

There are 2 shops in Kapar known for its fried baby shark dish and 1 of it is Soon Leong which is located on the main road of Kapar town. Open as early as 9am, this place serve Chinese dishes to go with rice only.

Me and Soh Cicak wanted to try their famous fried baby shark and we ordered 1 for each of us. The shark simply deep fried covered with some chilies over it then having some light soya sauce poured on it. Its simple and nice.

Almost the whole shark can be eaten with only a long bone in the middle, very suitable for kids too. The chilies does not add any spicy taste to it but just fragrant it better. The meat are soft and tender covered with crispy skin and its great when taken hot!

Soon Leong is airconditioned and they have hot water boiling around the shop for Chinese tea lover, you can either bring your own tea (like we did, thanks for Cicak for his nice Tiak Kuan Ying) or you can choose from packets available.

Its cost Rm13 for 2 sharks and for hot water for our tea, not too bad I would say, should come back to try other dishes as well.

GPS: N3 08.291 E101 22.305

Jan 14

Hmm… what’s better for breakfast? Dim sum or chee cheong fun? How about both in one? Well, this morning as I was walking to have a look around at the tiny wet market in Kapar town, I stumbled upon this motorbike hawker stall that sells pau, dim sum and chee cheong fun.

Its parked outside a coffeeshop, so you can either dine in the shop and order a drink or like me and soh cicak, we just sat at the stools next to her bike and eat. The aunt here is really friendly, taking time to explain what she have and asking detailed questions like if peanuts are ok with you, etc.

They basically have 2 steamers and 1 pot keeping the food hot. First steamer are all Pau and Loh Mai Kai (chicken mushroom gluttonous rice), second one are dim sum and chee cheong fun and the pot are yong tau food.

They don’t have the usual huge variety of dim sum, but simply some simple home made fish balls, fish rolls (foo chok kuen) and siew mai. I took 1 each with a piece of chee cheong fun plus 1 piece of yong tau foo, she mixed them up with sweet and chili sauce together. For topping, you get sesame and finely crushed peanuts.

Everything is ok but the dim sum paste, which are made from fish are soft and fresh. As the aunt could see that we are not local with computer backpack on us (she actually thought we are fresh graduates, hahaha!), she spent some time to chit chat with us. The stall was operated by her in law and now she took over, with the childrens all married, she is not sure if anyone will take over. But the good thing is the dim sum fillings are made from fresh fishes, bought fresh everyday from Sekinchan at about RM20.00 per kilo! She uses only “beh kar” fish (in hokkien) for her dim sum (70 cents per piece), no wonder its soft and no fishy smell. The yong tau foo which is sold at 60 cents per piece is cheaper as it uses only “tofu” fish.

In the end, the aunt also offered us some of her yong tau foo soup since we did not take any drink from the stall, the soup is not very tasty but guess what, no MSG! Its really just simple and ordinary food that she sells, but I think that’s what good about hawker food, nothing too fancy, simple, nice and a lot of sincere hardwork from them to make it nice!

GPS: N3 08.285 E101 22.449

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