Thursday, Downtown

When I woke up this morning, it was 9:30 AM. Seng had come back from work with some curry noodles and some "Chee Cheong Fun" (pig intestine noodles - it is actually just white rice noodles, rolled into a tube, and served with hoisin sauce and sweet chili sauce). Mom warmed it up for me for snacks.

The curry noodles were the ones from Batu Lanchang Road. I had tried them before on Saturday. It was so tasty I even drank the soup. Now the soup is made with coconut milk, which is very high in cholesterol, and I should refrain from drinking this too much, but I couldn't resist. I drank all the soup.

The "chee cheong fun" is soft and slippery, and the sauce makes it so tasty. I swallowed the noodles in no time.

Seng came by around lunch to give me a ride to Prangin Mall, near Komtar and Penang Road. This is a good shopping mall, especially for computer software and DVD movies. I found a company called Hong Kong Videos that has a lot of movies. I bought some TV series like "Monk"(Paula's favorite), "Bones" (my favorite), and a complete series of a British comedy,which both of us likes very much.

Around 5:30 PM, I took a bus to Weld Guay, the waterfront, where the ferry boat ferry is. I alighted and walked across the cross-walk. There is a blind man selling paper tissues. I gave him some money, and proceeded to Beach Street. Molly has kindly offered to take me to dinner this evening, and give me a ride home afterward.


As I approached Nam Ah Company, where Molly works, I noticed it has changed slightly. The upstairs appears to have been rented out to an Indian textile company. A big banner advertises for the "Textile King", as you may be able to see in the picture.

Molly and Peter picked me up at 5:30, and we proceeded to New Lane, near Burma Road, in search of "chue cheong choke" or pig intestine gruel. This is a rice gruel (a rice soup in which the rice is cooked until it disintegrate and the soup become glue-like. This is the Cantonese-style rice soup. The Hakkas like their rice soup with the rice still intact and visible.) cooked with pork, and pig intestines. On the side, you may also ask for roasted, bbq pig intestines. These are roasted until crunchy, and crumbled onto the soup. It gives a very nice smokey flavor to the soup. Unfortunately, on this day, the stall was not open for business.


In lieu of that, we (actually I) ordered popiah (4), loh bak (4 shrimp pancakes, deep fried. 3 sausages, deep fried, one thousand-year old year, two tofu, one plain sausage). We also order chau Haw Fun (pan fried flat white noodles), scrambled eyes with oysters, fried kuay kah.

It was a very warm night. I downed my iced coffee, one after another, until I had three. I think I am going to be up all night tonight.

The food came in rapid succession. Molly insisted I not rush to pay, and let Peter handle it. If we fight to pay, the hawkers will jack up the price, she said.

(My complain about this blogging software is that, all the pictures are grouped at the beginning of the blog, and not inserted within the body of the text, when you are describing the event, and there is no way to annotate the pictures. I try to break the blog up into smaller chunks to go with the pictures, but that also breaks up the day sequence.)

The food picture at the top of this blog is the loh bak. The tofu is at the top left. In the middle is the sausages, and the right side has the shrimp cakes. At the bottom, you can see the thousand-year-old egg (it is brown), with some accompanying ginger slices. To it left, you can see another sliced sausage (white meat).