: : 3rd Day of 2004 : :
Can’t say much for today except that I now have a very painful pimple growing underneath my right eye!!! What a bad way to start the new year. On another note, since my trip to the USA, I haven’t found a single bottle of St. Ives Clear Pore Cleanser in KL or in the USA! I hope they haven’t taken it off the production line. Favourite facial care but then again, why am I blogging about it? My pimple was bad enough. Urgh.
Had some stir-fried tong yau for brunch with Granny. I missed this while in the US. Crunchy and sweet at the same time. Great with oyster sauce and a firm favourite for me and Granny. After that, I got hungry again about 3 hrs later after viewing Renee’s posting on Chilli Lobsters. Wah! It look so delicious that I got peckish after that. Made a quick call to Min Yen and 30 minutes later, it was off to Song Keng Hai for some belachan bee hoon.
This gal, ah… so shy one! Don’t want to take picture. So, Min Yen, here is a picture of you averting your face and using your wallet and handphone as cover. :p
I had the ais jagung @ iced corn drink from this stall whereas Min Yen ordered the sugar cane with coconut from the stall behind this one.
We then both had a regular plate of belachan bee hoon from this famous stall.
Seeing a notice for chai kueh @ turnip cake, we had a small plate as well as ordering small one to go for Granny.
This was my iced corn drink @ ais jagung and the belachan bee hoon we both had. The sauce was great and the additional ingredients were cuttlefish, sliced cucumbers and bean sprouts as well as the chilli sauce and belachan @ shrimp paste to go with it. Definintely tasty and refreshing. According to Min Yen, this stall serves the best belachan bee hoon amongst all the stalls in Song Keng Hai. The stall is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.
The drink on the left is freshly squeezed sugarcane juice with coconut milk and coconut flesh. Tasty and delicious looking alright. On the right, is the chai kueh @ turnip dish which is stir-fried with egg and some pickled veggies. Honestly speaking, my Granny makes a better chai kueh dish. It’s easy to find the turnip cake uncook here and just fry it again at home.
Song Keng Hai is facing the only rugby field in the whole of Kuching town. Not well maintained because not many rugby teams around. The grass was a bit long but it looked like someone was in the process of cutting it down.
And this is the famous flowerhorn fish that is adored by the Chinese community due to the Chinese-looking-characters on it’s body. It was floating around in an aquarium at one of the stalls in Song Keng Hai. An expensive fish, it retails for a few thousand ringgit (a few hundred US dollars), an expensive fish to showcase in a hawker centre.
After that, it was off home for me and Min Yen went to W.G.Cycle for her training session. Came home to clean up my hamsters’ cages and give them a bath. They were stinking quite badly so it was time to do it. Well, that was my 3rd day of 2004. How was yours?