My colleague recommended 'jing fan' aka steamed rice for lunch today after watching Ho Chak, the makan programme of 8tv last night. Well, we were not the only ones who had the same thought for lunch... (the amazing power of REACH of television).
I had chicken varuval, beans and sambal potatoes with white rice from the indian stall. Chicken was great, beans were average and the sambal potatoes were burnt. My other colleagues order cantonese fry meehoon/kuey teow but portion was rather small so he had the appetite to consume half my other colleagues fried rice topped with a bull's eye. They said the fried rice was very great, full of lap cheong aka chinese sausage and other stuff. The other two had 'chap fan' aka economy rice and char siew wantan mee respectively. I wish I could have been more descriptive about the economy rice but he chomped/shoved it down before I could figure out the combo but the basic csw mee was given the two thumbs up.
The little corner coffee shop is choked with good food and great prices and that's one of the reasons why the place is always bursting with patrons. Hey, maybe I should consider highlighting this information when if I put my house up for sale...
We arrived at 12.45pm at the chinese styled coffee shop at Kelana Jaya (close to Giant Hypermarket) hoping to sample the talked about item but to our dismal, it was SOLD OUT!!! By the way the aunty was grinning when she said that. She did offer for us to try the soup with white rice in mushroom sauce. Sad. Never mind lor will conjure up the previous sensation when I sampled this amazing 'jing fan'. Anyways my colleague had the soup and rice combo and gave it two thumbs up.
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This stall is not new to me as it is near where my parents live. We frequent this place quite often and is a favourite of my dad's. He always orders the ginger chicken variant. Always. There was also once when my cousin and I had lunch there at 2.30ish and was told that they had three portions left. We order two, one for each of us and was highlighted that there is only one more portion left and whether we would like to have that as well... (the owners are very friendly you see and that they know how devastated one can be when it runs out) My cousin, not having tasted it before politely said no and within seconds after taking his first mouthful stood up and walked over to the stall to place the order for the last portion. Too late! The last portion was already ordered buy someone else. Good things come to those who wait - NOT! Well not in this case anyway.
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I had chicken varuval, beans and sambal potatoes with white rice from the indian stall. Chicken was great, beans were average and the sambal potatoes were burnt. My other colleagues order cantonese fry meehoon/kuey teow but portion was rather small so he had the appetite to consume half my other colleagues fried rice topped with a bull's eye. They said the fried rice was very great, full of lap cheong aka chinese sausage and other stuff. The other two had 'chap fan' aka economy rice and char siew wantan mee respectively. I wish I could have been more descriptive about the economy rice but he chomped/shoved it down before I could figure out the combo but the basic csw mee was given the two thumbs up.The little corner coffee shop is choked with good food and great prices and that's one of the reasons why the place is always bursting with patrons. Hey, maybe I should consider highlighting this information when if I put my house up for sale...
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