As a local, I expect to consume local food cooking by local. On a weekend evening after evening mass, we proceed to one of the very local night market for dinner.
It's been more than a decade we haven't visited this place, so it was a kind of exciting. To my suprise, soon as we arrived this place, everybody speaking foreign language here. I wasn't really reluctant about it, at least the stall has Chinese language, believe the cook in Chinese.
There's enough hawker around, drinks may be the other stall, but you can cross order as long you asked for permission. I proceed to ordered the Chinese herbal soup. Mind you this crap ain't cheap' cheap, 5.50 a bowl. That's more than a dollar.
Sanitary wise, it's totally out of the window. When you come to this kind of market, old school taste is all you want to expect, so be prepared. Open kitchen concept is not for everyone, but I like to see how they prepare my food, and also the Chinese kitchen fire show will make the experience 10x worthy.
Chinese sausage fried rice is surprisingly good. I understand the presentation isn't really what you'd expect, trust me the taste is exactly the opposite of how it looks. Rice has been fully covered with egg wash, and the chopped sausage gives every chew an extra flavor to it. As I asked for an extra set of utensils so we can share, the waiter replied me in Malay(our local common language if you can't speak Chinese), I was suprise the cook and the crew, is actually entirely made up of foreigner!
The Hokkien noodle, was a little disappointed as it was too moist. Flavor wise, it's not too bad. It has sufficient amount of lard, pork slice to go with shrimp. Aside from the texture, this is not a bad dish, I just wish them simmer a little longer so the noodle can absorb a little more of the sauce.
And the kids shared a plate of sweet and sour pork. I'm not kidding you, this is one of the better version I've eaten in a long time. How often do you see the chef dip the meat into flour and start frying, prepare it on the spot? Super fresh, crunchy beneath the sweet and sour tomato broth.
As I asked for the waiter for the bill, I gave him 100, and he returned me 74. It took me couple of minutes to work my way, to realized it was actually pretty darn affordable. Considering the portion of the food, RM26 is a price of steal! And if you have to convert it, that's about $5 to feed the whole family. Who say only Chinese cook can cook Chinese cuisine?
This is probably my second experience that I enjoyed "localed" Chinese food cooked by foreigner, which somewhat fooled my Chinese tongue. And when I looked around, I think we're the only Chinese family sitting here eating Chinese food. The rest of the customers are similarly foreigner who speaks a foreign language ordering Chinese cuisine from their people 😂
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