Beautiful piece of 'art', innit?
A golden corner, one which I totally had forgotten to talk about during my visit to hometown at Sibu last February. It is not any grand shop or restaurant, just so happened it is located at the corner of a shoplot, and the owner decided to name it The Gold Corner.
I remembered that day, after getting our haircut, parents let us be on our own to walk around the town. After walking at the mall nearby, we got really hungry due to our early lunch, hence we walked out of the mall, crossed the road and we saw this shop.
'Emas' in Malay language means gold. Without any hesitation, we straight away entered the shop, it was our first time here. It is a typical Sibu 'kopitiam' aka coffee cafe style, no air-conditioning, just fans will do. It was at super odd hour at 330pm, hence we asked the workers there whether was there any food available. They happily replied, "Yes, sure sure!"
There were two small stalls there, so we ordered from those stalls.
The first stall sold all things 'kampua', our famous Sibu noodle, as well as 'wantan'.
We were captivated by the owner here, a man probably in his 60s, he could wrap the wantans in such speedy manner. And he arranged them neatly too into a container. We straight away ordered the dry wantan. The man asked us whether we wanted with soy sauce or without, this time we ordered without soy sauce so that we could taste the wantan and the meat more.
The dry wantan was really one of the best. We were blown away. From the wantan skin, to the minced meat filling, and the pork oil seasoning sauce, the fragrance from deep fried onion and spring onion, all so cooked and prepared to perfection. Every bite was so satisfying.
Later on, we found out he even deep fried the onions by himself, unlike many other stalls who just ordered bulk from supplier. No wonder the plate of dry wantan was so delicious.
We then ordered another plate. Haha! Each plate had 10 wantans. Yums!
This second stall sold all special soup noodle dish like 'batin' soup, a Chinese herbal soup for blood nourishment, classic healthy chicken soup, red wine noodle and yellow wine noodle. They also served porridge, as well as laksa, a curry cooked with coconut milk soup noodle.
Husband saw 'laksa' special and from the photo, it looked so delicious with all the internals, he ordered one for us to share. The boys also wanted something from this stall, so we ordered for them one plate of fried kampua.
No regret ordering this! The pig liver was cooked to perfection, so soft and tender. The intestines was clean and soft too. The laksa soup was super delicious, we actually drank the whole bowl. I had to resist to stop drinking so that my husband got the soup too. It was served with rice vermicelli noodle, besides the internals, other ingredients were shredded egg, tofu puff, and minced pork balls. Dipped with the 'belacan' aka shrimp fermented paste and lime, every mouthful was heavenly
Slurps!
The fried kampua was super flavourful too, enough 'wok-hei' taste. It had vegetables, pork slices, eggs and beansprouts. The boys super loved it.
We ordered two big hot milk tea too with less sugar and these were the best milk tea in town too. Very special tea leaves fragrance. And the combination of milk and sugar, and tea, just perfect. Nope, too good that my husband and I decided to have our glass for ourselves, not sharing.
It seemed like we ordered a lot of food but we actually finished all. And all these onlu costed us about $6, RM25. Indeed, a golden corner we found, good food, good drink, quiet and clean environment. Later on, it was raining cats and dogs, so we got to really slowly sipping our tea while the boys played some games on their phones. I will come back here again next year.
