Kafe.. dunno wat name

One more 'makan' place...

This is a shop with no name save for the 'Kafe' word on the wall. We've eaten their fare before when it was located at the old premise opposite the Masjid Nagore (built 1881, I think) near the Post Office, smack in the centre of the town. Back then, it was beside this key shop that shares a premise with a tailor.

This new shop is in Pekan Melayu / Pekan Cina area; the shop where Old Tune Moi Restaurant used to be. Old Tune was done up very nicely in those days... too bad the owner took it back for something that didn't materialize in the end. So, it's now a mee shop.

Inside it's airy, clean and spacious. They left the big windows intact. But it's kinda sad to see the side road covered with cement now. I used to like the palm trees that surround it... kinda gave it a garden feel in the middle of a concrete jungle. Was reminded of this place by Weng Seng last week when we were over for lunch and so early on Saturday morning Other Half and I went.

Anyway, back to the new shop. What is its speciality? Mee / beehoon / kuayteow / mee suah soup... with the kind of steamed soup that has herbs in it. There are 3 types of soup - duck, chicken and pork ribs.

I had mee suah while he had mee; both in chicken soup. And yup! They were nice, soothing in a way. Light on the stomach. I cooked ribs soup in my slow cooker yesterday night for breakfast this morning.... light and soothing to begin the day with!

You have to be early if you don't want to miss it cos by 10.00 a.m., he would be almost done selling. I counted that the owner probably does slightly more than 200 bowls in one morning. He had these cups of soups steaming in the steamer and he pours a cup into each bowl. It was 8.30 a.m. when we left and already the pail beside the steamer was filled with empty cups.

Once the soups are all gone... he'd be doing yong-tau-fu. This is one enterprising man.. but my morning didn't end with the mee-stall visit. It turned out to be a morning of surprise...

...to be continued