Henry Restaurant - Bukit Panchor

We had a choice . Between Heng Lee or Henry just a few doors down .

Heng Lee has Southern Thai chefs ( which could mean that foods would have a lot of sugar thrown in ) while Henry seemed to attract silver haired  customers . 

At around the same time , a car full of Ah Beng and Ah Lian occupants spilled out and rushed towards Henry . That decided it then , we would follow suit  . 

The instant they sat down , a humungous platter of crabs was served . Talk about fast service . I guess they must have placed their order via telephone first .

Anyway , the man who took our order was patient as well as polite . Other really good thing I noticed about this restaurant is , they're not stuck up in the least and won't pull a face if you want to order less or have just a one dish meal .

However , when the first of the 2 dishes arrived , we took one look at the size of the prawn and thought to ourselves ....

" die already , sure kena chop wan " 

Inside was 6 numbers of medium sized ( pek heh )prawns , plus one big slice of fish , a few pieces of squid and okra in claypot curry

Boy were we wrong .

When we got the bill , this was listed as RM 30 only !

Look before you eat

He's the one that usually goes and gets the snacks and goodies .

And it was also him that cut it open .

He popped one into his mouth and then I put my uninvited hand in the opening to fish out one for myself .

As I was proving to be a distraction , he shoved the pack in my direction .

That's when I peered in and ....gasp !!!!

Oh mai gawds !!!!!

Is that what I think it is ? 

Is that a fingernail ???????

Tried to fish it out but it fell to the bottom . Thus I had to take all the contents out to see if it really was what I thought it was .

Monsoon season

I used to dread the monsoon season until I went to Mumbai .

Never looked at rain the same way again after that .

Still most Malaysians will immediately feel a bit under the weather when the skies pour down mercilessly and ruin our shoes through and through . We will grumble and mutter and should we be caught in the midst of dining out in the open , we will run helter skelter and take our plates with us to the nearest sheltered place possible .

Guess the rain came too quick today .

The irony of our flag twisted above the motley of abandoned tables is not lost on me .....

Ampang Yong Taufu in Penang

 Many years ago ( not so good with recalling exact numbers so I'll put it around 10 years ago ) , I found this stall at a foodcourt just behind the Shell station at the Tun Dr Awang roundabout in Bayan Lepas .

Beside them was the Sabah Pan Mee operator which became so successful that today they have taken up an entire shoplot a few doors down from the Kampar fishball outlet near the Queensbay roundabout .

Eyah ....kindly read that again . That is Penang today for you . People come from everywhere and they offer all that familiar hometown comfort foods to outstationers who now call Penang , home .

Nee wayyy , after a long goose chase I have finally , finally , fiiiiinally located them tucked away in Taman Sri Nibong at the second kopitiam just opposite Goh Teo Kee .

In the paper today

With this picture finally out in the newspapers , I hope that the tiny state of Perlis will finally be seen as destination challenge by our local shutterbugs out there .