Lunch

Normally I do not like to go out for lunch on working days especially when the weather is hot during lunchtime. I want to avoid having migraine while at work. Since the weather has been kinda cool for the past week, for these two days I had been going out for lunch.

Yesterday I went with my colleague Nanie Enggam to a shop nearby our office called Fook Heng. Previously it was called Cheery but the person who operated this coffee shop had gone on to greener pasture. I heard he is now a chef working in a foreign country. If I remember correctly he is now in Russia.

The first time I had something from Fook Heng was the day before Chinese New Year. I took away my breakfast to have in the office on that day. I reckoned the food was ok. So I suggested to my colleague to go that shop and she willingly obliged.

We arrived slightly after noon but half of the tables in the shop had already been filled up. There were quite a lot of varieties of dishes to choose from, more than ten. I chose to have chicken, four season rolls and cabbage. Soup is FOC and the meal costed RM3.50.

Today before lunchtime I asked Nanie where she wanted to go for lunch. She told me to decide and I decided to go to Fook Heng again since it is nearer to our office than Giant Kolombong Foodcourt and the food is quite good.

So we were back to the same shop as the one yesterday. This time there were less people but by the time we left before 12.30pm, the shop was filled with people.

Today I chose ‘yok choi’ (herbal) chicken, deep fried pork slices with a slight dash of mayonnaise and Japanese tofu.

While I was enjoying my food, I told Nanie that the food tasted like the shop I tried a few years back with an ex colleague Francis Wong. But at that time the shop is located at the same row as the shop Zai Zai, the row of shops behind where Kwong Tung Chai Roast Shop and 66 Bakery & Café are located in Kolombong.

Nanie then told me in fact it is the same shop. They had moved from that place to nearby our office. This place is cleaner and more conducive to eat in. I was so surprised with myself and that my tastebud is not bad at all. I can differentiate or distinguish people’s cooking even if I have not tried the food for a few years.