Hungry....

Because I'm so hungry now .. I shall blog about food. Right now I'm so craving for something that I'd already had for lunch. Mee Sua! Hmm ... how should I describe mee sua?



This is what is said about Mee Sua :



Mee Sua
Mee Sua is basically a breakfast dish, much like Mee Kolok. It is a variety of rice noodles served with a chicken drumstick in chicken/mushroom clear soup and usually some Chinese white wine.



This thin, delicate noodle is made from rice flour, and is usually sold dried in boxes. It takes no time to cook, and is generally served in a soup. Representing 'long life', it is customary to serve a person Mee Sua soup on his or her birthday in Nyonya homes.



As a Peranakan Hokkien who married into another Hokkien family, Mrs Yong Eng Swee explained that noodle dishes such as Hokkien mee is a ''must have'' dish for major Chinese festivals like the lunar New Year while mee sua is served to commemorate birthdays and when one needs a change of luck. ''The Hokkiens will always serve mee sua with a pair of hard boiled eggs to denote good things come in pairs. (Oh..oh .. and due to this excerpt, allow me to digress a bit!) I have always thought that Mee Sua is a Foochow dish. Where I come from, it seems t be. Until I found this article here that says its a Hokkien dish!! And here I am, a Hokkien (pure-bred nonetheless) and thinking that the dish I so love is a Foochow dish. But who cares who's dish it it??? Its just yummy!!! To read the article click HERE!



Anyway, ok, the mee sua that I so love to have in Kuching (at the moment) is @ this coffeeshop known as HOW-YOU. I think the owner forgot to insert "are" in between the "how" and the "you". But what do I know right? Back to the story, there's this lady there whom in my opinion makes pretty good mee sua. I have always loved mee sua. But after a certain episode that happened a few days ago has made me wonder if its time for to change stalls. I need to find a new mee sua stall. The lady seems to be getting stingy. I love having strong chinese red wine flavour in my mee sua (most people add chinese red wine and not chinese white wine into their mee sua). Then ah .. this lady, for leaves like this itsy bitsy little few drops of chinese red wine in the bottle that she gives out to customers who ask for extra red wine. I have this thing against stall keepers who are super kiam siap! (super stingy type!) Due to this .. I shall look for new stall liao. :( Sacrifices must be made!!



This is how mee sua looks like before it is cooked.


Sorry, but I took the photo off the Internet.


This is how mee sua looks like after cooked and is served up. Though different people do serve it up differently.


This one also taken from internet. My mee sua looks much much nicer one!


This is how I like my mee sua served! This is from the stall that where I have frequented for my mee sua. The egg is supposed to be boiled one. But then she was out of boiled eggs. So she kinda like cracked open an egg to my soup and boiled my egg in there. Works for me still. Oh..oh .. and then today even worse!! I didnt have any extra red wine to add to my mee sua @ all!!! Grrrr... so disappointing.


I'd already finished all my mee sua. The dish is normally served with chicken

Due to my hunger pangs .. I'm feeding myself Ferrero Roche. I used to love them so much, but somehow, I find them not that nice anymore ler. I need new chocs to satisfy me. :(