1.
“Queue up and you’ll get your food faster,” the lady at the stall said in a low voice. “If you order and go back to your place, you’ll have to wait longer for your food.” In Malay, our language of communication – “Awak tunggu sini order ar, awak dapat cipat-cipat lor. Awak duduk ar, nanti tunggu lama oh…”
I merely nodded, a noob at this ordering game. Suddenly, the fellas who initially looked like they were surrounding the curry wantan noodles stall fell into line. Or perhaps it is all about perception and realisation; once I knew about the queue, I saw the queue. I know, deep stuff.
I turned around and gave a penetrating stare at Bald Eagle who was sitting contentedly at the other end of the kopitiam, studying the sunday newspapers. The look was, of course, my secret communication tool with my husband after having been together for more than 10 years because hey, married people can communicate by telepathy, okay. (But sometimes, it isn’t good when you’re trying to lie to him about how much you paid for your Loewe handbag.) My message sent via our private frequency channel was: “I’ll be back at the table with two bowls of piping hot curry wantan noodles, with bloody cockles, in less than 5 minutes, sweetie! Love you love you love you!”
So I waited.
And waited.
And waited.
Twenty minutes later, after clearing all of 4 customers in front of me, it was finally my turn. Without hesitation (because I had been rehearsing my order for the past 20 minutes for lack of anything better to do – had I known better, I’d have brought along a Flavours magazine or something like that to keep me occupied because the gentleman in front of me was definitely not in a chatty mood despite my frequent smiles at him hmmphh), I blurted out my order. “Duakariwantanmeemauseehumdengancharsiuarrrrr!”
Going back to our table, Bald Eagle looked at me. “I thought you had been abducted.”
So much for telepathy.
2.
The noodles are egg wantan noodles, stored in dehydrated form and softened when it is ready to be consumed. At first glance, I wonder if the curry is too diluted due to its thinness, but upon drinking it, I realise that the curry is full of flavour and is perfect; any thicker and it would be too cloying. I don’t get the feeling that I’m drinking santan (coconut milk) as the ratio between curry and santan is just nice. The ingredients are generous – lots of cockles, taufu-pok, long beans and char siew. The char siew is lean, though, as in my haste to give my order, I forget to add the usual “char siew more fat arrrr“. I don’t like lean char siew.
Also available at the same stall is char siew wantan noodles. The noodles are soft, but not as springy as I’d like it to be. The char siew is tender and delicious.
If you’re not ready to wait for the wantan noodles, try the char koay teow at another stall. It is fried well and has a good amount of cockles and prawns but doesn’t have any lup cheong (chinese sausages).
Also check out Cumi&Ciki (in the days when Cumi used to blog hehe) for their take on the curry wantan noodles.
I must thank my Weekend B^*ch © for introducing this place to me. I was recovering from the flu, and this was, in his opinion, the perfect remedy. I concur.
747 Kopitiam (SFS Kopitiam)
Jalan PJU 1/3C,
Sunway Mas Commercial Centre.
All of the above except the cup of kopi, is my favourite.
I see lots of cockles too…
Talk about Suntan, this article at this website is a good read. LOL…
I choose to believe it’s true. :-p
Hee! Looks like you had a great meal. I actually prefer char siu lean– I don’t like biting into gelatinous bits of fat. I want them to be melted and permeating the entire dish as a liquid 😉
Wow I’ve never seen char siew in curry before, but it looks delicious. The wantan noodles and CKT look yummy too!
Oh, so this place quite good ha. Jackson and I accidentally almost went there when we were looking for FSF….and being quite dyslexic, i thought that was it, until i was piecing the acronym of famous seremban food…. seremban famous something? ah, so confusing…but at least i know where it is now!
awww.. looking at your char kway teow makes me soo envious. I can’t seem to find good ones in Sydney, they tend to be too soggy, not enough heat source
yupe, the char kway teow will make a very good starter should one has to wait for the wantan mee. in fact, it’ll make a very good main as well!
i heard the kopitiam sells some kuihs as well. must go try already! 😀
Tantalizing stuff. Falling in line, self-service?
ha … stand there and carry self one ah?
like Lorong Selamat CKT … that one over-rated though.
SFS, FSF all within same area. hmmm …
Keropokman: You don’t like kopi? Whyyyy? Btw, read the article. I like the bit about weight loss. 😉
Manggy: There are a few places here where the lean char siew literally melts in the mouth too. Those, I don’t mind. 😉 Other than that, gimme the fat, baby.
Camemberu: Yeah, it’s an interesting combination, but one that works. The other options are very good too!
Fatboybakes: Yeah, what’s with SFS and FSF and both at the same area somemore. Oh, how come you never call me ar?
Linda: I guess they don’t have the proper wok and a big enough fire. I’ll be going to Sydney soon and will be checking your blog for food ideas!
HairyBerry: I didn’t see the kuih stall. Maybe it’s in the afternoons only, eh? Yeah, the CKT is a good starter to fill the stomach first.
Chin: Not self service, just being efficient. If you order and go back to your place, chances are, they forget your order and you’ll be waiting for 45 mins wondering why you haven’t received your food yet!
J2Kfm: Stand there and when it’s your turn, give your order. After that, go back to your place and sit down. They’ll send the stuff to you. 🙂 Of course, you can choose to carry your own food if you’re really hungry, lor. 😀
I must have caught your flu,
cause I sneezing like mad in the loo,
not to mention a competition tomorrow too,
I need to get well quick in a boo.
ok… so this is 747
hope i can find them this weekend!! the curry noodle looks good ^_^
u can always give me the lean char siew dahling 😉 but u can have all the seehum u wan thankuverymuch.
I know that the persons behind the counters are usually busy especially in a crowed place right but I always find it so unfriendly when I’m there, like you, smiling a lot with them and they look at you like: what do you want? (lol)
Henry: That’s funny. Get well soon.
ling239: Not that easy to find since one basically drives in circles around Sunway Mas Commercial Centre!
Jun: Oooooh my perfect makan mate!! Come makan with me!
Cynthia: Hahaha. You’re right, it is annoying, but in a lot of cases, I think I tolerate it, but don’t frequent the place so often.
So much for telepathy indeed. I get the same from the Devil Wears Prada. Kesian-nye you and me. 🙁
Love your telepathic exchanges with BE. 😀
One of these days, must get BE to talk about your ‘looks’, eh? Esp THE look when he’s in trouble..
Look at those bloody seehum!! And
bloodytaupoks! I miss them.Here I am looking out at the balcony where big snowflakes are falling higgledy-piggledy from onlyGawdknowswhere. And you must torture with pictures of char kway teow, my favourite food in the whole world, and curry laksa.
Want to make curry laksa but haven’t bought dried prawns yet that don’t look so mortified.
(Very funnylah your BE — “… thought you’d been abducted.”
Thanks for another great entry! I’m going back to KL soon and am busy noting down all the new (to me) places to eat at!
LFB: Hehe….have to practice harder, methinks. Or just give up. 😀
GFAD: Hahhaha….he knows when the look is ready to come and does something really sweet to circumvent it. 😛 AD no see hum? Or are they all frozen by the time they reach your shores?
Argus Big Snowflaked: Snowflakes are soooo nice!!! I love them! Wanna change places? 😀 (only for 2 weeks…after that, I want my sun and see hum again, thank you!) Sorry about the torture…I’ll try to play it down for you the next time. hehehe. Hope you’ll get to make some curry laksa soon. Prawns that don’t look so mortified? Maybe show them some pretty snowflakes?
petrina: Oh, I’m sure you’re gonna overdose when you get back to KL. In the meantime, remember to diet in preparation for your overindulgence in KL!
harlo! we noticed that this place use to be consistently good about a year ago. now, it depends on your timing and the portion of charsiew you get. we agree with you, sometimes it is hard, sometimes too soft.. and sometimes.. just perfect! (fat and lean)! oh well, such is life 🙂
oh good.. its the crazy flu attack eh?? i think im still getting the sniffles (maybe in my case its a case of sinus attack)..
so i think the curry noodles did you good eh?..
for a split second, i thought u had memorise the order in mandarin or some other dialect that i had problem dissecting..haha
blame it on the meds.
yum! The wan tan mee looks pretty good…
Curry wantan mee with char siew! I wannnnt!
*jotting down the address frantically*
Hope you got all better, dear!
this place is near famous seremban favourites is it not? i’m staying so near and i’m not aware of this curry wantan thingy. looks yummy! i like lean char siew with curry wantan though, soaks up the curry sauce better 🙂
wooo curry wantan mee *slurps* aiks…the curry wantan mee i had in penang is so different :S taste ok despite the noodles are 10X darker than ur wantan mee LOL
hahaha…. i just went there this morning for breakie :d
nice place also yaaa…
good stuff! I always appreciate a quirky write up. AnD the noodles too!
Feel comforting to see those food ;p
Nope, not gonna give up. But may help The Devil Wears Prada out with giant placards — no one’s ever accused me of being subtle what?
I tell you arrr… I just love your photos. When I grow up I wanna be just like you. Oops, too late, already grown up..!!
eh, thamby, i’m tired of staring at that gorgeous coffee cup for a week la, everytime i open you blog. NEXT POST pronto.
mmmm…so cold here, wld like some curry noodles aargh. I laughed and laughed at your looks to BE…would he like me to tell him about that cute Loewe bag, eh?
LOL Msiagirl….don’t you dare! 😛
aiyo…. so hang fok lo.. can give signal some more….
if i did it to my wife.. she would probably ask.. what happen to your eye… 🙁
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