Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Don't See, Just Eat

My favourite 'chee cheong fun' fella has disappeared for more than a month already, I was kind of missing him, especially on Sundays cos I used to hang out there with my best buddy during breakfast time. Where had he gone to, I wondered, perhaps he has retired for good....

To me, he makes the best chee cheong fun but he is the most bad tempered seller I have ever seen. Last time he used to have his 2 handsome teenage sons to help him and he used to shout and reprimand them in front of us customers... Really pity his 2 sons then but they always keep quiet nevertheless, furthermore, they were so courteous to us customers...

Then last week, while I was driving past the stall, I just gave a glance, ho and behold, he was there!!! Wah, I was so happy leh... Quickly I parked the car and went up to him, he was sitting there, smoking away. I asked him "yau moe (got anymore)?" He said "yau....(got)"...

Before I could say anything else, he was up and preparing the chee cheong fun for me... and if most of you are wondering what happened to the cigarette he was holding.... Well, he just left it at the side of his table edge, didnt even wash or wipe his hands, he began cutting up the chee cheong fun with his bare hands, putting the onions with his bare hands, so on and so forth...... I prefer not to look, I began looking somewhere.... (I guess it is better not to look than to look and not eat... Thank God, no stomach ache....)

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Raynebow said...

I luv cheecheongfun - never miss having it whenever i'm back in ipoh! ipoh has the best ccf in the whole wide world! have u tried the one in pasir pinji, in a house and u hv to take a queue number - alwayz long q there! Where is this ccf staff u blogging about?

reanaclaire said...

yes, i know of the pasir pinji one but its been decades i since went there, cos it is very out of the way and furthermore, as u said, hv to take number and it is so extremely hot over that area..haha.. one cant help being impatient.. the one i blogged about is in canning garden.. go try it while he is still in progress of cutting...when he is sitting down and puffing away, then think twice..haha

ChArL3n3 said...

O_O Now you see, >_< Now you don't! HAhahaha...

Never mind, as long as there's a lot of ppl went there and the food is good, i think it's fine :D ahaha..

chrisau said...

I miss that Waller Court/Ipoh town chee cheong fun again.... :(
I grow up wioth this ccf...almost eating everyday since i was a kid.

reanaclaire said...

yeah..we always used to eat hor? last time behind our town house back lane..how come that time we not geli one? with all the garbage dump there, not forgetting the shit pots.. haha... yucks..no wonder u love the taste so much..

eunice said...

this is my favourite Ipoh Chee Cheong Fun! S'pore no sell this type :( miss it!!

Meia said...

hmm, that looked yummy, i wonder what it tastes like. I really like your food pics. Godbless.

mirage2g said...

I am curious about that food =) Hope I'd get to taste it too somehow...;-)

joshuaongys said...

got so nice mou.. lolx

Thoughts of J4 said...

ei looks very yummy!!!!

Nang Magblog si Winkii said...

woooh. suddenly i became hungry..
it looks yummy!

hiongkongkiok said...

hee hee.. the best food stalls are often the dirtiest!

Raynebow said...

Canning Gdn - which exact spot wor?? Inside a kopitiam or roadside stall by itself? I maybe wanna balik ipoh tis weekend wor...

reanaclaire said...

to HKK, yes, u r right, tastier cos of the 'indirect' spices added.

to raynebow... its opposite the canning gdn market, in a corner coffeeshop, u can easily find him, there r only 2 stalls there, one selling wanton mee and he is selling the ccf just outside the shop. sure smoking one..

Raynebow said...

Eh...wat time yr ccf bf sells his ccf la? Morning??

hiongkongkiok said...

wuiyoh.. claire got ccf bf... kakkakakakkaka. Free ccf wor. And can go happy at hua hin oredi.. Damn gaya.. got ciggy and make CCF. Claire sure got taste! :P

U ladies make me laff... *muacks*

masenchipz said...

ehm...ehmm....

QuaChee said...

haha. sometimes if we go into the kitchen of big restaurants, the same things happen too lol :) agree, just makan... no need to know what went behind!

*the other day in a restaurant in a rather popular mall in singapore, a customer yelled at the waiter cos there was a cockroach on his table...!

albert said...

Anyone old enough to still remember the old Ipoh market before it was renovated? I used to follow my mother to the market around 2am every morning and there was a ccf just outside the main gate....tunggu chap and curry....well that was about 35 years ago.....hehehehe.
tongts

number99my said...

I forgot to click on Name/URL b4 publish...it became albert's entry? sorry ya....
tongts

reanaclaire said...

tong, i think i know which u were talking about..its for the lorry drivers those days.. they came in the wee hours to hv their breakfast or supper, i suppose.. :)

number99my said...

Yeah, I missed those days when I can wash plates for 3 hrs and have a free plate of ccf...and that means washing about 150 plates and chopsticks.... hahahahaha.
How come I didn't get to meet you that time? or I actually did disturb you and made you mad at me.... hehehe
tongts

Raynebow said...

Thanx for the timing of yr ccf bf, claire! 8-10am hor? 2 hrs nia? OK, wil try to catch him if im back in ipoh!

reanaclaire said...

haha..catch him if u can... sounds like a song... good stuff finishes fast...