it has been 7-8 years since i last ate here and it is still as delicious. Its a little pricey at RM20, but this is the add oyster version, regular is RM8, Large is RM 16, but is it pricey? i mean my Orh Chien already RM15
my travel buddy concluded that oysters are cheap and good in malaysia, the oyster today was on par with orh chien auntie's oyster standard.
get there before 1300hrs if you really want to eat, today the unforseen early CIQ jam added about 30 minutes of extra queue time and i got there around 1315hrs and i was the 2nd last order of the day
11 nice and juicy oysters, pork liver, kidney and meat both slices and minced. Wait time was about 45minutes from getting there/ordering till food came, that was how long the queue was.
West Malaysia pork has a better IMO porcine flavour, incase you don't know, SG imports pork from East Malaysia Sarawak, Indonesia, Brazil and the Netherlands but no pork from across the causeway due to past disease outbreak/HFM
The soup is definitely the star, and the advantage of getting the last orders is the extra flavor from all the pork parts cooking for each order over the day in the soup. I asked for a soup refill
it was that yummy and when i brought my bowl back to the front, i could see 2 large pork bones still simmering away in the soup as the soup level was getting low.
i was debating to go queue at Hiap Joo while waiting for the noodles, oh and the only reason i got noodles was Kuay Tiao was sold out by the time i got there at 1315hrs, so another reason to arrive early if you want kuay tiao, but my main priority was the soup and meat. so i was ok with any carb.
This was the queue at Hiap Joo when i got there after finishing my noodles, IMO the banana cake is not worth the wait time, i would have grabbed it if the queue was no more that under their awning. There are food that i will definitely queue and wait for, but IMO Hiap Joo is no longer one of those.
I don't think that their banana cake is as good but it's no fault of Hiap Joo but rather the problem with their main ingredient, the bananas, which due to the way they are cultivated for mass consumption. I have bananas for breakfast with oatmeal and peanut butter 3-4 time a week for breakfast and other days i use self frozen bananas to make shakes, and i feel bananas itself is losing its banana taste as compare to last time.
after that was the same itinerary as last week, Sentral to Holiday Plaza for massage, then pasar malam at KSL.
i think i got my travel buddy hooked on massage and the next travel itinerary is for Tuesday for him to compare massage at Plaza Sentosa then follow up with Pasar Malam at Pelangi.
my first encounter with a bugged Manja Link transaction
