I need to qualify firstly that the reason I am posting this is because I was rather annoyed with the old lady who took orders at the cash till of this eatery below. Now, this is a popular joint, one which my Australian cousins frequented when they were down, but on that very day when I crawled there with 2 kids alone,I certainly didn’t share the sentiments of my fellow Ozzy relatives.

I needed to eat badly because I was starving and eyed the chee cheong fun label on the menu. And since it was on the way to where we were heading……ladidadida.

I asked the woman (who has never smiled all of 5 times I have come face to face with her) if her chee cheong fun had chillies because I couldn’t eat anything without chillies. She nodded her head of gray hair without a single expression on her face. Is it so hard to smile? OK, so I made the first move, smiled and asked if it was the chee cheong fun chilli, she nodded again and said sambal chilli. I vaguely remembered that this stall did not serve proper chee cheong fun chilli but hoped that enough demand had warranted them to start serving the usual chee cheong fun chilli, you know…..the paste? Just to be doubly sure, I asked skinny gray statue head again if they had lat chiu cheong (the usual chee cheong fun chilli) for the chee cheong fun and again, she nodded. I told her I didn’t want sambal. She still nodded. Enough confirmation there. Doubly checked and verified. So I made my order.

You don’t have to be a genius to know what turned up next.

Freaking chee cheong fun with SAMBAL!!! And worse, the chee cheong fun was DROWNED in salty black sauce!!! It was like eating the solidified Pacific Ocean!!! I was so, so, so, so, so, soooooooooooooo pissed. But did I get up and go kick up a fuss with the gray nodding statue? No, I did not. I usually would but I had 2 kids to myself, alone, didn’t want to risk my eyes off them for a millisecond.

See? Even T2 was protesting!! “My Mama asked for chee cheong fun chilli!!! I’m a baby!! I don’t eat sambal with chee cheong fun, you dumb dimwit!! And what’s with the swimming in salt sauce? You’re ruining my baby digestive system, ladeeee!!! Actually, ARE you a lady? I’m not so sure. I should give you a knock and see because you really remind me of one of those gold cats that wave their arms up and down that I see all the time at restaurant counters!”

I bitched about it to T1 and the girl, bless her heart, suggested I order something else. But we didn’t have time, not even time to make a scene, because I sure as hell wanted to strip down to my panties, climb onto the table, start jumping and shouting GRAY HEAD TRIED TO KILL ME!!! Pointing to her all the time, of course. Instead, I just told myself never to go there again. At least never to eat chee cheong fun there. And oh, by the way, they owe me some money because that CCF was really pesticide for slugs.

But you know what I really liked about that place? Well, not just that place because many places have them too; but I just LOVE these little antique cups. You know, there are real ones and there are fake ones. How do you tell? Ahhhh……

My MIL has taught me because she has the real antique ones which I hope she will pass down to me one day. It is for me to reminisce my childhood sipping hot thick sweet milo from the saucer, or dipping roti Hailam into black sweet kopi O, or feeding myself milo with a teaspoon. Yes, these little cups and saucers have a special place somewhere in my heart (if you dig far enough).

So for that, gray head nodding statue is forgiven.

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