Prawn & Ikan Asin

Those two are not directly related. I mean they are not swimming together in my lunch. No. Although they are found in the same location. Same market place, different stall. What am I mumbling about? Let's stop this.

OK. I picked prawn mee for lunch after circling around Pek Kio market food court. So many stalls offering good food. It took quite a while to decide. At the end I landed on this prawn mee stall, which looked quite famous. Numbers of peeps were having prawn mee from this particular stall. Plus there is a newspaper clip featuring the stall with picture of the aunty-owner smiling. Didn't know what it said (it was in Chinese!), but definitely talking about how delicious aunty's prawn noodle (otherwise they won't put it there, right?). So I gave a shot. And it turned out great. The prawns were fresh and sweet, the soup was a bit spicy. But the service was not top class. In the picture the aunty was smiling, but yesterday she didn't. She was a bit impatience knowing I didn't understand Chinese, plus struggled to understand what she said... I think she prefered the chitty-chatty uncle behind me, who ordered 3 bowls of aunty's noodle.

Now the ikan asin. On the way back (to catch a taxi), we passed one dried goods stall. And we saw 2 salted fish hanged in front of the stall. Honestly I've never seen any salted fish this big. See it yerself! Compare that with the uncle standing next to it... See what I mean? Imagine how many bowls of rice to finish one bloody ikan asin?