That’s the best way to describe our meal, to be more specific, meal.

We, Jeannie and I, are at OldTown Kopitiam restaurant at Empire Gallery Shopping Mall, Subang Jaya. We dropped Laura off at the gym and decided to have our dinner here.

Jeannie, working in a food related industry, takes it upon herself to go through the menus of restaurants. I find that menus can get quite complicated. More frustrating is in many restaurants now, they “encourage” you to scan a QR code with your phone, open the menu on your phone and scroll and scroll and scroll. And scroll and scroll through their menu. Wait a minute… Did I order a chicken meal with side orders…was it a set with a drink included?…Scroll up to check it again. Then, continue to scroll down looking at the pictures on the menu, which look so small and you can’t enlarge them to get a better view. Can you imagine if you had 3 people or more ordering together? Frustrating.

What about those large order screens at the fast food joints, where you have to scroll through their pages of menu. Tapping on the sometimes poor responsive screens can be numbing to your fingers. For the fast food and “specials of the day or week”, they don’t show up on the large screens. You have to scroll through the app on your phone to make the right choice. A case in question was the other day at McD’s. Surprisingly, Artificial Intelligence or it’s more famous identity, “A.I.”; has not caught on to this to make decisions for each and every individual. 😏

Fortunately with a great sense of relief; Oldtown still has physical menus that makes it so much easier to make our food orders, confidently.

Jeannie ordered two soft boiled Omega eggs, Kaya butter dark brown bread toast and a soya bean milk (hot) drink. Her soya bean milk looked like it was a two-colored drink: the bottom half of the drink looked dark brown and the top part; white.

I ordered a Meehoon Siam bungkus and a Assamboi Pandan Lime drink. “Bungkus” (1) was just part of the name of the meal, as it did not come “bungkus-ed” (Bahasa Malaysia word with a sprinkling of English in past tense – English-ed by me😉😅).

Though I am not into soft boiled eggs, Jeannie’s meal order looked good. Not heavy for dinner. Top marks for presentation even though this is a simple meal. It certainly makes the meal look appetizing.

Just by looking at the brown bread in the picture, you know it is good and tasty. The usual condiments that would come with the soft boiled (more commonly know here as “half boiled”) eggs is the “kicap” (pronounced as “ki chup”) or soy sauce (in English), and pepper. These items came in little sachets with the meal. Quite unusual.

My “unbungkused” Meehoon Siam bungkus look very appertizing when it came. Nice presentation. It came with two large slices of cucumber, strips of fried egg, some green vegetable (more commonly referred to as “vege” in Malaysia), a slice of lime, and what looked dangerous yet delicious – sambal with lots of onions in it.

My meal did not disappoint. I was perspiring 😅 from eating the very spicy sambal though the restaurant was air-conditioned. In fact, the sambal created tears of joy. 😂 Squeezing the lime juice on it gave it a slightly tangy taste. The “Meehoon Siam Bungkus” is worth the try.

The Assamboi Pandan Lime drink is worth a mention, too. I talked a little about it in my previous article: http://leatherpotato.com/2023/07/14/at-oldtown/
It comes with an assamboi (1 seed), a slice of lime and sweet pandan syrup. The drink was not too sweet this time round. Nice drink.

Oldtown is worth the place to come and dine at. Meals are reasonbly priced. Nice ambience – Fairly typical nyonya (baba?) setting.

Jeannie and I had a good evening here.

NOTE :
1. Bungkus is the Malay or Bahasa Malaysia word for “packed”.
2. Oldtown Kopitiam restaurant at Empire Gallery Shopping Mall, Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.