#subangjaya

Thursday

A morning after the half way mark of the week. I offered to take Jeannie, my wife, the Batik Influencer; to Taipan for her dental appointment.

We decided that we would have breakfast at one of the coffee shops in Taipan, the one that we patronize most often: New Nanking. There are quite a few coffee shops in Taipan, but New Nanking is the most convenient for us, somehow. “Restoran” (Malay for “restaurant”) New Nanking – “stylo milo, (1) dun play play (2)” name is fancy. New Nanking is called a restaurant or kopitiam (3) these days. It would have been referred to as a “coffee shop” as in the old days, before the turn of the century.

We look for convenience, comfort – it has to be comfortable enough for us to have our meal relatively decently, clean, bright, with easy parking (though this is not the case most times, especially during peak hour times. However, we can live with it…at times), and there has to be a good variety and selection of food. I am as some say… quite fussy with my food. However, I tend to look at it as I am quite careful with what I eat.😀

*At a typical Chinese coffee shop.* *“Restoran” New Nanking.*

*Our breakfast is ordered. Now, Jeannie and I wait.*

One of the main reasons that drew us to the New Nanking was to have Tai Poh mee for breakfast. This is amongst the best breakfast choices in Subang Jaya.

🎼🎵*Why are waiting? Why are we waiting?*♪♪🎶🎶😅😁*Just kidding.*

Tai Poh mee is a very popular meal at New Nanking, so much so that it is usually sold out during lunch. It is delicious. With the noodles comes minced pork, a few slices of char siew, (5) some vegetables, a small bowl of soup, and a little container of their version of chili sambal. Each item in the meal complements the others.

The meal comes in a generous size / portion. What we like about it most is that it does not make you feel bloated after finishing it.

*An outdoor view of part of Taipan in the morning.*

*Tai Poh mee with its condiments.* *Yummy!*

*The soup with a couple of pieces of bean curd that came as a set with the noodles.*

The people who run this Tai Poh mee stall are the Cheang brothers. They have had this business for several years. They take pride in the meals they prepare and serve customers. Their food has been consistently good all the time. When you are next in Taipan USJ Subang Jaya, drop by and visit the Cheang brothers’ Tai Poh meal.

*A genuine authentic porcelain Chinese tea / coffee cup & saucer set.*

Jeannie ordered a hot tea. It was served in one of those traditional Chinese tea / cup & saucers sets. I ordered a ….oh, this is a toughie, an kopi peng kaw. (4) We were done with breakfast within an hour and headed on to the next item of our planned day.

*My breakfast almost finished before I remembered to do the Asian thing: take pictures of our meals.*

Everywhere must take picture. *In the old part of Subang Jaya…*

*A view from one side of New Nanking. The Waitress with red lipstick. She will look much prettier than she is now if she smiles more often.*😀

*Some of the food stalls in New Nanking.*

*More food stalls at the restaurant. Some stalls only open in the evening to c ater for the dinner and supper crowd.*

*The Cheang brothers, having a short break from the daily, usual early morning breakfast crowds.*

*The famous and popular Cheang brothers Tai Poh Mee.*

*The Cheang Brothers – both chefs in their own rights; at work, cooking up a storm.*

*Ever ready to have their picture taken.*

*A couple of the most important ingredients, if not **the** most important ingredients, is smile and friendliness.*

NOTES:
1. “stylo milo” is a local Malaysian slang for Stylish; fashionable.
2. “dun play play” means seriously; not joking; really.
3. The word “Kopitiam” – kopi means coffee in Malay, and tiam is the Hokkien word for shop. Hence, Kopitiam translates literally to “coffee shop”.
4. Kopi Peng Kaw is iced coffee with condensed milk, strong. This means more coffee is added to make the drink stronger, less sweet.
“Kopi” is coffee in Bahasa Malaysia.
“Peng” is iced
“Kaw” or gau means thick or strong.
5. Char siu originally comes from Cantonese cuisine, and the word chā sīu 叉烧 literally means “pork roasted,” which is a nod to the traditional cooking method of skewering seasoned pork with long forks, and placing them in an oven or over a fire. madewithlau

It’s the evening after the storm. Or is to be referred to as the night . The time is 8.43pm. Home alone. Laura’s out with her work colleagues. Jeannie’s out with her work colleagues. I am with my work colleague – the computer. Otherwise, how is this essay forming? No A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) or ChatBGT or is it ChatCTB. Evident that this article is forming manually as we go along.

I don’t really get this A.I. thing. Are we putting all that we’ve got into A.I. because we have an overflow of Actual or Real Intelligence? I mean, think of it, the buzz word (phrase?) is “A.I.” Or is that we can’t get Actual Intelligence up to specs that we have to rely on going “artificial”? Don’t you think that if we can’t get Actual Intelligence up to specs, we should do something about bolstering it, learning to be more cleverer?

I have tried using A.I. (here I am talking about the Artificial “one”), on certain topics and the results were at best, weak. I tried out several times to see how intelligent its artificiallness of its intelligence would come out. First of all, most of the time its results hardly made any sense. Then, its English and grammar is scaringly horrific! I had to go through its results over and over again, trying to make head or tail what it was trying to say.

Maybe, my intelligence was so low, that I couldn’t really make out its results. Or, I am using a low grade Artificial Intelligence app; so this was the best it could offer. Artificial Intelligence software got grade meh? (Mind my Actual Intelligence English😉).

So, Subang Jaya (1) witnessed another thunderous, lightningness heavy rain storm in the afternoon. I was not really affected by it, as I was sitting with my cousin, Chris; our friend Jino, and his son-in-law, Martijn; from Sweden, at Jing’s Specialty Coffee, having coffee.

I ordered their waffle with Pistachio ice-cream, too. It was waa-a-a-a-yyy over-the-top too sweet for me. I don’t think I have eaten anything so sweet before. However, I have been working on reducing my sugar intake for quite a while now, so this waffle is way past my sweetner scale. I don’t have any health issues with sugar. It’s just that I want to consciously keep my sugar level at a good level, health wise.

I hear the waffles here at Jings, are quite a hit with customers. So, there are people with sweet-tooth aplenty.

When I got home, I received this picture on Facebook, which I thought quite cute. Here I am working towards reducing my sugar intake, but I had a McFlurry from the Scottish restaurant yesterday. And today, the very sweet waffle with Pistachio ice-cream. Now, this picture says Milkyway is good ice-cream. No more ice-cream for me for a long time to come. I’m good.

Milkyway claims that having good ice-cream is importanter that education. The brain freeze that you may get from time to time when eating ice-cream helps a person become gooder. However, by any yardstick of measurement, education is the importantest of them all. We continue to learn almost every moment of our lives. We need to be educateding ourselves continuously to keep abreast of the very fast ever-changing world.

We should never stop educating ourselves no matter how much importanter Milkyway says that good ice-cream is over education.

Maybe, just maybe; eating good ice-cream and education are equally importanter.

NOTES:
If good ice-cream was really importanter than education; then, brain freezes may become the norm and we may all be wearing heated hats.
I thought Milkyway is a chocolate brand.
1. Subang Jaya is a bustling city in the southern central state of Selangor, Malaysia.

Having fun with the English language. Must be the brain freeze😉😁😅😂

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The future is now. Live it!

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YES, GOOD ICE-CREAM IS IMPORTTANTER