Marketplace

Marketplace

We went to the Sunshine Marketplace for breakfast this morning. This is Monday July 8 in Malaysia. It is a Heritage Day holiday, so my sister-in-law Ann is free today, no need to go into the office.

Sunshine Marketplace is in the Bayan Baru town area. The food court is large, and has 60 - 70 food stalls.  There are many tables, square ones and round ones.

Since it is very hot inside, everyone look for a table under a ceiling fan. We found one under a fan and felt the relief in the breeze blowing on us.  Ann and I each had a bowl of curry noodles, or curry mee.  We also ordered a bowl of fried flat noodles to share.  Curry mee is my favorite food of all. I like it so much, I use it as my username in Facebook.

This is another view of the food court. There are many more food stalls behind me, and beside me, selling all kinds of food you can imaginable. I sometimes get the oyster omelette, sometimes I get Char Kueh Teow (a kind of fried flat rice noodles).  The food here is very cheap, by our standard. A bowl of curry mee is 5 Ringgits, about U.S. $1.25.  A cup of coffee with milk is around 1.40 Ringgit, or 45 cents in US currency.  The way you get food is, you walk over to the stall and tell the worker or owner what you want and where you are sitting.  He will prepare the food, and bring it to you, and tell you how much it costs.  You pay him then and there, and the transaction is complete.  You eat, leave, and the owner will come back and clean up after you. 

After breakfast, we walked around the market area. We bought some biscuits for my mother. I also bought some shrimp chips, potato chips. We walked across the street and drank some Chinese medicinal tea. The same tea place also has a bakery. The worker here is making Chinese custard pies.  This is Grandma's (Paula) favorite Chinese pastry. The worker worked on the dough cups by making dough, folding, and refolding the dough before forming the cup, so that the dough is many layered. He then makes the custard by beating eggs, sugar and milk together with vanilla extract and probably some nutmeg. Then he pours the custard into the dough cups and baked them until done.    

In the baking oven, there are already many baked buns. Everything smelled so good, so I bought a dozen buns and ten almond cookies for my mother. She will enjoy these buns. We went home laden with bags of baked goodies and chips and noodles. And we were full.