amoy street food centre is a significant place for us because we ate breakfast there before and after we got married; and before and after we got kids. must be more than a dozen years.....
as i am a creature of habit, i only frequent 2 stalls there in all my years of eating breakfast at amoy; xiang chang coffee shop(#01-51)for my kopi-o kosong and tian tian cooked food(#01-52) for my fried beehoon. i particularly like the entrepreneurial spirit of the fiesty old lady at tian tian. not only does she cooked a mean and delicious plate of fried bee hoon, she has good memories too. i reckon she must be at least 80 or approaching 80. when i met her today, nothing change. she continues to deftly handle the wok like when i first saw her years back; the same vigour and energy. and when she saw me, the first thing she said was, " oh, you have not come to my stall for a long time already". i felt almost embarrass that she (still) remembers me.
of course, i have good reasons of not going there anymore, my workplace is no longer in town and my wife stops working. however today, i can only manage a sheepish smile and acknowledge her good memory.here's the best part. that plate of beehoon with an egg and a piece of tau-kwa (fried beancurd) still costs me s$1.40, the same when i first buy the beehoon years back. only the coffee price went up 10cents to 60 cents.
so, a full breakfast in town that costs s$2.00, but a priceless trip for me.
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