Having "Me" Time

Happy Weekend!  It's been one week since I went to KL, gosh time goes fly by fast.   If you are in KL, a fun street to go walk around is "Jalan Petaling."  It's the main walking street in KL's Chinatown.  It reminds me somewhat of Khaosan road with all the roadside stalls selling everything you could possible want from brand name bags to sunglasses.  It's a fun walk. Just outside the entrance to Jalan Petaling though is a local "Beef noodle" soup pllace called "Shin kee."  Housed in a pale yellow shop house it's a tiny space crammed with chairs and tables and you have to move for others to get out, but the food is worth it.  As in Thai noodle shops, you have a choice of having the noodle with soup, or without, with just beef balls or with also sliced beef. At first I had the noodles with soup and it was just aromatic and delicious.  The egg noodles are slightly fatter and have a different texture to that...

This noon, while waiting for the Metropolitan Electricity Authority office to open, I decided to go have lunch at my favorite beef noodle shop in town. It's at Sri Yan which is an old market area in the 'old' part of bangkok between Samsen road and Nakorn Ratchasima road and just a few minutes walk away. An old sign hangs above the entrance saying it has the approved mark of "Shell Shuan Shim" which is Thailand's equivalent to the world renown "Michelin Guide." The sign is a testament to the shop's age. It has the original logo before Shell decided to change it 28 years ago. The beef noodle restaurant must therefore have been around at least 30 years, yet it still brims with customers every lunch time. Seats are filled quickly, and so are the orders. They are so successful, they have two cooking areas and the shop extends to the back making it equivalent to two restaurants. Waitresses run back and forth, extremely efficient in their ...