Da Niu's Favourite Home Town Delicacies

It has been a while since i last updated by blog. I have been back in Sibu during the new year eve. Have not gone back to Sibu for more than a year. Many things have changed and i was having a hard time trying to recognise the roads and places.

Bustling Sibu airport with students embarking flights to West Malaysia (National Service).

Generally, roads are still bad with holes and bumps and we were having huge fun on our way back from the airport, imagining us riding a bull in the countryside at the speed of 80km/hr for full 30 minutes. Geesss...what a ride. Sibu municipal council must have done quite a bit to turn boring roads into such a fun-filled playgrounds.

Da Niu riding his big bull to town.

We went straight to the Sibu town right after we touched down. Heading no where else but the town centre in searching for my favorite ‘Ding Bien Hu’. Actually it’s just hard boiled soup cooked with rice starsh. But what the difference is most of the ingredients and material are home made which includes the rice starch and the fish balls.

Little rice mill grinding rice into starch....

The boss adding rice to the grinding mill....

Cooking my all time favourite.


Cooked 'Dian Bian Ngu' is placed inside this basin and later on distributed to bowls. Thought Chinese uses that during wedding ceremony...Geess....

Rice are ground in a small milling machine to produce starch which was later used to cook 'Dian Bian Ngu' (Foochow) / 'Ding Bien Hu (Mandarin). Rice starch is poured to the side of the wok which is already filled with soup to form thin layers and later added on with fish balls, cuttlefish, black fungus, dried lily flowers and a sprinkle of oil fried and green onions before serving to the saliva drooling customers.

A bowl of heavenly 'Dian Bian Ngu'.

'Dian Bian Ngu' with all the goodies!

This shop is already in existence even when my mom was a kid. According to her, a bowl of ‘Dian Bian Ngu’ would only costed her RM0.20 back then. Well, many people have seen how it’s done, and open shops and claimed that they are having the original recipe. Saw the same thing in Astro in China. But this shop has been around for so many freaking years. I remembered it costs me around RM0.80 per bowl when i was still studying in the nearby primary school.

This shop has been in existence for more than 30 freaking years!!

My dear dear and I ate a bowl each. Tapao another rm5 back home and finished all at home again as well. that’s what I normally recommend to my friends especially those coming from abroad. Kompia, kampua mee, stired fried noddle (chao zhu mian) and 'Dian Bian Ngu'.

Trying to find myself some nice kampua mee seller here in Sibu but have tried two stores and they all ain’t worth my effort to blog them. perhaps i will do more once i found a good one later.

We went to the pasar malam that night as well, in search of my favourite meat 'pao' and we found a store selling 'You Chan Kueh' (Kueh with fried onions) with mixture of diluted sweet soy sauce and onions which makes it sweet, heavenly flavoured and a perfect match for the 'kueh'. This is my old time favourite.

This whole bowl of 'You Chan Kueh' only costed me RM1 nia.

Trust me! it tastes a lot yummier than its look.

Da Niu having a hard time deciding which one to bite first. Pao or 'You Chan Kueh'?

Da Niu decided to do both at the same time.

The kueh (obviously made from rice starch as well) are formed in small plates and sold at RM0.50 per plate. The sauce mixture comes free with a generous amount. You may even have enough left over for the your facial treatment according to some secret Chinese herbs recipe. Perhaps!

Da Niu Found New Usage of Coke

Browsed through some websites over the last few days and found this. I was astonished at the ignorance of the local sex workers over self protection. Can't blame it on them can we?
hmmm....bath in coke would be cool!!

Remembered when i was back in Form 2 and Form 4 when my science / biology teachers would do whatever they could, to deliberately skip lecturing the chapter on human reproductive system as they would be too shy to discuss such issues openly. Speaking of 'SEX' would be considered as a Bizare thing back in a small town like Sibu. Nope! Not even for educational purposes. We used to do self 'studies' to 'sexplore' the taboo of sex. Of coz, some may 'sexplored' too much with disastrous sexperiments which ended up in pregnancy. Not to mentioned endless hours of frustrations trying to memorize the terms in Malay, processes and fucntions of male and female genital structures. Kinda boring if you may ask! And mind you, Pervert!! We don't have internet back then and thus, we may not be as creative as in searching for 'Karma Sutra' as what kids would do nowadays. Hopefully, such situations have changed where with more open minded (daring) teachers, teaching such topics properly with youngsters benefited from such lessons. Perhaps the Malaysian Health and Education Ministries should conduct surprise visits when teachers are delivering lectures on ahem! ahem!

Officers from Education Department spot-checking on teachers delivering proper lectures on Sex!!

Can't help but to end this entry with a joke.

Ah Beng, who has never been taught on 'human reproductive ssytem' is about to get married on the following day. He nervously approached his mother to consult her on the process. Being too shy to tell it to her own son, her mother said "Aiyaa!! Simple nia lah! Just use your hardest part of your body to knock hard on the part where she wee-wee (urinates)"

Ah Beng happily getting married with Ah Lian and anxiously waited for their first night. Finally on that special night, Ah Beng's mother getting worried and decided to eavesdrop on them.

Curious in-laws

Suddenly, Ah Beng yelled after a lot of bangings.

Ah Beng: Mom! that hurts!!

Ah Beng's mom: Son! that's right! Keep going!!

After a while with more bangings, Ah Beng yelled again.

Ah Beng: Mom!! It's bleeding!!

Ah Beng's mom: Right on! Son! Push harder!!

After a while, with a loud yell, "AAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHH", the room fell into complete silence.

Ah Beng's mom getting worried, rushed into the room and only to find his son fainted in a pool of blood with deep cuts in his head. Furiously she asked Ah Lian what she has done with Ah Beng. And this is what Ah Lian said.

"I don noe leh! He came into the room, turned off the lite, and start knocking his head (the hardest part of his body) against the toilet bowl (the place where girls wee-wee)."

Stop having 'Sex' in the toilet!!