In Malay, the word for goodwill is muhibah, the name of the hawker centre located near my house…
It was very popular, always crowded…
…and one would have to park one’s car far away and walk all the way there in an area that was not very well-lit. That was why I was not all that keen on going there despite its close proximity.
The last time I went was in August, 2019 for what I called their Mango No. 5…
…RM10.00 only, so cheap compared to those Korean Bingxu ones.
The authorities decided to demolish the place and rebuild the whole place soon after that and some of the hawkers were relocated temporarily to a small, dark, unpleasant, mosquito-infested place at Sg Antu. Of course, I never went there.
They certainly took their sweet time in getting this place done and finally, the other day, on the 2nd of March, it was open for business. Yes, it is much nicer now, a whole lot bigger and of course, it was extremely crowded on the evening of the first day when I drove past.
I don’t know if the mango stall is still around though because a few days prior to the opening, 8 stalls at the temporary site were razed to the ground…
*Amazing Sarawak photograph on Facebook*
…and I don’t know if the mango stall was one of them.
I did see a lot of people and very long queues in front of the satay stall though I am not sure if that would be the same one…
…that we used to frequent a long long time ago…
…even though they were VERY slow in getting down to business every day.
We used to drop by earlier in the evenings to tapao food home for dinner. It used to be very nice and VERY cheap too! Imagine buying RM5.00 worth only of the very nice Foochow fried mee here and there would be enough for the whole family for dinner. These days, you cannot even get a plate for that kind of money!
This was the sweet & sour pork…
…among the other dishes that I bought from Stall No. 7 there in 2011. It did look pretty good, don’t you think?
I brought my friend, Ivan, there (now flying internationally with Emirates) when he came to town to visit me that year and yes, we were there too with Claire and her family from Ipoh and our West Malaysian blogger friends…
…the following year in 2012 and my girl sure enjoyed the fried stuff…
…from the stalls…
…there. There were a lot of those then and I bet there are a whole lot more now.
I guess we would just have to drop by one of these days to see what they now have in store – perhaps, if we could wait a little bit longer, it would not be so jam-packed.
TAMAN SELERA MUHIBAH Hawker Centre (2.310492, 111.845999) is located at the Delta Commercial Centre, off Jalan Pedada (now Jalan Datuk Dr Wong Soon Kai), right beside the AmBank branch there.
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