There has been a new congee stall at Pisa Corner. I'm never too interested in congee, but one day, while waiting for my satay, I was just looking around and had time to read the signboard of the stall. They had several types of congee, amongst which were salmon congee at RM10 (that's the expensive one), a trio-egg (salted egg, century egg, egg cracked over the congee with a whole egg yolk) with chicken, and double egg (salted egg and century egg) with roast pork at RM6. (I can't remember the price of the trio-egg, not sure whether it's the same as this last one that I bought)
So today I went to buy a pack. There were three youngsters running the stall. They are probably trying their hand at selling food for the first time...they were pretty slow in preparing the food. Maybe because they wanted to arrange everything nicely too. I was surprised to see that they put it in a take-away bowl instead of just in a plastic bag. I guess it is to keep the presentation. (At least they didn't charge for the bowl unlike Lao Mu Zi curry mee which charged me 20 sen for a takeaway box, in which they put the noodles, and then still used a plastic bag for the soup. -_- )
The presentation was not bad... but that is probably the best part. The taste is quite good, although not exceptional. The portion was rather small (I get at least one and a half of this at the chicken porridge stall in Relau for less than RM4), and there was so little salted egg and century egg. I couldn't find the century egg at first, then I realized that the greenish bits beside the salted egg is actually century egg, mashed up or something. Not sure whether they mixed it with something else, but I couldn't taste much century egg. (back to the aforementioned stall in Relau, the uncle gives half a salted egg or half a century egg, whichever I choose to add on to my chicken porridge. He chops it up quickly into pretty huge chunks.)
The congee here actually reminds me of the cheap lunch that was previously sold at the food court beside Pisa Corner, where they charge only RM2 for century egg porridge. They put less egg there too, minced up to be mixed more evenly with the porridge. But that is understandable because they only charge RM2.
So in the end, even though the taste is good, it's bad value for money, and I won't buy from Master Congee (that's their stall's name; they even have a Facebook page) again, unless if I see them put more egg in it at least!
So today I went to buy a pack. There were three youngsters running the stall. They are probably trying their hand at selling food for the first time...they were pretty slow in preparing the food. Maybe because they wanted to arrange everything nicely too. I was surprised to see that they put it in a take-away bowl instead of just in a plastic bag. I guess it is to keep the presentation. (At least they didn't charge for the bowl unlike Lao Mu Zi curry mee which charged me 20 sen for a takeaway box, in which they put the noodles, and then still used a plastic bag for the soup. -_- )
The presentation was not bad... but that is probably the best part. The taste is quite good, although not exceptional. The portion was rather small (I get at least one and a half of this at the chicken porridge stall in Relau for less than RM4), and there was so little salted egg and century egg. I couldn't find the century egg at first, then I realized that the greenish bits beside the salted egg is actually century egg, mashed up or something. Not sure whether they mixed it with something else, but I couldn't taste much century egg. (back to the aforementioned stall in Relau, the uncle gives half a salted egg or half a century egg, whichever I choose to add on to my chicken porridge. He chops it up quickly into pretty huge chunks.)
The congee here actually reminds me of the cheap lunch that was previously sold at the food court beside Pisa Corner, where they charge only RM2 for century egg porridge. They put less egg there too, minced up to be mixed more evenly with the porridge. But that is understandable because they only charge RM2.
So in the end, even though the taste is good, it's bad value for money, and I won't buy from Master Congee (that's their stall's name; they even have a Facebook page) again, unless if I see them put more egg in it at least!
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