It’s was about 3 weeks ago when myself, Asha and Neesa went to green road for char kuey tiaw. (photo above)
This particular fried kuey tiaw is the one operated by an old Chinese couple utilizing a tricycle which transformed into a “stall” and located just in front of a shell station. While waiting for mine to be ready, suddenly my mind drifted and begins to remember the good all days, to the year 1981 when I was then still in primary school.(s.r.k green road).
In those years, every Wednesday, at about 6.15 p.m, my grandfather (the late John Eward Adam) and I used to walk from our sky garden house towards the end of emerald road just to buy a packet of this char kuey tiaw. Those days, a packet of the fried kuey tiaw only cost us about 80 cents, not forgetting the fried kuey tiaw was wrapped with banana leaf and secured with an old newspapers cutting.
I remembered in those days, the seller is always in jovial mood, entertaining his customers while sweating it out frying his char kuey tiaw. The kuey tiaw seller was then at the age of late 30’s. He was an energetic person, a man with a vision and his perseverance is second to none.
Correct me if I’m wrong, sometimes I even saw non chinese would stop by at the road side, walked towards the stall, and returned with ‘tapau’ or take away. The seller’s aura is just amazing, and always makes me wonder what is the great thing about his char kuey tiaw to the extend that people from different walks of life, white collared to blue collared employees at any time willing to queue even when it was drizzling.
Well, cut short, in the year of the Ox ( 2009 ), I and other fellow kuey tiaw lovers, still and will make sure that we get one packet while it still around.
