Story of chicken rice and burst tyre ^^
April 10, 2011 at 10:22 AM
Warning: super long post ahead!
went to kuala kangsar immediately after work on friday to settle some payment and errands last week.
since we are going to pass by Ipoh anyway, why not make a stopover at the famous Lou Wong ban sprout chicken rice? it's been a while since we went there anyway.
hmm.. did they change their signboard?
friday night crowd is not as as crowded as compared to weekends. but still the crowd i still there. and the crowd is not just chinese.
and the food has arrived! chicken serving for two, a plate of bean sprout, 5 pork balls and two plates of rice. including 2 herbal tea, it cost us less than RM24.00. it's dirt cheap considering it is quite a big portion! the chicken rice stall in KL cost more. and the portion is way smaller. after more than a year since we ate there, has anything changed?
yes. but not in a positive way…
somehow i think they have deteriorate a little. the chicken is not as smooth as what i had previously. lucky the the yummy taste is still there.
but my real disappointment come from the pork balls. to be frank, i've tasted better pork balls. but the soup is beyond terrible. it is sweet. but not due to the natural sweetness from the soup base or meat. instead it is more like due to added sugar. aiks!
i hope that they will not use this same soup base if people ordered 'hor fun' instead of rice. i may be wrong. correct me if i'm wrong. anyway, it depend of people's own preference i guess. if you asked me whether i will got to Lou Wong again, i will say yes! but not for the pork balls. at least until they change the soup base.
anyway, we continued our journey to Kuala Kangsar. little do we know that the worst are yet to come.
as we pass through Menora Tunnel (located between Jelapang and Kuala Kangsar), there will be a series of speed breaker (more like suspension breaker!).
and suddenly BAM!!!!!
the car in front of us hit something. less than 2 seconds later, it is our turn. there's no way we can avoid that due to the speed we are travelling in.
what did we hit? we have no idea till now. all we know that it is yellow in colour, looks like an overturned wok and it is very solid, almost like a rock. must have dropped from a lorry due to the long speed breaker…
not long after, we saw more than 10 cars parking aside the emergency lane checking their cars. we continued our journey but something was amiss when the car was a bit noisy and shaky.
we stopped by the emergency lane not long after. and boy, that was scary as the emergency lane was very narrow. imagine buses and lorries wheezing past you inches away and they too flashing lights and horn at you as they are afraid of hitting us as well.
and we are only 12km from reaching our destination…
with no experience in changing tyres (we are unable to change anyway as the lane is too narrow to change alone), we decided to call the emergency guys from PLUS using the emergency phones located along the highway.
but then again, i never used those phones before. when i pressed the only button on the phone, there's only one sound – static buzzing. oh great, the phone is not working, or so i think?
with the dark forest beside me, it reminds me of horror stories i heard in the internet. my wife is only afraid of getting hit by other vehicles. she got a point though.
anyway, after 30 minutes, we managed to get hold of the PLUS guys through our handphone. apparently they received a lot of calls in that area too.
changing tyres are not an easy feat even to those guys, imagine changing the tyres while facing the traffic. and i even have to direct other vehicles via flashlights to avoid being hit.
the next morning, when we went to the tyre shop to check the damage, there were three noticeable cracks
and the total damage for the tyre? RM140. damn!
and we think that the pork balls are lousy…
at last we are safe though.
