Pearl Cafe
This is the cafe that I like to go buy my lunch, back when I do eat lunch, that is. I still go there occassionally when I feel like having something for dinner other than leftovers.
It’s the cafe in Island Glades behind Delima Mas. It has the usual fare that we find in cafes everywhere but their char hor fun sure is heavenly with the most sensational smokey flavor.
There is also a stall in front of the cafe that sells stuff like bread, kuih, curry puffs, back chang and other stuff suitable for breakfast. Sometimes if I’m lucky, the stall selling chicken porridge will be open, but that seems to be a rare occassion.
It’s too bad that since the opening of another cafe nearby, business has been slow there. Even the seafood porridge/bee hoon stall has cut down on its varieties of ingredients.
The new cafe is more spacious and offers more varieties of foods. It also has better ventilation than Pearl.
Still, where quality of food is concerned, I find it sorely lacking. Their food prices are also much more expensive compared to Pearl.
I sure hope this is a temporary thing and once people get tired of the new "toilet", they will go back to where there is really good food to eat. Otherwise, I don’t know how long the hawkers in Pearl will be able to survive.
Sure enough, with the price hike in everything, they will have to make twice as much, if not more sales to breakeven.
Let’s just say that I’m not too keen to go hunt elsewhere for good char hor fun.
