...another bread story...

There is another famous toast bread shop in down town. Well, it is not exactly a shop, but a make shift kinda stall in a very small back lane between Campbell Street and Kampung Melabar. From Penang Road, as you turn in to Campbell Street through the arch, you will see the back lane directly behind the arch. There is where Toh Soon Cafe is.

With only about fifteen tables all crammed into the narrow lane, the place is usually very packed in the mornings with patrons of all ages. I have heard of the place, passed by the place, but did not eat there before until that weekend. True to it's legend, it was still jam-packed when we reached there at 9.30am. Hardly a table in sight, but we were lucky, someone vacated one right infront of us.

We waited more than fifteen minutes to get our orders taken. I was about to give up, but for the sake of taking pictures and writing this blog, decided to stay on. Along came this tiny Indonesian lady and took our orders. Either she was overworked that morning or she has hearing problem (or maybe memory problem), she kept asking and repeating our orders for three times.

First, she brought our drinks. I had my usual Kopi Peng Kaw (Thick Coffee Milk in ice). It looked interesting with the milk on top of the coffee. Then came the peanut butter toast. Unlike the "roti bakar" up in Sungai Tiram (please refer my earlier posting), the slices of bread comes in strips. The peanut butter toast is quite nice, as the bread is sliced to the right size and the peanut butter, although not spread evenly, was just nice...not chunky but fine peanut butter and not too sweet.

Next was the butter toast. Same...sliced, toasted and cut into strips. It is then spread with butter and sprinkled with sugar. This, I very much prefered the toast served in Sungai Tiram. Besides, over in Sungai Tiram, they give you the liberty to sprinkle just as much or as less sugar as you want.

By the time we finished the butter toast, we waited for our eggs. Either the chiken were on strike, or the cockerel sodomized another male!!! Our eggs never showed up. So we decided to remind the impatient Indonesian again and wanted to try the Nestum toast.

I was looking forward to Nestum toast, imagine toast in butter and sprinkled with the cereal. Something very unsual. Lookign forward with anticipation...but that was brought down, when she came with a plate of plain looking butter toast. It is just any plain butter toast except the bread they used was Nestum bread. Huh...so much of Nestum toast!!!

Again, this is any place with mystery...nothing special but packed. Could it be Feng Shui??? Could it just be luck???

Out of all that, one sight that caught me, an Indian guy came up with a basket of those big curry puffs that we used to by when were in school or during sports day in the Penang Stadium. It was sold in bicycle carring a huge rattan basket, with the Indian man going, "Pup Pup Pup.....Currrrrry Pup". The curry puffs is actually a half empty shell, with little chuncks of potatoes and usually, he gave a generous amount of pickled onions. This Indian man I met at Toh Soon, was on his feet, going from table to table. Sorry, but by then I was to full to try one. Maybe next time, somewhere else....but not in Toh Soon.

Ratings : 5/10