Nighttime Hungers

...for supper. During our uni days dad will pick us up on Fridays to spend the weekend back home in Klang then. And Klang's choice of supper around midnight consists of the various mamaks around or Ramlee burgers (this is some 6 years back mind you, we aren't sure if there's more variety now). We don't mind the burgers (daging double/triple special, bawang saja...yum) but we don't fancy eating at the mamak alone. And some nights we had a strong urge for kopitiam food, like your kuey teow theng and char kuey teow or prawn mee or even lobak...and the only place we knew of that served such even after midnight was in SS2.

Nothing as authentic as a Ramlee burger from a store right outside 7-Eleven.

It was a bad, horrible mistake to pick up such a habit before going to UK. There's only so much fish and chips you can take before your arteries go clang at the suggestion of them for supper. Thank goodness ymlau shared our need for supper and experimented at making the perfect Maggi Mee Goreng (in our opinion the best one was when he finally added a bit o' MSG and loads of paprika) for countless nights.

Nowadays however we don't head out for supper that often - indeed we've gotten lazier (even though SS2 is even nearer) but also because our hunger pangs or itchy mouth syndrome (IMS) strikes much, much later - sometimes past 3am. And at such hours we rather just scavenge the house for food.

The kitchen, while not deprived of food, doesn't really have much snacks at the ready. Occasionally there's fruits and/or biscuits (of the Lexus kind or its ilk) but those unfortunately cannot do justice to our hunger. And since it's mum's kitchen we don't normally potter around as we don't look forward to hearing about it if anything goes wrong. Most we'll do if we need to is feed on instant noodles, as it's the most filling. But with IMS instant noodles might be a bit too much - and that's where Tesco's finally good for something.

Really! Tesco Malaysia turned out to be a bit of a disappointment, following the hypermarket concept rather than the minimart/supermarket concept that we were so used to in the UK (well, that concept probably wouldn't have survived here we guess). We don't like browsing the aisles in a hypermarket. Anyways, with Tesco, we've learned our lesson a long time back not to fully trust the home brand stuff (at least, not their peanut butter nor their Earl Grey tea). But their potato chips, now that deserves a thumbs-up.

We're not sure how we even started munching on their potato chips in the first place. Probably because Tesco UK had the range of Tesco Temptations that rivalled Walker's Sensations range (thankiu Jacz for bringing back some last time we met!). But anyways we'd ended up trying the chips that the Tesco here had, and by gods it was good (or rather, tasty)! The only ones we never tried were the green coloured chips, that one scares us. Asides from that, they also costs 95 sen a bag!

We normally pick up 10 bags at a time. This time we've learnt to use the basket, after the last time where our arms were loaded full, and then one toppled off. Thank goodness there was a kind staff member who'd helped pick it up for us. Yeah, we get stares from everyone when we have to walk from the snacks aisle all the way to the other end to the express lane counters, buying nothing but junk.

If we're careful, this will last 10 days.