Accompanying Mom and Dad to Chai Leng Park Wet Market

The alley leading to the Chai Leng Park wet market

I would bring my kids back to my home town in Butterworth whenever I could, so that my mom and dad who are in their eighties would get to see their grandchildren. They are too old to travel to KL and they miss my kids very much especially my little toddler. I was back in Butterworth during the recent long weekend due to the Merdeka holidays. My little toddler, who is now 21 months old, kept grandpa and grandma amused with his cheeky antics. Mom still insists of doing her own marketing so my wife and I took her to the wet market in Chai Leng Park on the Sunday morning. In fact I would always accompany my mom to the market whenever I am back in Butterworth. We arrived at the around 7.30 am and the car park around the market was already almost filled up with cars! Seeing my old and frail parents walking slowly to the market makes me think of how times really fly by so fast all these years. I actually felt quite sad. Well, I was quickly jolted back to my normal frequency when we reached the entrance to the wet market. Mom had already taken her breakfast so she asked me to bring dad to eat his favourite Char Kueh Teow at my friend, Mr Eng’s stall in Kim Sun Restaurant. We ordered two plates of Char Kueh Teow and also black coffee to wash it down. Boy, I really missed a good char kueh teow and also Butterworth black coffee. We ate quickly and went back to the market to help my mom and wife carry the stuff they bought. I stopped by my favourite roast pork stall and purchased 2 packets of roast pork. One for mom and one I put in the freezer to bring back to KL. Then I tar pau (take away) some fried bihun (rice vermicelli) for mom, wantan mee (RM2.40) for my eldest son, nyonya huat kuih, and Indian apam (RM1.20 for 2 pcs). My mom and grandma used to make trays of Nyonya huat kuih using tuak (fermented coconut palm liqueur) during Chinese festivals, like on the ninth day of Chinese New Year, when the Hokkiens offer prayers to the Jade Emperor God (Thnee Kong) My daughter got quite interested in Nyonya stuffs after watching The Little Nyonya in Astro and when I told her that she is a fifth generation Nyonya descendent. Later that night I bought her some Nyonya rice kuih bengka and rempah udang. Now, she is bugging my sister to sew for her a Nyonya Kebaya and beaded shoe.

Kim Sun Restaurant is still empty because it was still early. My nice plate of Char Kueh Teow Nyonya huat kuih................................................... and Indian Apam

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