My Soi Chek

My Soi Chek (literally youngest father's brother) was back from Melbourne for a visit last month. We spent 5 days with him in KL before returning to Penang for the rest of his 18 day trip here. It was a lot of shopping and eating for us in KL. Soi Chek was missing his hawker food since he was last back in Penang in 1998. So we had to make do with PJ SS2's Curry Mee & Hokkien Mee and Desa Sri Hartamas's Penang Village's Char Koay Teow before we came back for the real thing in Penang where he feasted on Jawa Mee, Lam Mee, Laksa, Fried Oysters, Assam Prawn, Steam Pompret (Teow Chew style) amongst other things....


Dad and his brother, our Soi Chek

We also threw a buffet dinner for him at home where we invited all our relatives to welcome him home. He was greeted by many new faces as many of his nieces and nephews had since his last visit kept themselves busy pro-creating....



It took Zerlynde approximately 10 days to warm up to his "Su Kong". Toward the end of the trip, she had warmly accepted him as one of her family members and had obliged him with the occasional kisses and hugs. And for many days after he'd left, when asked about the whereabouts of "Su Kong", she twisted her wrists and said "Su Kong bye bye, no more"....