Lutong Cafe

I've long heard that Lutong Cafe serves the best porridge in Miri and people travel all the way here just to have the porridge. Well actually this coffeeshop (just across from Kelab Rekreasi Petroliam) is just 10 minutes drive from home! But they finish fast and we were never up early for it. So I've only tried their fried rice and fried noodles for lunch. But last Friday we woke up early to go Brunei so we decided to have breakfast at Lutong Cafe. Augustine ordered kolo mee (possibly the cheapest place to eat kolo mee for RM2!).

I ordered one bowl of porridge to share with Augustine's mom. Long after finishing our drinks also the porridge hasn't arrived. I think we waited more than half an hour! Sigh, the reason is coz the porridge is not cooked using normal gas stove but using charcoal fire. Using charcoal they can't control the fire and heat I guess. Everyone else who ordered this porridge was waiting very patiently as well. The porridge costs RM3 and u can choose to add an egg, like how u add an egg to your claypot yee mee when it's ready! Yummy! Using charcoal fire really makes a difference to the taste! We're not sure what type of rice they use to cook the porridge though. A lot of people told us about the "highland rice" here which makes very good porridge, we plan to buy some soon ;-)

Below is a picture I took of the porridge ;-)

Carmen