Joo Leong Cafe,Seafood Noodles & Porridge @ Sungai Tiram,Bayan Lepas(Night)

Flip flopping through various blog reviews,there are varying opinions as to what makes this place tick.
As well as vastly deferring preferences regarding what dishes are perceived as hype.
Most find the price a bitch.
Sadly all end up agreeing that the stock is super yummy delectably mmm mmm rich,flavourful and good.

Here's my take on this place.

The good :

1. Service is Quick Draw Mc graw-Faster Than Fast Food.You won't get the chance to warm your seat before your order makes its F1 entrance.
2. Cleanliness level is awesomely spotless,super duper clean ! Remarkable considering the high traffic,endless stream of customers.
3. The stalls in front are thank goodness just for added variety.Not for you to waste time and fill your tummy as you wait for your order.
4. Drinks arrive at the speed of light.Are aromatic,rich,nicely sweet,refreshing and good.
5. They are skilled at cooking fresh seafoods.Crabmeat will just fall off beautifully without getting stuck onto the shell.Prawns are sweet and succulent.Fried fishmeat (take note that this is fried till dry,Not juicy)is flavourful to the skin,gets more delicious in the simple stock.
6. While,I agree it is not cheap to dine here,one bowl costs an average of $12 upwards,Where else is one gonna get seafood this fresh?

The bad :

1. For the uninitiated,you are expected to figure out that you have to make your way to the back and place your order.The old man cum order taker, likes to give you that "when are you gonna make your move and come here you idiot" exasperated look with newbies.The rest of the family are just to 'polite' to help you out cos frankly they're too busy attending to their stations.
2. The much touted soup is extremely ordinary,rather oily on the top and spoilt by the unnnecessary addition of tiny stalks of chinese celery.You see,when the star ingredients come at the "just-cooked" stage,it will definitely have a "locked-in-taste".Thus the flavours,whatever people say,simply won't spill out to enrich the stock. What you get is a noodle soup and broth stock that is still in its infancy.
3. There are too little vegies perhaps due to the fact that the extremely high heat left them shrivelled,destroyed and useless.
4. The broth while nice and fluffy,has way too much preserved veg,that is more suitable for a peasant/labourers version of pork broth rather than seafood porridge.No amount of pepper and chilli padi could help save this dish for me.A bad choice of mine,which I eventually abandoned after eating just one quarter of it before tucking wholeheartedly into my crab.
5. The police like to open samans here.They always pass by here,since they like to hangout at a tomyam stall down the road.I don't blame them.The presence of this stall next to this busy road leading to the airport,poses a serious a traffic obstruction that endangers roadusers.Selfish customers desperate for a parking space love to double park,thus forcing speeding vehicles like buses and lorries to a sudden stop or to swerve onto the path of others in the next lane,that might in turn create ultimate mangle and mayhem.
6. The stalls have more flavourful foods than them.Thus our order of "steamroller went over it" flattened chicken satay,(never mind that it was way too sweet for our own good and the peanuts sauce looked more like blended peanut rojak sauce),was snapped up greedily and quickly by us,since we were all still hungry cause frankly the soup,stock,noodles and broth sucked.
7. The shopowner and breadstall lady have been infected with the Canneversmile disease
8. If I ever return,I will probably order their seafood soup minus noodles,minus broth.Just pure boiled seafood.That's what the big fuss about this place is.Plain and simple boiled seafood soup for me please.Leave out the vegies too.I beg you.Then maybe I would fully appreciate my meal .