They made obscene amounts of money during their heydays and cleverly invested them in various properties.
If you are trying out Ah Leng CKT (no,I am not recommending Ah Leng, as he is inconsistent and the end product comes out half cooked or misssing an ingredient) ,do keep a look out for an office building between the Esso,Perodua showroom and that corner lot coffeeshop.
That's one of the buildings in town,these sisters own.I don't know if the hair salon is still operating on the ground floor, but it also sports their namesake.
When it comes to their CKT,it used to be good many,many moons ago when Penangites fell in love with the fact that they added a dash of snow white crab meat on top.
The crab was what made them fab.
We couldn't get enough of it.Didn't mind paying at that time.
Plus they also used self produced peanut oil which made the dish highly aromatic.
Fast forward,this place is a sad shadow of its prime.
No more as good.
Any Penangite who points you in this direction, probably is so homesick,it's hard not to blame them for being caught up in reliving the nostalgia of the days of old.
The inside is extremely dark,humid and dingy.Very hard to see. They don't even bother to upkeep the place. Just looks so greasy and dirty.
Today,the verdict ranges from "Hype" to "waste of time" to "ordinary" to "bad service"
What caused the exodus of customers ?
If you are trying out Ah Leng CKT (no,I am not recommending Ah Leng, as he is inconsistent and the end product comes out half cooked or misssing an ingredient) ,do keep a look out for an office building between the Esso,Perodua showroom and that corner lot coffeeshop.
That's one of the buildings in town,these sisters own.I don't know if the hair salon is still operating on the ground floor, but it also sports their namesake.
When it comes to their CKT,it used to be good many,many moons ago when Penangites fell in love with the fact that they added a dash of snow white crab meat on top.
The crab was what made them fab.
We couldn't get enough of it.Didn't mind paying at that time.
Plus they also used self produced peanut oil which made the dish highly aromatic.
Fast forward,this place is a sad shadow of its prime.
No more as good.
Any Penangite who points you in this direction, probably is so homesick,it's hard not to blame them for being caught up in reliving the nostalgia of the days of old.
The inside is extremely dark,humid and dingy.Very hard to see. They don't even bother to upkeep the place. Just looks so greasy and dirty.
Today,the verdict ranges from "Hype" to "waste of time" to "ordinary" to "bad service"
What caused the exodus of customers ?
- The fact that they were the most expensive and dared overcharge just because they used crab meat.
- The dish simply did not taste good anymore,lost its sparkle,as if it were fried with a grudge
- The stuck up,avoid eye contact,fed up of customer interaction,attitude of the friers whose ice queen presence greeted everyone who walked into the shop
- Chaotic,long waiting time,forcing one to order other foods before your CKT finally made its appearance.
- Everyone could see that the sisters frankly lost their care and passion.They were just frying for the sake of capital M only.Quality control went out the window in their frenzy to earn more.
- As if that were not bad enough,the coffeeshop owner charged irrationally sky high prices that angered many and that frankly like what happened in Swatow Lane,it really was the price of accompanying drinks fixed by an insatiable greed for more profit on the part of the kopitiam owner, that eventually sealed the final nail in the coffin for this sibling enterprise
