We started our day with a quick visit to a warehouse-like supermart which was once owned by one of my cousins. As it started raining after a while, we quickly returned to our cars and drove to a popular local eatery (爱梅姐 - Ai Mei Jie) at Chop Tin Kim Leng Kopitiam at Kemaman for breakfast.
This little eatery in Kemaman is famous for its fish soup noodles (甘马挽鱼面).
In addition to the above soup noodles, it is highly recommended to eat it with the famous “Boiled Kampung Fish” (Ikan Kampung). Local daily fresh Kampung Fish, boil-cooked for hours, was served with homemade sambal paste and some chopped red chilli and lime (limau kasturi) to bring out the wonderful fish’s freshness. Ai Mei Jie Fish Noodle was also served with pieces of locally made fish crackers (or locally known as Keropok Ikan) which was a perfect matching.
After breakfast, we visited our uncle's house and had a game of Congkak, a traditional Southeast Asian mancala-style board game, popular in Malaysia, where players strategically move seeds or shells between small pits on a carved wooden board to collect the most in their large storehouse, focusing on mental calculation and foresight. It's a game of logic and strategy, often using 14/16 small holes and 2 larger 'home' pits, played by distributing seeds to capture opponent's pieces or earn extra turns. We had seen such wooden board game many times in the past but never know how it works until now.
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