Di mana dia Laksa Johor saya?

I wanted very much to go to Dewan Perdana Buka Puasa buffet. It's the only place that I recalled, served a mean Laksa Johor. Cukup sifat and rempahnya. Unfortunately, in 2009 it was fully booked. Fully booked nak duduk makan kat parking lot pun dah penuh.

So last year we went to Concorde Inn KLIA, all the way in Sepang. Not a bad spread at all. Not bad sebab ada goreng pisang cecah dgn sambal kicap to save the day. Ooh.. pastu dia ada serve grilled Venison. Hebat!

This year I vow that I must have the laksa johor at Dewan Felda. Dengan darjah kepoyoan yang tinggi, it was 5 days before puasa... I made the booking. At first tak jumpa pulak no phone Dewan Felda ni. The number that I have seems no longer valid. Surfing the net, high and low... I finally found it. Yippee.. So I call them up, tanya ni Dewan Felda eh.. Orang tu kata ye. So I made the reservation. Bangga gila uols. Bangga sebab konon macam pandai la buat booking awal-awal.

Tibalah hari-hari yang dinanti-nantikan. Pagi tu, ada orang call nak confirmkan petang ni datang. Mesti la datang dik ooi! Pukul 6 petang, semua orang dah keluar rumah sebab takut jam. Punyalah la kiasu, akak siap guna SMART Tunnel tu walaupun tak jam sangat. Sepantas kilat dah sampai. Lagi poyo, parking kat basement Dewan Felda pulak. Konon takut hujan. Naik lift dari basement, nak pergi ke ballroom. Bila pintu bukak... Haikkk... apasal semua orang berbaju kurung, bersampin songket tenunan melayu bagai ni. Lantak korang la.. akak datang nak makan je. Takde masa nak iron baju kurung. Sambil orang yang dressed up to the nine to ignore kitaorg, kitaorg pun jalan la masuk dewan tu. Haiiik kali kedua. Mana pulak orang reception ni. Meja kitaorang no berapa ni. Eh.. ni macam lain macam je. Macam private function je malam ni. Kitaorg pun keluar balik. Tengok kat board tu.. memang ada private function. Haik haik haik haik.

Nasib kitaorang sampai awal. Sempat la stop semua orang dari masuk hall tu and jadi sama malu dengan kitaorg. Call balik number yang call pagi tadi. Dik.. yang akak book ni, kat mana ni dik. Oh.. ni kat Anjung Felda. Ha? Anjung felda? (Where the *bleeep* *bleeep* freaking *blleeeeeep* is that? APAKEJADKEJADHAR is anjung? Aku nak pergi dewan. Tak nak duduk kat anjung-anjung rumah orang ni.) Ha, dekat dengan entrance nak masuk Dewan Felda ni kak.

WHHOOTTT? Kakak aku pun start la membebel as usual. So semua orang pun start looking around, mana pulak Anjung ni? Pusing-pusing parking lot tu.. takde la jauh pun. Akhirnya jumpa la Anjung. It's like a small house tucked away in between Dewan Perdana and Dewan Merak Kayangan. Loorrrr. Mana pulak pintu masuk ni. Rupanya kitaorang masuk dari belakang. Finally, we found the reception and got our table no. No 44. Ya salam... but it turns out to be a great spot. It's inside, far away from other people and near to the surau ladies. Food was not bad either. I went ga ga over the Mandy Rice and ayam rempah. They also had pulut durian and tempe.

And at first glance, ingat ada Laksa Johor.. but turns out to be Mee Kari. Oh no! Tak merasa lagi Laksa Johor nampaknya. Damn it. So near yet so far :( Ni la yang dinamakan takde rezeki.

Fuhhh.. tapi, lepas melantak... all the poyo and blame game had melt away. Sorry lah ye seluruh kaum keluarga. Kesilapan teknikal telah berlaku. Tipah tertipu! Turns out Dewan Perdana had a different number. And is slightly cheaper than this place.

This year our buka puasa get together coincide with Hanani's 15th birthday.
Happy Birthday, kakak!



Laksa Johorku, sesunguhnya tiada jodoh jugak tahun ni.Next year perhaps? Semoga dizinkan Allah hendaknya. Aminnn.