A Malaysian Breakfast On A Sunday Afternoon

"Kaki Lima" in Malay literally translated into English is "Leg/Foot Five". (Yes, besides English, Mandarin and a few Chinese dialects, I know a smattering of Malay.)

But I don't know if Kaki Lima Cafe serving "Malaysian Old World Breakfast Favorites" all day was named after those old pushcarts that street hawkers from the old days used, with a "fifth leg", a wooden pole extended from the cart for extra support when they stopped to ply their tasty wares. Or after the "five-foot ways", covered pedestrian walkways, from which the hawkers operate before they were driven to extinction by urbanisation in some Asian cities.

While the hawkers usually sold only one type of food from their carts, Kaki Lima Cafe serves a bit of everything, kind of like a giant pushcart. With specials on the different days of the week.

We started with the customary teh tarik while we waited for...

the boyfriend's murtabak...

and my huge bowl of mee siam (I really wanted mee rebus but forgot that they don't serve it on Sundays. Bah!).

Yes, these are what we usually have for breakfast back home in Singapore. They are like the Asian equivalent of a big fry-up at a greasy spoon.

We wanted to take some kueh kueh home but they ran out of my favourite. I guess we really have to be there at breakfast- time the next time.

Kaki Lima Cafe
Shop 3
343 Anzac Parade
Kingsford
Phone: (02) 9662 0588
Opening Hours: Tuesday to Friday 10.00am to 8.00pm
Saturday and Sunday 10.00am to 3.00pm