Lubok Bir
When the insitution of beers at Ruai was told to vacate its premise in Greenhill, the management quickly opened up a waterhole not far away its original place. The current patrons are more or less the same regulars that planted their ass in Ruai. Last night was my third time drinking at that new place.
It’s now called Old Kuching Town kopitiam and I was kindly told by the management that this kopitiam is “just temporary”. The management is now renting another shoplot next to the Old Kuching Town kopitiam and will revive the new Ruai, which will be the ‘real bar’.
Despite being a kopitiam, the beer prices aren’t really kopitiam prices. Yes, it’s cheaper than Ruai but understandably so because Ruai was a bar. The Old Kuching Town kopitiam trade their Tiger beers with your cash for RM18 per jug. In normal kopitiams, Tiger beers would cost RM11-RM13 for a jug of Tiger. At Ah Liong kopitiam, for instance, three Stella stubbies would cost RM10! So, don’t be fooled by the name Old Kuching Town kopitiam because it ain’t that cheap as expected of a kopitiam.
Oh, there’s also the Kuching Prison right across the Old Kuching Town kopitiam. My demented kanid and I are suggesting to the management that they should work out with the prison officials to see if it’s okay for the OKT kopitiam customers to have a mini tour of the prison ground during one of the drinking sessions.
It’d be a good tourist attraction…
