Our holiday to Kota Kinabalu took us to the many local eating shops, to sample the astounding variety of seafood from the South China Sea. The most famous of which was a famous fish ball noodle soup which had queue lines all the way to the pavement. Fortunately, my friend was a local and he had pre-booked a large table for the eight of us. T he fish balls there were so springy that you could bounce one off the floor, two feet in the air! Just kidding. Charles, my Aussie friend once asked quietly, “Err, fish where got balls?” when we took him to eat Yong Tau Foo. But that’s a story for another day. Although the shop was crowded, we were served quickly with large bowls of delicious noodles with the famous fish balls. There was a choice of yellow noodles, flat noodles and vermicelli but all of us had ordered the soft, palatable flat noodles, koay teow. T he broth was flavourful, sweet and the fish balls had a nice bite to them. They were obviously home and handmad...