PETALING JAYA, May 28 – Here’s a feeling we all know and love.

Rediscovering a lost favourite, whether it’s a song, movie or book that has always been caught at the tip of your tongue, is arguably as close as it gets to falling in love with something new for the first time.

With restaurants and especially hawkers, there are plenty that we lose to time itself, and there are few things in this world that can match the joy of a second chance with the one that got away (yes, I’m still talking about food).

I’m a big fan of chee cheong fun, whether it’s the delicate, ethereally thin and stuffed kind you find at the fanciest of dim sum restaurants or the various regional versions (both Penang and Ipoh styles come to mind) we enjoy here.

But as a child, I craved and adored one above all: curry chee cheong fun.

Some of my earliest memories revolve around gazing longingly over a plate of silky rice noodles swimming in a light, reddish-orange curry, with all kinds of fried yong tau foo stacked to the skies.

It was all prepared and served by Janet, who is just the sweetest, out of a stall in Restoran Golden Kim Wah in Damansara Kim.

Then suddenly one day it was no more.

Years passed, many inferior plates of curry chee cheong fun were had and still, nothing.

Enter Lighthouse Street Food in Damansara Utama.