Pt 1 - Kuching Trip - Food Food Everywhere ...

With recent flood crisis in Bangkok, I decided to change my holiday plan to other destination. Luckily the airline agreed to rebate the payment in the form of credit voucher, but I no longer enjoy low fair rate via internet booking, I have no choice but to pay for higher fair through counter booking. The value of my flight ticket to Bangkok was "depreciated" in value (and unfairly "cheated" by Mas Airline), I only allowed to exchange to a domestic flight to Kuching, it was really frustrated. Some more I have to top up a bit to cover the extra charge.

Nevertheless, let forget all these unhappiness and enjoy the family trip of 7day 6night stay at Kuching.

First thing I google about Kuching is their Food. Without long, I listed top five foods to eat in Kuching, they are famous Kolo Mee, Tomato Fried Mee, Sarawak Laksa, Seasfood and local vegetable called Midin (or we called Paku in KL). Thanks to FB friends from Kuching, thru their recommendations, I know how to cari makan in Kuching. Looking forward a  Food Discovery Trip ... Wakakakaka!!

A Kuching friend told me where to find the best Kolo Mee ... this is the famous Kolo Mee shop that visited by most locals ... the Sin Lian Shin.

The shop closed after lunch, I was lucky, they started cleaning up after we ordered our food.

My favorite Kolo Mee, best Kolo Mee I had in Kuching. Nice!!

Soup Kolo Mee is very tasty too

The Kolo Mee here is delicious, if you wish to try at Sin Lian Shin, you can google the location - 182 Jalan Green 93150 Kuching.

Personally, I preferred tomato mee and can easily find good tasty tomato mee in Kuching. They used big prawn, the prawns are generally bigger than KL standard and generously giving a lot more. Maybe the price of prawn is cheaper than KL.

My love .... tomato mee :)

Many people said Sarawak Laksa is good but I have tried one in the famous food court located at Carpenter Street ... it didn't impress me. I preferred  Penang Laksa.

When come to dinner, the best choice is to have a Seafood Dinner.

Top Spot Cafe located at Kuching Waterfront and is my choice for seafood. On roof top, you find few seafood stores and they are competing for business. They placed raw seafood right in front of their store for customer selection, you select your choices and get them to cook for you. Many people claimed that this place is pricey as a tourist spot, nevertheless, it is a good place for fresh seafood dinner with your friends and family.

Look at the display of seafood ... it is simply awesome!!

Food at Top Spot were delicious. The black pepper crab and belacan fried midin are yummy.

Dishes ordered in Top Spot Cafe

Beside Top Spot Cafe, I tried another seafood restaurant - See Good Food Centre (located near Persiaran Ban Hock), the food was delicious too. Especially I like the Garlic Bake Crab and Midin fried with Red Wine, not forget to mention their sweet and sour sakap fish fillet  ... Yummy.

The Shop was crowded with many locals, I guess it won't goes wrong.

We have another two nights at the northern part of Kuching, the Damai Beach. Thank to a friend's recommendation, I found a famous seafood restaurant called Bayridge Fine Seafood located at Damai Sentral. It is a fine dinning restaurant that facing the seas. The food price is slightly higher but quality is assured.

Belacan Midin

Wow, this is steam sing-pan (not cheap hor)

Salted Prawn

Beside enjoying quality food in Bayridge, the waiters served us very well and good hospitality, we ended up going back for lunch the next day ....

Kam Heung Crab

Wow ... I think I had enough of food !! ..... So so full now!! I hope you are enjoying seeing those food photos, quick!! let plan a trip and bring your loved ones to Kuching. I bet you will appreciate my recommendation ... ha ha ha !!!

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Let Go Wallop

Yes, sorry to my Malay friends, this page is not halal, excuse me!!

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Wallop, I think the word means I hit you .... right ?

If someone had irritated me, so I shouted " Hey, You!! Say some more, I Wallop you then you know....."

Ha ha ha ha ha!! Soli soli for my broken England!    (Ops, sorry for my broken English)

In Dictionary.com, Wallop means to beat soundly, to strike with vigorous or defeat thoroughly ..

But now, Wallop means PORK BURGER Lah ....

 How can just German, we Chinese also very smart, right? because we also eat a lot of Pork .. LOLs

Just one of the normal day evening, a few of our Pen Lover buddies went to SS2 for dinner, as the time was still early, four of us who came early, decided to drop by a fast food outlet (Restoran Wallop Pock Burger) for some drinks while waiting for the rest. The big blackboard in the shop immediately catch my attention ....and also some cuttie pigs that decorated the place.

Wowwwww ... money pig :)

We meet a nice lady, the shop owner May, she is very nice and friendly, she see that we only ordered drinks and four big guys were sharing one small burger ... she is kind enough to give us another one as complimentary (partly also due to my friend Yeow giving her the impression that we are "professional photographer" and so on so on ... my face also blushing liao)

She is a smart lady, she knew how to grab opportunity to chat with her customers, she told us that she just open up the shop not long ago and the burger patties are her secret recipes ...

I would said, the pork burger tastes good, it is delicious. It is healthier as compare to others as quoted by May, she told us that she used very little of oil. For me. the only limitation is the burger a bit small, I need to take at least two to fill my big stomach.

Okay ... since May is so kind to all of us, so I help her by blogging about her shop, hope that more people would patronage this new eatery. If you are happen to be around at SS2 Petaling Jaya, give it a try, you can find it easily. It is located near the famous Chow Yang restaurant.

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A Day Trip to Kuala Selangor

For me, if I think of Bah Ku Teh, I think of Klang.

If I think of Seafood, Kuala Selangor is one of my favorite choice. Especially the Butter Sauce Crab, it is very delicious and the sauce is creamy and tasty. I always craving for it. So I decided to bring my family to go for a day trip at Kuala Selangor (on 7 Nov 2011). After all, my secret agenda is to have Shutter De-stress Therapy. I have not taking photo for many weeks, now itchy hand .... 

There are a few seafood restaurants at Kuala Selangor, which is located at the river bank. Many years ago, it is just a fishing village, majority fisherman built their houses along the river bank ... slowly, it turned in to a small town. Some business minder person started to open restaurants, they built a wooden platform from the river bank extend out to the river. Thus, it is quite unique for having meals on top of the river. We can have our food while over seeing the beautiful scenery of the river and seeing fishing boats traveling pass the restaurant.

View from the Restaurant

Able to view a few more restaurants from far.

 
We have ordered a few dishes but I never forget to order my favorite butter sauce crab, if it eat together with the fry bread, is truly Yummy !!

Beside the crab dish, we off course won't miss the fish, prawn ....etc.

 It was a satisfied lunch for my family :) ... The only problem is weather too hot >

After lunch, the best place to visit is the market place, many stores are opened nearby the restaurant. It is so convenient and just walking distance. One of my family favorite is their homemade Kelopoh, crispy and tastey ...

The market is my favorite place, while my family was busily buying stuffs ... I took a quick walks around to capture some street photo ... off course the storekeepers are my "target" .. Wakakaka..

This little girl is so cute but she already started helping her family doing business at a young age. Now she is the Si Tao Mui (It means little boss)

This is another young helper, her smile is fastastic

I notice some of the store owners are getting younger, I guess aunty and uncle need some rest :) This girl is very pretty and capable ... business women, no joke!!

Beside eat, eat, eat .... what can you do in Kuala Selangor? I guess you can visit the Bukit Melawati. There is a train ride at the foot hill, they only charge RM3.00 per  person to bring you up ... At the top of the hill, you can visit the historical museum of Kuala Selangor, a lighthouse, cultural village. However, I found not much to see up there. Therefore, we up and down in a short while ... Some blogers highlighted there are many Silverleaf Monkey, maybe I went up too early, those monkeys are still sleeping ... ho ho ho!!

By the way, I so proud of myself ... Wakakakaka, if you get what I mean :)

The train service also brought us to a nearby river water aquarium, not so attractive, but I manage to capture some nice fish shots ...

Overall, the trip is tired, the places of attraction in Kuala Selangor are not interesting but the seafood there is great. For my next trip, I should just go for a seafood dinner, but will go slightly earlier to take the opportunity to capture the sunset ... hopefully ...

Maybe next time - lah .....

The End.