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Curry Rice

Stewie — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 16:50:19 +0000

Curry Rice, one of the unique food of Kuching. Its different from the usual Curry rice where you will be served with a bowl of Curry Chicken + A plate of rice. For this one, it’s served on a single plate and usually comes with long beans, chicken, egg, pork, rice and flooded with tasty curry sauce. “Flooded” is abit exaggerating, well its enough to soak the whole thing and have the whole thing in curry flavour.

I at this at TJ corner, next to Tabuan Plaza at Tabuan Jaya in Tabuan area by the small river. RM5.00. Recommended. Rather generous portion of ingredient.

Bak Kut Teh at 3 Points

Stewie — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 07:18:31 +0000

Tried this Bak Kut Teh at 3 Point which is located next to the Chung Hua primary school at Padungan. This is the different type of Bak Kut Teh which you would expect to eat in Kuching. The usual one would be filled with herbs aroma and bit of wine taste. Don’t be deceived by the size of the bowl, its actually rather shallow, so you see the bones and meat looked like its a bit overflowed.

Experience wise, it was not a bad dish. Meat portion are generous for RM12.00. Fatty and tender meat are balanced. My only complain is that the soup are not hot enough, just rather warm. Added with the freezing air-conditioned room, the food cools up fast, too fast to enjoy a food that was meant to be hot!

Abell Residence

Stewie — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 02:36:21 +0000

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Abell Residence is located in the heart of the city center. It is only 8 kilometers or 16 minutes from Kuching International Airport. It is in close proximity to entertainment and eating outlets as well as shopping malls, banks and offices.

Abell Residence is within minutes of walking distance to the famous Kuching Waterfront. It is also less than 5-10 minutes walk to the famous Chinese history temple, Tua Pek Kong, Main Bazaar and Chinatown.

Facilities Available:

Air-conditioned room
Attached bathroom with hot shower
Free WiFi in all rooms
24 hours reception counter
CCTV security system
Hot water kettle, hair dryer, iron & board on request
Laundry service
Fenced private carpark

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Kuching Food Festival 2010

Stewie — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:00:04 +0000

Kuching food festival is usually held at the end of July till the mid of August. Its held in conjunction with the Kuching City day. The food fair is organized by the Kuching South City Council or also known as MBKS. The food fair hosted at Dewan Masyarakat near to the MBKS office.

If you’re in Kuching during that period, its a “not to be missed” event. You can basically find 80% of the top and favourite delicacies / dish / food / snack from whole of Kuching. Some of it, you will only find it during Kuching Festival and not on normal days. Not only food, there will be stage shows, road shows and exhibition too. There will something for everyone.

Jong’s Crocodile Farm

Stewie — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:14:53 +0000

The farm is located about 29km from Kuching City and takes a 40 minute leisurely drive to reach. The farm is one of the largest crocodile breeding farms in the country with a population well over 1000.

See the friendly ambience of Sarawak’s Football icon – “Bujang Senang” the crocodile. Set amidsts the tropical fruits trees and lush greenery is a home to over 1,000 crocodiles. It serves as a perfect sanctuary for this fearsome reptiles where they are kept in an enclosure designed and built similarly to their natural habitat. Apart from the corcodiles, it also houses other wildlifes such as the bear cats, civets deers, pytons, hornbills, gibbons and other fascinating animals which are found in Sarawak. The Farm is accessible from Kuching via a 40 minutes drive through picturesquare countryside.

You can find lots of other animals apart from crocodiles. Find more information in their website:

http://www.jongscrocodile.com

Jong’s Crocodile Farm
Jln Kuching-serian Batu 17, 94200 Siburan, Sarawak
Phone: 082-86 3570

Fairy Cave

Stewie — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:12:11 +0000

One of the caves namely,Fairy Cave, is located in the Bukit Kapor area. It was formed some 100-150 million years ago. There are stalactite and stalagmite formations on the floor of the caves that resemble figures and animals. A number of shrines and altars were erected in the cave where local Taoist Chinese make offerings to the peculiar formations. This is perhaps how the name “Fairy” Cave arised.

Selera Kak Mah – Nasi Pattaya

Stewie — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:11:53 +0000

Went to this Selera Kak Mah at King center area in Kuching. Ordered this Nasi Pattaya for only RM4.00. For this kind of portion and food mixture, you usually need to pay for about 6-12 ringgit. I would say this is very cheap for what I ordered. Very nicely prepared and taste very good. They have other food like Nasi lemak as well. The stall is the one at the front lot on the right side.

Nasi Pattaya

Selera Kak Mah

Nasi Penyet in Kuching

Stewie — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:46:24 +0000

Found a nasi ayam penyet in Kuching where you don’t have to go as far as Petra Jaya to taste it. This one is prepared by a chinese guy instead of a malay or indonesian. Its a Indonesian delicacy by the way. I did a writeup for this previously where you can read it here http://www.kuchingtour.com/06/nasi-ayam-penyet.html . As for the one posted above, you can get it at Lee’s Cafe or “Lao Li” at stutong area. Its just on the side of the Stutong Market.

The verdict, it comes with quite a generous portion shown in the pic and a plate of white rice. Spiciness? Its GOOD!. The price? RM6.00 for all which is not to expensive I guess. The chicken is not as hard and chewy like the one I had last time.

Kuching Carpenter Street – Mooncake Festival photos update

Stewie — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:46:30 +0000

Took a lot of time to upload and posted up these photos and video. Its finally done. I covered most of the stalls and activities going on that night to keep it as a history log of this event. Had a great photo outing with some of the www.photoborneo.com members.

The video are in this post or you can go to youtube directly to view –> Kuching Mooncake Festival at Carpenter Street

and the photos here

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Inter-Cultural Mooncake Festival at Carpenter Street Kuching

Stewie — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:29:46 +0000

My personal favourite event in Kuching, the mooncake festival celebration. I remember back then when the event was held in a more active and grand manner, I went there every single night just to enjoy the atmosphere. But its has been getting smaller and less organized lately. Most likely due to recent economic downturn, H1N1 or….”political reasons” . There used to be performing live bands, chinese traditional music. Its an annual event with the “inter-cultural” theme, where most ethnics and race will come together and enjoy or perform in this festive, not just limited to Chinese.

This year, its rather plain. Just stalls selling food and stuff. Nevertheless, its still very much lively and crowded as you can see in the photo. I will post more photo update when I am done processing them. Just to post it up for the followers, Saturday will be the last day of this event. 3rd October which is also the actual day for the Mooncake Festival. Lots of mooncake to buy and lots of stuff to see.