Kuching, me, food

This was one of the most exciting part of the trip. Food~~

I went to lots of places, ate so much that I thought I must have put on a few pounds during this trip.


One of the many food stalls on a not so busy morning.


Food Court in The Spring Shopping Mall.


Hawker Stalls in Hui Sing Garden


For alot of Kuchingites, one of the most important thing in life is eat. This photo was taken at 9.30pm at night and hawker stalls still packed with people.

Let me list out the food that I tried during this trip.


Kuching Laksa @ Golden Arch


Yum~~


Kueh Chap @ Thrid Mile (mixture of pork parts including pork belly, pork skin, pork ears, pork tongue, pork intestines, pork stomach, lean pork cooked with thick rice noodle in herbal soup)


Kolo Mee, Vegetarian version.


Kan Pua Mee, a Foo Chow Mee but I prefer Kolo Mee than this one. This dish a drier than Kolo Mee but looks really similar.


Nasi Lemak which are available in some Food Courts around Auckland


Char Kueh, means Fried Cake (Cake is made from steamed white radish. It is then fried with Chai Poh (Preserved Turnip), eggs, spring onion, and soy sauce)


Char Ham O Mee (Fried Egg Noodle with soy sauce, just like some Mee Goreng which are available here, only difference is this one is fried with small clam)


Beef Satay


This was how the satay got Peng Gang (bbq)


Now this is different, BBQ Egg Plant. It was actually nothing special and didn't taste very nice. I tried it, that's all it matters.


Jiu Hu Eng Chai (Kangkong, a semi-aquatic tropical plant grown as a leaf vegetable, cooked with cuttlefish and a sweet and spicy sauce)


These were not fried chicken, there were fried pigeon. And prawn balls on skewer.


Fried Chinese New Year Cake, the name is weird but the taste was divine.


Barbequed Stingray covered with some kind of spicy sauce.

I went to Four Points @ BDC with couple of friends for dinner and we had buffet 'Steamboat'. It consists of variety dishes, where ingredients are cooked in a pan and pot of broth at the table. The ingredients that were available include thinly sliced meat, vegetable, mushrooms, tofu, fresh seafood, hotdogs, noodle, crab, etc... The cooked food is either eaten with a dipping sauce, or sometimes as a soup.


This was how the setup looked like. We had mixed Tom Yum and chicken soup. Nothing beats chick with a bit of spice.


And this was how we cooked and then eat.


And again, a messy aftermath...

The next night, my friends invited me to a food stall in Kota Padawan just after 10th Mile Bazaar. Well, we had...


Oyster Omelette. This is quite different from the normal soft omelette. It is crispy and really tasty, probably one of the best ones I've tried so far.


More king prawns


Belacan Paku (Miding Fern which could be collected from thick bushes along the road side in Kuching cooked with shrimp paste)


Wild boar, yes pork!!

And this was the highlight of the night. Fruit Bat!!


Live free, or


Die hard


Part of the bat, guess where?


Still can't guess it? Let me bring it closer...


Yes, bat head, in half. And the white square stuffs were the teeth.


It's wing. Well part of it anyway.


Yes I know... very ge li~~ (gross)

That was my first time eating bat. Its texture was a bit like duck. It wasn't too bad but just very weird and uncomfortable... I'll say that it was my first and probably the last time to do this again...



That night, I beat Batman.

So many things to eat, yet so little time... damn tummy is not big enough to take them all in~