Dinner at Hoi Tin Lou Restaurant in Kuching

The last day of year 2012, I had my dinner at Hoi Tin Lou Restaurant which is located at Jalan Mendu in Kuching. I strongly recommend  if you feel like to have Chinese cuisine for dinner or even lunch. 

So, the suggested dishes include spinach noodle, roasted piglet, Thai style midin, Vietnamese prawn, and oyster pancake. Though there are so many nice dishes available at the but I'll recommend these few dishes at the moment. Additionally, the chief is a winner of few international chinese cuisine competition in china.

The spinach noodle tasted very different from other kind of noodles, plus, I guess the noodle is handmade so it tasted very special. How special is it? try it out then you know. The roasted piglet is so so crispy on the skin but soft in the meat. When you eat the meat, you will feel that it's melting in your mouth and you don't even need to chew much. Thai style  midin very tasteful especially the dry salted shrimp stirred with the midin enhance the taste of midin up to another level. Vietnamese prawn tasted sweet and spicy served with its bun which is crispy on the skin but soft inside. oyster pancake is very crispy too and the amount of oyster just right for the whole dish so you wont feel disgusted. Let's stop reading and look at the pictures. I am really bad in explaining how nice the food tasted, so it's best if you can try it out. 

 

Vietnamese Prawns with Buns

 

 

Roasted Piglet

 

 

Thai Style Midin

 

 

Oyster Pancake

 

 

Spinach Noodle

p/s: I still figuring out the food shall eat at Sarawak... Always forget about it...  but anyway, you will still see midin in the list~~

JiYun cafe at Siburan along Kuching Serian road

Ok, If you to travel to Siburan (17th mile - Outskirt of Kuching city), maybe visit the hot spring, Jong's crocodile farm or wherever and you expected to take quite long until night time, you may need to find some cafe for dinner. Of course you would like to find some nice food as well, so, I recommend JiYun Cafe located behind the Petronas at Siburan. the pictures below show the food I Strongly recommend for your dinner.

So, the recommended dishes include fried kampung chicken with ginger, venison with ginger, homemade bean curb, sayur manis fried rice noodle, midin, thaisytle chicken feet and Nestum prawns. 

The kampung chicken is actually organic chicken which has a lot of exercises and only eat corns, the meat is sweet and chewable, the vanition is soft, but the dishes I would like to highlight are homemade bean Curb, Nestum or butter prawns and their thai chicken feet. the homemade bean curb is made up of soya bean and has a very nice tasture of the bean. imagine if you eat the bean curb with a very special source... it's like the bean curb dancing on your tongue, and the partner of the bean curb is the source, they dance beautifully and happily until the end of their life...  The chicken feet of course tasted spicy and sour... but the feet itself is boneless and a crispy... if you like to eat spicy food, you may require them to make the source more spicy... For Nestum prawns, or butter prawn or butter whatever (cause they all taste good... the cook of this cafe really master on nestum and butter things), their taste is very milky. when u eat it, you will feel the smell of butter or nestum is all over your mouth and it is lasting even after you have swallow the food... ok, i don't know how to explain. you really need to try it.

That's all for today. Tata.

 

sayur manis fried rice noodle

 

 

 midin

 

 

kampung chicken

 

 

 thai chicken feet

 

 

Nestum prawn

 

 

homemade bean curb

 

 

venison with ginger

If you are not sarawakian, you may not know midin and sayur manis. there are all specialties in kuching... I will try to write a blog on the special food that you have to try in kuching,sarawak next time, but for sure i will need sometime to collect all the photos... ;)

Howdy grillhouse at Brighton square in kuching

ok. Today I would like to recommend Howdy grill house located at Brighten Square along Jalan Song beside Cosway bay. The dishes I would like to talk about today is fish and chips and their pork platter. though I heard that their popular  is their pork rib. Anyway, let's have a look on the picture I took. 

ok, if you like to know how's the taste like, the pork is nicely grilled and really tasteful. Buy I more prefer their fish and chips. They are really soft, no fishy smell and not overcooked. when you eat it, it will melt in your mouth and you don't Even have to chew. totally recommended. 

 

Fish and Chips

 

 Pork Platter

the atmosphere of the restaurant is very romantic, suitable for couple. of course it is quite alright for a family as well.

that's all for today. have a nice day.

Batu lintang - jong's seafood in kuching.

I dunno you ever try the cafe at roadside along jalan batu lintang.(the one to serbakas) I am totally recommend if you like to eat beancurb and oyster cake teochew style. I forgot to take the picture of the food because I was too excited to eat when it has been served.

The food here is nice... but personally, I love their pork leg, crispy beancurb, and their oyster cake teochew style. The special of these dishes are - the pork leg is soft enough and the taste is just right. Not too salty or tasteless. Just right. Besides, the beancurb is homemade beancurb with some vegetables inside. Tasteful yet the skin is so crispy but the content still soft. Oyster cake, I don want to talk much, it just simply delicious.  Full of oyster...

What I can do now is show you the picture of the restaurant.

Japanese restaurant 'Bento Ramen' in kuching.

There are quite a number of japanese restaurant in kuching. However, there are only few that tasted nice.

As for today, I am going to talk about Bento Ramen that located at Jalan Song beside life cafe. I just ordered sakana tempura bento, salmon topping ebiko maki and an ocha(Japanese tea). The tea is refillable. And overall the price is reasonable, potion quite big for me, most importantly, the food tasted nice! Recommmended to dine there.

The fish tempura is so crispy and I like thier salmon, no fishy smell and really tasted soft and nice. No harm to have a try. :)

Durian season!

It's durian season again! You can get durian everywhere in malaysia. Oh I am so in love with durian! A good durian should have at least dry meat but not hard. I like yellow dry meat. It is way better than white one. Of course if orange meat, it would be much better than yellow one.

Those who thinks durian sucks,You know what? You should try it. It's nice!