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List of Places to eat in :
Kuching, Sarawak
Chinese
Japanese
Malay / Indonesian
Western
Korean
Coffee
Chinese
The Venue
RH Plaza Commercial Center
Lorong Lapangan Terbang No. 1
Off Jalan Airport
Tel : 082-452186, 012 808 1186
Seafood restaurant but serves beef, venison and chicken as well. Specialty dishes are Oyster Omellette (wet), Cantonese style Deep Fried Pork Ribs, Langkuas Chicken, Steam Terubok (Fish).
Open-air and aircon restaurant available.
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Life Cafe
No. 108, Ewe Hai Street
Tel : 082-411754
Mon-Sat : 11 am - 11 pm
Closed on Sunday
Simple Szechuan cooking with a delightful range of Chinese Tea that comes along with a tea set. Specialty dishes are potstickers (panfried wantan), Szechuan Spicy Noodles (5 levels of spicyness with chilli oil), Claypot Rice (the way Granny makes it with prawn and torn up salted fish), Crocodile herbal soup..
Open-air and aircon area available.
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Bukit Mata, Topspot
Stall 25, Topspot,
Bukit Permata Carpark
Open every Night. Close during lunchtime.
Tel : 019 889 1266
Seafood, seafood, seafood! With other food available, of course but all Asian Cuisine. Specialty dishes are Oyster Omellette (dry), Chilli Crab, and all types of seafood dishes.
Open-air.
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Hai Pa Wang
No. 286, 1st Floor,
Yun Phin Building,
Jalan Pandungan
Tel : 082-255126, 235126
Chinese seafood cuisine with other types of food available. Not sure whether it is halal or not but I do know they do not serve pork there. Specialty dishes are Oven-baked Crab (Caution! Crab is not cleaned before hand), Homemade Taufu with Spicy Sauce, Udon Fried Noodles.
Open air and air-conditioned restaurant.
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Garden Steamboat Restaurant
No. 28, Jalan Nenas
Tel : 082-257777, 257962
Open-air restaurant for seafood and some buffet dishes. Eat all you want for a dirt cheap price. Also, very nice and clean environment. Specialty dish is the BBQ crab and prawn which are the side dishes. Yum!
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My House Steamboat & BBQ Seafood
130 Peace Road, Pending
Between Simpang Tiga and Pending. Open air restaurant with buffet style selection of ingredients for the marvelous steamboat soup! Specialty dish is the Fried Chicken that one of the many side dishes.
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JoJo Cafe
Twin Towers, 3rd Mile
Aircon Chinese restaurant with reasonably priced food. Very packed every day for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Next to KFC/Pizzahut at 3rd Mile traffic lights. Specialty Meals are the great vegetable dishes, Assam Fish Head Curry, Tom Yam Soup, the JoJo Fried Chicken.
Non-halal.
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Joyous Shanghai
No. 317-319, Bangunan Bee San,
Jalan Padungan
Tel : 082-331310, 336119
Aircon Chinese restaurant with it's own resident chef from Shanghai. Part of the Lok Thian chain of restaurants in Kuching.
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Tsui Hua Lau Restaurant
Jalan Ban Hock, Kuching
Tel : 082-414560
An old but firm favourite for suckling pig and other Chinese dishes. Recently renovated with new dishes. NON-HALAL.
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Rock Road Seafood
Rock Road
Tel : 082-241575
One of the oldest Chinese seafood restaurant around. Offers a variety of seafood (live or frozen) as well as fresh sashimi.
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Italian
Ristorante Beccari
Merdeka Palace, previously known as Aurora Hotel.
Tel : 082-258000
An amazing Italian restaurant with it's own blazing oven for baking pizza. Wonderful food as their specialty is Italian food. They also do great Western food as well and definetely value for money. Definitely great pizza at Pizza Hut's prices(bet you folks didn't know that? ;) ).
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Italiano's Pizza & Pasta
Wisma Ho Ho Lim,
No. 288 Grd Floor, Sublot 1, Abell Road
Next door to Eu Yan Sang, herbal medicinal shop.
A quaint little Italian cafe with affordable set meals for everyone. They usually have special Lunch promos.
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Thai
Bangkok Thai
Bangunan Bee San, Jalan Pandungan.
Open for Lunch and Dinner.
Tel : 082-331310
Next door to Ten-Ichi Japanese Restaurant. Owned by the Lok Thian chain of restaurants.
The first Thai restaurant in Kuching with its own resident Thai chef. Check out the olive fried rice which is cooked with local olives. It's amazing. Note that this restaurant serves big food portions similar to the Chinese banquet meals. Extremely popular for weddings.
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Coca Thai
3rd Floor, Crowne Plaza Riverside Hotel
Open for Lunch and Dinner.
Same building as Crowne Plaza Riverside Hotel. The building name is Riverside Majestic Complex. It's a eat-all-you like style of steamboat. Tomyam soup is definitely spicy. Owned by the Coca chain of restaurant that also owns Mango Tree.
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Mango Tree
Crookshank Road, Kuching.
Open for Lunch and Dinner.
Tel : 082-235353
Fax : 082-242290
Same building as Crowne Plaza Riverside Hotel. The building name is Riverside Majestic Complex. It's a eat-all-you like style of steamboat. Tomyam soup is definitely spicy. Owned by the Coca chain of restaurant that also owns Mango Tree.
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Japanese
Japanese
Ten-Ichi Japanese Restaurant
NO. 316-319, Bangunan Bee San,
Jalan Pandungan
Tel : 082-331310, 335042
Open for Lunch and Dinner
Opposite the KMC swimming pool.
Just about the best Japanese restaurant in town with its own Japanese sushi chef. And the one that the small Japanese community in Kuching eats.
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Mi-Zu-Be Sushi Bar
Hilton Hotel
Tel : 082-248200
A small sushi bar in Hilton Hotel.
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Korean
Koreana Restaurant
Lot 5 & 6 Level One,
Block H (Geliong) Taman Sri Sarawak Mall,
Jalan Borneo.
Open for Dinner
Tel : 082-255072
Opposite Hilton hotel.
One of the three Korean restaurants in the city. Best tasting kimchi so far. Check out their Shoju (Korean liquor) with cucumber bits.
NOT HALAL.
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Seoul Garden
3rd Mile Shoplots, behind ASTRO.
Tel : 082424870
Open air Korean restaurant. Food is affordable and tasty. The chef and his wife are very friendly - if you wanted a meal not on the menu, they will go out and buy the ingredient and then cook it for you.
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Malay / Indonesian
Sri Sarawak Malay Restaurant
Crowne Plaze Restaurant
Tel : 082-247777
A restaurant serving Malay dishes. Located at Crowne Plaze Riverside Majestic Hotel.
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Gamelan
Simpang Tiga, behind the Bank Utama shoplots.
Tel : 082-410026, 415560
A quiet restaurant serving great temping Indonesian food at extremely affordable prices. Note : Airconditioning is EXTREMELY COLD.
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Western
Carvery
Lot 2069, Jalan Utama
Bintawa Industrial Estate
Tel : 082-345428, 345429
Lunch : 11:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Dinner : 6:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
Close on Sunday.
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Elephant Cafe
Jalan Ang Cheng Ho, Padungan.
Another quiet place to drink coffee, tea and chit chat. Also serves full meals, which I think had Fish and Chips with beer flavoured batter.
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The Junk
80 Ground & 1st Floor,
Wayang Street
Tel : 019 857 1870 (George) / 016 889 2044 (Roselyn)
Business Hrs : 6.30 pm - 12.30 am except Tuesdays
Quaint little restaurant with a lot of antique junk lying around everywhere. Very reasonable with the meal pricing. Portions are huge so be forewarned!
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Magenta
32 Lot 141, Jalan Nanas
93400 Kuching, Sarawak
Business hours : 7 pm - 12:30 am except Mondays
Tel : 082-237878 (Reservations)
Wonderful western dining with soft lights and Asian theme decoration. Located in a traditional Malay village house.
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Oregano Restaurant
Private Sublot 18, Lots 209 & 210 Section 54
Travilion, KTLD Kuching, Sarawak
Behind HSBC Bank.
Tel : 016 888 6003 (PohLo Chai) - no telephone number yet.
Italian dining with wine and great homemade cakes for desert. Only place with alcoholic tiramisu.
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Tapanga Tree
4th Floor, Bukit Mata Carpark
Next to Standard Chartered Bank.
Fusion dining with Asian and Western dining. Airconditioned and open air.
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Coffee
bing! coffee company
no.84 Padungan Road
93000 Kuching, Sarawak
Tel : 082-410188
Fax : 082-259188
Wonderful ambience for a coffee break. Serves a wide range of coffee, tea and intriguing flavoured drinks from around the world. Has a wide selection of cakes and some food too.
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Coffee Master
Level 4, Somerset Gateway
Resident's Lounge
No.9 Jalan Bukit Mata
93100 Kuching, Sarawak
Tel : 082-250958
Monday to Sunday 11 am - 11 pm
Serves local gourmet Sarawakian coffee in a variety of different styles. Very quiet area with great cakes and also a meal if you wanted to.
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