: : Seattle Coffee : :

After last night’s dinner at the Japanese restaurant, we went for a walk at the Kuching Waterfront to ease our extremely stuffed stomachs. After that, we went for dessert and coffee at Seattle Coffee located at Merdeka Palace. Coffee Bean is not even here yet.

Let’s start with dessert, Left to Right :

We ordered 2 slices of apple pie and 1 cake of the month : chocolate hazelnut cheesecake. Luv the apple pie which is a lot better than the one at Hilton Kuching. The apple pie there tastes like cake! As for the cheesecake, it was huge! Tough for Melvin to finish it.

MayLin and Bev shared the cup of Raspberry Juice mixed with other fruits whereas Melvin and I had a cup of Irish Coffee each. The raspberry drink was nice but the Irish coffee woke me up so much that I couldn’t sleep until 2 am! There were at least 2 shots of Irish whiskey inside it. Had to dilute it with some ice.

Anyway, some pictures of the Kuching Waterfront. Got a bit carried away with the mosaic design on the pathway.

: : Cafepress : :

Sort doing this for fun. Yeah, it’s not a lot of stuff and the picture on the mug isn’t that great.

The Mug

Orchid petal on the right is cut off a bit. The picture wasn’t that great to begin with so… Mum’s opinion was that it was not food related. Hmm… will redo it next weekend.

The Postcards

Shot of a bowl of Sarawak Laksa. Yeah, again a bit messy. Still new to photo editing so bit tough to clean up the picture a bit. Oh well. Decided to leave it as it is for the time being.

Maybe a calender in the coming weeks. Who knows?

: : Ten-Ichi : :

Met up with Melvin, MayLin and their friend, Bev, today at Ten-Ichi. At first, the plan was to go and eat at Gamelan, the Indonesian restaurant. However, there was a private function going on there. So, backup plan was to go to the Junk restaurant which, by coincidence, also had a function going on. Finally, we settled at Ten-Ichi, the Japanese restaurant of the Lok Thian Restaurant chain.

Difficult to find parking near the Lok Thian area. There was a wedding going on. Grr… luckily, managed to park right in front of the restaurant when this Merz exited the area. Think I took one of the slots for the wedding entourage but who cares right? First come, first serve. Hee hee!

We shared the Sashimi Take B which was a mixed of salmon and octopus from Japan and the local fish found in Sarawak. We were all into raw food tonight and it was a great appetizer since it came first. RM36 @ US$9.47.

I just love this pickled seaweed with sesame seed oil. It was very crunchy and went well with the sashimi. Only problem was that the strips kept falling all over the place. Goes to show how bad my chopstick skills are and I am a Chinese!! RM8 @ US$2.11.

Bev decided to try the torikatsu curry @ chicken curry Japanese style. Tasted good and it look like such a huge portion. Wah! So tempting! RM14 @ US$3.68.

Right : this was maguru negi dan which I think was a rice dish with vegetables and fish. At least, I think it was. Trying to blog coherently after a double shot if Irish whiskey into Irish Coffee, my brain is not functioning well. Good point to note when ordering Irish Coffee from Seattle Coffee at Merdeka Palace. Never going to have it again. Anyway, if anyone knows what’s inside this dish, please do drop me a line in the comment box. Thanks. RM14 @ US$3.68.

I had the unajyu @ sweetened eel with rice. My Dad thinks it’s not a hygienic dish considering that the eel eats just about anything under the sun but I like it. Haven’t had it for a long time. Very tasty and the portion, again, was huge. RM32 @ US$8.42.

Melvin had this : oyuko dan @ grilled chicken with rice. The chicken was actually underneath all the vegetables that you see in this picture. RM14 @ US$3.68.

We wanted to have some Thai dessert i.e. the water chestnuts in coconut milk but they ran out of it. Sigh. Oh well. Another time, I guess. The set lunch menu is really a bargain but it’s only available during the day time. There is no set dinner menu at night so it’s easy to eat up to over RM100 @ US$26.31 in one seating.

Ten-Ichi is just about the best Japanese restaurant in town, boasting their own in-house Japanese chef. Must be good because most of the Japanese working in Kuching will eat here. The restaurant is located opposite the KMC swimming pool. Parking is really bad when there is a wedding going on in the Chinese or Thai restaurant in the same shoplot with many cars filling up the lots in front and at the back of the building. Note that the surrounding area is not safe and purse snatchers are rampant in this area.

Ten-Ichi Japanese Restaurant

No. 316 – 319, Bangunan Bee San,

Jalan Padungan

93100 Kuching

Sarawak.

Tel : 082-331310, 335042

Fax : 082-337736

: : Borneo Post : :

Actually a late posting because I did not managed to get a copy of the Borneo Post until this week Wednesday. Mum-mum was mentioned in the pull-out section of the Saturday edition. Not yesterday but the Saturday the week before.

This is from the column that Andrea writes regularly. She also has two blogs online. 🙂 One of the Hobbits I’ve met in Kuching.

Thanks Andrea!

: : Encik Johan : :

It’s a sad day when one hears of a fellow blogger has recently passed away. I read the news online today at around lunchtime via Alex’s blog through PPS.

Johan Ismail of Joe-Blogs fame has recently passed away last night. For those who did not have a chance to read his blog, he writes on many issues, be it politics, society or just plain fun. Although I did not have the privilege of meething this man, one can get a glimpse of his character via his writing. He is witty, outspoken and at the same time humourous, kind and generous. And yes, I heard from one of his collegues that he does read this blog.

All around the Malaysian blogosphere, everyone is feeling the loss and I’m sure his readers do feel it as well. This blog follower certainly feels it. His blog has been taken down but it might be up again later in his memory although yet to be confirmed.

My sympathy goes out to his family and close friends. It is a hard time to go through for any death of a family member or close companion is really hard and tough. His body is gone but his memory and legacy lives on.

Out of respect for this amazing man, I will not be updating mum-mum today. A bit late I know but then again, better late than never.

He was a golden font

that freely poured

What goldenly endures,

And though that font be gone,

its bounty stored

and treasured,

Still is yours.

Arthur Guiterman

Journey of Hearts A Healing Place in CyberSpace

Joe, it was a pleasure to have known you via your blog. You will be missed by many people, including myself.

May you rest in peace.

: : Chopstix : :

He’s really into Chinese cooking.

More than me, methinks.

Then again, after more than 25+ years of eating chinese food, I need varieties.

Still, a most informative blog.