: : Mega Food Court : :

Grand name. Foodwise, I’m not too sure. Below are some fares from lunch, also with collegues from work. Mega Food Court is at King’s Centre, near the Simpang Tiga roundabout.

Tang Hoon Soup No. 2(another one)

Salad Chicken

Indonesian Fried Kway Teow

Tang Hoon Soup No. 2

The great thing about tang hoon soup is that you can order whatever you would like to have in it. EL decided to have it with only fishballs and seaweed(red ones!). A LOT of fishballs. Usually, it’s the soup that matters most and this one didn’t quite make the mark. I still say the one that the temple, Carpenter Street is a lot better. Gotta take a snapshot one day.

Salad Chicken

This is the latest -in- food for the chinese : Thousand Island Sauce with fried chicken and rice. Bit bizarre for me but my love affair with Thousand Island Sauce was way over. Seems like Thousand Island Sauce is the latest favourite everywhere. You can even find it in Chinese Restaurants where it’s mixed with prawn and fruits! Hmmm…

Indonesian Fried Kway Teow

I’m not quite sure whether this is the REAL Indon cooking or not. But, the stall is apparently famous for this style of cooking. Although the noodles aren’t cooked as dark, it’s still very spicy. Lacking in garnishing but it was okay. Cannot beat Uncle’s cooking.

Food wasn’t that bad today. A bad lunch = lunch at the company’s cafeteria. Urgh!

: : Insults : :

[M] : alamak.. i just realised

[M] : your blog is about food

…Some people really…

[M] : i tot it was a phase

…oh, the insults…

: : Asian Junk Food: :

Thought I’d put this up just for the heck of it. Yes, Asians do have their own version of junk food. In fact, it’s been around for years and years.

Dried Plum Version 1

Tapioca Crisps

Dried Plum Version 1

There are so many different types of plum out there it’s hard to list them all. This snacks reminds me of my childhood days of buying snacks at the school canteen during break-time/recess. This is sweetened but nowadays, artificial sugar is used rather than the real stuff.

Tapioca Crisps

One of the best I’ve had so far. It’s not oily. It’s crunchy. Very spicy from the chillie. Not too sweet. Not too salty.

Both snacks were bought at a Timbang Outlet (Timbang = Weighing in Malay) at Big Fresh Supermarket, Tabuan Jaya. All snacks are bought according to weight. Kinda like a sweet soup but this time for junk food.

: : Expert : :

Went to Tabuan Jaya for lunch today with some collegues from work. Had to persuade them to give me some time to take shots of their meals before tucking into them.

Hurry up, Rowena! Hungry lah!

Okay okay okay.

Tang Hoon Soup

Kolo Mee Pok

Chicken Rice

Tang Hoon Soup

Direct translation : glass noodle. Yes, it is transparent, made from rice. PL got it from the Fish Ball King stall. It’s not the best tasting Tang Hoon Soup but will do. For a better choice, there is always the Chinese Temple at Carpenter Street. Anyway, the soup also has a lot of other extras inside : the fish balls, meat balls, deep fried fish skin, tauhu stuffed with meat, plain tauhu, deep fried tauhu, crabsticks and others. At this stall, you get to choose what you want to eat although I always make the mistake of taking too much!!

Kolo Mee Pok

Mee Pok is the flat egg noodles. Cholesterol bomb but definitely tasty. The mee is first cooked in boiling hot water. Then, it is mixed with salt, soy sauce, sesame seed oil, pepper. Garnishes include char siew (sweet roasted pork), minced pork, fish balls, spring onions. Sarawak Kolo Mee has a unique taste to eat and is a big favourite among the locals and West Malaysians!

I had this from the Singapore Chicken Rice stall. The good thing is the chilli-garlic sauce by the side. Very nice. The rice is cooked with chicken fat and chicken stock. It’s accompanied with roasted chicken and a bowl of soup.

Well, that was lunch! Expert Hawker Center is at Tabuan Jaya, behind Bank Utama and next to Thompson’s Corner. It’s so-so but it’s a typical lunch spot.

: : Other stuff : :

I decided to put up pics and commentaries of other interesting foodstuff found in Kuching, Sarawak. It’s not easy having to go out and have something to eat all the time. Also, quite painful for the purse.

: : Custard Apple : :

Saw my granny eating this apple this afternoon. Well, it doesn’t look like the usual apple that one sees everyday in the supermarket. Called Custard Apple because of the taste. It’s actually very sweet with the light custard flavour. Also known as leng kim in Chinese. To open the fruit, one just needs to pry off the skin which is actually very soft despite the tough-looking exterior.

Granny has two plants in her garden so decided to take a pic of it. It can be grown easily from one seeds found inside the fruit.

Where to buy the fruit? The wet market, of course. Haven’t seen it in the major supermarkets, probably because it’s a local fruit.

: : Pau : :

Got pau downstairs! Still hot! Better eat now! Granny shouting from downstairs. One of her friends just passed it to her. Ah! Another photo opportunity!

The pau is a steam, soft, fluffy, white bun filled with chicken marinated in the sweet sauce used for char siew (roasted porkmeat). There was more pau than white meat but it still tasted good. Other types of pau filling are char siew (local favourite), tau sa (very sweet red bean paste) and kaya (local jam made from eggs, pandan and sugar. A cholerosterol bomb : ten eggs for one small bottle of kaya).

Pau is served hot in many coffeeshops and also with dimsum (Chinese breakfast comprising of many small, different types of food. Similar to hors d’oeuvre).

Along Jalan Pandungan in Kuching, there are at least 2 coffeeshops selling tua pau (big pau). The filling is chicken minus the sweet sauce but a quarter of a hard boiled egg is included. This serving is enough for one meal. Usually, the pau size is small.