assorted food snaps VI

the Char Siew (叉烧) from Fang Yuan (芳圆茶室) is the ultimate fatty pork goodness...

was at this new restaurant in town - Delizze... ordered this, but forgotten the name of it...

one was filled with shrimp while the other was cheese... just nice for a light meal...

mix platter of chicken, char siew & BBQ pork...

the overhyped McDonald's GCB, tasted pretty good, but I'm never gonna pay close to RM10 for such a puny burger... totally not worth it... a RM5 roadside Ramli burger special is a way better deal... =)

now these are good stuff, especially the one on the left ---> bacon-flavoured crackers... *yums*... =p

note: bacon-flavoured means non-Halal ok... hehehe...

opening of SOUL IS@the Park

together with the usual clubbing kakis, we were invited by the owner of Terminal ONE and Lounge II to attend the opening of their new French Fine Dining place on September 5...

SOUL IS@the Park is the name, and it's located right next to the infamous T1 downtown. It has two floors, with very unique water featured design inside... very zen and soothing...

the buffet was French themed, and there was free flow beer until 930pm.

I think we had around 10 bottles each... *hick...*

SOUL IS@the Park tissue box...

I dunno what's this French dessert called, but tasted really good...

SOUL IS@the Park is officially opened for business...

thanks for including me in the guest list for the opening ceremony, and I hope business keeps getting better for both restaurant and clubs...

for all of you Jap food lovers to drool on... hehehe...

The makan-makan session was for the farewell of a colleague as well as for another colleague's birthday. The almost 4kg salmon was flown in directly from Aussie (I think) or NZ... and 15 of us went to Tomoe Japanese Restaurant for the dinner... btw, the salmon was freshly caught and then flown over, so it's freshness to the max guaranteed... cooked or prepared in different Japanese ways... :)

ordered this Japanese pizza thingy as the starter, but not that recommended...

then came the salmon sashimi... so fresh it's orgasmic...

salmon sushi...

fried salmon...

grilled salmon...

fried squid...

sushi with the salmon skin wrapped in it...

fried salmon skin sushi...

note: the serving was 4 - 5 plates for each picture shown... and we paid just RM30/person... well worth the money ehh...??

you guys hungry yet??

Verinice Restaurant

this is a super delayed post (December 2008 - ____- ), but better get it up than never right?

went to have lunch with Daniel on a working weekday, and he recommended going to this place called - Verinice Restaurant....

I was like: "Huh?? WTF is with the name... the food very nice mehh??"

the Verinice menu...

I ordered the meat porridge with century egg... have to give credit when due as the quality of food served... seriously quite good, and the price reasonable...

also, we ordered this Furong Fried Egg (煎芙蓉蛋) to share... not bad also...

the restaurant is located somewhere behind HSBC Kuching, opposite Big Potato (大番薯) Kopitiam

Sabah trip [Part 1]

we reached Kota Kinabalu in the evening, and after checking into the hotel, off we went for dinner at this seafood restaurant (forgot name) next to Promenade...

all seafood served at this restaurant is fresh from the aquarium located beside it, and the range of live sea creatures is huge...


ranging from the typical more eye-soothing huge-ass lobsters...


fresh oysters...


weird looking prawns (yea, I remember the waiter telling me that those were some prawn species)...


to one hell of an ugly fish, which according to the waiter, it's poisonous, but quite tasty... -___-


we ordered this belacan fried authentic Sabah vege... yummy stuff!


err... I forgot what were these called... you need to use toothpicks to dig out the meat inside, then dip it with some chili sauce...


fresh oysters... but it was a total let down... they were pathetically small and juice-less... I've had better ones even back here in Kuching...
apparently, for big fat juicy oysters, another seafood restaurant at the other end would be a better choice instead of this one...


abalone... now these were good stuff, and cheap too... only RM40...


after racking up a bill of about RM180, we headed over to the waterfront, ordered a couple of beers, sat there and enjoyed the cool sea breeze...

next post: the Mount Kinabalu climb... I almost died... -_____-

treasure hunt crap...

was asked to participate in a treasure hunt competition for my association's youth, an annual event organized by the Sarawak Youth Association. arrived at the meeting point at around 7.30am to get the team of 4 for registration, and after that waited for almost 1 hour before all the VIP arrived, gave their VIP speeches and etc before the hunt was started.


VIP speech... owes the same boring crap talk.... -__-

the whole event was actually poorly organized with a delayed start, and no extended time of arrival at the destination. it shouldn't be called a "treasure" hunt in the first place, as there's nothing to look for except for answers to be written on the answer sheet along the specified route, looking for the answers for the riddles/questions given (answers mostly from shop names, road names or something along that line...) pretty lame I should say...


was going back to our car when I took this picture in the middle of Gambir Street...


the lunch wasn't that bad, but we're too tired to actually enjoy it...

our team didn't win anything... and was damn tired by the time the entire event was finished. reached home at about 230pm, after having lunch prepared by the organizer at Golden Dragon Restaurant, which was also the final stop of the hunt.

verdict: a waste of my Sunday