Sibu Gawai road trip [food edition]

the food that we sampled during the trip was undeniably one of the best I've had... as Daniel and I were overwhelmed by the quality of the food served...

stopped by somewhere before Sarikei for lunch... wild boar meat, softshell turtle meat and some vege... pardon the half eaten state of the food... forgot to take photos when they arrived...

dinner@Sibu's YMCA... seriously huge mud prawns...

look at the size of the prawns... I'm not kidding man... the head alone was half the size of my palm...

-____-'

forgot the name of the fish... apparently we were told that it is the third most expensive fish in Sibu...

with good food, I owes happy...

oversized bee-hun... with chicken spare parts cooked with wine... *forgot the name d*

a compulsory group shot of the trio... with Sibu's landmark temple behind...

*next up, visit to a modern long house in Sibu Jaya... and it was one hell of a partaaaay...*

Sibu Gawai road trip [preview]

together with Daniel, his colleague and ex-boss, the four of us went to Sibu on Gawai eve for a 3D2N road trip...

chilling in the car...

one of Sibu's famous dishes, and a must-try - Ting Bian Hu (鼎邊糊), seriously it was teh good...

I'll blog about the trip in detail soon...

bought another two, so now I got three...

bought another two more Mini Gundams... one good guy and one bad guy to join the one I purchased earlier... so now I have three...

I like this one's right arm... fully armored and damn macho...

a machine gun on the right, a cannon on the left...

group photo... and probably gonna add another one or two after the Gawai Holiday...

*note: I'm currently on a Gawai road trip to Sibu, and updating the blog in Tanahmas Hotel...*

after 2 hours of polishing...

tired but satisfied... and luckily it didn't rain for the next couple of days... 

mini Gundam

damn cute mini Gundam... so I bought it...

don't play play...

you wan a piece of me, As-X???

hahahahaha.... I'll pulmerise you into many many tiny Ass-Xses baru you tau... 

nyek nyek nyek......

The Eatery @ Four Points Sheraton

As-X was back here in Kuching over the last weekend, but despite telling Daniel about it earlier on... the bugger forgot and booked a trip to Miri with his wife for some Jazz Festival... wtf... and will only be back on Sunday night... so As-X and I decided not to wait until then, and went for the BBQ Seafood Buffet on Saturday...

the variety of food on display for the daily buffet is easily the biggest amongst all the top hotel buffets in Kuching, but the quality is still somewhat to be improved. There is an entry by As-X on the details (negative points) of the buffet... so I'm not gonna blog too much on it here... just some pictures and some nice stuff rather...

we were seated beside the swimming pool... and surprisingly, even though it was full house that night, we were the only two person having our dinner outside...

satay, seafood omelette, roasted chicken, steam chicken, roasted duck... all very nice...

went for almost the same serving for the second round, but took some prawn tempuras...

the chicken rice with steamed chicken, roasted chicken and duck is teh good... I had two servings...

two idiots doing the same camwhore post... wtf...

-_____-'

the bill came to RM140.75 for two... not too bad lah...

my opinion: if they up the quality of the fresh oysters, salmon/tuna sashimis and hire enough waiters/waitresses to attend to diners' needs, then I'm sure The Eatery buffet would be pretty hard to beat for the mass array of cuisines served and price paid per person...

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??

makan makan @ Tarot Cafe

the signature dish Tarot Cafe Nasi Lemak...

Nyonya Chicken with rice @ Tarot Cafe...

I like this one... Fried Seafood Udon...

and finally, wash everything down with this huge pint of ice-cream Coke... 

*buurpppp........*

just to show that i'm still alive...

that bugger As-X has been bugging me for the longest time to update my blog as the last update was on March 24, and it wasn't even blog material, just some paid post that I did... so okla... just to layan (应酬) him, here goes...

Kuching Chicken Rice (猫城鸡饭) @ Song Kheng Hai (宋庆海) hawker centre, probably one of the best chicken rice you can get for RM3.50. This one was RM5 instead as I tambah the sam-cham-bak (三层肉) and tu-teng (猪肠) in my order... and it was seriously good man... 

typical roasted chicken... it was during mum's birthday, and when my sister was back in Kuching for the Chinese New Year... apparently I only remembered to take a snap of the roasted chicken... the rest of the dishes all forgot to take pictures... -_____-'

lou-sang (捞生) @ Lok Thian Restaurant before CNY... 

*yea I know... way overdued picture... so many months ago liaw...*

Daniel & Anna went to Taiwan for their honeymoon, and got me a box of 凤梨酥... many many thanks...

interior...

some of the stuff that I added into the interior...

Tarot Cafe

was introduced to this new cafe in town called Tarot Cafe a few months back... and I like it alot...

not only it serves pretty reasonably priced drinks and food, anyone can book a tarot session to have their future read... not bad of a concept huh??

WIFI is free, and I have been hanging around this place when I need to get some work done over the weekend... 

some light meal to fill up that tummy in order for the brain to function...

and this post is written here at the cafe while doing my work... heh...

my new ride...

this is how it looked like after 3 days out from the Toyota showroom... hehehe... :)

**will post up more photos of the car when I am less busy... followed by a post on my best friend's wedding... shit man... these are really wayy overdue stuff....

another note: "bye bye to my Waja... it has been quite a colourful eight years being with you..."

SOLD.......... to me..........

it was exactly 41 days ago.... when I went over to UMW to sign the loan application and other paperworks...

*will update on the bodyworks and ICE setup that I did to my new ride... got it all done a week+ before the Chinese New Year celebration... hehehe...

another birthday bash@T1

it was a birthday bash + farewell party + New Year celebration... and the attendance was great, almost everyone showed up... :)

Glenfiddich 15 years... seriously good stuff...

the Absolute 100 that Hedo bought back from her Aussie trip...

there was another bottle of Chivas (I think)...

won this huge hamper after the birthday girl decided to dance in the Terminal ONE cage... and there were no other girls who dare challenge her... -_____-'

a bottle of wine - Primo Amore, won after playing some competition organized by the management

and we all ended up piss drunk, with the birthday girl's handphone deciding to go for a dip in her Absolut 100... a good excuse to go buy herself a new gadget for her birthday huh??

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

assorted snapshots III (Christmas mood)

bought this Christmas tree ginger bread cookie from my colleague... the money collected would be donated to the Cheshire Home and the blind centre...

these are good champagne stuff...

@Silhuotte, Spring...

and Hedo bought this Absolut 100 back for me from her Aussie trip... would probably open it for tonight's post-Christmas-Friday night party or New Year Eve party next week... hehehe...

and I got wasted on the Christmas Eve party@Soho (1st floor) btw after downing *dunno how much* Macallan + Absolut Vodka... my buddies had to wake me up when Soho was closing, which was way past 2am... wtf... -______-''