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... -_____-

and you think food served in pubs sucked...

was at Ipanema having beer with Daniel the other night when I felt like ordering some finger food because I didn't have dinner that night. ordered Lamb Bits and Mussels, and the dishes came out to be pretty impressive... especially the later...


chunks of deep-fried lamb... compliments well with the mayonnaise...


slightly cooked mussels with melted cheese... damn good stuff, add on more mayonnaise if you want to...

my weekend...

I was at Seattle Coffee & Tea after my appointment with the doctor to have an ice-cold milkshake with Alex and Hedo. After that, went over to LEA Center at Hopoh to check out the sales there, and ended up buying 2 Nike Polo Shirts for RM79.90. Alex bought himself 3 shirts (I think) while Hedo is the new owner of a pair of Adidas sneakers. Argghh.... spend money again!!!

Verdict: Sales is the root of all evil!!!

went for dinner at Koreana Restaurant with Jo in the evening. This time around, we only spent somewhat RM50 for the meal... pretty cheap considering we spent RM160+ on Japanese food last month...


Then, Piccadilly's we went as FEVER was having this crap looking live band thingy that didn't seem amusing. We sat outside of Piccadilly's comfy couches and had the usual beer/stout. Yea... I resume drinking already, but just one or two lah... :)


went for a late breakfast on the Sunday morning. both of us had Laksa, RM5 each as this one came with plenty of chicken thigh meat, skin and 3 huge prawns. worth it lahh....


In the evening after the usual swim, accompanied the taukeh-neo to her office as she needed to finish up some of her work reports. While she was busy working on her reports, I watched the movie - View From The Top by Gwyneth Paltrow using her new laptop. pretty good and romantic (in some sense) a movie, and after I was done, have to wait another half hour or so before we got to leave Pending area for a late dinner downtown.


and guess what I got for accompanying her to work on a Sunday evening?? a few notepads, some A4 size writing pads and pens from Servier... ''-____-