Chickylicious meal@Ayam Bakar

The 'ayam bakar' or grilled chicken was a halal version of charsiew pork. Nicely caramelized and chargrilled to perfection. Two thumbs up!

The fried chicken was also another halal version of fried pork knuckles. I believe they have a really large and deep pot of hot frying oil to have fried the drumstick so evenly: crunchy on the outside and tender on the inside. Ooohlala!

The fried squid slices however was rather disappointing. When served, they were already kinda cold. As if fried in a big batch much earlier on and placed on one side. I guess the tip is not to order another genre of food eg seafood when the restaurant says 'Chicken'.

The final dish, desserts! This I gotta say was really interesting. My first time having banana fritters coated with melted cheese inside and sprinkled cheese toppings. Though I found it rather strange to have fritters for dinner, but for testing new food's sake..oh well!

It was pretty yummy as they used really good sweet nicely ripened bananas. And yeah, it actually went rather well with the savoury cheese taste. Who would have known?

But.. oh my. One fritter was enough. Sinfulness score hits the roof.

Id definitely come back here again!

Famous laksa@Kopitiam next to KPJ Kuching Hospital

My ex-colleague's mama runs this kopitiam where the town's famous laksa stall is located at.

I wanted to go say Hi to her mama but that particular morning, she wasn't at the drinks counter.

Almost 80% of patrons were seen eating the laksa. WHOAH. Ani hojiak?

The higher the price you pay, the larger your prawns become.

I ordered the smallest bowl, RM 5.50.

The noodles are slightly different from the conventional beehoon. Somewhat thicker and harder.

The soup was power-packed with prawny taste and rather viscous too. Seemed like the effect of boiling the soup with good quality ingredients over a long period.

Thumbs up to this laksa I must say, but I feel Penang's laksa (the one located behind Royal hotel) puts up a pretty good fight to this one, but that stall owner is always unpleasant...

Downside of having this early in the morning..... killer prawn breath whole day long. *burps*

Late night dessert@Tom's

On my first trip to Kuching years ago, an old friend brought me here to try out their cakes. Widely known among localites here. I vaguely remembered my dining experience was quite good then.

Since my hotel is nearby Tom's during this recent trip to Kuching, I brought my friends to pay a visit for desserts.

The restaurant was less crowded than how I remembered it was years ago. In fact we were first to walk in at 9 pm.

We ordered a tiramisu and strawberry shortcake, both recommended by the waitress, apparently Tom's signature cakes.

The tiramisu had a strong taste of kinder bueno, not bad, but a little hard.

The strawberry shortcake on the other hand was rather ordinary. Maybe I've eaten the best which was Patisserie Rui's...hmmm..

In fact for the size and quality, I actually found them rather expensive! Total for 2 cakes were RM 29.

I think this would probably be my last visit here.... sorry, my dear Tom's.

Taste is subjective, it is not my cup of tea now. :)

First encounter of Dayak cuisine@The Dyak

A customer brought us here for dinner.. dayak food, wow. My first time having a dayak cuisine. Boy was I excited alright.

The restaurant is run by these two sweet elderly couple and the place was decently decorated ...with native paintings and native instrumental forresty music at the background.

The sambal anchovies was superb. Wok-hei and spicy! Opened our tastebuds before the main dishes came.

The fried ferns were delicious too. One of local kuchingite favourites. Dayaks seem to love their dishes spicy all the way. Suits me just fine!

We ordered their trademark 3 layer pork and grilled pork longhouse style. Wow. They tasted really good. Somehow the pork tasted rugged, a little tougher, much like wild boar's meat. But well marinated and flavoured.

The dishes did resemble a little bit of the nyonya style to me, but still has its own character.

The elderly lady owner was very friendly and spoke to us for a while, recognizing that our tones really pointed us out that we were from 'the other side'.

She passed us a little memoir book to pen down our thoughts and comments over our dining experience here. Many from all over Malaysia and overseas left kind messages on the book and I'm sure every word made her husband happy, whom I believe is the head of the kitchen.

Kudos to the couple and all the best in your business!

Early morning breakfast@Tony Fernandez's red wings

Jet setter week.

A day's work in Penang.

Now off to Kuching for another 3 days' work.

7 am flights really stones you out.

Lucky for some breakfast meals to keep the momentum going on.

Fried rice with chicken satay combo, rm12. I was rather disappointed with it as I recalled having it once on my flight to Seoul and boy oh boy it was yummylicious.

But this one proved its QC might need a little improvement. You can tell from the colour of the food that it is a let down.

My health conscious friend on the other hand chose the angmoh breakfast, cold cut chicken sandwich, which was surprisingly quite good. They were not stingy with the chicken fillings, BIG PHEW. The bread was a little dry but not a big matter.

Looking forward for a fruitful working trip and foodieventure too!