7 June 2015 (Sunday)
Our itinerary, departing by Silk Air, MI 378, 18:55 (SIN) to 20:10 (Kuching). Returning by Silk Air, MI 377, 20:55 (Kuching) to 22:20 (SIN). The flight took 1hr 15 mins. We took a taxi (RM26.00) from the Kuching International airport to the Hilton Hotel. The Hilton hotel was facing the Sarawak river. The scenery was beautiful. We checked in the King Executive Plus room. The room we stayed in was spacious. There was a King size bed and a lounge sofa set. There were some eating outlets along the side walk of the river. The stalls were closed in the day and only opened at night. We had light supper before going to bed.
8 June 2015 (Monday)
We walked to Jalan Abell to look for the Chong Choon cafe. We had the popular Poh Lam Laksa and the Sarawak kolo mee 干捞腼. We then shopped around Jalan Padungan. There were furniture shops, vehicle spare parts shops, Chinese medical shops, eating shops, sundry shops, bakery shops etc. We back tracked to the Hill Shopping Mall and had lunch at the OldTown White Coffee. I guessed this could be another outlet belonging to Singapore Media Corp artist Mark Lee (李国蝗）. We went back to the hotel for a short rest and then went to the hotel gym to do some work out. We had our dinner at the popular Top Spot food court. This food court is famous for sea food. It only opened in the evening. It is a popular food outlet not only for the locals but it is also for the tourists. We had seam grouper fish, butter prawns and samba midin vegetable for RM70. We can't enjoy this pricing back home. After dinner we went to the Parkson departmental stall, that was within short walking distance from our hotel, for an evening shopping.
on Monday morning
牛肉蒸饭
similar to Singapore
Tiong Bahru post war
SIT flat design
Singapore Tiong Bahru estate
玲珑海鲜
- a type of fern
9 June 2015 (Tuesday)
We walked to Lebuh Carpenter street. This is the China Town of Kuching. There are the Kuching Hainanese Association, the Kwong Wai Siew Association. and a Chinese temple. We ordered 2 bowls of kolo mee and a bowl of mixed ingredient soup for breakfast. We had the freshly brewed Americano black coffee at the Black Bean Coffee & Tea Company 黑豆食品 . It costed RM 4.00 per cup. After our morning good coffee , we spent the whole morning shopping at the Plaza Merdeka mall. We had our lunch at the near by hawker center tasting the special tomato fired kueh tiaw ( rice noddle) and rojak (local prawn paste salad). We continued our shopping at the Plaza Medeka after lunch. Dinner was again back to the Hot Spot food court. For the change, we had barbecue samba pomfret, dou fu, and samba midin vegetable. We had coconut juice to cool our body temperature.
found one in Sarawak
but had already disappeared in Singapore
this model has just arrived in Singapore
- kuay tiow
with peanut toppings
that it left with bones
and samba midin vegetable
the body temperature
10 June 2015 (Wednesday)
We walked to Lebuh Carpenter for lunch. We had Niang Dou Fu 酿豆腐 and Satay, We continued our shopping at the Plaza Merdeka. All of us managed to get our bargain hunting. We had the popular China Town Aladin chicken rice for dinner. We were considered lucky to find a table because it was a Wednesday. I was told it will be very difficult to get a table if it is on week ends. I also noticed that the shops at China Town close early around 6.00 pm.
油酢香蕉
11 June 2015 (Thursday)
We walked to China Town to do some last minutes purchasing before checking out. We also took a boat crossing the Sarawak River to buy the popular mira cakes. The boat ride that lasted 3 minutes costing RM 1.00 per person one way. We had buffet lunch at the hotel restaurant before getting a taxi to the Kuching International airport for home. It was indeed a very relaxing trip.
at RM1.00 per trip/head
Hilton hotel was in the back ground
to 22:20 SIN
