Sunday, June 21, 2015

Sarawak Kuching 沙捞越 古晋 7 June - 11 June 2015

My SIA Krisfler miles earned points will be expired by June 2015. I decided to redeem the mileage earned before it was forfeited. The mileage earned cannot get me too far. The options were Indonesia-Bali, Thailand-Bangkok or Sarawak-Kuching. It has been almost 20 years ago since I joined a tour to Kuching. I decided to make another relaxing short trip to kuching. The aim was to go for some shopping and tasting of the local food that recommended by the trip adviser. I had to pay S$150 for the airport tax to effect the booking.

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.




                                                                          Sarawak Hilton







                                                                        UOB Kuching        

                                                                   Sarawak river
 
















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.



                                                                          Popular Sarawak Lasak
                       

                                                                         Sarawak Kolo Mee


                                                                        Popular Sarawak Lasak


                                                                         Packed coffee shop
                                                                         on Monday morning


                                                                            Ice coffee




                                                                            Lunch at OldTown White Coffee



                                                                             Ice coffee    




                                                                          Steam stew beef rice
                                                                          牛肉蒸饭


                                                                             Ice kajang 红豆冰



                                                                          Unique design wash hand basin









                                                                              Spiral escape staircase
                                                                              similar to Singapore
                                                                              Tiong Bahru post war
                                                                              SIT flat design








                                                                 Police station


                                                                         Creative art work




                                                                               Flat design similar to
                                                                               Singapore Tiong Bahru estate





                                                                             Dinner at Top Spot food court


                                                                           Stall 33 Ling Loong sea food
                                                                           玲珑海鲜

                                                                            Steam grouper fish 蒸石斑鱼


                                                                               Fried butter prawn 牛油虾


                                                                                   Samba midin vegetable
                                                                                   - 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.



                                                                                  Mixed ingredient soup


                                                                                   Plain Kolo mee


                                                                               Freshly brew coffee




                                                                                   Black Americano coffee


                                                                                 Mitsubishi Sigma -
                                                                                 found one in Sarawak
                                                                                 but had already disappeared in Singapore  


                                                                            Mitsubishi Attrage - found one in Sarawak
                                                                            this model has just arrived in Singapore







         
                 
                                                                           Lunch at hawker centre

                                                                              Fried tomato rice noodle
                                                                              - kuay tiow


                                                                             烧卖
               

                                                                              Rojak - prawn paste salad
                                                                              with peanut toppings


                                                                              Soya bean  drink  豆奶

                                                                             Dinner at Top Spot food court


                                                                           Barbecue samba pomfret fish

                                                                           The fish was so good
                                                                           that it left with bones


                                                                               Dou fu 豆腐
                                                                              and samba midin vegetable  


                                                                             Coconut drink to cool
                                                                             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.

                                                                              Niang du fu soup 酿豆腐 汤 and satay

                                                                             Dinner Aladin chicken rice



                                                                               Deep fried banana fritter
                                                                               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.


                                                                              Crossing the river by boat
                                                                              at RM1.00 per trip/head




                                                                              Landed on the other side -
                                                                              Hilton hotel was in the back ground



                                                                                 Mira cake shop








                                                                                 Buffet lunch at Hilton hotel

















                                                                                  MI 377 - 20:55 Kuching
                                                                                  to 22:20 SIN

                                     


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