Selamat 1HariRaya, Ketupat Didahulukan, Rendang Diutamakan..

First of all, I would like to take this opportunity to wish all my Muslim friends:

“Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri, Maaf Zahir Batin.”

Me wishing 1Malaysia -- Selamat 1HariRaya, Ketupat Didahulukan, Rendang Diutamakan. Erk, stammered a bit at the first part because, I’m a bit allergic to this ‘1′ thing *chuckles*

I’m sorry I didn’t extend my Raya greeting earlier but Raya is for the whole month of Syawal and today is only the 4th day of Raya, right? I just came back from a long weekend at my hometown, Sarikei. I went back on Thursday morning with Goolooloo tagging along. She was dropping by Sibu to see her beloved boyfriend.

We started our ‘balik kampung’ journey at 6am, reached Sibu around 11am. The road was pretty clear so I had the road all for myself, all the way up. That explained the 5 hours drive from Miri-Sibu. I stopped for lunch in Sibu before continuing my journey to Sarikei.

I spent my time in Sarikei like how I normally do it when I’m back home. Pigging on food, (my puasa effort during the fasting month went down the drain), watching tv and meeting some friends.

Oh, I met up with Alice’s bro in Sarikei. It was kinda funny. I was having my kampua at Hiek Lik Cafe when I saw a familiar looking guy came in with a red helmet on his hand, sat down across me and ordered what else but kampua.

Infamous kampua at Hiek Lik Cafe. Arguable the best kampua in Sarikei No, kampua is not kolo mee. Kampua > Kolo Mee. HAHA! (Image source: S-blog)

I didn’t go and greet the guy because I was unsure and there wasn’t any telling sign that the guy would know me. So, I gobbled down my tasty kampua and went back home. When I checked my Facebook status:

“Bongkersz Bong is having kampua at Hiek Lik cafe. Yum Yum.” 19 September at 11:31 via Selective Twitter Status

I saw a comment:

“Jimmy Ling oi taukeh!!!!!i think i saw u this morning but i wasn’t sure if it was u! are u still in sarikei? pergi lim teh?” 19 September at 12:05

He gave me his phone number and we met for breakfast cum lunch at Glory Cafe the next day. Hey nice meeting you mate! All the best for your future undertakings! *wink!*

I’ll just end this post with some photos of food only available in Sarikei!

Asam Tom Yam Noodle with Big Ass Prawns at Glory Cafe. Alexallied did a little review on this awesome delicacy before

Roti Kahwin at Aik Seng Cafe. Your tiny puny Roti Kahwin is a no match against our awesome Roti Kahwin *smugs* Even our burgers are bigger than yours! Bwahahahahahahaha! (image source: S-blog)

ps: I just realised that, instead of putting up ketupat or rendang photos, I put up a photo of kampua with char siew (barbecued pork meat). *sweats*.  Please don’t get offended. Photos are for illustration purpose only hehe.

pss: I was busy visiting houses with my partners in crime. Let’s see if there are awesome photos for me to put up on this blog later.

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Wan Burger, The Best Burger Stall in Sarikei!

It’s been a while since I posted anything on food,  if you have noticed. Ehem, yes, I did post other stuffs aside from politics. I posted on how to make your own fried popiah, how to fry a nice, delicious looking crispy fried chicken, my slimy experience, cooking simple home food etc. before. Well you can always hop over to Suituapui’s blog – …Still crazy over food after all this years! for his food posts.

I stopped writing food post after hearing a comment from NH. But today, I’ll make an exception to promote the best burger stall in Sarikei – Wan Burger!

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Fried Popiah, this is how I roll.. yor!

I love deep fried spring rolls/popiah. I am not a big fan of  the wet version of popiah, popular among food lovers. I prefer mine to be brown, hard, oily and crunchy  I will always go for fried popiah if I see it is on sale, it is one of my favourite side dish.

I got the chance to make my own fried popiah just now. This is my first time making my own popiah, and with limited ingredients I had (I was lazy to shop for ingredients normally used to make popiah filling – shrimps, long bean, carrot, turnips, taugeh, bamboo shoots chinese sausage bla bla…) I just used whatever available in the fridge, since I was hungry and in the mood to chew on something..

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Merdeka ‘crabby’ dinner and walking away

It is still not too late for me to say Happy Merdeka Malaysians! Well East Malaysians technically had their independence on September 16th, 1963 so let’s keep this Merdeka mood until September 16th yeah? Everybody happy with the arrangement? Not forgetting, to all my Muslim friends that started fasting since yesterday and going to do so for the rest of the month of Ramadhan – Selamat menjalankan ibadah puasa Ramadhan.

I was back in my hometown – Sarikei for the Merdeka weekends. I drove back to Sarikei on Saturday morning. A 6-hour journey, stopping twice, at Serian and Lachau. (Not Lanchau lah!) The next day I made a quick trip by bus to Sibu for another makan-makan gathering. Ehem, I attended few bloggers meets and the main agenda is always about food, so naturally after few meetings, yours truly received comments like “For some reasons he looked ‘well-fed‘ in this photo“.

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