Saturday, July 19th, 2008 57 views
Just came back from breakfast with Will Chua and Kong Kay. Will Chua is in Kuching now, he called me last night asking whether I would like to join him and Kong Kay for breakfast which I happily agreed. I met up with Will Chua and his friends - Siti and Peter at Cold Storage near Green Height. I parked my car there and joined their car, being the clueless Kuching bloody tourist hahahaha! Then we drove up to Batu Kawa, where Kong Kay was waiting somewhere along the road 
We reached our destination at Batu Kawa Bazaar and the moment I step out from the car, Kong Kay came to me, “Nah!! Your kompia!” Hahahaha! What a great meet up line!!! 
Thanks Kong Kay for treating me to a big plastic bag full of kompia, that’s so kind of you!!
A big plastic bag of kompia!! 
We had our breakfast at this one coffee shop at Batu Kawa old town. I actually had no idea what is the coffee shop name because I didn’t pay attention to anything other than the food and ehem.. meeting new friends hehe.. but being the resourceful me (*brag brag.. gloat gloat*) I googled! True enough, Kong Kay blogged about it before here and here 
The coffee shop name is Chin Chan Lee, for direction to the place go read Kong Kay’s posts. 
In Kuching you always for either Sarawak Laksa or Kolo Mee for breakfast. We had Kolo Mee P’ang Ang (with Char Siew Oil) and 2 bowls of meatball and meat cake slices to be shared, and kompia!!
Kompia overdosed… 
Kompia - A simple salted dough, baked in traditional open oven (quoting STP) best served hot because it tends to get hard and ‘chewy’ when it is cold. This is the original version, my favorite!
Kolo Mee with Char Siew Oil - I must say the taste is heavenly.. really!! Very NOICE!!! 9.5/10
Old fashion soda - the venerable cream soda (Will Chua and Kong Kay had this), Teh C, 2 bowls of meat balls and meat cake slices soup, chili padi with limequart and soy sauce to down with the noodle and soup
Lastly, the obligatory group photo! I proudly present to you…. jeng jeng jeng…
Taa daa!! From left: Yours truly, Siti, Will Chua and Kong Kay. (Peter - the cameraman) Yes, I am aware they look very familiar.. you probably saw them somewhere before.. 
Had a blast meeting you guys!! Thanks for the kompia and wonderful breakfast, Kong Kay! Looking forward to hang out with you people again! 
Anyone else up for another meet up?
ps: More meet up = more food = more roundness and chubbyness.. I am definitely on my way to dethrone Suituapui! Nyahahahahaha!
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 23 views
Last Sunday, I had a ‘makan’ session with some friends at Lau Ya Keng Food Court, Carpenter Street.
Lau Ya Keng Food Court is located opposite a Chinese temple along Carpenter Street . It is very easy to find, smack in the middle of Kuching city centre. A simple food court that has been around for decades and is very popular with locals - breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Chinese Temple opposite Lau Ya Keng
Since I am still considered as a noob in Kuching, a lady friend ordered for us.
She was from Kuching, now residing in Petaling Jaya and was in Kuching here for leisure. 
Another friend with his partner from Penang - they were here for the Rainforest World Music Festival also joined us for the ‘makan’ session. We had Oh Chor Mee and Dry ‘Kiaw’.
Dry ‘Kiaw’/'Pien Neek’/Wantan/Wanton/Wuntun
Kuching people called it ‘kiaw’ (Hokkien dialect) and if you go to Sibu or Sarikei they called it ‘Pien Neek’ (Foochow dialect) and in Peninsular, they just called it ‘wantan’ (Cantonese dialect). In Itali, they called it ‘ravioli’. Ok I bluff you on the Italian part You can have the wantan dry or with soup. I don’t think they serve it dry in Peninsular, they only have fried and soup wantan. Probably it is because, from what I noticed that, in Sarawak you get a generous meat filling for the wantan but in Peninsular they are pretty kiam-siap (stingy) so most of the time you end up having just the skin/wrappers-made from fresh dough with insignificant meat filling. Imagine a bowl of ‘dry wantan’ where you just eat the wrappers. Ughh…
Oh Chor Mee - Chinese Black Vinegar Mee.
It is basically Kolo Mee added with Chinese black vinegar according to my friend. I first thought it is just another Kolo Mee with extra ingredients. (Special Kolo Mee) The taste?? Awesome!! The vinegar gave the mee some extra flavor and aroma - slightly sweet and sourish, add that to the saltiness and sweetness of the Kolo Mee, it is a make-match made in heaven. Go satisfy your craving now!!
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 14 views
Lately, I make it a habit for me to prepare and bring my own food to work Yes, I decided to take the matter into my own hands (literally) since my last post bitching about the lousy food and sucky service at my workplace’s canteen. Sorry but I will never ever spend another ringgit there.
I prepared this just now.. for my lunch tomorrow 
Tomorrow’s Lunch Cooked Today!!
Stir Fried Chicken with Mushrooms
Green Beans with Eggs
Wake up early tomorrow, re-heat the dishes Home cooked meals rawks!! Good night!!
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Monday, July 7th, 2008 42 views
I was in Sibu yesterday. Met up with STP, Huai Bin and Goolooloo. Originally I was there to meet STP, because I wanted to bash him up for ‘butchering’ my slimy lady’s fingers post I was back to Sarikei on Friday night, spent a day at home sweet home, the next morning went up to Sibu to ‘bash up’ STP.
Then STP told me he invited Huai Bin and Goolooloo aka Mary to join our little makan session (with STP sure makan lah what else? :P) and I was more than happy to meet new friends. I arrived in Sibu around 8.45am, STP fetched me from the bus terminal and we headed for breakfast at Grace Cafe. I had this for breakfast, while waiting for HB and Mary to show up.
Dien Bien Hu aka Tien Pien Hu aka Dian Bian Gu… whatever they call it, it’s yummylicious!!
I finally had the chance to meet the legendary sixthseal.com’s blogger - Mr. Poh Huai Bin in person. I have been reading his blog for quite sometime since his ‘wild’ days. Cool guy I must say. (That’s all you can say about a guy in this blog.. say too much it may end up misinterpreted by some people.. especially when you have ehemm.. Drumstick, STP, Melbie, Man-D, Lola and Mar commenting.. Nyahahahaha!!) A very friendly, charming guy (that explained his persona among the girls heh??? Hahaha!) We chatted like old buddies, plus when you have STP around, you will never end out of topics to talk about.
Goolooloo was late because ehem.. of some miscommunications, so we decided to go to STP’s favourite’s - Ruby Restaurant. I was craving for the Butter Scotch Prawns and man, you got to try it when you are in Sibu. Mouth watering..
Butter Scotch Prawns - photo pimped from sixthseal.com
Finally, Goolooloo aka Mary, the Taukeh-Nio came to meet us at Ruby Restaurant and we shall wait no more! Bring on the food!! I did not take any photo because my toy is… too small to bring out (Lucky Claire was not there.. ) So I pimped any photo I can get from HB and Mary.
Me and HB having beers.. er, a bit too early hahaha! - photo pimped from goolooloo.com
Yes, any amount of alcohol.. even a drop of it.. I went ‘pink’. But worry not, ehem.. I am very confident with my alcohol-tolerance limit. Bring it on
I was not blushing…. 
The Feast
STP’s famous ice blended coffee- yes, that is the name.
Nice to meet you guys - HB and Mary and Suituapui, it is nice to see you again Hope you see you people again (at RWMF?? Come lah Suituapui.. I buy you ticket :P) Thanks for having me, such a pleasure meeting you guys
ps: Next week is Rainforest World Music Festival, RWMF - going to meet with more blogger friends on my blogroll - Melbie, Man-D, LadyBird
pss: It looks like I am making a lot of progress for my ‘Things To Do In The Nearest Future’ Item No. 4 For the past 6 months, I made a lot of new friends in Facebook and made efforts to meet up with them and those on my blogroll. I know most of them in my blogroll personally - old friends, uni friends, juniors from secondary school, friends’ friends and of course, some are new friends I already met these people - Lola, Cibol, Mary aka Drumstick, Clare, Ah Po, NoktahHitam, Charyelle, Alice, Clement, Suituapui, Bengbeng, WongPK, Jing, Angeles, Jason, Alvin, Nono, Patt, Azira, Mary aka Goolooloo, Huai Bin and I am looking forward to meet the rest!! Zewt? Coolku? Rose? Just to name few 
psss: “A friend is one the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.”
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Friday, June 27th, 2008 13 views
Tired of talking the same shits over and over again.
Like a broken record.
Disheartened.
This is lady’s fingers. (bhindi or sayur bendi)
One of my favourite food
I first made this when I was 10. Standard 4. Mom was working. I came back early from somewhere. Playing marbles or shooting game with friends, I can’t remember. Shooting game was fun. You have this wooden ‘rifle’, with rubber bands, nails and cloth peg tied on it to create some kind of shooting mechanism. The ‘rifle’ normally is just a piece of wood plank, chopped into a ‘rifle’ shape or something comfortable depending on your creativity. My first ‘rifle’ was ugly.. I remember because the kids at the neighbourhood were laughing at me.
Prototype of my ‘rifle’
We use young cherry (actually I don’t know what is the name of the plant.. we called it buah ceri.. at that time.. but.. buah ceri is different.. ah nevermind, tak penting) as bullets. Other plants where we used as bullets are ‘pokok jelai’ and ‘batang bemban’. Sorry I have no idea how to translate that Quite painful if you are shot with one of this haha!
Eh sorry, I was supposed to talk about lady’s fingers..
Back to the story.. I used to help my mom to prepare the dish. Eldest in the family.. ‘forced to’ haha! At 10, I was just helping with cleaning the vegetables, take out the frozen meats from the freezer and put it in water to defrost it. Chop some onions, garlics. That’s it. My mom would come chop the vegetables, meats and cook for dinner when she came home.
But that day, I was trying to impress my mom My mom told me to wash the lady’s fingers and cook the rice. Cooking rice is easy.. so I learned how to do at very early age and very fast Simple tip is the water should come up the side of the pan as far again as the rice does. Use your finger to measure So, after I cooked my rice, I decided to help my mom to chop the lady’s fingers as well. After chopping it, I soaked it in water just like what I normally did with other vegetables.
That was what I did wrong… Lady’s finger has this edible seeds that will release a sticky, viscous liquid when chopped and cooked. Some people stay away from eating it for this reason. Some people eat it for that reason as well. So I dumped it in the water after chopped it, and the sticky liquid mixed with the water making the lady’s finger gooey and very slimy… Looks very yucky. We normally cook it without adding much water because we do not like it ‘gooey’ and sticky.. Hence the reason many people do not eat this dish because they think of it as slimy and not appealing.
My mom came back and saw the slimy looking lady’s finger and scolded me.. “Hah, geh kiang la!” (Pretend smart lah!) “Now who want to eat this?” I told my mom I would eat it.. 
No.. I didn’t finish it.. because it tastes so yucky.. 
I have learned my lesson after that.. how to cook lady’s fingers.. and to take good care of lady’s fingers…
What a slimy experience!
Lil Wayne ft. Static Major - Lollipop
This song is kinda stupid.. but nevermind, it’s Friday. Let’s get retarded!!!!!!!!!!!
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