Second Kuching food day

Thursday was another food day for us. We did take some photos around town, but all those were already in the earlier posts. The day was extremely hot, so we didn’t go anywhere new and spent more time in the hotel.

We started off with breakfast at Noodle Descendants, which was a very highly-recommended kolo mee shop. But we didn’t find it that good… We also waited an extremely long time for our food, despite getting a seat fairly quickly and the shop not having a lot of tables (and thus not a lot of customers).

Our conclusion here was that people in Kuching are not chasing after money as hard as those in Penang… in Penang the seller would have been working at top speed so that the customers would be done eating and leave quickly, making room for further customers!

"kosong" noodles

mix pork soup

normal kolo mee

At lunchtime, we went to Song Kheng Hai food court.

coco-cane, sugar cane juice with coconut pieces inside

belacan beehoon

Not to my liking, though I guess it's not bad... My parents said it was good, I say it was special :P

crispy tomato noodles

Not that good. The best tomato noodles that we had was at the Tower Market.

kompia

We took the original pork version, so it was just like having some char siu filling inside. I feel it was quite nice, because the outside was crispy and fragrant. Like bagels...but more fragrant.

popiah, nothing special...

After that, because it was a hot day, we tried another gula apong ice-cream not far away, on the way back to the hotel.

gula apong flavour on the left, gula apong + vanilla flavour on the right

This was more like a sorbet, not so creamy. But I like the gula apong taste.

That night we went to Lepau Restaurant, which was highly recommended by everyone. It serves traditional Dayak food. We had tried to reserve a dinner slot on Tuesday, but they said they were full (we contacted them on Tuesday afternoon), so we reserved for Thursday instead.

inside, where we sat (the photo is taken from our table)

outside

iced lemongrass and wheatgrass milk (wheatgrass C)

On the menu it said pandan lemongrass, but I'm not sure whether in the end they omitted the pandan. As for the wheatgrass milk, my father saw the drink on another table and asked the waitress what it was.

They had only two slots available for reservations: between 6pm and 6:30pm and 8:30pm onwards. In between, we would have to walk in and depend on our luck to get a table. They said they would release our reservation if we didn’t show up after 15 minutes.

We reserved for 6:30pm, and it might not have been the right choice… so many tables had ordered while we were looking at the menu, and we had to wait really long for our food.

kacangma chicken (kacangma is a herb called motherwort)

pansuh chicken (chicken cooked in bamboo). Pity it wasn't served in bamboo...

red bario rice wrapped in itun sip (a type of wild ginger leaf)

the rice inside

They had rice without the wrapping as well, but we had to go for the full experience :P

midin belacan, again! ♥

fiona fish

We didn't really understand why it was called fiona fish. It was supposed to be cooked with tepus, which is a kind of ginger. The fish fillet is fried. It seemed to taste a bit like sweet sour fish, but there were slices of ginger in there...so we weren't really sure whether they brought us the correct dish!

We did over-order for the three of us, because we expected the dishes to be smaller. Everything was good though! We only left a bit of rice behind.