Year: 2008

It’s been a long long long long time not having seafood meal with my family. We used to go to Pending Seafood Centre quite often more than 10 years back, we stopped going there for no apparent reason and we only patroned one of the seafood restaurants at Buntal. Then after that, for don’t-know-how-many-years we didn’t go to Buntal for seafood anymore.

Last Sunday was Mooncake Festival and my dad decided to go to Pending Seafood Centre for seafood lunch as my sis complained that last year when she was back, we didn’t go to have seafood at any seafood restaurant but only had seafood at home ;p.

This is the first time we dined at L&L Seafood. This one can be seen from the parking lot. We used to go to the one at the back, don’t remember the name.

Left: Midin with belacan. Not so bad. By the way, if you come to Kuching, you must have this coz you can’t get it anywhere else except Sarawak. I’m not sure Sabah got or not. This is something we will feast our friends from outside Sarawak with and surprisingly they LOVE it! Many actually crave for it when they gone back home.
Right: Sea cucumber soup. Tasteless…

Left: Bamboo clam with curry or in Hokkien we called it “tek ham choo curry“, this you see here got the shells removed. It’s on the sweeter note but it tasted OK.
Right: Buttered prawn. It’s quite nice though it’s not the best.

“O jien” or oyster omelette. This is also something we will bring our friends from outside Kuching to eat. *SLURP* ARG…. Make me hungry ;p

There you go… Our Mooncake Festival lunch at Pending Seafood Centre. Total damage including drinks were RM75+

Hehehe… Just had durian last week. I don’t think I had posted any in this blog, blogged about it in my previous non-CMS blog. I got new photos to show you and reintroduce durian to you. *LOL* I have so many pending photos to edit, haven’t have the time yet, so just do a quick update here.

Here’s what I got from wiki:

The durian (IPA: [ˈd(j)ÊŠriÉ™n, -É‘n]) is the fruit of trees from the genus Durio belonging to the Malvaceae, a large family which includes hibiscus, okra, cotton, mallows, and linden trees. Widely known and revered in Southeast Asia as the “King of Fruits”, the fruit is distinctive for its large size, unique odour, and formidable thorn-covered husk.

The durian, native to Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia, has been known to the western world for about 600 years. The British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace famously described its flesh as “a rich custard highly flavoured with almonds” in the 19th century.

Southeast Asian folk beliefs, as well as traditional Chinese medicine, consider the durian fruit to have warming properties liable to cause excessive sweating. The traditional method to counteract this is to pour water into the empty shell of the fruit after the pulp has been consumed and drink it. An alternative method is to eat the durian in accompaniment with mangosteen, which is considered to have cooling properties. Pregnant women or people with high blood pressure are traditionally advised not to consume durian.

Another common local belief is that the durian is harmful when eaten with coffee or alcoholic beverages. The latter belief can be traced back at least to the 18th century when Rumphius stated that one should not drink alcohol after eating durians as it will cause indigestion and bad breath.

What else you want to share about durian? I personally prefer the one that comes with a hint of bitterness.

My parents bought then on the way back from Sadong. Don’t remember how much, they bought 5 durians back.

Frankly I don’t really like to eat durian now, a bit is fine, not too many. The smell could linger on for days. Nice to eat but not so nice to smell hahaha…