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The BanQuet – Installation Ceremony & Press Conference

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It was the installation ceremony, press conference cum soft opening yesterday at The BanQuet. Their trial run period will be 15 days starting today. They will prefer you to book within this 15 days rather than walk-in. Grand opening will be on 21st April. It’s a very hi-tech restaurant. You know why? According to the owner, their ordering and billing systems are all computerised. Your orders will be sent to the drinks section, the kitchen and other related departments via computer, then when you pay, everything is in the POS already.


As usual, some speeches from the management and then installation ceremony started.


Left: The awards won by Chef Foong Kok Thin from Singapore.
Right: The chef in actions.

More actions…

TADA! The two dishes. I’m not sure what were those as I wasn’t concentrate on what he said, I’m busy with my camera hahaha… These two dishes are available under the western cuisine menu.

I want to eat them!!! I have never experience fine dining in my life. So suaku! No money lar! Also don’t have the right people to go with. Hopefully Advertlets can get me some of these hehehe 😛 If you want also, go sign up with Advertlets too hahaha…

Next up… Lunch! FOOD~~~

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The BanQuet

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WAHAHA!!! I hope I’m the first in Kuching blogsphere to blog about this new place, The BanQuet. A place for your wedding and formal/casual functions. Basically it’s a restaurant with different touch, not your typical restaurant. They provide Chinese food, western food or you can even combine both of them for your function. You can even opt for outdoor wedding banquet there.

How lucky I am to be able to go there to eat for FREE! WAHAHAH! I really can’t help it! Hehehe… That’s how lucky it is to be a food blogger 😛 Just joking, I’m not that popular to the extend where people actually invite me to their soft opening. Still, I was invited because… It’s related to my work and at the same time have fun eating hehehe… I’m not working there just in case you thought I am. An affiliate invited us over to introduce some people to us and to let me take photos for one of our projects. I think 99% I’m the first one to blog about it!! Damn kiasu le~~~

Let me present to you… THE BANQUET! Situated near Everrise 4th Mile. It’s quite easy to spot.

Left: The big bright orange signboard.
Right: The main hall entrance.


Left: The outdoor are where you can have your outdoor wedding dinner a.k.a garden wedding.
Right: The fountain with little blinking lights. It’s much obvious at night, it’ll be like stars.


Left: The lounge+western restaurant. You can hang out with your friends for a drink there.
Right: View taken from outside the lounge.


Interior of the lounge.


Left & middle: Our welcome drinks. It’s not orange juice. It’s some sort of mixed fruit juice. Not sure what it is hehehe…
Right: The main hall.


Table decorations.


Left: The hall again.
Right: The stage.

Done… Installation ceremony and cooking demo coming up next…

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Go Fun Kee

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GO FUNKY!! Hahahaha… This is actually the previous Red Tea Road at Third Mile. They had changed their name to Go Fun Kee, specialised in Bak Kut Teh. They still have those popular bubble and milk teas on sell but it’s not longer their primary business.

Left: Ice Lemon Tea(RM1.60) and Jasmine Milk Tea(RM2.70). The Jasmine Milk Tea still tastes as good as before.
Right: Chili(very small type, very spicy) and garlic for Bak Kut Teh. Very colourful right? Hahaha.. You guess it right! Bak Kut Teh again! This is the 3rd time I’m eating Bak Kut Teh this year.


Left: With light soy sauce. I prefer to have it this way.
Right: With dark soy sauce.


Left: What do you think this is? Hmm… Imagine you are around the pig or chicken farm area. This is the smell you will get. It’s “chou dou fu”, smelly tofu! Hahahah… It’s not that empowering but for those that are quite sensitive, I’m sure they can’t even put them into their mouth and might just puke everything out. I’m sure it’s improvised to suit our local taste. The actual smelly tofu should be much more empowering. This should be the only place in Kuching that sells smelly tofu. For portion like this, it will cost you RM2.50.


Left: The main course! Bak Kut Teh! Very thick. We ordered the set which cost us RM13 for 2 persons. You can choose 4 type of spare parts of the pig from the menu. You can choose from liver, intestines, lean meat, fat meat, stomach etc.
Right: Plain rice.

Guees what? The coffee shop is graded with “B”. Hmm… I wonder why is it “B”? AH!!! Must be that smelly tofu. The council’s officers might have smell the smell of the tofu but didn’t know it’s the tofu and thought that it’s from the toilet. That’s why they gave them a “B”. Hahaha…

Get funky with Bak Kut Teh!

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Bling Bling With Advertlets

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All right people! Get ready for another money making opportunity! Goshh… I’m so money face! Who cares? Who doesn’t want money? I saw Advertlets’ poll in many bloggers’ site but I didn’t bother much about it until my friend asked me to try out the poll by Advertlets. Since I was still busy, I didn’t bother much about it after taking part in the poll.

Finally I have a bit of time to sign up and go tru’ it. At the beginning, it’s just simply register and copy paste the codes into your blog. When the time comes, they will generate adverts that are relevant to your blog. This will make sure your readers will not be bombard with unrelated advertisements. For me the concept is the same as the one I registered earlier on from another company. They both claim that we can make money from it. That’s why I register. I don’t mind who will give me more money as long that they can generate money for me. Hahaha…

Frankly, to us, we don’t really mind as long that they can generate money. I found out that, if a blogger is register with Advertlets, he or she will sure to sign up with the other one. It really doesn’t matter at all. Bloggers don’t really mind but advertisers do. They are the one that will make decision of where to advertise. The one with more advertisers will win of course. Still… As long that there’s money given to us, we don’t mind.

Just recently I received a mail saying that they will be having feature where bloggers will be paid for blogging about products and services. Advertlets is started by Malaysians to Malaysians. Therefore things that we are going to write about will be much more applicable to us. Also, no language restriction applied. This is a good chance for many bloggers that blog in other languages as my friend has been seeing GREEN that I’m making money in the US based one. *blek*

Look at the ad banners at my sidebar. You can see two of them right? I’m not practicing favouritism, I have no idea who to place first so I resorted to placing them based on alphabetical order. 😛

So… Why wait? Sign up now and be a part of us!

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Sweet & Spicy Tapioca Snack

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I missed calculated the time for PPP’s USD1K post 🙁 I thought it’s today but it happened yesterday dawn if not mistaken while I’m alseep!


Sweet & spicy tapioca snack is our local snack. It’s my favourite!!! Yummy… Yummy… Usually I bought this on the way back from Lundu, RM1 per packet but it’s smaller now compare to last time. You can get it here in Kuching too but doubt that it will be so cheap. Producing this snack is a type of cottage industry.

People that like something sweet and spicy will definitely like it. The tapioca is thinly sliced, then deep fried. After that, they are fried with chili, sugar and a bit of salt. Some can be very spicy, some not so spicy depends on who is the maker.

Last time my mom did try to do it herself but don’t know why it’s not crispy enogh. This is a very addictive snack. Oncce you tried you, you will want to have more. I want more! *drool*

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