Category: Uniquely Kuching

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Sarawak Museum Special Tour 2023 (Limited Time Only)

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The Sarawak Museum closed its door to visitors in 2017 for renovation and restoration works. This year, they have this special tour for those interested in having a sneak peek of the old museum. You can do pre-booking. You have to walk in to secure a spot.

Just head over to the Borneo Cultures Museum and book a slot. There are two slots, 10.30am and 2.30pm. Each slot only has 15 spots. Hence, it is on a first-come-first-serve basis. You’ll have a better chance in the morning, on a working day, and not school holiday. We were fortunate to be the first to register for the morning slot. This is actually my second attempt ;p

Meanwhile, the tour is free of charge. The museum staff will conduct the tour in English. They will use Malay if everyone knows the language (it depends on the staff’s discretion). However, English is still the main language.

On this tour, they will only show you the first floor. The ground floor is still not accessible as work is still in progress. You will have to remove your shoes to go in.

Do note that the museum is currently empty. All the old exhibits were moved. Some of them still can be seen in the other building, Natural History Museum, just down the road. With the empty museum, you will get to see the murals clearly. The murals have a history of its own.

Lastly, I have to remind you that the tour will end this month end. I’m not sure of the exact date but better go there before 20th July to be safe. They will close the museum again until further notice. Maybe for another 3 years.

Public Events, Uniquely Kuching

Museum of the Moon at Borneo Cultures Museum

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I was curious about what is Museum of the Moon at Borneo Cultures Museum was all about. Saw many people posted about it. A few days ago, I had the opportunity to visit it with a friend from West Malaysia.

Many wondered how they got such a big item into the museum and hung it so high up. It’s actually an inflatable sphere. You can imagine it as a gigantic beach ball printed with the moon’s surface. As simple as that. Hehehe…

To see it, you will have to pay like usual to visit the museum to see the moon. It’s not confined to a small place for itself. It occupies the whole museum. Since I’m a Sarawakian, I paid RM10 for it. Check out the entrance fee in the photo carousel.

The inflatable moon is hung high up there. The best photo spot would be on the 4th floor (at least for me) instead of the 5th floor. The 4th floor has excellent natural lighting albeit being a bit far from it. As for the 5th floor, it’s quite dark and everyone wanted to take their photo from the 5th floor because they didn’t know they could get good and fun photos from the 4th floor too.

Have you been there? If you are interested, better go now before it’s too late. You still have over a month to see it. It will end on 5th August 2023.

Public Events, Uniquely Kuching

Kuching Festival 2022 Live Cooking

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Went to Kuching Festival 2022 many times, yet didn’t get the chance to take a video of it. We’re always there for a short time just to get some takeaways for dinner and left. Also, by the time we’re there, it’s already packed. It’s so hard to take proper video or even to move around.

This video is a compilation of some live cooking that I managed to capture last week. It rained midway. Otherwise, there would be more. When the rain stopped, we were rushing to get our dinner and left as it was getting late and the crowd was pouring in.

How many times have you joined in the fun at the festival? I think I should be going there again one more time one of these days. Do check out my latest post of the festival on my Instagram if I did go again.

After Kuching Festival, the Mid-autumn Festival will take place at the Carpenter Street. It’s another round of gastronomy fun. We’ll see what I will be able to get there by then.

Food Porn, Public Events, Uniquely Kuching, Vlog

Kuching Festival 2022

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Have you visited Kuching Festival at MBKS? After not having it for two years, it’s back this year. More stalls and more food. It started on 29 July 2022 and will end on 21 August 2022. I’ve been there 4 times. How about you?

Here’s the compilation of my visit. I foresee that I will be going there again for few more times because it’s pretty near to my place. I have everything updated on my Instagram. It is much more updated there than in this blog ;p

So far, what’s the best food had you tried? To me, I feel that the food from Pinoy’s stalls is quite OK. Quality is better compared to many other stalls. So far, most are so-so. Edible but don’t expect it to be super delicious. Plenty of “landmines” as well. You’ll just have to try them for yourself to know what’s good and what’s not. It’s pretty much based on personal preferences too.

The food there is not cheap. However, just buying what you can eat will do. We could easily fill our tummy for less than RM50. Plenty of food below RM10 that can be filling. If you are there to try all the fancy food and eat more than you can handle, then that’s another story.

It’s already packed as early as 4.30pm during the weekend. As for weekdays, the crowd fills up the place by 5pm. So do go early if you want to avoid the crowd and for nearer parking.

Food Porn, From My Angle, Uniquely Kuching

A Visit to Borneo Cultures Museum

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Ok… Here’s a quick update on the new site. I’m currently still in the process of getting the framework ready before I port everything over. At least the domain name has been pointed and every link seems to be working well. Once I’ve finalized the design and gathered all the needed information to port over, I will start moving. Stay tuned!

For now, I will be updating here once in a blue moon while I still can. I’m quite occupied with many things, that’s why the moving is a bit slow. Hopefully, the next update will be on the new site 😉

Anyway, have you visited the Borneo Cultures Museum? Malaysia’s biggest museum and the second largest in SEA. I visited it twice. Once in April, once in May. Unfortunately, the wear and tear of the new museum are quite obvious even though the visit is only one month apart. Imagine once it is fully opened, the maintenance of it is gonna be one hell of a time for the management.

Here are the videos I took when I was there in April. Have you visited the place? What do you think? My comments are all in the video. Enjoy!

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