Category: Uniquely Kuching

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Chinese Restaurants in Kuching

May 16, 2006 sweet surrender No Comments

These photos are courtesies of HonFui, Ken and my sis. HonFui provides the locations’ photos. Ken and my sis provides the food photos of Li Garden. Thanks.

For those of you that is hunting for Chinese restaurants for your wedding/birthday or whatever dinner/function. Here are some well-known ones in Kuching. I’m not commenting about their food. Just going to show you the photos.

I’m kinda fed up with all these restaurants’ food already especially for those chinese wedding/functions dinner. I need something "fresh" plssssssssss… been to heaps of dinner functions like this. Especially the Chinese ones that the waiters or waitresses will serve plate after plate of food. Usually it’s like 6-course, 8-course, 9-course or n-course dinner. Getting tired of it, imagine that you have to attend dinner functions at least once a month at these places for the past years. Not to mention, hotels too. Lucky not much to attend last year and this year. Hmm… less than 5 times a year now. Used to be like at least 12 times a year. Phew… Thank God!

Their food is just food when I’m there no matter how good it is, I just put into my mouth, chewed and swallowed, that’s it. No feeling LOL… So enjoy the the photos. I couldn’t give you full contact of these restaurants because I don’t have duh… ;p just feast your eyes.

Tsui Hua Lau, located along Ban Hock Road.

Left: Tsui Hua Lau
Right: Li Garden, inside Hock Lee building. Below are the food of Li Garden.

This is Joyous Shanghai, it’s part of Lok Thian Group. It’s situated in Lok Thian.

Lastly, I’m not sure of the english name for this. In Chinese, it’s "Dong Guan Jiu Lou" – Don Guan Restaurant(direct translation ;p). This is somewhere around Rock Road/Jalan Tun Ahmad Zaidi Adruce near Mc D. I’m not very sure how to describe the location hahaha…

So that’s all. Very busy lately. Will be a bit free after the election. Cheers!

Food Porn, Retro, Uniquely Kuching

Room @ Merdeka Palace

May 10, 2006June 23, 2022 sweet surrender No Comments

I was supposed to blog about this in March :p but lazy because too many pics to edit so decided to blog in parts. Summore, no camera now 🙁

This is the standard room on 3rd floor. I’m not sure about the pricing. Actually I got this free voucher for a 2-days-1-night-stay that comes with a complimentary breakfast for two last year and would expired in April this year. Not to waste it, so decided to use it and can show you guys around this hotel.

Hmmm… this should be one of our five-star hotel in Kuching but… you judge for yourself LOL… I didn’t stay overnight there. Was supposed to use their swimming pool but silly me, I brought my black panty instead of my swimming suit’s bottom that happened to be black too. The first day, coulnd’t swim because of heavy rain. Second day, could swim but I only realised that I brought the wrong thing. Wasted.

The snacks on the cupboard are not free of charge and anything in the fridge are not free too. Some hotel provide complimentary mineral water but not Merdeka Palace. By the way, the snacks on the cupboard seemed to be there for ages, it has been collecting dust. LOL…

The tables.

The bed and the sink.

The towel and the hair dryer. No bathtub for standard room, only shower. Oh… when I went into the bathroom to do my business, I saw urine on the seat of the toilet. I flushed it off with water from the sink. Hmm…

The TV and the closet.
The view of standard room. Don’t expect a nice view of Padang Merdeka or the city skyline. All you see is the multi-level parking lots.*LOL*

So that’s all about the room.

Retro, Uniquely Kuching

Damai Beach ~ Good Morning & Goodbye(1st MAY 2006)

May 1, 2006 sweet surrender No Comments

WARNING: Bandwidth sucker and lengthy post!

So… it rained… no sunrise to see. Khoon How, LeeLing, Audrey, Lee and Hui Yee braced the drizzly rain at around 6.30am to walk at the beach and then went to breakfast.

Slept till about 8am. Everyone left for breakfast.Jimmy and I was the last one to leave after Ann and Jee. We had our breakfast at the resort’s restaurant. It was packed!!! I have no further comment on the service. Well… I guess it’s too many people I think. I didn’t have the chance to properly tried out many of their food because there were too many people and not enough cutlery to accomodate the number of people, not very satisfying spending about RM20++ for such a breakfast 🙁 I regret that I should have wake up early and join them for early breakfast. I ended up with these(pic below), a cup of peach juice and a cup of tea. 🙁 If I knew that I will end up with these, I would rather stay back in the room for breakfast with my instant cream corn soup, noodle in cup, tea with creamer and chrysanthemum tea.

I wanted pancake and omelet from the Eegg Section(below, left) but sigh… the queue was too long and I have no such time to wait at all. 🙁

The picture on the right is Hilltop, it’s under the same resort but it’s located further up. Very expensive, RM700 per night for the up most accomodation, it has two storeys with kitchen, living and sleeping areas and washroom. It has very nice view too. It doens’t have its own restaurant there, you have to take the bus to go down for meals. The spa is located in this area too.

After breakfast, we went back to rearrange the beds into what they were supposed to be and cleared all the rubbish last night into the garbage bin outside the chalet. Then we went out for a walk since it’s still early before our 12pm check-out.

Some sceneries.

After the walk, we had some ice creams, it was so hot.

About 11.45am, we checked out and went to Expert and Jalan Song to calculate our expenditure so that we could all pay for our share. Each of us only pay RM54.60 quite affordable huh? Duh… of course! We wanted to save cost so we squeezed into a small room and sneakily cooked in our room else it wouldn’t be that cheap. If we went out for dinner, it will cost at least RM300-400.

Overall… the holiday is good… relaxed a bit but it’s not enough. I want more!! Eheheh… when is the next round? It was so fun.

Going Places, Retro, Uniquely Kuching

Damai Beach ~ Dinner(30th APR 2006)

May 1, 2006January 15, 2007 sweet surrender No Comments

We were grouped into two groups to prepare for our dinner. Khoon How, LeeLing, Audrey. Lee and Hui Yee went to buy some food from nearby seafood restaurants but who knows… too many people were dining at both restaurants. One would took the cook more than 1 hour to prepare our fried rice so they decided to try their luck somewhere else. They needed to wait for 30 minutes for our fried rice at the second restaurant. So at the end, they bought plain rice back.

Ann, Jee, Jimmy and I stayed back to prepare for the steamboat session. Actually only Jee and Jimmy did all the preparations. *BLEK* Not to mention, we wrapped the smoke detector with the shower cap!!! We thought of using condom to wrap it hehehe… but then why waste? Or no one bring any I think… and resorted to use shower cap.

Please note that we were not supposed to cook in there! Gosssh… I hope I’m not teaching you guys something bad here and I hope the resort won’t sue me. We are very considerate bunch, we cleaned up everything carefully after that.

After all of them came back, our session started. Out of curiosity, we checked the kettle to see how many electricity it used, we were worried that the power outlet in there couldn’t support our electrical steamboat and would blow the fuse… if this happened, we’re in big trouble! Upon checking, YAY! It’s 2000Watt! Our steamboat only uses 1500Watt! Phew…

We couldn’t finish our food! We had five rounds of cooking going on, each round with different ingredients but after the fourth round, everyone was full. So the last one was left there in the pot to cool and to be disposed in the morning.

Man… the leftovers really stinks!!! Lee opened the cover of the pot before we prepared to sleep after arranging the beds to accomodate 9 of us in a room that was meant for 4 people only. My first reaction… I accused Jimmy loudly of farting inside the blanket. LOL!!! Poor guy… coz it happened that I flipped the blanket the smell came out. He looked at me and said that he didn’t. Then I questioned him about the smell. Suddenly I heard the closing of the pot cover… YIKESSS… it’s the smell of the leftovers! *BLUSH* Sorry…

We all slept on and off except someone… wow… he really slept soundly! *GRIN* I couldn’t sleep well because my position was just right below the air-con and it kept blowing into my face.

We decided to wake up at 5.30am to view the sunrise but… it rained in the middle of the night heavily with thunders and lightnings too.

Going Places, Retro, Uniquely Kuching

Damai Beach ~ Arrival(30th APR 2006)

May 1, 2006June 23, 2022 sweet surrender No Comments

WARNING: Bandwidth sucker and lengthy post!

9 of us met at King’s Centre’s Daily Food Cafe (can’t remember the name). Jimmy ordered fast food. Ann and I ordered Sarawak Laksa. The rest ordered don’t-know-what. LOL…

After lunch, off we went up to Damai Beach. It’s one of Holiday Inn resorts .

Left: The beach…. so sweet… see the couple below the tree.
Right: The chalets surrounded by coconut trees. We lived in one of these. Don’t be fool that you will be staying in such a big chalet, it’s actually a chalet divided into 4 rooms.

The bathroom. We were supposed to check- in at 2pm but it’s not cleaned yet, so we were told to go to the room 45 minutes later but when we reached there at the said time, it’s not cleaned yet. So we put our things in first and waited for them to clean the room. When the room service arrived, we went out for a walk. After some times, we went back to check out whether the room is cleaned or not and finally… it’s cleaned! We quickly changed into our swimsuits and headed straight to play at the pool and the beach.