What’s New in Kuching?

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What’s new after almost 2 years of being away from Kuching? In no particular order as I don’t remember which came first but I know which is the latest hahaha…



The latest, Summer Mall. Went there yesterday. My advice, don’t go for the time being if you are blardy sensitive towards dust. I came back with whole face of rashes, and itchy nose -.-” Also, I removed my makeup and the cotton was black. *GULP* Super duper dusty. Not really completed, still a lot of work need to be done. It’s extremely far away from the city, in the middle of nowhere, guess it’s meant for people living at that area than those living in the urban areas. This is likely to be my first and last time there. It’s futher than going to the airport. Even Boulevard is nearer.


Managed to visit this place last year October when I was back for 3 weeks but didn’t take any photos. I don’t have the latest photo of the place but it’s much more alive and happening now likely due to the cinema and because it’s still consider new. Kuching people have new place (GSC) to watch movie too and the ticket is much cheaper than MBO. Metrojaya is located here, things are pretty expensive but I’m likely to shop here only when there’s sales on ;p.



Plaza Merdeka isn’t very bad. It has many foreign brands but I am not likely to shop there. I won’t name the shops but some brands are really cheap brands overseas yet it’s treated as branded here in SE Asia. Let’s just put it this way, I bought those brands before in Australia/NZ and my sister bought them in UK. It’s blardy cheap in Australia/NZ and UK but it’s so expensive here.

Even though after conversion, Malaysia is selling them cheaper, it’s still not worth it to spend such money to buy things with such quality. I don’t mind spending AUD20 (almost RM70 here in Malaysia) to buy the exact same garment in Australia when I earn AUD. However, in Malaysia, I am not willing to spend RM55+ to buy that exact same one here as it’s just too expensive unless it’s RM20. I can get much better quality garment with RM50+ from other shops. You get my drift?


Kuching Sentral is Kuching’s regional long-distance bus terminal but it’s also a place to shop. During the weekend, it’s quite happening here but I’m not sure about weekdays. Seldom come here too nothing fancy me here. It’s just a stone throw away from KIA.

Oh! There’s another one, near tHe Spring known as ST3. Sorry to say that, it’s pretty much dead, seems like a failure. It’s not big, very small one, the highlight is the apartment there I guess.

There you go, my take on the major shopping places in Kuching.

From My Angle, Uniquely Kuching

Summary of Paris and England Trip (20/6/2013-2/7/2013)

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Got back on Wednesday night. Only managed to update something now. Even so, it’s just a summary (I don’t even quite remember where we’ve been to as there’s too many places!) and it’s just a compilation from my Twitpic while I was on the go the past 2 weeks. So, here you go… Click the pictures for bigger and complete version.

20/6/2013: Arrived Heathrow Airport Terminal 4 then check-in to the travel lodge followed up with dinner at Bayswater 4 Season Restaurant.

Lunch at The Bull, London before heading to Paris. on Twitpic 21/6/2013: Went to Westfield London Shopping Centre to have lunch at The Bull before heading to the train station to take the train, Eurostar, to Paris.

Hello Paris! on Twitpic 21/6/2013: Arrived Paris, check-in our apartment and had a rest preserving energy for the adventure the next day. There was a music festival happening down where we stayed.

Yesterday, last stop of the day, Eiffel Tower. Only reached &... on Twitpic 22/6/2013: Pantheon, Luxembourg Gardens, Notre Dame Cathedral, and Tube Building. The highlight of the day, Eiffel Tower, queued in the cold, long queue, and tonnes of people.

The rain spoilt the day, now back "home", the night... on Twitpic 23/6/2013: Arc de Triomphe, window shopping at Champs-Elysées (cannot afford to buy anything but nice to look and touch them first hand), had the most expensive lunch in my whole life (portion was small and not nice which cost us more than EUR100!), Grand Palais, Pont Alexandre III, and Place de la Concorde. It rained and we had to called it a day.

Goodbye Paris, hello Cambridge. on Twitpic 24/6/2013: Tourists are everywhere in Paris! The crowd was massive at Musée du Louvre where you can find Mona Lisa half-length portrait. Seriously? Is there even anything special? Sorry but I can’t see any hahaha… I’m blind towards this thing. The crowd just couldn’t stop taking pictures of it (including me ;p)! In the afternoon we headed to the Sacred Heart Basilica of Montmartre and had a souvenirs shopping spree. For dinner, we had French food in a restaurant near where we stayed.

Hello Cambridge! on Twitpic 25/6/2013: Check-out of our apartment and went to the train station. Went back to London using Eurostar, finally saw the train went into the Euro Tunnel. Once we reached London, we drove to Cambridge, lucky to be given with a new travel lodge!

Nottingham & York, the end of road trip for now. on Twitpic 26/6/2013: Headed to Nottingham and York for sight seeing. Then, went back to my sister’s place at Thornaby, one hour away from Newcastle.

Shopping day in Thornaby and Newcastle. on Twitpic 27/6/2013: Shopping day near my sister’s place and in the evening we went to Newcastle for another shopping spree! Bought a lot! So cheap! What’s more, found my size.

Whitby, a fishing town, a change of view. on Twitpic 28/6/2013: Went to Whitby for a change of view. Something different from what we’ve seen the previous days. Had fish and chips dinner at Magpie Cafe.

Bowness, where U can find the largest lake in UK. on Twitpic Food? Soap? At Bowness-on-Windermere. on Twitpic Shopping in Birmingham but came back empty handed. Off to Lon... on Twitpic 29/6/2013: Bowness-on-Windermere where you can find the largest lake of UK. Another different view. Found nicely made soap and sweets. From the photo alone, it’s confusing whether it’s food or soap. We then drove almost 3 hours to Birmingham for another shopping spree but came back empty handed.

Brands I likely never own. Spent more than 5 hours shopping a... on Twitpic 30/6/2013: Got to touch and see those branded stuff for the second time in my life. Tried on Jimmy Choo, Bally, Prada, Gucci, Salvatore Ferragamo, Coach and more! Bags and shoes cost thousands of Ringgit, so far fetch for me. Yet I made an unbelievable purchase at Bicester Village. A Micheal Kors tote bag, my biggest buy in my entire life for a bag. I still can’t believe that I ended up buying it! It’s an outlet store so the price is cheaper but still expensive! Let’s put it this way, original price cost almost RM1K and I got it for almost RM700! One thing I don’t understand, it’s such an expensive bag but no storage bag provided. A bit disappointed. Oh well… No more turning back. After shopping, we drove back to London.

Goodbye London in 12 hours... on Twitpic 1/7/2013: Visited some tourist spots in London.

Angus beef steak and mix grill at Heathrow. *slurp* on Twitpic 2/7/2013: Went for a drive to the Warner Bros. Studio featuring Harry Potter, then to B&Q and lastly to IKEA for lunch before heading to the airport. Time to leave London and go back to Kuching.

Will update about it in details once I found the time and mood ;p

Driving All the Way - England, Going Places, People Everywhere - Paris

Cafe Ch@t @ Pullman Hotel

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I’m coming back soon! Anyway, here’s a food post for you.


Went for a catch up with my friend at Cafe Ch@t, Pullman Hotel, about 2 weeks ago. It was an impromptu decision to catch up here.


Been wanting to come here since the opening of this hotel but never manage to do so even though I’ve been going in and out of this place ever since its opening.


Just noticed that we were so “green” that night! LOL! Ordered hot (RM10) and iced (RM11) Green Tea Latte. The menu was green, so were our drinks. I prefer green tea latte from Starbucks.


Also ordered 3 macarons, RM1.50 each.
Left-Right: Chocolate, orange, yam.

It’s my fourth time having macaron, first 3 times was in Adelaide. This is my first time having it in Kuching. How was it? Well… If you had read about how to identify bad macarons (go ahead and just Google it, there’s a lot of articles about it), then all the characteristics were present here -.-” Macaron is not an easy thing to make, it requires very meticulous skills to get it right. Not many can get it right.

Anyway, I like the environment.

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Baileys Irish Cream The Original

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First tasted Bailey’s few months back. Interesting taste I must say. Baileys Irish Cream is an Irish whiskey and cream based liqueur, made by Gilbeys of Ireland. I don’t drink in Malaysia but I’ve been drinking quite a lot ever since some time middle of the year onwards because of someone who likes to drink. From there, I tasted all sort of alcoholic drinks and get to know now more about alcohol.

My housemate introduced Bailey’s Irish Cream Hazelnut to me when she came back from her year end holiday in Malaysia. We had it with ice, namely Baileys on the Rock (ice cubes and Baileys). Guys usually won’t like it but for girls, it’s acceptable to them as it’s sweet. Then again, I still don’t like the taste of alcohol. For those who wonder how it tastes like, just imagine vanilla milk with alcohol.

Got this bottle as a gift at Melbourne, 200ml, thought of having it as collection but when I look at the best before date, I decided to drink it *LOL* this is my very first alcoholic beverage in Kuching after coming for almost 2 months. I have another bottle, 1 litre from KLIA which I asked my sis to buy ;p Creme Caramel flavour, I’m not sure when will I open it to drink.

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John’s Pie

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John’s Pie is located at No: 14, Ground Floor, Wisma Phoniex,, Song Thian Cheok Road, where 360 Xpress Citycenter is located. The building used to housed Up Well.


Went there to try its smoky hot beef pie (RM5.50). Not bad. I’m not a fan of meat pie but this is acceptable to me. At least it’s WAYYYYY BETTTERRR than Secret Recipes’. Just this one pie is enough to fill you up! We also tried the Portugese Egg Tart, not bad too.

It’s just a very small shop, more suitable for a quick bite during tea break or takeaway.

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