Food in Kuching

We tried this restaurant at the famous TopSpot area.

Many choices and pricing is reasonable. Place is very packed with customers. Drink is expensive though..

 Kek lapis-layered cake, many types, many colours. Price range from RM10 to RM50/60.  We tried on 3 shops (Mira, Dayang Salleh, Cythea-a residence house) and decided Mira Cake House is cheap and good. 

Sarawak laksa. You can find it almost in all of the kopitiam.  

I love this. Lui cha.. the rice is superb, but not the green soup. I should have ordered the non-bitter one. 

At the 101 Premier foodcourt. Cha kuih..ask for salty one. The sweet type is not very special.

The sweet Cha Kuih, foochow noodle and black bean soup.  

Forgot what's the name of this noodle. 

Kompiah..

Kuching..going home...

Last day, before going home, the plan was to buy the kek lapis from the shop across the river and then came back packing and go home. Driving around 20minutes, we reached the place. Then, hubby suggested that we took the boat back and he'll drive. I said fine, if it's cheap. I weren't really expected it to be so cheap for a boat ride. Thought just opposite the river. Many locals are using the boat as their transportation across the river. It's only RM0.50/person. There is no satefy feature at all for this boat ride. I told hubby to wait and see us until we reached the other side. Anything happen, he has to jump into the river to save us. :)

We reached safely after 5min boat ride. 

A quick swim before hubby arrived at the hotel. 

The last destination.. Sarawak Tua Pek Kong. Seeing this place almost daily but didnt drop by. 

At Kuching airport..going home..

Kuching..3rd day

So, we decided Semenggoh Orang Utan will another round of visit in the morning. After breakfast, we quickly get into car and start driving to the place. No rain and good weather. We're hoping to see many of them out this round. As we learnt from yesterday, they will take around 15-20min to get the orang utan to be down, so today we reached there at 9.30am, 30min late from the original feeding time. Thought that we'll not need to wait for long to see many of them. Unfortunately, when we reached, most peoples have started to leave and again there were only 3 of the orang utan. Since we're late, we waited till end of the show. Basically around 10am. Still only 3 of them. We're curious and have a chat with the ranger. Now, there are only few of them in the jungle as most of them have been sent away. Seeing 3 of them is considered a lot. 

This is how all the peoples gathered around to look at the orang utan.

Orang utan on the tree swinging down to get the food. 

Didi loves to photo with the pepper tree. He'll run and stand there waiting for the photo to be captured. 

After that, we went to check in to Hotel Grand Margherita. Once in the room, as usual the boys had located the swimming pool area. Insisted so much to get to the pool. However, we said we'll walk around for awhile to see the cats and then only back to the hotel. Photo session with the cats monument around the hotel.

 Around the Waterfront area 

The boy gets grumpy as not allowed to be in the pool, sitting down alone by himself. 

Some cats at the waterfront side. 

After dinner, we went to visit one of mall. Can't remember the name. We found some interesting art exhibition, the largest jean for Malaysia Book Record. 

Art display in the mall.

 

Hotels in Kuching

Hubby and I love this place very much. Basaga Holiday Residences. The environment is very calm, cool and relaxing. Lots of trees and very quiet. The entrance to the hotel is a small alley and you may just miss the turn if you didnt notice the signboard near to the road side. At night, it's a happening place and seems many local folks came over to enjoy the food at the restaurant area. Pool is always shady all the times, unfortunately the leaves keep on falling down to the water. I think hubby booked this hotel at ~Rm140+ price. If we came again, this place will be the choice.

Pool side, view from the room. 

The verandah in front of the room. Room is fine, equip with basic necessity. 

Bar area for breakfast.  They provide a breakfast set for each person and semi buffet of bread toast, cereal. drink and fruits at the bar area.

Front view of the hotel 

Plants and fishes surrounding the building

Grand Magherita is the other hotel that we stayed in Kuching. Paying extra Rm200+ as we thought want to enjoy the swimming pool and nicer hotel. However, we don't really enjoy it so much compare to Basaga. The front desk gave us a smoking room and when hubby released about it, he was informed that all rooms are fully booked. Since the air-con is centralized, the air circulation is bad especially if there is someone smoking in another room. Location is good for this hotel. The hotel is at the town center. Cat monument is exactly in front of the hotel and Waterfront is just 5 minutes walking distance. Kid pool is reasonable but the playground is only located outdoor. It was raining almost whole day when we were there. So, the kids were stuck in the room. 

Hotel view from opposite the river side.

Kid pool with playground next to it.

Kuching..2nd day

 2nd day, our plan was to go to Pekan Serikin. It took around 1hrs drive from Kuching town center to this area. I'll say it's consider isolated and you may be wondering if you got the right way as you're driving towards the direction. The road pavement is very bad along the way. Tar road but with holes, typical road in Malaysia during raining season. We are only there for ~30min or probably less as we started to drive back once it started to rain. It's a long lane with stalls selling many stuffs. I can't find many with traditional things, majority are commercial stuff - clothes, caps,.. which we don't feel excited about.

Some of the things found in this market. Most are repeatable.

On the way back, we dropped by at the Tasik Biru. Nice view of the lake.

Photo by Koko..Didi was sleeping on my lap in the car. 

After lunch, we were rushing to meet the Orang Utan on feeding time at 3pm timeslot. It was raining but still lots of people are around the area. We only managed to see 3 orang utan - 2 big and 1 little baby hanging on the tummy. Hubby and I were disappointed as we remembered when we visited this place in 2004, there were many of them. Thought probably because of the rain, we'll come again tomorrow morning. 

 Standing under the rain to see the orang utan up on the trees. 

Luckily the rain stopped and we manage to visit Kuching Waterfront at night. It's a happening area with many children playing around. We met a whole bunch of Unimas student dancing preparing for their convocation. It was fun as some of them were in ghost/monsters costume running around trying to scare the audience.

Sarawak Cruise boat at the Waterfront. 

Astana

DUN..Dewan Undangan Negeri

Unimas students dancing around.. 

Toys, items for kids selling at one of the corner 

Finally, a glass of cold drink at the hotel to end the day..