: : bing! bing! bing! : :

As promised, the posting on the new hot spot in town : bing! Not only was it a new place but I was having dinner with a fellow blogger who was one of my first few readers. Bear in mind that we’ve only chatted online for about a year but never met until now. So, I wanted to take HER to a place which I’ve been itching to go for awhile. And we ended up at bing!

I loved the place as soon as I step in. It was hard to not stop and gawk at everything. Yeah, Wena is so sakai @ a fool, gullible. LOL! The ambience and the surroundings were amazing and heck, I loved the bare wall. Not to mention the lights. I couldn’t quite capture the actual effect but if you were to look closely at the reflection in the background, that is the actual light effect. Nice, eh?

While I had a boring glass of Coke, SHE ordered a latte. And it came dressed up! Oh, you can also find Flat White here which is a popular coffee drink from Melbourne, Australia. Apparently, DE ONLY PLACE in Kuching to find Flat White.

We decided to share our dinner meal. First on the list was chicken salad. I love the salad sauce and it tasted very refreshing with the fresh mushrooms. Not too heavy either.

We also shared a bowl of spaghetti bolognaise which came with a small dish of salsa sauce! Yummy! Actually, I forgot to take a picture of it (which is pretty normal) so this is the showcase meal.

I couldn’t decide whether it was the picture I adored or the backdrop a.k.a. bare wall. SHE was amused that I was totally fascinated by the wall. You just have to be there. The picture shows the members of a Chinese Opera troupe putting on makeup for showtime. Nice.

Now, please say Oohh! and Aaah! at this point. Instead of water overflowing from inside the bowl, it was flowing from the top down. There is just something soothing about running water that makes one just sit back and relax.

Wena is very sakai yesterday. Remember that.

bing! is located in Pandungan, just nearby to the Everrise Supermarket. You can’t mix the huge orange circle. If you do have problems, here are the address details :

bing coffee company sdn. bhd.

no. 84 pandungan road

93100 kuching, sarawak

Phone : +60-82-410 188

Fax : +60-82-259 188

Email : info@bingcoffee.com

Guess what the next picture is!

: : bing! bing! : :

Ok, I’m a bit snookered tonite on a week day so suffice to say that I am not posting anything other than the fact that I met up with one of my earliest blog readers other than family and we had dinner together at a wonderful restaurant-cum-coffee-place called bing! that was totally relaxing with wonderful ambience that relaxes the mind and body totally with great food and wide varieties of hot and cold beverages.

Having said that, Mr. XX Chromosome has also blogged about it last month so I leave you with a link to his tantalizing and eye-stimulating pictures taken by him in broad daylight whereas I took it at night. We complement each other’s postings.

Well, once I get mind up anyways. So, enjoy his read!

p.s. I didn’t see any green bananas.

: : Let’s goto Texas! : :

When in Texas, eat this! BBQ spare ribs! Now I know the secret! It’s using dark beer as part of the marinade ingredient. Having said that, since we could not find any dark beer, we decided to use Guiness Stout instead. And it work! Gosh, did it ever work! I owe it all to Gwen for telling me how it’s done.

Gwen : My butcher in Taman Tun is hilarious! He only let me buy 10 pieces of spare ribs. Why? Said that the rest were poor quality and not good. Haha!

Now, Yce was asking me how I took such good pictures. I don’t. It’s a lot of editing, editing, editing. Here’s an example :

This is the original photo. What I did was to crop it until the subject matter filled the entire picture. In this case, it’s my nephew Tidan hard at work in the kitchen. After cropping it, I adjusted the brightness and contrast. Also, having taken a big picture of him, I sharpen the picture. After that, it was resizing the photo to fit the blog.

Voila! It’s done. Looks good no?

: : IMBB No. 8 : :

I haven’t been taking part on the last 2 IMBBs. Put it down to FORGETTING to check other people’s blog to find out. Doh!

Anyway, the latest one is No. 8 : Lift your Spirits High! The hostess this time is Donna Marie Zotter of There’s a Chef in my Kitchen. I think I know what to do.

Hmmm…another thing that we should do is really start a mailing list to notify folks of the next IMBB. Digging through a lot of blogs is not exactly easy.

: : Badminton : :

Phew! Feeling a bit tired today after the inter-dept badminton match. Needless to say that I’m badly out of shape.

Will post something tomorrow.

: : Shiok Food : :

Cleaning up my mailbox today, I found a letter from Madhu Menon and his restaurant called Shiok ~ Far Eastern Cuisine. Went to the site and found more interesting reads. I love the dishes with the logo on them. Pity that it’s in Singapore. Darn! Not much food choices in Kuching, irregardless of my postings.

Then again, I live with Granny. Nuff said.

Anyway, do visit the site and if you end up there because of reading this, please say hi to the chef for me. Cheerio!