Recently, I had a lovely, lovely meal at My Restaurant. It’s located in Sama Jaya area, or rather just before Kampung Tabuan Jaya. The business is owned by Angela and Walter, with Walter being the previous Austrian chef at Cavary. They set up this restaurant since last year, specialising in pork. Yes, the oink-oink, piggy wiggy meal. Here are the some the dishes that they prepare.

For each table, home-made garlic bread is served. Bear in mind that this bread is literally dripping with oil from the butter. Believe me, it’s a lot of butter in there. It tastes nice but the oil is a lot. Well, it’s not oil, per se, just an overdose of butter.

I’ve always like Caesar Salad that is crispy and fresh and that is not swimming in salad sauce. At My Restaurant, they definitely do it better than some of the restaurants in the city. They serve it with a slice of bacon, rather than using bacon bits.

The picture here is the Grilled Porked Chop with Apple slices. If there’s one thing good about pork, is that it goes very very well with fruit. The fruit is either fresh fruit, cooked fruit or some fruit sauce. Although, my Auntie Maria stays away from any fruit sauce as it reminds her of eating jam with meat. Haha! Anyway, the pork chop was done well and it’s also a fairly thick slice. The grilled apple slices was a nice touch. Errm…and yes… errm… quite a fair bit of oil as well. So be forewarned.

Here is a mix set. I can’t quite remember the name but it’s made up of pork sausages, chicken, pork chop and bacon. This is dish that is for 2 people with all the meat and chips there. And ermm….definitely a lot of oil. I especially like the pork sausage because it wasn’t a frankfuther/hot dog sausage but a real pork sausage. Yum.

Well, isn’t oily stuff taste good? That’s the problem with trying to keep one’s weight down! Anyway, bear this in mind in case you’re going to goto My Restaurant, for those who do not like oily stuff. It has other stuff to offer like chicken, beef and fish dishes but their specialty is definitely pork. One things for sure, nothing is rancid and everything is prepared fresh.

The restaurant details are as follows :

My Restaurant
Ground Floor, Lot 13186 & 13187,
Samajaya Commercial Center,
Jalan Setia Raja,
93350 Kuching.
Tel / Fax : 082 – 361588 (Speak to Angela for reservations)
Tues – Sat: 11 am – 2 pm (Lunch). 6 – 10 pm (Dinner)
Sun : 6 – 10 pm (Dinner only)
Mon : Closed

If anyone of you are going, please say hi to Angela. She’s very friendly and will give you a good recommendation for your dinner.

Oh, another thing is that the kitchen is open to the whole restaurant so you get to smell and actually see Walter cooking. It’s interesting to go up and see how your food is being cooked. However, I wouldn’t recommend it if you’re wearing your best clothes. As for the rest of the restaurant, don’t worry about any oil stains. The kitchen seems to have very very good ventilation that you get the nice cooking smells that you really do get distracted during mealtimes.

Enjoy your trip there!

Food hygiene has always been a debate in every country. Some governments take stern action, others just issue warnings (like in China recently) and others, nothing.

I just got a note in my mailbox about Fecal Matter on top of meat box packings. Bad bad. Larry Stone is following the issue in Florida closely. Sounded awfully familiar from someone else I heard. Cats for rats/mice pest control. Geckos for flies pest control. Wonder how are roaches controlled naturally.

Then it got me thinking : cats are sometimes kept onboard ships to control rats/mice in the cargo haul. *shudder*

Well, if the meat packing industries are not HAACP certified, time to buy from someone else. Anyway, it’s always a good idea to practice some recommended food hygiene practices, at least for one’s health and well-being.

And I can safely say that I survive 1.5 years in one of Kuala Lumpur’s worst hygienic suburbs. Yes, it was a daily game of Russian Roulette, food style that is.

I’m planning to get a new CPU during the IT fair at the end of the month.

Any recommendations?

My body fat went down from 53% to 49%! Definitely good news! Took awhile but it’s definitely going down.

Now I understand why Aaron is hooked onto World of Warcraft.

With most people watching the FIFA matches late at night, the streamyx connection is blazing. Even this morning, it was quite a speedy connection. Got the WoW Trial download 2.7 GB by this Sunday morning from Fileplanet and updated and installed a few hours later.

I started out as a Night Elven Druid and ended up in a forest with music similar to Neverwinter Nights. It’s uncannily identical, or nearly there. The songs and graphics are amazing. And even though the characters are cartoonish, it’s still not too bad.

Plus, the game is abled to be played on my old heap of a PC and an old graphics card. Old as in a 32MB NVIDIA card. Well, the graphics aren’t as smooth as it could have been but oh well. Still costs too much to upgrade this computer so I think I’ll wait a bit longer.

BTW, PC fair in Kuching during end June. Ho Hum. ^_^

Today, I went with Fish Fish to her masseur. Believe me, he was good but here’s the following conversation.

S : Aiya! Your back is terrible! Here *poke!* and here *poke!*!! Too much air inside. Your shoulder is not the major problem. It’s your back. Plus your legs.

Wena : Ok.

It went on with massaging problem areas and even though I was achy afterwards, the muscles were surprising relax. I also had occasional pins and needles but this was not painful, just ticklist. He mentioned that it was the blood circulating.

Wena : Wah! I feel good!

Wena : *Gulp*… OK.

So, I’m in for the long-run. Let’s see how’s the outcome. Massage is the traditional cure here for aches and pains. Plus, this chap may be young but he does know his stuff, being taught by a Master since he was 7 years old. Now that’s a very long time to learn about massage.

Next week, let’s see if I can walk. The nerves that are trapped from my prolapsed disc will be release and my blood circulation may improve.