: : Links : :
An interesting link to Chinese Cooking Southern Style. Found it on egullet. Now, am inspired to write more about the cooking style in my postings. :p
The Science of Cooking : very impressive and a fun site.
: : Richmond’s Place : :
I got this in my mailbox today. It was a forwarded email.
Hi all,
I am sure those who live in Kuching know where and what Richmond Place is. It is at Ellis Road which is near Central Road. For those of you who seldom frequent that area, Richmond Place is a cafe selling western food.
We just found out that the waiter and waitresses working there have a ritual of INSULTING customers after the customers leave the place. If you are lucky’, you will catch those low people backstabbing you just before you pay the bill; right ALMOST in front of you. This may not be a big matter for most of you but we go around a lot; eat out a lot and discovered that Richmond’s waiters and waitresses really go over the board in demeaning the customers. All the good ones have gone away. You will be shocked if you know what they can actually gossip about you. We are fortunate enough to be within ear shot when it happened. When a waitress realized we noticed her, she pretended to cover her mouth like she’s having flu. What they don’t realize is that they may backstab those customers who have left but those who are still sitting around LISTEN to what they say.
Here are the examples:
i)”Macam potong apa!” (Like cutting what lah!) — A waiter commented on a customer who dropped her fork on her table a few times shortly after she left.
ii)”Order big punya! Dapat habis ke? Nanti, ta pao!” (Order big meal! Can finish meh? Later will takeaway!) — Those customers did not request anything to be ‘ta pao’ at all. Those waitresses just created something out of nothing.
iii)They judge you from head to toe. You can see it in their eyes. (Errr…..was in the email)
There must be more but we pity the Boss who own the place so we don’t want to say much. Rest assured this is just to tell you all out there about Richmond Place’s waiter/waitresses’ rudeness because if you are a person of mood and you want to enjoy your food; you know what to do. We all want value for our money. We pay for food and good service, NOT insults when we leave after giving them MONEY.
For now, those workers are really dark and they are not tall. If you want to check them out, you can go there and do so.
If you by chance know who the Owner of Richmond is, please do well to tell him/her so that he/she can do the right thing before losing customers.
I’m just wondering : why didn’t this irate customer informed the person in charge there? Wouldn’t it have been easier? Then again, I’ve never eaten at Richmond’s Place before so cannot comment. I do see a lot of people going there to eat though so food must be good and affordable.
Why didn’t I go and eat there in the first place? Dunno. Guess I’m a snob when it comes to western dining. Oh well. It’s not easy to run a food establishment anyway.
: : Seattle Coffee : :
After last night’s dinner at the Japanese restaurant, we went for a walk at the Kuching Waterfront to ease our extremely stuffed stomachs. After that, we went for dessert and coffee at Seattle Coffee located at Merdeka Palace. Coffee Bean is not even here yet.
Let’s start with dessert, Left to Right :
We ordered 2 slices of apple pie and 1 cake of the month : chocolate hazelnut cheesecake. Luv the apple pie which is a lot better than the one at Hilton Kuching. The apple pie there tastes like cake! As for the cheesecake, it was huge! Tough for Melvin to finish it.
MayLin and Bev shared the cup of Raspberry Juice mixed with other fruits whereas Melvin and I had a cup of Irish Coffee each. The raspberry drink was nice but the Irish coffee woke me up so much that I couldn’t sleep until 2 am! There were at least 2 shots of Irish whiskey inside it. Had to dilute it with some ice.
Anyway, some pictures of the Kuching Waterfront. Got a bit carried away with the mosaic design on the pathway.
: : Cafepress : :
Sort doing this for fun. Yeah, it’s not a lot of stuff and the picture on the mug isn’t that great.
The Mug
Orchid petal on the right is cut off a bit. The picture wasn’t that great to begin with so… Mum’s opinion was that it was not food related. Hmm… will redo it next weekend.
The Postcards
Shot of a bowl of Sarawak Laksa. Yeah, again a bit messy. Still new to photo editing so bit tough to clean up the picture a bit. Oh well. Decided to leave it as it is for the time being.
Maybe a calender in the coming weeks. Who knows?
: : Ten-Ichi : :
Met up with Melvin, MayLin and their friend, Bev, today at Ten-Ichi. At first, the plan was to go and eat at Gamelan, the Indonesian restaurant. However, there was a private function going on there. So, backup plan was to go to the Junk restaurant which, by coincidence, also had a function going on. Finally, we settled at Ten-Ichi, the Japanese restaurant of the Lok Thian Restaurant chain.
Difficult to find parking near the Lok Thian area. There was a wedding going on. Grr… luckily, managed to park right in front of the restaurant when this Merz exited the area. Think I took one of the slots for the wedding entourage but who cares right? First come, first serve. Hee hee!
We shared the Sashimi Take B which was a mixed of salmon and octopus from Japan and the local fish found in Sarawak. We were all into raw food tonight and it was a great appetizer since it came first. RM36 @ US$9.47.
I just love this pickled seaweed with sesame seed oil. It was very crunchy and went well with the sashimi. Only problem was that the strips kept falling all over the place. Goes to show how bad my chopstick skills are and I am a Chinese!! RM8 @ US$2.11.
Bev decided to try the torikatsu curry @ chicken curry Japanese style. Tasted good and it look like such a huge portion. Wah! So tempting! RM14 @ US$3.68.
Right : this was maguru negi dan which I think was a rice dish with vegetables and fish. At least, I think it was. Trying to blog coherently after a double shot if Irish whiskey into Irish Coffee, my brain is not functioning well. Good point to note when ordering Irish Coffee from Seattle Coffee at Merdeka Palace. Never going to have it again. Anyway, if anyone knows what’s inside this dish, please do drop me a line in the comment box. Thanks. RM14 @ US$3.68.
I had the unajyu @ sweetened eel with rice. My Dad thinks it’s not a hygienic dish considering that the eel eats just about anything under the sun but I like it. Haven’t had it for a long time. Very tasty and the portion, again, was huge. RM32 @ US$8.42.
Melvin had this : oyuko dan @ grilled chicken with rice. The chicken was actually underneath all the vegetables that you see in this picture. RM14 @ US$3.68.
We wanted to have some Thai dessert i.e. the water chestnuts in coconut milk but they ran out of it. Sigh. Oh well. Another time, I guess. The set lunch menu is really a bargain but it’s only available during the day time. There is no set dinner menu at night so it’s easy to eat up to over RM100 @ US$26.31 in one seating.
Ten-Ichi is just about the best Japanese restaurant in town, boasting their own in-house Japanese chef. Must be good because most of the Japanese working in Kuching will eat here. The restaurant is located opposite the KMC swimming pool. Parking is really bad when there is a wedding going on in the Chinese or Thai restaurant in the same shoplot with many cars filling up the lots in front and at the back of the building. Note that the surrounding area is not safe and purse snatchers are rampant in this area.
Ten-Ichi Japanese Restaurant
No. 316 – 319, Bangunan Bee San,
Jalan Padungan
93100 Kuching
Sarawak.
Tel : 082-331310, 335042
Fax : 082-337736
: : Borneo Post : :
Actually a late posting because I did not managed to get a copy of the Borneo Post until this week Wednesday. Mum-mum was mentioned in the pull-out section of the Saturday edition. Not yesterday but the Saturday the week before.
This is from the column that Andrea writes regularly. She also has two blogs online. 🙂 One of the Hobbits I’ve met in Kuching.
Thanks Andrea!