: : Mum-Mum : : Eat-Eat : :

: : Garden Fair : :

The first mum-mum posting without food. Shocking, ain’t it? The flowers were too pretty to NOT post.

Went with Granny to the Kuching Garden Fair at the MBKS (Majlis Perbandaran Kuching Selatan / Kuching South Municipal Council) park. We went around 4 p.m so most of the stalls weren’t open yet except for the place where the orchids were being sold. Anyway, here are some of the pics taken at the orchid stalls as well as some of the garden flowers.

The Garden Fair is part of the monthly long Kuching Fest held annually to commerate Kuching City Day. There is also a Food Fest but the stalls weren’t open yet. Maybe next weekend, will pop by and search for some bamboo chicken. 🙂

: : King of Fruits : :

Dedicated to my mother in Michigan, USA.

Thank goodness there is only one phoneline in this house. Else she’ll be calling me up to scream down my ear. :p

Picture was taken at Choice Daily Supermarket, Tabuan Laru. Durians are from Thailand, the ones that do not give out such an offensive stink.

And yes, I do not eat them. Oh well. No accounting for taste, right? :p

Granny used to have a Siamese cat called Kiti which loves to eat durian. Used to eat 2-3 entire pods by herself! Same goes for Granny. CHOLESTEROL!

[ Postnote : Correction here. Not cholesterol. Didn’t know that anything GROWN from the ground doesn’t have cholesterol. As pointed out by kbpmy.]

: : Granny’s Cooking : :

Surprisingly, I got something to post up after all. Thought today will be the very first day that mum-mum doesn’t have a posting on food.

Granny cooked some delicious Sabah Veggie. Yum. It’s actually another variety of fern found in the market but as far as I know, not grown locally. Mostly imported from Sabah.

My first artistic picture. Hmm… which one do you all prefer? An artistic picture or a picture of the whole dish? Leave a note in the comments section.

: : Kuih : :

Mouthwatering U CHAR KUEH! Going to get whacked for posting this pic up for sure.

Feels like rubbing salt in the wound eh? :p

: : Brunch & Granny’s Cooking : :

Well, brunch was a really quick affair. After 6 hours of sleep, felt refreshed. Granny had gone grocery shopping and bought back some kueh chap.

I think Kueh Chap is a local Sarawakian dish. Don’t recall seeing it in the Chinese coffeeshops in KL. The big flat pieces of noodles is actually uncut kway teow noodles. Kueh Chap is a high sodium content meal. Imagine all the soy sauce that goes into the dish. However, note that it’s a non-halal dish as it’s usually cooked with pork : lean meat, skin, intestines. I think the pork can be substituted with chicken. Beef might be a bit too strong but I suppose if one tenderizes the beef before hand, can be used. The kueh chap was bought from Kenyalang Park, one of the foodstalls there. Tasted a lot better than the one I posted much much earlier.

Granny also cooked some Japanese Egg Tauhu with Leek. She used some spicy Sze Chuan tauhu as well to add in some spicy-ness into the dish. Yummy!

And added bonus : Lotus Soup! I love this! Granny put in some pork spare ribs and chicken meat in. For the Muslims, just add the chicken is sufficient. But, you’ll need to boil the sliced lotus pods for a long time to soften. Granny cooks this over a slow fire for a few hours. Add chicken in later as well as salt and pepper to taste.

: : Carvery, Pending : :

I have known Yoon, a fellow Korean collegue, for about 4 years now. When he announced that he was resigning, the entire department decided to ‘chia’ him to a excellent dinner at Carvery. WARNING! VERY LONG BLOG!

Note that some of the photos are slightly yellow as I did not turn on the flash thinking that I could edit the pictures. Talk about being an idiot.

As usual, Malaysians are generally not so punctual so there were only 5 of us who started first including Yoon. Too hungry at 7:30 p.m. so we hit the salad buffets. Also, Opa (brother) Yoon contributed a bottle of whiskey. Wah!

Hot Salad Buffet

Cold Salad Buffet

Hot Salad Buffet

There were a lot of varieties here : baby carrots, stir-fried (FRESH!!) mushrooms, brussel sprouts, fried rice, lasagna, brocolli, baked potato, cauliflower. I’m a sucker for fresh mushrooms!!

To the right of this buffet, minestrone soup was also served. I added a touch of Tabosco sauce to it to add a little spice. Spaghetti noodles were also added into the soup as well.

Now the soup definitely went well with the homemade bread. There aren’t that many places in Malaysia that makes decent bread. If anyone says that Gardenia is the best bread there is, he/she deserves a whack!

Cold Salad Buffet

The pictures speak for themselves.

One has to pace oneself when it comes to eating at this place. Portions are just huge! Anyway, here is a the menu for the main course : CARVERY! The meat is cut or served immediately on the diner’s plate. Take note that there is an extremely sharp knife so one needs to be careful not to get too close or to move in the direction of the blade.

Beef Ribs

Mussels

Chicken Wings

Lamb Chops

Smoked Beef

Smoked Chicken

Beef Sausages

Chicken Breast

Chicken Sausage

Fried Fish in Batter

Chicken wrapped in Beef Ham

Ribeye Steak

Rump Steak

Beef Ribs

Hmm… the pic wasn’t that good. I didn’t take this but the others did. They loved it!

Mussels

Another weakness. I think LSL and I had 6 pieces each. Definitely going to visit Lorraine in Brussels to eat the mussels!

Chicken Wings

Better than KFC. I couldn’t identify the taste but it was delicious!

Lamb Chops

Delicious! Of course, it does have a strong smell but who cares? Also, the mint sauce that came with it is made right in the kitchem. Mmmmmm…

Smoked Beef

Be forewarned that this is very salty so you’ll need to eat it with some bread, rice or veggie just to get rid of the salty taste. Other than that, it’s simply too beautiful for words!

Smoked Chicken

I never like smoked chicken until I tasted this one. The best thing is that it doesn’t come apart.

Beef Sausages

Very salty yes still tasty. I love sausages.

Chicken Breast

By the time the chicken breast came, I was starting to get too full so needed to stop. Looks good though. The guys just had nearly everything.

Chicken Sausage

I actually thought that this was the cheap sausage until I tasted it. Talk about taking appearances for granted. It tasted SO GOOD! However, was too full to ask for seconds.

Fried Fish in Batter

No chips! Ha ha! The highlight was the tartar sauce. They made it there and tasted great! I’m extremely fussy when it comes to good tartar sauce for fish.

Chicken wrapped in Beef Ham

I skipped this one as well. Think after this, I skipped all the food. Too full. The guys were still going on strong.

Ribeye Steak

Man. So much meat! Too much!

Rump Steak

Aiyo! Sayang (pity) cannot try it. Sigh. Looks so good!

A few of my collegues decided to go for the ala carte menu instead. They ordered the lovely lovely salmon steak that comes with salad.

Phew! Then came the farewell speeches from everyone to Opa. Was a rush to make a movie using the digicam. Exchanging batteries and memory sticks. In the end, couldn’t capture all the speeches but got the important bits. Adjourned later for a karaoke session in town.

For those who are interested in trying out this fabulous food fare, here is the address and a map of carvery.

Carvery

Lot 2069, Jalan Utama,

Bintawa Industrial Estate,

93450 Kuching,

Sarawak.

Tel : 082-345428, 345429

Opening Hours :

Opens on Monday to Saturday.

Lunch : 11.30 am – 2.30 pm

Dinner : 6.30 pm – 10.30 pm

Closed on Sunday.

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