: : Hai Pa Wang : :

Had dinner tonight with some of the MMU bloggers who were back for industrial training or have since graduated and is now working in Kuching. Went to a seafood restaurant called Hai Pa Wang in Padungan area.

I met them through this food blog. It started with Lisa @ Lizst who first started chatting with me. Then it was her housemate, Jackson, followed by Melvin @ Vampirem and another blogger by the nick bingbing who was not around. Jackson brought along his girlfriend, Christina and MayLin, Melvin’s girlfriend (I think). All in all, there were 6 of us.

What was for dinner? Well, we started off with Fried Udon with Seafood, a house special. Very tasty and not too sweet. This was followed by a dish of sambal midin (fern).

Next came the homemade tauhu. This is another house specialty. The tauhu (soya beancurd) is mashed up and mixed with chopped water chestnuts. The sauce is made from sambal, I think but not too spicy.

We then had butter prawn. Very crispy, as usual. Simple but a firm favourite of everyone present. 🙂

Another house specialty : baked crab which was glazed with syrup. Yummy. By the time it came, we were all pretty full but still managed to eat everything.

Wanna see the bill? Exchange rate for US$1 is RM3.80.

Fried Udon : RM15.00

Baked Crab (4 pieces) : RM32.00

Homemade Tauhu : RM10.00

Sambal Midin : RM7.00

Butter Prawn : RM28.00

Address details :

Hai Pa Wang

No. 286 1st Floor,

Yun Phin Building,

Jalan Pandungan,

Kuching, Sarawak.

Tel : 255126, 235126

Fax : 429064

We later went to the Coffee Master at Somerset Gateway but that’s for another posting. 🙂

Ciao people.

: : Thompson Corner, Tabuan Jaya : :

Well, wasn’t the best but one is very hard put to find Penang Prawn Mee in Kuching.

The taste was definitely there but the soup was a bit diluted. Still, the mee, kangkung and prawn was good. 🙂

Ah well. Am hoping to get to eat this the next time I’m in KL. Best one I’ve ever had was in Kepong. Can’t remember how to get there though.

Oh well.

: : International Kuching Jazz Fest : :

Whoever said Kuching was boring was dead wrong. :p

Did I also mention that it’s free? 🙂

: : Mango Umai : :

Bekah made some umai during the weekend with her Dad. It was great! We had it for lunch along with other food we ordered at chilli peppers.

She used a type of fish called empiriang. I don’t know the English translation but BJ will check it out for me with her Dad.

As she couldn’t find any assam over the weekend, she added in some mangos instead. Boy, was it good!

: : Granny’s Cooking ~ Fried Rice : :

Another step-by-step cooking posting of Granny’s cooking. Did not managed to get all the steps in photos as the telephone rang at that time and she had already started cooking by then.

Some of the ingredients used : chopped long beans, shallots, rice. Not shown in the picture is the pieces of chicken and fish cakes she added in as well.

She also decided to try the Nasi Kampung Goreng (Village Fried Rice) mix by Ajinomoto. Yes, it’s very cheap here and there are also other brands in the market for such mix : Adabi (which started it all), Maggi, Knorr, etc.

First, the onions are fried in onion until fragrant. Then she put in the long beans, chicken and fish cakes and fried them until they were soft. Add in the Fried Rice mix with some water.

Add in the rice (she put in more rice than what is shown in the picture) as well as some soy sauce and pepper. Mix everything together until the rice is of an even brown colour.

Easy to do and you can make your variations by using different ingredients.

: : Secret to Sarawak Kolo-Mee ~ ERRATA : :

sniffles: oi

Wena: hi!

sniffles: 🙂

sniffles: you lied one lerrr you said onion oil and then you posted garlic oil 😀

Wena: hahahahahahahhahahahahahhah

Wena: i took granny’s word

Wena: but come to think about it

Wena: u’re rite

Wena: hehehehehhe

sniffles: i don’t know, it’s been too long since i had kolo mee

sniffles: 🙂

sniffles: i can try both

Wena: LOL

Wena: actually

sniffles: and see how they turn out

Wena: it is onion

Wena: not garlic

sniffles: sure?

Wena: yeap

Wena: use the purple onions

Gosh, I’m so sorry. Totally mixed up the garlic oil and the onion oil. Use ONION OIL for Kolo Mee.

Then again, lemme know if the garlic oil works. hee hee…

Here is a video of Granny making the garlic oil. Note that it’s a hefty 32 MB as I pasted all the clips together.