Must go place in Kuching

In Sarawak, the environment is the good place to be visited as it is rich of different flora and fauna that you can't be find in other place. Besides, here also have lots of museum like Penang but it is slightly different.

1. Bako National Park

A National Park since 1957, Bako offers the perfect introduction to Sarawak’s forests and wildlife.  The park covers the northern tip of the Muara Tebas peninsula, an area of 27 sq km.  Despite its seemingly small size, Bako contains a wide range of vegetation – swamp forest, scrub-like padang vegetation, mangrove forest, dipterocarp forest, delicate cliff vegetation and more.   In fact, at Bako it is possible to see almost every type of vegetation found in Borneo. Bako also contains a rich variety of wildlife and a coastline covered with small bays, coves and beaches.  The park has a number of well-marked trails offering interesting walks ranging from short pleasant strolls to serious full-day hikes.  Unlike some national parks, visitors to Bako are almost guaranteed to see wildlife. 

It is 2 hours from Kuching town and we need pass through a long road journey and sea to go there. For those who wants to have the night sight, you may stay at the hotel there with the restaurant.

2.Mount Santubong

It is located about 35 km north of the state capital Kuching. You need to pass through it before reach the Santubong Resort and Damai Resort. You may find it looks like the face of someone who is laying. Every morning, you may see lots of hiker cars down there and they go climb it. They get ready all the stuff that needed before start their activities. It is a interesting and challenging job to keep in touch with the environment.

3. Matang Wildlife Centre

Matang Wildlife Centre, part of Kubah National Park, houses endangered wildlife in large enclosed areas of rainforest or spacious cages. The main attraction is the orang utan adoption programme, where young orang utans, who were either orphaned or rescued from captivity, are taught how to survive in the wild. As well as orang utans, the centre includes spacious enclosures housing sambar deer, crocodiles, sun bears, civets and bear cats, and three large aviaries featuring hornbills, eagles, kites, storks and a host of other birds native to Sarawak.

There are some pleasant riverside picnic spots a short walk from the information centre and four jungle trails. The Pitcher Trail, which follows a circular path through the forest, takes approximately two hours and trekkers should not have too much difficulty in spotting the various specious of pitcher plants that litter the forest.

4. Semenggoh Wildlife Rehabilitation Center

It is a place conducted by Sarawak Forestry to helps the wildlife especially the orang utan species animal. At here, you may see lots of orang utan with different species. You may feeding them by pay the money at the entrance counter when you buy the ticket. It is a good place to gain the experience and knowledge.or at the sides of the trail. The Rayu Trail leads to the Kubah National Park headquarters and takes 3-4 hours. The Sungai Buluh Trail leads to two secluded waterfalls and takes 2-hours (one way).

5. Fort Margherita

Fort Margherita was built in 1879 to guard Kuching’s river approaches from pirates. In the old days, a canon shot was fired from here every evening to mark the end of the government work day. Named after Charles Brooke’s wife, Ranee Margaret, it is a unmistakable landmark along Sarawak River. It is now a history place to be visited and you may see the mistress and her two son had been buried outside.

6. Sarawak State Museum

The Sarawak State Museum (Malay: Muzium Negeri Sarawak) is the oldest museum in Borneo. It was founded in 1888 and opened in 1891 in a purpose-built building in Kuching, Sarawak. Naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace encouraged Charles Brooke, the second White Rajah of Sarawak, to establish the museum. It is just next to the Merdeka Parade Hotel. You may visit the Hero's Monument and others museum beside it.

 7. Kuching Cat Museum

The World’s first Cat Museum, devoted to all things feline, is in Petra Jaya in the Kuching City North City Hall. Cat lovers will find a range of exhibits, photos, feline art and cat souvenirs; over 4,000 of them. The museum is housed on the ground on the City Hall building, spread over four galleries covering a total area of 1,035 sq meter.

A fee of RM3 is charged for camera and RM5 for a video camera. You will passing through it when you go and back from Damai, Matang and Santubong.

8. Jong Crocodile Farm

The Crocodile Farm is located about 29km (18 1/2 Mile) from Kuching City, just off the Kuching-Serian Highway on the way to Skrang River, Batang Air Resort. It is easily accessible by road, which takes only 20 minutes by car and is a popular stop-over for tourists and locals enroute to Skrang River Safari for an adventure of a lifetime.

It is a good place to know about the lifespan of crocodile as it had small museum and the crocodile feeding show in selected time daily. 

Kuching Fair 2017

As we know, Kuching will have Kuching Fair every year around July till August. (the date change every year)
This year it has more food than previous year but the price is quite high (in my opinion).
Here is some food I had that are special.

TALLEST American Cone Ice Cream

This is a 3 topping icecream which you may choose by yourself.  It is big and you may share it. Its price is RM 9.

This is the long potato. Here we may see about three stall had the same things like potato story, potato king. You may choose the topping for it like mayonnaise, tomato sauce, cheese , seaweed powder and so much more. Its price is RM 16.(different stall different price)

It is a mango icecream that full with fresh mango. It is at the back of the fair. Its price is around RM 9.


For those who like matcha or japanese green tea, here is a good place. You may find it in icecream or drinks.

Matcha icecream

Here are actually two types of Matcha flavours. If you like a heavier Matcha taste, go for the 100% Super Concentrated Matcha! Otherwise, you can also get the 50% Concentrated Matcha.

And guess what? You can have two mixed flavours at a time! You can mix and match your Matcha ice cream with Dragon Fruit, Strawberry, Mama Cookies, Dark Chocolate and other varieties~ And the Dragon Fruit ice cream is 0% fat! We recommend the Super Concentrated Matcha + Dragon Fruit combination!

Matcha drink

 It costs RM5 and you may choose different flavour like orange juice, 

dragonfruit and so much more.

 There are three main layers to this Cream Puff. There is a crunchy butter biscuit on the outside and a crispy charcoal inner skin. Then the custard on the inside is thick and super fragrant, and just the right amount of sweet. Overall, the texture is soft, and it’s like biting into a cloud ! You may choose different topping inside like chocolate, green tea and cream.

Food In bekenu @ half way between Bintulu and Miri

Bekenu is a place named Sibuti. It is a small fishing town near Miri, in Sarawak, Malaysia. It lies approximately 477.6 kilometres (297 mi) northeast of the state capital Kuching.

The town has a few rows of shophouses, a fish market, several places to eat, and a pleasant esplanade.The town square faces the Bekenu river.

 It is 45 minutes from Miri town. 
At here, you may find a lots of Malay food besides a few Chinese food.

1. Sing Chiong Restaurant

As it is a big Chinese restaurant here, it had serve the famous Betutu fish and prawn mee. Besides, you may find the local Chinese way to cook with dishes like bitter ground with eggs, water spinach (kangkong), star gooseberry or sweet leaf(cangkuk manis) etc. 

You may get the fried mee, kuehtiaw and bihun besides the dishes with rice.

2. Restaurant Yone and Catering 

It is located opposite to the statue of Bekenu.The Malay food is famous with its ayam penyet with special chilli sauce but sometimes the chicken thigh quite small. (RM12) 

Besides, it also had the cendol and ABC for new menu. For those who like to eat different dishes in a time may get the food with choice and pay.

3. Al Shahmey Cafe

Lalapan ayam

It is located at the back of Sing Chiong Restaurant. It is an Indian Muslim shop with the Malay food. It is famous with the roti canai. You can find lots of roti canai and murtabak here. Besides, you may get lalapan, laksa, mee soup here.









4. Chang Xin Yuan (常兴园）
It is a shop with Chinese food like the mee with the same way to cook Kolok Mee in Kuching and Kampua Mee in Sibu. You may order it with dumpling or black, white.
Besides, it also had the prawn mee and ding bian hu (Chinese foochow food) on weekend.

Must eat food in Miri

Miri is a city of seaside. You may find lots of beach here with different distance along the seaside. It is the city of petroleum.

So, the logo The Grand Old Lazy is on the Canada Hill which opposite the Bintang Megamall Miri. 

Miri is also the main tourist gateway to Gunung Mulu National Park, Loagan Bunut National Park, Lambir Hills National Park, Niah National Park and Miri-Sibuti Coral Reef National Park.The Gunung Mulu National Park with its Sarawak Chamber is one of the favourite ecotourism destinations.

Therefore, it also has a lots of food here to interest the tourism.

1.2020 Cafe 

It is located at the Jalan Bulan Pelita which is somewhere behind the Red Crescent Miri Chapter at Jalan Bulan Sabit. 

It is famous with its dimsum or desserts like baked chicken with rice, siew mai, shrimp meatball and etc. It is very cheap and it just RM3.XX for a rack.                                               Besides, you may find the other food like laksa Sarawak, porridge and clay pot at the same shop. The services in the shop is quite effective too as the workers are high proficiency with high speed.

2. The Little Chef

It is a Chinese Restaurant located at Boulevard Commercial Centre just the block opposite the Boulevard Hypermarket at Pujut. Here, you may order the dishes or with rice. The price is acceptable for local people. Here are the dishes you may find.

1. SPECIAL CRISPY SALTED EGG BITTER GOURD
2. HOTPLATE HOMEMADE SALTED FISH BEANCURD
3. VIETNAM GOLDEN CHICKEN
4. YAM PORK
5. MUI CHOI 3 LAYER PORK
6. NAM YU 3 LAYER PORK

3. Tusan Icecream 

Tusan Icecream is the famous icecream in Miri town. It had 3 branch, in Riam, Permyjaya or Tusan Beach. 

It had lots of icecream that majority with the coconut theme. Besides, it also have other flavours products.

4. Ayam Penyet Ria Miri

     There are various ayam penyet here. You may choose the one you like. It is located at the back of Pullman Hotel Miri.

Bawal ayam penyet

Nasi ayam bakar penyet

Must eat food in Sibu

Sibu- cheapest food in town

Sibu is the main tourist gateway to the Upper Rajang River, with its small riverine towns and its many Iban and Orang Ulu longhouses. Among the notable landmarks in Sibu are Wisma Sanyan, the tallest building in Sarawak, Lanang Bridge (one of the longest river bridge in Sarawak)and the biggest town square in Malaysia near the Wisma Sanyan.Lau King Howe Hospital Memorial Museum is the first and the only medical museum in Malaysia. Sibu Central Market is the biggest indoor market in Sarawak. Among the tourists attractions in Sibu are Sibu Heritage Centre, Tua Pek Kong Temple, Bawang Assan longhouses, Sibu Old Mosque, Jade Dragon Temple, Bukit Aup Jubilee Park, Bukit Lima Forest Park, Sibu Night Market, Borneo Cultural Festival(BCF), and Sibu International Dance Festival (SIDF). Timber and shipbuilding industries are the two major economic activities in Sibu.

Sibu is a city that located just near the Rajang river, the longest river in Malaysia. Its name Sibu comes from the story about the goose came with seedlings to safe the villagers after drought for a period of time. So the Sibu symbolize with goose.

1. Laksa Sarawak

Laksa is a popular spicy noodle soup food in the peranakan cuisine which is a combination of chinese and malay cuisine. It can be widely found in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. The main ingredients of laksa are laksa noodles or rice vermicelli, coconut milk, curry soup base and prawn.

Sarawak laksa comes from the Malaysian state Sarawak, on the island of Borneo. It is almost the same in Sarawak with different level of spicy base. It has a base of Sambal belacan, sour tamarind, garlic, galangal, lemon grass and coconut milk, topped with omelette strips, chicken strips, prawns, fresh coriander and optionally lime. Ingredients such as bean sprouts, (sliced) fried tofu or other seafood are not traditional but are sometimes added. It is the good breakfast for Sibu people.

2. Siew Mai (shao mai in chinese)

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Siew mai is a steamed or fried dumpling that originated in China. It has been known in different dialect of Chinese with a little bit different.

Siew mai is the popular food in Sibu. In every year when the Chinese New Year and Winter Solstice is coming, every Chinese family will went to the market to buy or order some siew mai. Some of the family will decided to make siew mai by themselves. The ingredients is dumplings skin, pork, corn, carrot, onions, light soy sauce and chicken powder or pepper.

Besides we also have crab meat dumplings and shrimp dumplings.  So it is the best try famous food in Sibu. You may also get it in Night Market.

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3. Kompia (guang bing in chinese)

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A local delicacy that one must try while in Sibu is Kompia. “Kompia” also known as Chinese bagel, is from the Foo Chow community, early Chinese immigrants in these two towns.

In fact, the biscuit, pronounced locally as kompia, which is a Hokkien word, was created in the 16th century in Fujian Province, Southern China when it was common for the local men to go into a two to three-day ‘war’. The bagels, about ten to twenty pieces of them, were strung together into a necklace, for convenience in settling the hunger pangs of the warriors, while they were away doing their duty in protecting their village.

The first process of making kompia is flattening the dough with a rolling pin. Then, spray the “kompia” with water. Sprinkling “kompia” with sesame seeds. After that, stick them onto the wall of the stove. Dry them with a blower to quicken the process.


It had different fillings like pork with soy sauce, pandan kaya or eat it plain.
Kompia also the memory for the oldest as they had it when they are in poor. So, you will find out lots of people go and buy it although it is just a simple cookies.

4. Ding Bian Hu 

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Ding Bian Hu is Foochow delicacy. Mix the rice flour with water, cook it around the rim of wok with the broth boiling in the wok. When the rice flour is cooked, scrap it into the broth. Garnished with fish balls, cuttlefish, black fungus, deep fried shallots and pepper. It should be served with ceramic bowl and spoon (it does make the taste different).

It becomes a type of mee to eat as breakfast for local people.

It is fresh and handmade too.


5. Kampua 

Kampua Mee is the most famous food in Sibu. It is a type of mee been cooked in boiling water and then take it out to mixed it with ingredients like salt, pork oil, monosodium glutamate and some onions. This process called kampua. (干拌gan ban in Chinese)

It may serve in soup, soy sauce or chili or soy sauce and chili.

It smells good and it is a type of local food for dialect Foochow in Chinese.











6. Fried Bak Gui Gan

This is another food you can found in Sibu, a town that majority are dialect Foochow.
It called as bah kui gan because the name "bah gui" actually is come from the white colour and it had been made by blended rice.
It cooks with onion, eggs, soy sauce and claws in tin.
We can buy it in supermarket with the package like this.