Wasn't enough

Somehow my man likes and can't have enough of the luncheon egg sandwich from this food court. since he tasted it last month, he has been coming back for it when he is in Kuching.

 

RM4.50 for the sandwich toast. Maybe they added lots of mayo and the sandwich tasted good, so he likes it. 

One morning, after dropped Jamie to school, we came here for breakfast. He had the sandwich toast while I just ordered teh c since I ate some fried rice that I cooked earlier in the morning. 

Of course 1 sandwich wasn't enough for him so he pestered me to share a set of American breakfast with him. So we shared this RM10 set. I had 1 piece of hash brown, few spoonful of scrambled egg, and mashed potato and half of the hot dog while the rest went into hubby's tummy. 

 

 

Mix & Match

I always wanted to go to Farley, Kota Samarahan for its tasty dim sum but never did so as it was very far away. And when one mentions Kota Samarahan, the first thing that come to mind is the traffic. So, we rarely venture to that part of  the district. 

Credit to michiefoodie

Read on the review of Farley dim sum from this Sibu born Instagrammer last month. Pretty positive feedback. By the way, I tasted dim sum in Farley Sibu few times during my stay in Sibu back in 2014. I remember they had varieties of choice and taste-wise, it was good. So how happy to know that they opened a outlet here. 

Since we couldn't go all the way there, we decided to get Grab to do the delivery for us. Good that there is Grab service when we crave for certain food!! Lol. 

We didn't ordered much. Just 4 dishes as the 5th dish, fried spring roll wasn't available. Char siew pau (RM9.60) was a must. Jay's favourite. 

Steamed pork rib (RM10.30) was rather good too. Soft and tasty but small portion. 

1 Portuguese egg tart (RM3.80) for Jan. 

Lo Mai Kai (RM10.30) for sharing between me and hubby. We have tasted a better one from other place.

I took out few Jakar seafood siu Mai and Kuching siu mai (sio bee) from freezer, heated them up to mix and match to our lunch.

Lastly was this pork porridge with century egg which hubby bought when we had our breakfast in Xing Xing Wang Cafe. 

Yes, that was our light lunch on a Saturday. 

Miscellaneous Picture #104: Different

 Random food photos taken last month. 

Tomato kway teow from Xing Xing Wang Cafe

Bismillah Cafe's Mee Jawa is one of the best in Kuching

Tried out this glass noodle soup from Dapur Foochow in Wang Seng Heng Kopitiam

Tapaued this ru rou fan from one of the stall here

Somehow, this  Kueh Chap stall is becoming our favourite breakfast place.

Two soups

It was the last weekend of March.  We went to my FIL's grave for Ching Ming, gave our little prayers and cleaned the grave.  After a short time there, we went for our lunch in 101 Premier.  Hubby was treating us to a steamboat lunch!!

A Chinese steamboat restaurant called Shang Tang in 101 Premier.  It was opened by a Chinese lady from Mainland China, and I understood that the interior design and concept were like in China.  The furniture and fixtures and most ingredients were from China.  

We reached there around 1130am, and there wasnt any customers at that time.  Looked like the staff was getting ready. Anyway, we were greeted by the taukeynio and ushered to a nice table of 5.

Nice design for a steamboat place. Clean and bright!  They even have private rooms. We took a round table since there were 5 of us instead of the rectangle table.

They even have the grilled section just outside the restaurant but unfortunately it was only ready by 2.30pm.  So we only could enjoyed its steamboat.

 
They have quite extensive selection of meat, vegetables and seafood for the steamboat.  Hubby did the ordering while we just waited for the food to arrive.

We had 2 soups base, that was tomato based and bone based.  I liked the tomato soup as it was thick and more flavourful than the other soup.  Worried the kids would not be able to enjoy the tomato soup, so we opted for the milder bone soup base for them.

 

We had dory fish, lamb, pork belly and beef slices to go with the steamboat. Other ingredients included mussels, fish balls, dumpling, mushroom and bean curd skin. 

Dory

Lamb

Mussel

This was rare in steamboat place in Malaysia, my guess. Duck blood cubes!!  Only hubby touched the cubes.  I didn't dare to taste.  Lol!

Duck blood 

Of course my boys requested for noodle, they cannot go without noodle!!  Lol!  Classic noodle soup for them. Around RM7, we paid separately.  Sorry, couldn't remember the exact price now. 

Plus drinks, our steamboat was around RM210.00.  A different dining experience for a family on a Sunday afternoon. 

Same stall

Hubby and I went to this place not long ago for the Kueh Chap but it wasn't opened. 

We thought we were early or anything but upon inquiry, the kueh chap guy didn't opened due to leg injury. And their off day is every Tuesday. Anyway, we decided to settle our breakfast there since there were other stalls opened. For instance, this stall. 

This Sarawak laksa and Mee Jawa stall was operated by a couple, non-Chinese. I tried their laksa once and it was good. So I decided to take their laksa.

Normal Sarawak laksa for me. It was RM7 per bowl. I was not so crazy about the special or the laksa ambal (laksa with bamboo clams) that they had. Just the normal, traditional Sarawak laksa for me. 

Taste-wise, it was nice as I remember it to be. Not too spicy yet the broth was flavourful. Ingredients were fresh. Quite a big portion for RM7.

My man went for the Mee Jawa saying (RM6). It was alright according to him. Not the best, but it was acceptable.

The business at this food court was good. Have picked up since MCO. Good that it has survived the tough days.

Schools

I had been super busy in the final week of the school holiday. Registration of schools, collecting textbooks etc. Normal stuff to do before schools reopened on 21st March. 

But somehow Jay's registration to preferred school (Jan's secondary school) wasn't smooth so I needed to run here and there to appeal again. Did my 1st appeal via online on the 1st week of the school holiday but rejected so I needed to do it manually 2 weeks later. 

So for 3 days, I was driving between 2 secondary schools and the Kuching education department to submit my case. Submitted to education department on Wednesday and finally got the approval letter on Friday. Immediately dropped the letter to the school in the morning and by evening, I got the list of class with his name in it!! Thank God!! Thanks to the teacher for the quick work and effort!! And that same evening, my phone was bombarded with Telegram from different teachers!! My first time using Telegram app. 

Now less headache for me as Jay is now in same school with the sis although he is in afternoon session while the latter is in the morning class. For now, both will be doing online classes till they going back to school on 1st week of April.

The youngest has been going back to school, but he wasn't that pleased with him going to school while the others stayed at home and doing online classes. Lol!!

One morning last week, I was too busy to prepare lunch so I went to buy takeaway from Singapore Chicken Rice.

Fried rice plus egg RM9.50

Jan wanted its fried rice and requested a fried egg to go with her rice. I went for fried rice but without the egg. 

Fried rice RM8.50

The boys had the roasted chicken rice for lunch. 

Roasted chicken rice RM7.40

They are back!!

One minute, they were gone. Next minute, they are back!! That is the case of Taiwan's famous street snack chain, Shihlin!

Just when I thought I would not be able to enjoy its street snack anymore, they were back, opened a couple of outlets in Kuching.  One was in Emart Batu Kawa, my favourite hypermarket that we usually do our grocery shopping. 

But with cases going up again, I would not be thinking of going out as often. And to satisfy my craving for Shihlin snacks, I got Grab to settle for me.

Initially I wanted oyster mee suah but look like they were run out of it or it was not available.  Anyway, I ordered 1 XXL Crispy Chicken (RM15) and 1 Sweet Plum Potato Fries (RM11). But  I used the Grab offer, so in the end, I only paid RM15 for both.   

Same taste, same flavour. You could detest the strong spices on the breaded chicken. 

The size of the XXL crispy chicken. Just nice to share with my kids. 

This was my first time tasting its sweet plum potato fries. I liked sweet potatoes so I rather enjoyed these fries. The strong taste of plum sauce, which kids didn't liked much but no problem for me to finish them up.