On her

My MIL is here. Few days into her stay, she suggested to go electrical appliances shopping. She wanted to get us an air fryer as she heard and seen how convenient it was. My SIL used it so my MIL wanted to get us one.

As you know, I have been contemplating to get one for quite sometime even before MCO. Counted our lucky star, my MIL brought one for us.

Philips Air Fryer HD9270 was our choice. Other than air fryer, she also bought us a new fridge. Midea brand. Our old Samsung fridge has gone, so we had space for one additional fridge. All bills on her. 

Thank you mum for the new fridge and air fryer!! 😘

The very first thing we did when we got our air fryer was testing!! With fries!!!

Not good 1st testing with French fries as we set the time too long. And our 2nd attempt was better as you could see from the above photo. 

Next we tried out on chicken wings. Oh, it was nice. Basically the gadget was automatically set with food  function as well as temperature and time for each food but we could adjust accordingly. 

As we grew confidence in it, we had our air frying pork belly for lunch one day. Turned out just nice. The texture was nice. 

More experiments with my new air fryer. 

For supper

It was a Saturday night. My mil flew in from Sibu. Hubby and I went to pick her up from the airport. Luckily the plane departed early so reached Kuching way earlier than the expected time. It wasn't 630pm yet but due to rain, the sky was dark. We headed back slowly under the heavy rain to MJC.

Instead of heading straight home, we went to 38 for dinner since my mil didn't have hers yet. Hubby and I also missed our dinner. The kids stayed at home, had their dinner while hubby and I accompanied mil for dinner. 

We seated right in front of this pork burger shop, which was next to 38 Food Court. It has been in business for quite sometime but we never tried the burgers so we decided to buy for the kids' supper that evening. 

Homemade salted fish pork burger, anyone?? Maybe I will try it one day. 

After checking with the kids on what they wanted for supper, we placed our order with the burgers while having our dinner. No customers in the burger shop so our order was done in quick time. 

Chicken burger for Jay RM7

2 burgers and 1 serving of fries for the kids. The comment I got from Jan was her pork burger was tasty. The kids finished up the suppers in no time even though they just had their dinner around 6pm. 

Pork + Egg burger RM8

Fries RM4

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.