Showing posts with label Sarawak. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sarawak. Show all posts

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Pinky stuff

Just realised i haven't update my blog for ages already. Wonder if anyone still drop by here? :)

I was in Miri few days back and saw this in the Iban market in town and bought some back home. Can't remember when was the last time I ate the "fruit". I think that was more than 20 years ago. I don't know what is the name of the "fruit" though. Love the "lemak" taste. :)


**Update 16/10/09**

Finally i found the name of the fruit - Engkala (Thanks to Sarawakiana for enlightening me). :)

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Sibu Night Market

Besides the piggy head and chicken head and neck exotic foodstuff in the Sibu pasar malam @ night market, there are several other yummy mouth watering foodstuff at cheap affordable price.

Setting up and preparing their stalls for the night market.

Wow... they even sell pre-packed economy rice or chap fan. If you are not a fan of those exotic foodstuff, u can buy whole grilled chicken or chicken thigh/drumstick here too. :)

Gigantic meat roll. Frankly speaking, this is the first time I see such gigantic and fat meat roll. Looks yummy though.. I should have buy one lah that day. *Regret*.

Colourful pao or steamed bun. :)

Soya bean drinks and other drinks refilled inside mineral water bottle. Not only that, the mineral drink labels not yet removed are still intact.

The most yummy foodstuff in town... Siew Mai. :)

Deep fried bread or roti goreng daging.

The meat-stuffed kompia, also known as the "chinese burger". Good stuff. Only 40 cents per piece or 5 for RM 2.00 :)

The mouth watering siew mai again. The siew mai here are gigantic with different shape, enable more fillings. :)

Everything is huge here... including the steamed cake. :)

And last but not least... wanna some?

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Exotic !!

Grilled chicken head & neck. Dare to eat this? Fear Factor foodstuff. No way. I will give this a miss. Too gross :P

Wah.. This is even more interesting. Piggy head. Btw, this has nothing to do with Swine Flu.

Good to see, but I won't eat it too. Too exotic to be consumed. :)

*Photos taken at the Night Market (or Pasar Malam) in Sibu, Sarawak.

Monday, April 27, 2009

Chicken Market

After bidding farewell to the wrapped chicken & ducks in the market, now we continue our "chicken talk", by paying a visit to the nearby chicken market.

Hundreds of hen available here in the market. I will refer them as chicken instead, although these are "grown up chicken" :P Most of the chicken here are awaiting to be slaughtered few meters ahead. And the poor chicken have to witness the slaughtering of their own kinds. So traumatizing for the poor kokokai..

I won't include in the bloody scene of slitting the chicken throat. Too scary bloody to be included here. Anyone knows what is this black cylindrical container with a wider white container underneath for? Yeah, the slaughtered chicken will be placed here, and the narrow black container will prevent the chicken from moving around prevent the headless chicken from running around hence thrasing the blood all over the place. The white container underneath collects the drained blood.

This scene is not suitable for those who are phobic of blood as well as phobia of chicken. Notice the pool of blood on the floor? And the blood stained chicken feathers were all over the place.

I haven't see such scene for quite some time already. Reminiscing the days seeing my parents slitting the chicken's throats, draining the blood and plucking and removing the chicken feathers in the backyard in the 80's. I believe kids in big cities won't have the opportunities to witness such scenes.

Cleaning the chicken after plucking and removing the feathers.

Notice the slit mark at the chicken's throat with clotted blood stain?

Uncle is cleaning the chicken and plucking the remaining fur with scapula prior to marketing selling the "manually processed" chicken.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Chicken & Duck Talk

Is this something new to u? Why all the chicken being tied up? Did they do something wrong, hence being punished? :)

These are common scenes seen in Sarawak Market. The chicken & ducks are rolled and tied up with newspaper and raffia string for sales.

Some sellers even write the weight and the price on the wrapping newspaper, as in the photo above.

Duckie praying.. "Anyone wanna bring me back home? But please bring me back as a pet duck, and please don't cook/eat me" :P

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Sarikei Jetty

Many might just ignore those small "insignificant" details in life, but I don't. I love to observe the happenings and little details around me, unless if I'm rushing for time.

This was taken at the Sarikei jetty in Sarawak three weeks back.

The wooden plank or footbridge.

Watch out your steps. Look at the "holes" or missing wood in between the plank.

If you step wrongly on the plank, u might drop into the river instead. By the way, what is the girl doing here?

The filial girl is waiting for her granny. Her granny's boat had finally arrived.

Granny or Nenek walking bare feet on the boat toward the connecting wooden bridge, which is a piece of wood.

Granny started to walk on the little wooden bridge.

Granny passing her slippers to her grand daughter.

Scary lah seeing how the granny cross the bridge. I don't know whether I dare to do that or not as I scared I might lost balance and fell into the river. :P

Granny managed to cross the bridge, safe and sound. :)

Thursday, December 04, 2008

It's Durian World

It's liulian durian season again... not in Penang, but in Sarawak, the land of hornbills.

I have no idea what is the English name for this species of jungle durian, but so far i haven't see it in Peninsular yet. I haven't tasted it for almost 10 years already... This time I was lucky, since it's durian season :)

Yeah, the fresh is orange and the seed is dark brown in colour. There is another different variety (yellow in colour, and the fresh is more sticky and tasty, with thinner but sharper thorns but I didn't manage to find it in the market) :(

Next, back to the "normal" local durian.. Unlike those durian with names or grades from Balik Pulau, Penang.

The white flesh local durian, which is equally tasty. :)

Monday, August 04, 2008

Washroom for Crocs

The photos below were taken inside the toilets in the Crocodile Farm in Miri :P

What is/are your response(s) when u see the above signboards? So farnie, and I can't deny they are very creative to come up with such a drawing.
Washroom for the Buaya Darat? Male Crocodiles??

And another one for the female Crocs :P

Saturday, August 02, 2008

Sand

The sand on the beaches at times mimic creative pieces of artwork, thanks to the bugs and mother nature :)
Cute leh the biji biji. Resembles mini marbles.. or might be white pepper. LOL

And the little sand balls are being dragged...

Ini siapa punya kerja? Korek lubang besar-besar pulak?

And I love this... The awesome work of mother nature which resembles tiger stripes :P

God's creation is indeed awesome :)

Monday, June 30, 2008

Goodbye Kuching

This is what I had for brunch today - Kam Pua Noodle (干盘面). Something that I had since childhood time (which is not available over here in Penang) before I bid farewell to the Land of Hornbill. It looks like Wantan Mee but the taste and texture of the noodle is different. I still remember during my secondary school days, the noodles was sold at RM 1.30 per plate in Sarikei. Now the price is already RM 2.80 in Kuching. Talking about those good old days when everything is still cheap and affordable :P

Yeah, I'm leaving Kuching today. This is just a short balik kampung trip but quite an enjoyable one too. Especially I managed to meet up with quite a number of my secondary school friends/classmates and two of them I haven't meet for 16 years. Seems like most of my Sarikei friends and classmates/schoolmates have either migrated or are now working in Kuching. ;)

Friday, March 21, 2008

Where Am I?

Guess where was I over the last few days?

Yeah, at the Land of Sea Horses (somewhere at the Land of Hornbills). The house of Mi Mi and Ri Ri. Sea horses statues are seen every where but I had yet to see a real sea horses there :)

And I had the opportunity to meet up with Kok, having flat Kolo Mee and boiled sugar cane drinks at one of the stalls inside the old market. Nice meeting you, Kok. Too bad Doreen fly few days earlier back to Kuching liao...

Monday, February 18, 2008

Finally...

Slurping Green Tea Latte at Star Bucks in Kuching International Airport while waiting for my flight back home to Penang. And at the same time, not forgetting to check whether anyone bully my Moo Moo dearie with my Eee PC with the free WiFi.

I wonder why most people like to queue up so early, prior to the announcement (Air Asia flights with free seating policy). At times I see them standing there for 20 minutes or half an hour in advance. Kiasu spirit? I prefer sitting than standing up and queueing in advance. Hence, I'm always the last few one who board in the flight. I don't care if I get a window or aisle seat. As long as seat is available. How about u? Do u queue up early? :)

*Photos taken with my handphone Nokia N73