Kolo Mee @Meng Joo Kee 民裕居, Ang Cheng Ho, Kuching

Address: Lot 227, Jalan Ang Cheng Ho, 93100 Kuching, Sarawak.
Business hours: Monday - Sunday 7am - 11:30am


Happy Boxing Day, everyone! This will be my last post of 2017. Wishing all my readers Happy New Year in advance!

Last Sunday I was quite lazy to prepare my lunch box. Decided to drop by Ang Cheng Ho for a quick fix. I ever had my lunch at Meng Joo Kee when I worked at Petanak area. This place is popular for its kolo mee, kueh chap, laksa, cha kueh, pork leg rice, chicken soup mee sua and kaya toast.





I used to hand-carry a few packs of kolo mee here for my friends in Singapore. They liked it. If you would like to bring kolo mee for your friend or family member who stays overseas, you have to tell the vendor. The food preparation will be different in order to store for long hours.




A normal bowl of kolo mee here costs RM3.10, while others have increased their price to RM4.00. The char siew meat was rather dry and hard, but I have to say that the minced meat was real good. It's really flavourful. Too bad, the texture of noodle was not my preference. It was slightly soft and stuck in teeth when chewing.




The map to Meng Joo Kee:

Woon Lam Cafe 1999 @Jalan Song Thian Cheok, Kuching

Address: 187 - 189, Jalan Song Thian Cheok, 93100 Kuching, Sarawak
Business hours: Monday - Sunday 6AM - 6PM


I had not been to Woon Lam Cafe for decade. In my memory, the fast food and yong tau foo there were nice. I caught flu two days ago so decided to have something soupy, yong tau foo. In case you don't know the location, Woon Lam Cafe is located behind Secret Recipe at Jalan Song Thian Cheok.




The stall selling yong tau foo. You can choose the ingredients you want. However, the item selection is quite limited so shorten your time to choose. Noodle variation only has mee sua and mee pok (thick noodle).




The fast food stall, good variety of selection and the dishes taste nice too.




I asked for all the items. A bowl of this RM7. Quite worth it since the portion was large. The broth was surprisingly flavourful. I think elderly will like this bowl of yong tau foo.




Other than fast food and yong tau foo, there also have cha kueh, kueh chap, laksa, and porridge. Just checked online and found out the kueh chap here is famous too. But when I passed by the kueh chap stall and smelled the strong pork odor, I ever doubted their business. I was surprised majority customer ordered the kueh chap.


Map to Woon Lam Cafe:

Ting Noodle House 陳記麵飯美食館 @Ban Hock Road, Kuching

Address: Ground Floor, 117B, Lot 132, Jalan Ban Hock, 93100 Kuching, Sarawak.
Business Hour: Monday - Saturday 10am - 8pm (Sunday off)


Hello, been not update my blog for weeks as busy with my bro's wedding. At last the wedding is ended last week. Yesterday finally got time to take a break, visited this Ting Noodle House at Ban Hock Road for brunch. This Taiwanese cuisine restaurant has been in Kuching for many years but still new to some Kuchingnites.

This restaurant serves the iconic Taiwanese dishes. The vendor married a Taiwanese. In the past, this Taiwanese taukenio always stood at the counter and greeted the walk-in customers "欢迎光临". It's the basic etiquette who runs a business in Taiwan culture. But now the customer service is improvable.

I used to come here for its minced pork rice and beef noodle. In those days, not many Taiwanese cuisine restaurants in Kuching. Another popular one is Taipei 101 at RH Plaza.










Iced Bubble Lemon Green Tea (RM4)




Seasoned Seaweed (RM3.50). Every time I visit here, normally will not skip ordering this seaweed as appetizer.




Pan Fried Chive Pork Dumplings (RM6.50). This one not recommended. It was quite oily on the dumpling skin. And the fillings was dry, taste quite awful.




Pork Rice (RM6.50). The layers of fat might look quite frightening to you right. It was not that greasy as you thought. The meat was soft and effortless to chew. What I don't like the most is that its portion is rather small. Oh well.. generally they serve the same portion too in Taiwan.




Minced Pork Rice (RM6.50). This looks different from what I had last time. The meat was in stripe form not minced? Anyway, my SIL said it's tasty. 




Stewed Beef Noodle (RM9.50). The broth is light spicy and flavourful. 




Mixed Beef Noodle. Our guest asked for bigger portion, so the portion is doubled from the beef noodle above.




The map to Ting Noodle House:

Fu Rong Pan Mee Kopitiam 芙蓉板面 @MJC, Kuching

Address: AF 101, Ground Floor, Batu Kawa New Township, 93250 Kuching, Sarawak.
Business hours: 6:00am - 1:30pm Wednesday - Monday (Tuesday off)


Pan mee is one of my favourite food. As the soup tastes light with fragrance and sweetness of cangkuk manis (star gooseberry), I never grow bored of this dish. But there are a few vendors used chicken breast meat to replace the pork mince now. The taste was not as great and I don't appreciate the 'modified' version of pan mee. For me, authentic pan mee should have deep-fried anchovies, star gooseberry, pork mince and freshly kneaded noodle. Some of you might like to have egg in soup, but not me. The egg york spoils the original taste of the soup base.

I have read this Fu Rong Pan Mee in FB. Many responded and flooded with compliments. I came here first time with my bro, the vendor told me the waiting time is one hour. It was too long to wait for my bro, so we detoured to other place. On second visit I came here with my mum, bro and his wife-to-be. Phew, luckily it was not as crowded as the first time. We ordered 4 variety of pan mee to try.




They have variety of pan mee menus, dry, soup or fried version.




The husband and wife.




Pan Mee Soup with Add-on Fried Chicken. Not sure the price, should be less than RM8.




Pan Mee Soup, RM5.00.




Fried Chicken Pan Mee, RM6.00.




Fried Pan Mee, RM6.50.




All dishes we ordered are delicious. The fried pan mee is totally out of my expectation. My bro and I liked it very much. The soup is definitely worth our journey from far. Their sambal is quite unique too. It's not overly spicy, goes well with the noodle. If not because of its distance, I guess I don't mind to have pan mee here everyday.


The map to Fu Rong Pan Mee Kopitiam:

Magenta Restaurant @The Square Tower Waterfront, Kuching

Address: The Square Tower Waterfront, Jalan Barrack, 93000 Kuching, Sarawak
Business hours: Monday - Sunday 5:00pm - 12:00am


After the meal at It Hng Teochew Restaurant, we had second round of dinner. My friend was longing to try out the pasta I had many years back at Magenta. He watched me slurped down the whole plate of pasta, deemed it must be delicious.

Previously Magenta was located at Old Courthouse, not long ago they moved to The Square Tower at waterfront.




The dining place is located at upstairs. Accessing to upstairs is quite a challenge, it's a twisted staircase. It's quite narrow and steep. If you are wearing short skirts, not advisable to dine at upstairs. Or you can choose the table outside the premise.




The menu is here. Sorry for the blurred pictures, the place is dim and poor lighting for taking photograph. It supposed to be a romantic place, but it ain't romantic because of the unmatched tables and chairs. The view is not as great too because the window size is small and you can't enjoy the whole night view of the river and Astana.

Magenta is supposed to be a high class restaurant. So the pricing is higher as expected.














My friend asked me why I wanted to take the picture of the drinks as it's nothing interesting. Hmm.. Why not? They are using a plastic glass. That's what I want to point out. Don't you think it spoils the whole thing?




Lime Leave Seafood Fettuccine, RM36. My friend said it was not that tasty as he expected. I think the quality has dropped, the sauce was quite watery as compared to last time. 




Chef's Salmon, RM42. The plate is huge, it makes the content looks so petty. The pan-fried salmon was fresh so it also elevated the taste.




The total bill was about RM90++. My friend foot the bill. Personally I don't think I will come here again or recommend any friend to try out. Perhaps this place is more suitable for tourists?


The map to Magenta Restaurant:

By Invitation: Nando's #Everyone's Platter for 4

Last night I attended Nando's Christmas dinner party at The Spring shopping mall. Next month Nando's is going to launch their new menu named #EVERYONE's platter in conjunction with Christmas celebration. It's only available for the month of December.




We were free to ask for any drinks on the menu, so I asked for Sparkling Apple and my friend had the Peach Perfect.




Their signature sweet potato fries. I couldn't stop myself having this fries, its crispiness and dipped it with the sauce provided, tastes heavenly good.




The platter includes the whole grilled chicken, and the side dishes: mushroom, corns, wedges, salad, and Mediterranean rice. A set of this #Everyone's platter costs RM99 which is RM24.75 per pax. It's a good deal as this set also includes 4 bottomless Coca-cola.




The staff passed me a knife to cut the chicken. I was quite puzzle at first. Based on her explanation, the original butterfly cut chicken will remains juicy and tantalizing if uncut. It didn't take me much effort to cut it into 4 pieces, pretty easy than I thought. The well marinated chicken was delicious, like the staff mentioned, it was remained juicy.




After the main course, they served us the desserts as well. The red velvet cake and caramel cheesecake. Unfortunately it's not to our liking. The texture was quite hard and not moist.

It Hng Teochew Restaurant @Jalan Padungan, Kuching

Address: MBKS Swimming Building, Jalan Padungan, 93100 Kuching, Sarawak


This Teochew restaurant has been existing for long time but I never been here until last week. I brought a friend here for dinner. It shares the same entrance with MBKS swimming pool. The restaurant is located on first floor.

The restaurant is actually a hall with stage. There has a few private rooms too.




A female staff came to take our order. We planned to order their signature dishes, at least the famous Teochew steamed fish or something. We asked her for fish, but the staff recommended us deep-fried anchovies. So unattractive right.. Anyway, we thought it's the freshest fish they got. So based on her recommendation, we ordered pork stomach pepper soup, deep-fried anchovies, and stir-fried green amaranth. It was just two of us, the staff put a stop to it after we ordered three dishes. Maybe she deems the signature dish portion is too huge for us? Or we look like cheapskate?








The taste was quite good actually, but nothing impressive. Total bill only RM27++. It was cheap but we were not even half full. So I brought my friend to Magenta after this.


The map to It Hng Teochew Restaurant:

Kim Hing Lee 金興利生肉面 @TT3 Commercial Center, Kuching

Address: Sublot 8, TT3 Commercial Center, Jalan Canna, 93350 Kuching, Malaysia
Business hours: 6:30am - 4:00pm (Monday - Sunday)

CEASED OPERATION

Now you don't have to fly to KK for the authentic Sabah pork noodle (sang nyuk mian), it's now available in Kuching. I have tried the famous pork noodle at Kim Hing Lee in KK this year in May. When my bro showed me that he has discovered a new place to have sang nyuk mian, the name "Kim Hing Lee" is not unfamiliar to me. I was thrilled and wanted to try it out. So here we were last week, we came here for brunch.




As we were entering the shop, I noticed the staff was inserting charcoal into the stove. They are actually using the charcoal stove to boil the pork meat and ingredients.




The poster on the wall is exactly the same like the main branch I visited in KK.




Menu and pricing.







We ordered one small (RM8) and one big (RM10). Here's the comparison of its sizes.




A close up view of my bowl. The taste wise, it's not much difference from the one I had in KK. But somehow their meat slice was not as soft.




The noodle. First bite of this, instantly differentiated it's not as good as the main branch in KK. The lard is not as strong aroma and thick in flavour. Plus the yellow noodles they used is the noodles pack on shelf in supermarket. I was quite disappointed with the texture of their noodles.




I must give a credit to their chilli sauce. If you enjoy a high level of spiciness, you would like this. This could numb your tongue (maybe not to you but me), it's very syiok to dip it with the sang nyuk meat slice. Hope they will continue to use the same breed of chillies.




Overall, the taste was good. It's worth visiting if you are the type who enjoy noodles with lard. I doubt if this owner is related to Kim Hing Lee's owner in KK as she mentioned she has a family member living in Kuching.


The map to Kim Hing Lee in Kuching: