Happiness Cafe 幸福園饮食坊 @Jalan Delta, Sibu

Address: No. 1D & 1E, Lane 4, Jalan Delta, 96000 Sibu, Sarawak.
Business hours: Tuesday 6:30am - 1:00pm; Wednesday - Monday 6:30am - 1:00pm, 5:00pm - 10:30pm


After breakfast at Chop Hing Huong, we stopped by Happiness Cafe to meet family members as they chose to have breakfast here. This coffee shop is located in housing area, Delta Road. Variety of choices here, there's a Malay food stall here too. My uncle paid a high compliment on the ding bian hu here. So out of curiousity, I also tempted to try it out.





My parents liked the kampua here. The texture was good but the lard aroma wasn't strong enough. For me, there's no kampua can compete with the kampua at Pasar Utama Bintulu.




Here's the ding bian hu. My uncle said it has lots of ingredients. Yes, it does have more ingredients but frozen fish cakes and fish balls. And they used kueh chap's flat rice noodles not the traditional form of ding bian hu. This should not called ding bian hu. They should name it differently.




The map to Happiness Cafe:

Ah Suok Mee Sua @Double Happiness Cafe, Green Heights, Kuching

Address: KCLD, Lot 10039 & 10040, Block 16, Lorong Lanpangan Terbang 2, Green Heights Commercial Centre, 93250 Kuching, Sarawak.
Business hours: 5:35 - 5:40am until 2:00pm; Off every Tuesday

 The other day my friend and I had brunch here and I was quite surprised there were variety of choices. As we wanted to have a quick fix, I skipped the stalls that required long waiting time. It was Sunday, so the business was very good since the church was just next to it. I had nasi lemak instead, which the taste was just average.

Last month I went back again with my bro. So I managed to try out the stall at front that was popular the other day. Finally had a closer look at its menu. They are selling Foochow delicacies, such as mee sua, "Ding Bian Hu" (鼎边糊), gong pia, and sio bee. I'm quite impressed that they have extensive mee sua menu too. Felt so tempted to try it all, but decided to try out the chicken soup with vegetable noodles and Ding Bian Hu first.




The taste of cuttlefish pork leg mee sua (臭积柴墨鱼猪脚面线) is not commonly acceptable to public because of the strong herb smell, even I myself had the hesitation to consume the soup cooked with this type of herb (臭积柴) when I was a kid. Patin contains 8 types of herbs, it has slightly sweetness. These are all my favourites, except I have never tried this "chicken soup natural vegetable mee".




They sell also sio bee and gong pia. Haven't try so can't give any comment yet.




This is ding bian hu (鼎边糊), can't resist not to have it. But I was not so impressed with its taste, maybe it was because the chicken soup was tastier by comparison.




Foochow chicken soup with vegetable noodles, this combination looks special. No regret to order this as the portion is generous, two chunk pieces of chicken meat with big bowl of soup. Slurp! The chicken soup is cooked with Foochow red wine that caused the red colour. A bowl of this costs RM6 with egg, without egg only RM5.




I'd definitely go back to try out other mee sua too. Have to bring a friend or two so that we can order more and share. It's worth to try, hmm... feel like having Patin mee sua on my next visit.

Foochow Cuisine @Puer Tea Centre 普洱林茶屋, Kuching

Address: No. 18, Supreme Garden, Jalan Nyatoh, 93300 Kuching, Sarawak.
Business hour: Monday, Thursday & Friday 6:30am - 1:30pm


This place was introduced by my friend, saying it is only available 3 days a week: Monday, Thursday and Friday, and operating from 6:30am to 1:30pm. I also saw some people posted it on Facebook with good reviews on the food. Finally we found a time to visit this place. It is situated in housing area.




This is the place. It is not difficult to find because it is just located opposite Tai Tong Tyre & Batteries Sdn. Bhd. with noticeable "Continental" yellow signboard.




If you ever noticed this Continental yellow signboard opposite the junction to The Spring shopping mall on Jalan Tun Razak, then you are on the right track.




The dining place.




Order and cashier counter. The menus: Foochow mee sua with chicken soup / Foochow herbal soup (臭枳柴猪脚; 臭枳柴 - Litsea cubeba in English, a type of herbs that helps to boost up energy), nasi lemak,  pork trotter with vinegar, gong pia with 3 layer pork, and siobee. As the vendor runs it alone, so everything here is "self-service". Go to the counter to place your order, get your own spoon, fork and chopsticks, get your drinks from fridge, wait for the vendor to call when your food is ready, after meal, put your bowl/dish into the ready bucket. Remember to trash your waste into the other bucket. This is the first time I encountered this experience in Kuching.




The kitchen. The place is neat and clean.




Get your spoon, fork, chopsticks, ketchup, seasoning, and drinking straw here.



Though no pets allowed, I kept smelling the dog poop constantly. Perhaps the smell blowing from the next door.




The fridge with assorted drinks.




We ordered peanut soup. The taste is sweetless. I doubt if the vendor forgot to add sugar or you have to ask for sugar syrup?




The Foochow mee sua. The portion is huge, the chicken drumstick also huge. The price is only RM6. Very cheap indeed.




The nasi lemak. The fragrance of the rice is nice, texture also different from other nasi lemak. The vendor used better rice grade. Just that, I don't like nasi lemak with curry chicken. Personally prefer fried chicken when comes to nasi lemak. The portion is very generous, comes with side dishes as well. Price RM6 only.




The pork trotter with vinegar 猪脚醋. The gravy was nice, but the meat was hard and not easy to chew. Again huge portion, and it is RM6 only.




I asked for gong pia 光饼 too. Different from other gong pia, the vendor steamed the gong pia with 3 layer pork. Big chunk of pork meat. Not to my liking because the meat was too hard to chew, not soft. It caused the meat stuck between my teeth.




Among all the dishes (except siobee which I haven't try yet), I like the chicken soup mee sua the most.  It's a bargain really! If you don't know the location, just use Waze GPS navigation app. The address is stated above.

Foochow Cuisine @ Lee Coffee Shop Stutong, Kuching

Address: Ground Floor, Sublot 78, Jalan Setia Raja, Stutong Parade Commercial Centre, 93250 Kuching, Sarawak


Last year my friend came back from Singapore, invited us to have lunch at Lee Coffee Shop as her uncle is operating a stall there selling Foochow cuisine. Looked at the menu and I found something new to me. The other day I brought my bro there too since we ran out of idea where to have dinner. There are number of choices available, and you can have the delicious Ping's fried chicken wings at here too.




The menu at the Foochow cuisine stall. Though the menu doesn't look appealing, but never judge a book by its cover.  I have tried several dishes already, and I like their fried beehoon and deep fried beehoon the most.




This is the one I highly recommend, deep fried beehoon (deep fried mee hung).




This is how it looks like, deep fried beehoon. And it costs only RM6 with the sumptuous ingredients. A must-try dish! The beehoon is crispy, it tastes really great with the gravy after been soaked for a while.




This is the fried thick beehoon. Tastes good as well, but I personally prefer the thin beehoon.




This is the zao cai beehoon. This one is not as recommended as the uncle explained to me the zao cai packet available in Kuching market is not as fragrant and tasty as the traditional zao cai imported from China in bulk, which is still able to get in Sibu.




There's another stall at Lee Coffee Shop which is famous with its Zhao'an smoked duck too. Will blog it next. Stay tuned.

Soon Fatt Cafe 顺发茶室 @Petanak, Kuching

Location: Jalan Petanak, 93100 Kuching (Opposite Magnum 4D)
Business Hours: It should be available after 7am, but closing around 2pm. Can't remember when is their off day. Either Sunday or Monday.


Soon Fatt Cafe is specialized in Foochow cuisine. I used to patronize Soon Fatt Cafe frequently because it is near to my ex-company. It was really good in the past, big portion, price was reasonable, and the taste was good too. The helpers, twin sisters are friendly and hardworking. The owner trained both of them very well, one mastered making drinks, and another mastered cooking. Slowly I stopped patronizing because the smoke from the kitchen made my hair smelled bad every time, and the price they charged is rather high compared to others.





Foochow Fried Noodles. This was my favourite. Their fried beehoon is equally good too. After so long, I went back again with my bro. The portion was big but the ingredients were pathetic. They use chicken breast meat to replace pork meat. No more fish balls. Only veges and chicken meat. I was quite disappointed honestly.





Foochow Noodles Soup. Same ingredients.




They are famous with the big prawn noodles soup too. But the price is really steep. Better ask them for pricing before you confirm the order. If you are not keen to have noodles for lunch, you can try their ginger pork rice too.

After blogging this post, I suddenly miss the Foochow cuisine at Rock City Cafe. Gonna have it tomorrow!

Authentic Foochow Cuisine @ Meekwong Cafe, Kuching

Location: Ground Floor, Jalan Song Thian Cheok, 93100 Kuching (same block with KWB payment counter).


This coffee shop only operates from early morning till 2pm. It has been my favourite place these days for late lunch. The variety of Foochow food is the main attractions, such as Foochow version fried noodles, mee soup, kampua, gong pia, zao cai beehoon, herbal soup with mee sua, chicken soup mee sua, etc.




The menus and pricing. The price is reasonable as the portion is quite large with generous ingredients.






This is kampua 干盘面. The texture of kampua is different from kolo mee. The noodles of kampua is like 100% cooked, and authentic Foochow kampua must contains pork lard. Secondly, a bowl of clear soup should be provided. In Kuching they don't provide soup unless you request it. We Foochow will not miss out soup in our meals, especially dinner. Looking at this picture, I feel like having it tomorrow. It looks so seducing. 




On my second visit, I tried out their fried noodles 炒面湿. Foochow version, stir-fried with dark soy sauce and the condensation of gravy must be thick enough.




This is called zao cai beehoon 糟菜米粉. Zao cai is fermented vegetables, imported from China. Tastes sour, it is my favourite too. Usually zai cai beehoon 糟菜米粉 will contain black fungus and the beehoon is thicker than the normal type. This type of beehoon we call it "fen gan" 粉干.




Ba zhen mee sua 八珍面线. In Foochow, we pronounce it as "bek tin". This soup contains 8 types of herbs. Usually we will use duck meat to cook, but here they use chicken as a replacement so that the price is affordable. The chicken thigh looks huge, it is only RM6. Worth it. The herbal soup is heaty type in Chinese medical terms, it is good for ladies especially. Taste wise, ba zhen soup has a little bit sweetness.




Fried bai guo gan 炒白果干, white rice cake is another Foochow dish too. This is not really my favourite, but my mother loves it. Every year she never missed this dish on CNY reunion dinner. This dish we usually stir fry with leeks imported from China.

My brother has also tried out their food. But he still prefer the one at Rock City Cafe. Actually I agree with him. The auntie's Foochow fried noodles is really unbeatable.

Authentic Foochow Cuisine @ Rock City Cafe 东阁

Location: 2½ Rock Road, Eastmoore Centre, Jalan Rock, Kuching

These years you can easily find Foochow cuisine at almost every coffee shop in Kuching. I am a Foochow myself but I could rarely find any Foochow cuisine here that suits my taste. Even the one I ever introduced before in my blog, New Happy Cafe. I like the taste but not up to 100% yet. I thought this is the best I could find in Kuching. Sometime ago I went to Rock City Cafe which mentioned by my friend before. This is the authentic taste of Foochow cuisine which I have been long searching for.

Aside Foochow style fried noodles, you can find nice kampua and mee sua here too.

This is the stall which I have been patronized frequently. I was addicted to its fried noodles and egg soup for months.




This is fried noodle soup. It is my favourite too. The soup is darker and thick.




My regular order, Foochow fried noodles. The gravy is awesomely tasty. I always finished it till the last spoon. If you want to order this, make sure you tell them "炒面湿的". If you didn't specifically tell them so, they might give you the dry fried noodles.




I can't remember this is fried mee sua or beehoon. Compared to fried noodles, taste rather plain without gravy. 




This is my favourite egg soup. I order this every time to go with my fried noodles. Hundred percent highly recommended. I brought my bro and mum there one time, and now my bro also became their loyal customer.




This is from another stall which selling mee sua mainly. It is not difficult to find chicken tonic soup with mee sua in Kuching, but not Ba Zhen mee sua 八珍面线. I like this Ba Zhen soup too but it is only available on Saturday (if not mistaken). 




Note:  Rock City Cafe closes around 1 - 1:30pm, operates everyday.

Sing Garden 星园

Location: Jalan Sherip Masahor, Taman Hui Sing, 93350 Kuching (next to Perodua Showroom, you can either enter from main road at the front or from the road behind Petronas Station at the back)


Sing Garden is one of my favourite coffee shops in Kuching. I only have a few in my list, depends on the food variety they offer. Some coffee shops have no popularity of food. The popular coffee shops normally have more than one stall which offer their specialty of food. And the patrons are mostly repeated customers. Sing Garden is my frequent place for breakfast and lunch because of the food variety and its convenient location.





Let me recall. There have Foochow kampua, fish head noodles, claypot porridge or noodles, chicken rice, lei cha, pan mee, sandwich, fried noodles, cha kueh, Sarawak Laksa, Kolo Mee, ding bian hu (鼎边糊, made of rice powder, Foochow's specialty food) and chicken rice. I have 4 favourite food in my list: ding bian hu 鼎边糊, fish head bee hoon 鱼头米粉, lei cha 擂茶 and 盐焗鸡 (direct translation: salt baked chicken). At times I like to have green for detoxing purpose, I would go for lei cha. Early morning I would go for ding bian hu or fish head bee hoon. The best choice for lunch is salt baked chicken.

Fish Head Bee Hoon Soup stall, can ask tauke if there's any raw fish meat. Otherwise, the fish meat is normally fried which I find it quite dry. The soup is nice but could be spicy (if you can't take spicy soup, ask him to reduce spiciness). Soup is a bit sour and milky, my favourite.  




Fish Head Bee Hoon  鱼头米粉 (RM7.00)




Ding Bian Hu 鼎边糊 Stall. They also have Zao Cai Bee Hoon 糟菜米粉, another Foochow specialty - sour soup base.




Ding Bian Hu 鼎边糊 without egg (RM4.00)




Lei Cha 擂茶




This one I will rate it 5 star. Why? Cheap and very nice taste. Chicken meat is tenderly soft, though it is salt baked but it's not over salty. I have to compliment this tauke for his sincerity in serving best food to customers. One drumstick chicken like this, costs only RM5 and it comes with rice. Not forget to note, the rice they used is better grade! Definitely rare find in Kuching. The other time I had chicken rice, cost me RM5 and what I got is only breast meat and the rice is the cheapest grade. Therefore I would highly recommend this chicken rice to you. The couple is friendly, the taukenio will say thank you (sadly nowadays most of them don't practice this anymore).




Too much meat? You can order vege from this stall too. This boiled baby kailan is nice too. If not mistaken, it costs RM2 or RM3?