Rock Road Seafood Restaurant 大石路海鲜酒楼

Location: Rock View Estate, Lot 1229 - 1230, Jalan Rock & 2 1/2 Mile, Taman Liong Seng, 93200 Kuching, Sarawak. 

Business hours: Monday - Sunday 11:30AM – 2:00PM, 6:15PM – 10:00PM

It has come to the end of 2020. Decided to update my blog for the last entry of 2020. I do not know if I want to continue to update this blog in 2021 since blogging is no longer popular in this era. I do have the plan to vlog, however, no further action yet. Due to COVID-19, we restricted to dine out so I have no materials to update my blog. 

Last Tuesday, I went to Rock Road Seafood Restaurant for the first time with my family. Yes, it's my first time been here. Rock Road Seafood Restaurant is long established and famous for seafood in Kuching. I didn't have a chance to come here because it's expensive for me. And this time, it was my relative's treat. I can only show you the dishes we had. If not mistaken, the bill was about RM1,450 for 12 pax, inclusive of tax and service charge.   

Prawns in Special Sauce (Hainanese Style) & Buns

Sea Cucumber Soup

Stir-fried Midin

Steamed Oysters with Garlic Ginger with Vermicelli

Braised beancurd with mushroom and vege

Cantonese Style Steamed Fish 

Fried Crabs with Salted Egg Pumpkin Paste

Overall the food is very nice and the seafood tasted fresh. The waiting time was considerably short despite a birthday event was hosted there. And I have to say that their customer service is very impressive, from parking to table service, it's impeccable. It's worth to pay a visit if you are into seafood.

The Map to Rock Road Seafood Restaurant: 

 

Ayiko / Ayuke Fish Chef 阿魚哥 @Jalan Song, Kuching

Address: 43, Jalan Song, Tabuan Heights Commercial Centre, 93350 Kuching, Sarawak
Business hours: Tuesday - Sunday 7:30am - 1:00pm, closed on Monday


Ayuke Fish Chef is my recent favourite, purely like its tomato flavourful soup with assorted ingredients made of fish. I used to divert my fond to another vendor who sells the same dish because Ayuke dropped its quality on my few visits. After a long time, I came back again because my mum would like to go. In fact, we found Ayuke's pricing is more acceptable as compared to other. As for its portion and more ingredients provided. 




Me and my mum's favourite is Tomato Fish Mix Soup Set, RM10.60 for small bowl. Highly recommended. Looking at its Tom Yam Prawn Bee Hon and Prawn Bee Hon with wine, I'm interested to try it next time.




My mum's order. She asked for Teochew Fish Mix Soup set, separate the bee hon and soup. You can make request for noodles and kueh tiaw too.




This is my order. Mouth watering. They made the ingredients all by themselves. I love every piece of it. Fish cake, fried fish skin, taufu fish, wanton fish, and giant fish ball. Fresh and bouncy.















Dip the ingredients with their piquant chilli sauce, though not spicy but it's really appetizing.




Next week I shall go again with mum to try out its prawn menu. If it's equally good, I'll update this post entry later.


The map to Ayuke Fish Chef:

Teo Seafood 張海鮮廳 @Jalan Kampung Buntal, Santubong, Kuching

Address: 787, Jalan Kampung Buntal, 93010 Kuching, Sarawak
Business hours: Monday 5:30-9:30pm, Tuesday - Sunday 10:30am – 2pm, 3:30pm – 9:30pm


I brought my parents to Damai on the third day of Raya last month. After a long drive, we came here for lunch. As I have introduced Buntal 88 Seafood Centre before, this time I chose to dine at Teo Seafood. Next time I will try out the other two restaurants along the same road.

I have been to Teo Seafood before too. The service was good, and food serving time was quite fast too. The environment is breezy, quite a relaxed place for lunch and dinner.




Due to Raya holidays, the choices in the menus were limited. No clams, no fresh coconut. I ordered steamed prawns, sea cucumber soup, fried kangkong, curry bamboo clams, Teochew-style steamed fish.

The seafood was all fresh and I like every dish they served, especially the steamed prawns. It's my personal liking to eat prawns with plain taste. I don't like to eat prawns with flavours like salted eggs, butter style, etc. Steamed prawns with a dipping sauce like belacan or chili sauce are the best match to go with rice.




This is the small portion of sea cucumber soup. We have 3 pax, this portion is more than sufficient. The soup texture is thick, very flavourful.




Stir-fried kangkong with garlic. A vegetable dish is a must. At some restaurants, the kangkong would turn black after cooked, theirs was still greeny.




Curry bamboo clams. They have removed the clam shells for you. Very thoughtful.




My parents like to eat fish. The fish meat was smooth and tender. Taste sour because it's Teochew style, the broth goes well with rice too.




The map to Teo Seafood:




After lunch, brought my parents to Damai Central for a walk. It was my first visit too. Not much of attraction and the building is not well-maintained as well.

319 Chin Siang Seafood @Hock Kui Commercial Centre, Kuching

Address: 3125 - 3126, Lrg Tun Ahmad Zaidi Adruce 20, Hock Kui Commercial Centre, 93150 Kuching, Sarawak
Business hours: Wednesday - Monday 10:30am - 10:00pm (Every Tuesday off)


The day landed in Kuching from Taiwan trip, my bro brought us here for dinner. The location is not so noticeable because its location is not facing main road. It's quite risky to open a restaurant here though. Unless someone has spread the word and recommended it, otherwise I don't think I would ever find out there's a restaurant there.




Butter prawns, this one was good. The butter sauce was thick enough and flavourful.




Sea cucumber soup, this is usually the soup we would order whenever we dine out.




Stir-fried kangkung (water spinach) with garlic. This was good, usually we get the kangkung stir-fried with garlic, and they have this deep-fried garlic on top. Awesome.




This is my bro's favourite, crabs with egg. I like crabs too but not as much as him. Usually it takes me long time to extract the crab meat and end up I lost appetite to finish my bowl of rice.




The first visit was good, and I got quite impressed with the food quality here. However, the second visit we got a let down. The steamed grouper fish smelled so fishy and too rough in texture. Usually the boss will be honest with you if the fish is fresh or not ok. But for some reasons, that grouper fish was really not ok for us. Price wise, quite reasonable. The service was good, served the food fast. It's a good place to bring big family or guests here for lunch or dinner.


The map to 319 Chin Siang Seafood:

Ah Zhi Fish Head Noodles 阿志鱼头米粉 @Top 10 Food Court, Jalan Song, Kuching

Address: 8 & 9, Ground Floor, Tabuan Heights Commercial Centre, Jalan Song, 93350 Kuching, Sarawak.
Business hours: Tuesday - Sunday 6:30am - 11:30am (Monday off)


Some days I would like to have something light and healthy for breakfast. I used to like Ayuke's tomato fish mix soup a lot. Its soup was really appetizing. Ayuke Fish Chef originated at Top 10 Food court before it moved to the current location. New vendor took over the stall and selling the same dishes. The taste is equally good, however the ingredients have altered a bit. Though less variety of ingredients, the freshness of the fish is guaranteed and always maintained the standards over the years. Elderly would love this type of fish soup. 






Fish Meat Bihun. This is my favourite, its soup base is a bit sour because of the tomato. The fish ball is bouncy, fried fish cakes and taufu are also rich in flavour.




This am I had Fresh Fish Meat Bihun. The soup was plainer as compared to the above. It's not sour, but you won't taste the offensive fishy smells because of its top freshness. The fish ball was different from what I thought, not just a plain fish ball. Guess the fish meat has been seasoned so its taste has a little bit of sourness. A bowl of this, costs RM10.




The map to Top 10 Food Court:

Buntal 88 Seafood Centre @Kampung Buntal, Santubong, Kuching

Address: 317, Jalan Kpg. Buntal, Kampung Buntal, 93010 Kuching, Sarawak.
Business Hours: Monday - Sunday 10:30am - 10:00pm


Do you like seafood? If you do, this post is meant for you. There are a number of places for seafood in Kuching. Buntal is one of the well-known places for fresh seafood. But driving from Kuching town to Buntal take approximately 40 minutes more or less, depends on your location and road traffic condition. It's not too far from Damai. If you come here for Rainforest World Music Festival in July, you can opt to have your lunch/dinner here too.

There are a number of seafood restaurants here at Kampung Buntal. Most of the popular ones are run by Chinese. No pork served, so no worries if you are a Muslim. There was a table of Malay customers too when we went there. If you want a halal restaurant, there are also restaurants run by Muslims.

I used to try Teo Seafood too, near at the entrance to Kampung Buntal. If not mistaken, this was my first time to try Buntal 88 Seafood Centre. Verdict? Exceeded my expectation, tasted real good. We went on Monday, huhu.. Luckily they were available on Monday too.





This is how it looks like in day time. Oh yeah, surprisingly they even have two VIP rooms equipped with air-conditioner.




This was our view from seating. The restaurant with best view at Buntal is Lim Hock Ann Seafood. I'll blog next time if I have chance to go Buntal again for seafood.




Stir-fried Midin/milin/bilin. On the way to Buntal, there are midin plants everywhere.




Lala clam soup. This was our favourite among all, the clams were so fresh and its size was slightly bigger than those I had at Jalan Alor. The soup was not as spicy but guaranteed tasty.




This is their signature fried tofu. The tofu has stuffed with century egg and salted egg yolk. Not too bad actually, but I still prefer the particular signature fried tofu at Batu Lintang.




Deer meat with dry chilies. The meat was tenderly soft. This dish is really goes well with rice.




Salted egg crabs. After we finished all the dishes as shown above, then only this crabs dish was served. Though long wait, but it didn't disappoint us. Crab meat was superb fresh, it's like they just caught it when we placed the order.




Guess how much is the bill? We had 2 coconuts, 1 milo, 1 Zapple can drink, 4 bowls of rice, and the above dishes for 3 pax portion. Bill totalled up RM127.00 for 4 pax. It's reasonable price, I thought it would be more than RM150. Crabs were the most expensive, RM55 for two nos.


Map to Buntal 88 Seafood Centre:

ABC Seafood @Top Spot Food Court, Kuching

Location: Jalan Bukit Mata Kuching, 93100 Kuching, Sarawak.


When comes to seafood in Kuching, Top Spot aka Taman Kereata is always the best choice for tourists. I'm not too sure about their business hour. Normally it would be safe to go there during evening time, as day time temperature at the roof top might be too hot for lunch. There are a number of stalls available but you may notice Ling Loong Seafood has at least 2 stalls here.

It was my birthday celebration, I suggested to go there since I had not been there for ages. This time the staffs here were not as pestering like last time. As I have tried Ling Loong Seafood few times, so I wanted to make a change this time. We settled at ABC Seafood. But I made a bad choice this time. The dishes were rather disappointing. My bro kept grumbled, the price was acceptable for the dishes but the taste was not.







Various fishes on ice for selection. Some fishes were fresh, some weren't. I'm not good at judging the freshness of the fish, but by noticing the fish eyes you can easily know. Don't choose the fish with red and/or dehydrated eyes.




There are also assorted vegetables and ingredients for you to choose.




Freshwater prawns, and large prawn?




Crabs.. my bro's favourite.




Lobsters, cockles, bamboo clams,  mantis shrimps, and squids.




Stir-fried cangkuk manis (star gooseberry) with egg. The taste was alright, not as I expected.




Cockles is my favourite. This one didn't surprise me too.




Sea cucumber soup.




Black pepper deer meat. I was kinda appreciate the taste but.. I felt thirsty after each bite, doubt MSG overdosed?




Stir-fried crabs with egg. This is what my bro was grumbling about, the taste was not great.




The steamed grouper. Taste was great because of the freshness.




There used to have one guy (bald head) approaches each table to ask if anyone wants to order BBQ seafood. I didn't notice him this time, doubt he is still doing business there. Years ago, I had company dinner at here. As we thought it would be about the market price so we gave it a try and ordered the BBQ stingray from him. And he asked for the price above RM100 for that. What a ripoff. Do ask him for the price and give him a budget you are willing to pay.

 If you are not certain which stall to select, there is one easier way to make up your mind. Just go to the stall with higher number of customers. The better business the better taste.