Category: Sarawak
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Roti chennai
One of the redeeming qualities of the hotel. Good chennai (prata). Especially fantastic when you get them to custom it with cheese.
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Santubung
Post-trip note: For those who don’t know, there’s a story to Mt. Santubong. There’s even a song on it. I’m too lazy to type, so I’ll just lift it from a Googled site. http://nadge.org/?p=184 Long ago when Borneo was a young island, giants and spirits were known to humans, moving back and forth between earth…
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Guess who conquered this?
The feeling you get after conquering this… Post-trip note: Each step is narrower than a foot. I’ve discovered that the best way to climb down would be to climb down sideways. It goes up to around 1.5 storey’s high. Inside the house, there is another set of stairs to the equivalent of attic, where newly-wed…
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Rumah orang Ulu
Post-trip note:We spent a good half of the fourth day at the Sarawak Cultural Village. This tourist attraction is located at the foot of Mt. Santubong, and is basically like a brief summary of all the indigenous people of Sarawak. You can see the different types of long-houses and some offers “home stays” as well.…
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2nd & 3rd day summary
2nd day: We headed to Pasar Serikin, Bau, at Sarawak-Borneo border, 1.5 hours’ drive from Kuching. The road passed by one of the tourist caves (wind or fairy, can’t remember which), and got kind of bumpy towards the end. There were some interesting goods, and if you know what to look for, there’s some cheap…
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The poor throat needs a break…
Dinner was at Ipohtown across the road. We were going elsewhere but it it rained pretty hard, thus the change of plan.
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Mee kolok
Post-trip note: Mee Kolok here tastes like friend maggi / maggi goreng with soto soup. I tried mee kolok from another shop and it tasted like boiled chicken noodles. So I guess, we’ll never really know what Mee Kolok tastes like…
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Pepper is a thing
Apparently, one of the things that they push to tourists is the Sarawak pepper. There are pepper sweets and pepper butter biscuits… Post-trip note: And pepper tea, pepper coffee, pepper chocolate…
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