Kids said the funniest thing

N: mum you are the boss of the house and daddy is the most boss of the house.

Occupying a 2 and 4 year old

 

the boys love foam stickers.  I got them from the dollar shop and brought some craft popsicle sticks with me during the trip. THey came handy as they made puppets and art work.

Nightmare came after they finished ie. picking up the white bits of the stickers.

Satay from Taman Muhhibah

We managed to bag home some satays from Taman Muhhibah.  The chap's satay ran out ever so quickly. I managed to snap a pic before all the satays were gone.

Dinner @ Nice House Restaurant

A few years back, we had dinner here and it was very nice. So we decided to go back. It was Ching MIng Festival when we were there, so SIbu was choke a block with people. We  bumped into everyone everywhere in town. Anyhow, we were going to have family portraits taken at Arts Friends so the most logical place to have dinner was Nice House. We made reservation in the afternoon, and it was so full they could only put us upstairs. Above we tried the duck with plum sauce thingie. Verdict: the duck eater amongst us did not really like it. the Meat was a little dry.  

Kangkung was a bit of a let down. I mean seriously, both mom and my MIl can stir fry a meaner one than this.

Lemon chicken - it was okay

Tofu soup - it was rather nice.

Hong shau Fish head and yam - mom provided the fish head for the resutant, and said she liked to have it cooked with yam. The twist is she will also provide the yam! The restaurant was not going to take her yam but after much persuading they relented!

the Midin (ferns) dish.This is a safe dish. If a restaurant cannot cook this dish, they have to seriously check themselves out.

Here's the fish head

Here's the homegrown yam! It's a 'pi long' wo! it really does taste wicked compared to some of the ones I have in Auckland!

Note: It is true not to eat at a restaurant when it is at its peak capacity. Not only the waiting time is long but the dish also might not be as good as it usually is.

NOodle HOuse

Noodle house was packed and it ran out of its famous kampua on sizzling plate.
jake was not a happy chap. We nevertheless had the mille cake and the fried kompia and various other dishes.

At home with the chicks

 

Noel and his chicks

This is the 3rd last day we were in Sibu.  We went to High street and showed Noel where grandpa bought his chicks.  First, Noel opened the lid.

Next he tried to touch the chick.

And he touched the chicks.

He watched the auntie chose nearly a dozen to bring home.

Supper @ Bandung

We went to Bandung for supper one night with cc. To think that Bandung was one of the 'it' place in the 90s. now it's pretty quiet at night time.

 

We also had the thai grill squid and fish.

hm.. it was a bit of a let down taste wise. we might not go back there next time.

Breakfast from Bandung Stall

 

Before we went back to Sibu, Jake frequented lots of food blog to find out where to eat various food. After all, our theme for the holiday was 'jalan-jalan cari makan'. One of the blog he frequented was Suituapui.
STP has been writing heaps about the kampung bandung stalls.

So one morning Jake went to the bandung stall with my dad to buy breakfast.
And here's what he got us, the nasi lemak, and all the kuehs in the pic below.
and coincidentally, he met STP himself at the stall :)

 

the 'halal' bakzhang ..it was pretty tasty and was only RM1

Starry starry night @ Starry Thai

We got a voucher from R for jake's birthday. SO we went to the city to have our thai dinner.
For entre,we tried the satay chicken. It was pretty nice.

Next, we had the soup, the portion was small but tastewise was okay.

Jake had the duck curry.

This is the other soup we chose.

I chose the sizzling rack of lamb.

For dessert, we had the deep friend ice-cream.

Verdict: Tastes okay but portion was on the small side.

Chocolate devil's cake

I made this cake to share with my life group in winter. It's a dense and heavy cake. I made it in my silicone bundt pan and here's the recipe.

1 3/4 cups self raising flour
1 3/4 cups sugar
3/4 cups cocoa
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1 egg
1 cup mayonnaise (I use full fat)
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cups milk

Preheat oven to 175 deg c. Sift flour, cocoa, baking soda and baking powder into large mixing bowl and stir in sugar.

Add egg, mayo, vanilla and milk and beat together on low speed until combined, increase speed and beat at medium for 2 minutes.

Pour into a lined 23 cm cake tin and bake 40to 45 minutes or until cake springs back when lightly touched.

Note: since I use bundt pan the cooking time was extended to about 1 hour 10 mins.

Best eaten with vanilla ice cream. Also tastes better after it sits for at least half day.

Olympic fest at work

Work had a Olympic adopt-a-country thingie during the Olympic month.

Some departments were thoroughly into it and they had home made captain American skin suit and their pods were transformed into Madagascar etc

Several of us dressed in our adopted. country attire- S in sari, B in Nigerian attire although she's from Zimbabwe, R dressed up in color of GReat Britain flag and IB dressed up in his French beret and baguette under his arm pit. We had office wide shared lunch . It was good fun.

Pasar Malam aka Night market

In our last trip back, jake made sure he went to the pasar malam.   They went there with my dad.

Daffodil day @ BDK

Noel's kindy celebrated Daffodil day in late August.  Check out this link where Noel and his friend is making their daffodils.

Lunch @ Wang Xi Lou

We had lunch with Jake's family at Wang Xi Lou.

Biker Boys

15 minutes before Medan Mall closing time, the boys got on this bike and rode on it.

Dinner at New Fortune

In 2001 before I came to NZ, I was singing with the Wesley Methodist English Choir, and we went to sing at the Nyelong Park Methodist Church.  I remembered we had to sing 3 songs and one of them was Wonderful Grace of Jesus and the other one was the classic hymn Battle Hymn of the Republic.

Anyways, after church service, the whole choir of about 40plus people had lunch at The restaurant in Sarikei.  This Restaurant is 'the' one that people would hold their wedding receptions back in the olden days or one where all the 'big' caterings will be done. I remembered that lunch was very nice.

I only remembered roughly the location, and of course being a small town, we just drove around until we found it.

We were the first customer for the evening (only nearly 4 30pm or 5pm)
We told the lady and guy at the restaurant we drove all the way from Sibu so we had to have our dinner there:P


We ordered lemon chicken

This was pork ribs (pai gu wang)

Of all the dishes, we thought the fish was the least liked. it's not the restaurant fault. We asked them if they would do something different and they suggested this 'thai' version or some version, and it had so many ginger on it.

This was 'kou rou to be eaten with man tou' -sorry I am on a different laptop and had no chinese application on it.

We ordered char mee (wet) since the boys love noodle. We had RM5 worth of noodles and it was a mountain of it. 

This is bakulung juice. (some local fruit)

This is sayur cangkuk manis fried with eggs

I think this is either sea cucumber soup or tofu soup.

This is the restaurant from outside.
Verdict: It is still as delicious as it was 11 years back and if we go to sarikei again, we will definitely be back. It was less than Rm100 for the meal and there's even leftovers to be doggie back home.