Sunrise Seafood Court @ Jalan Boulevard Commercial Centre

I have never been know that behind Boulevard Mall there's so many restaurants and most of them are packed!

We came here because my friends told me that here sells a char kuey teow that is close to Penang's taste. Our group consist a lot of Penangnites and they missed char kuey teow very much!! I missed it very much of course as i'm a fan of CKT.

It does taste better than other char kuey teow i ate in Miri, closest to Penang taste...so far...  But there's one problem, even you ordered for spicy, they'll give u a small plate of chilly instead of frying with the CKT. So called the Penang char kuey teow. There's definitely some 'wok hei' there.

Something i like about this dumpling was the soup as it taste a bit alcoholic. The stuff inside the dumpling was really stingy as i felt like i'm just eating flour. gosh.

Pan Mee was seriously out. The soup was tasteless and this is the worst pan mee i've ever tasted. And the anchovies and others are just for decoration purpose i think.

 The sotong bakar and ikan bakar. We have the final agreement that the sotong bakar was way better than the stingray. I'll still prefer stingray to be cooked in Portuguese style. The chilly paste, personally i think its not spicy enough but it taste good. 

Zha Jiang Mian. Basically minced meat noodle with some cucumber, carrot and some meatballs. Another tasteless one even with the minced meat. I have to ask for vinegar and soya sauce to enhance the taste. Same stall as the pan mee, i think they're good for tasteless food. Healthy food

Oyster Omelet (Oh Jian) is very different from Penang or even Melaka style. It is a thin piece of omelet and some small little oysters inside. And instead of sweet chilly sauce, the sauce they gave is something really salty and it goes pretty well with the omelet.

Have our final meal at Dessert Master just opposite of Sunrise Seafood Court.

Desserts are pretty much the same, since i'm not really a dessert fan, i am unable to differentiate the good and bad ones.

 
Location :  Ground Floor: 2443-2445, Jalan Boulevard Commercial Centre, Miri , Sarawak
GPS Coordinate : N04° 24.955' , E114° 0.669'

Night in Villa

I must be some crazy fella that stand outside or even lay down on the road to take photos. That's what i think people will think about me whenever the pass by me. hahaha!

 The night with a huge moon urged me to take photo of it. Everytime i try to take a photo of moon, i always thought of buying a polaroid filter for my lens but its way to expensive, still i don't know is it worth it. And for the 2nd picture? That's when the big tripod meets the mini little tripod...can you see it? =D

Buah Salak. If not mistaken, this fruit is only available in East Malaysia. A fruit that have a skin that is freaking hard to peel off. Taste very sour + bit of sweetness. Most importantly, after consuming it, you'll wanna drink lots of water because eating it will make your mouth real dry ...

Practices

Another time, going to ly's house for lunch. I'm that shittily thick face to eat lunch there. Wedges + Egg with Cheese sauce (same like the one you get in KFC), wow! And the yummy millin =D

Every night, we have practices for our Drama (different group have diff performance), this was part of the orientation. It was real tiring after we finish everyday but there sure is a lot of laughter, agreement/disagreement during the practice. After we perform, there won't be that much time for us to gather in this amount of people.

Panic!

Another weekend! These are the 2 days everyone is waiting after hectic weekdays, yes? During diploma, the stress was so much lower compared to degree. Its just the starting of the course, haha, I'm too used to slacking life of diploma, now i have to slap myself, Wake Up!

We're bored with Bintang & Boulevard. A new place we have yet to discover was, E-mart (supermarket + wetmarket). We have dilemma on transport in the morning, whether we should sit bus or taxi. Bus was quite troublesome as we have to board on Senadin 66 to Boulevard and switch to Senadin 62 to E-mart / Permy Mall. 2 Choices : Waste Time / Money. We chose Time and bus it is.

At Villa, 2012.  "No matter how ugly the surrounding is, there's always a beauty inside it.".

Outside was the wetmarket, where there's so many things that i did not see before. This is where I'm able differentiate between pucuk paku and millin/billin. I saw something familiar, i've seen it in The Star newspaper few years back, the only durian you can get in East Malaysia. The red flesh durian! 

 At the wetmarket, there's so many things to buy, well mostly vegetables but there's a whole new experience to see vegetables or things you have never get to see back in West.

There were indoors stalls between E-mart and the supermarket. We received news from wy saying that there'll be a shortage of water for 4 days in Miri. Not even a month at Miri, we encounter this problem! The news was confirmed as everyone at the mart was talking about it.

 Worst of all, we wanted to grab mineral waters but when we reach that section, its complete empty. The ones that are left in the shelf are the expensive ones (Evian and another). I even saw people putting Evian into their basket, which is one crazy expensive thing to do! Everyone started panic buying any beverage to substitute mineral water.

Well, i'm one of them as well (panic buying other things), just that i did not need to buy any drinks, thanks to my mom asking me to buy 2 bottles of 5 litre mineral water. So what i bought? Deodorant and sanitizer, the 2 things I never buy in my 23 years of living in Planet Earth and i just did broke the record. Imagine 4 days without water, can't really bath? I smell like an ass.
 
When we reach home, we could see some of the houses are packed with busy people, trying to get water from the tank behind our house. Those were the girls busy doing it, they even said, some tanks are already empty. So i went back to the male side of Villa (Villa = Girls 1 row of houses, Guys another row separated by 1 road), i opened the tanks behind my house and my neighbour's, its all full tank. I think non of the guys are aware of this water shortage news as they are busy playing games?

 Ly's cute little Raffy! <3 A very emotional giraffe.

According to the seller, in order to know whether it is ready to eat, you have to see whether the shell is opened or not (like above). Hard to handle this durian as the spike was real sharp compared to other durians i ate.

 Everyone are curious about this fruit.Wait till we eat it and............x_X

For those who doesn't like durian, this fruit does not have any durian smell. Please don't say that it looks like durian and it smells like durian too. If you have ask me how does it taste like? My friends and I ate the whole piece of it...... forcefully. Though i'm a durian fan, this is not my thing. For experience, try it. You don't get this anywhere is West Malaysia.

Anyway, the water source came back after midnight. Darn it, after all our effort on buying water and stuff. 2 of my friends even went all the way to one of their friend's house (further than airport) to get water as that area is not very much affected. They have to gather pails from us, Villians and fill up the water, bring back to Villa. Thanks ly, kw, ah how and ah ngik.

How come there's a sudden notice about the water shortage? A petrol lorry fall into the river and there's oil spill.

Whei Yi's Birthday

Few nights before, we had planned for wy's birthday, always sneaking into ly's house to do the plannings, wrapping up presents. Some friends even went all the way to town to buy the present and cake.

In the afternoon, went to town again since it is a weekend. Did some grocery shopping and lunch. While at Giant, i can't resist to take this picture and blog/tease about it. In Sarawak,they called the beverage - soya bean as 豆腐水 (tofu water - direct translate), which everytime i heard that i'll laugh real hard. Cause for K.L people, if u ordered 豆腐水, they will give you 1 shock / blank look (and laugh in the inside hahaha), trust me. Because 豆腐水 equals to the photo above, water to keep the tofu fresh....

After dinner, all gathered at kaiwen's house and watch movie till 10p.m? Then a small group of friends said that they are tired, so we celebrated early. Seriously, i haven't seen the cake until i opened the box, it was a mixture of 4 types of cake.

 The card with everyone's wishes. There's also indian friend writing chinese wishes, touching wishes and so on. You'll have a tough time finding my piece of paper, hahaha. Just click the image and enlarge it again.

 This was actually a mistake of mine, that they wrote down in the birthday card. Instead of 一班, i wrote 一般, which one means one group and another means in general.. yes i'm a half banana.

Remember that we bought a present? It was a desk lamp which she needed. A multi desk lamp actually, with clock + pencil holder.

 Slowly reading out every piece of wishes from everyone. There was so much of 'awwww' and 'ooooo', laughter and even shyness. The best one was Raj's.

 Another V V member birthday celebration, 1 family portrait.

Actually, we wanted to make a surprise party at 12a.m but there's a few problems, so the plan did not work out in the end. Nevertheless, it was still a success, the main purpose is to gather everyone and celebrate right? While the Villagers left because it was already late, the Villians stayed till 12a.m and sang another birthday song!

The restaurant that is not recommended

The initial plan was going to 1633 (one of the restaurant opposite Villa) but its closed when we reach there. So, we randomly chose a restaurant to call it a day and went to the one beside 1633.

The restaurant gives me a impression that the food will be more expensive compared to other restaurant. Nevertheless, we tried it, we have got 2 years (some even 4 more years) here in Curtin, have to give every shop a chance!

Yet, it disappoints me when the service there is very bad. The waitress had to keep going back and fro to ask whether they have this and that. She have to make sure what the restaurant is not serving that day, that's how a waiter/waitress should know!

 The curry laksa, have only 2 things = very oily and spicy. There's just a bit of curry taste, other than that, its too watery.

At first i asked them if they have Ginger Spring Onion Beef 'Wat Dan Ho' (姜蔥牛肉河) and they went back to kitchen to confirm and told me yes they have it. When the food is served, it was Ginger Beef Rice. There must be communication problem somewhere. Then, the chef/owner came out and apologize saying that he had never heard before 姜蔥牛肉河, maybe in Miri there's no such thing. So, i just changed to the normal 'Wat Dan Ho'. Outcome was: there was lack of wok hei and the gravy was too dilute.

Its not the end of our dissatisfaction in this restaurant, my friend even saw a terrible scene. The waiter was chopping the chicken and it fell down on the floor, he picks it up and continue chopping to serve..

Enter at your own risk.

Jonathan's Birthday

 01/03/2012, Thursday

Nothing to do, i walked to find yt & wy and meet them halfway, since they are walking back to Villa from Uni, this 2 girls are ones that rare, seriously! Previous encounter of my college girl friends, all are scared of sunlight or complain after walking a few inches under the sun. So, we ate abc + cendol opposite Villa, i love the abc (pink colour) but not the cendol, not at all! Due to the super weird taste which i dunno what is that, taste like antibiotic...or maybe they really put it =S

While waiting for Jonathan's surprise party at 9-10p.m, we cooked our dinner with the unusual way:

 Challenge of the day: To prove whether rice cooker is able to cook instant noodle and cabbage. I had used before firewood, induction cooker, gas but a rice cooker!?

We have lots of choice for instant noodle! Now we need not need to worry about starving! Oh yea, i bought this pork boned soup instant noodle and for me, it taste terrible maybe due to the strong taste of ginger.

 Everyone busy cooking and preparing but this cameraman is slacking around, waiting to eat and take pictures. hahahaha.

Bought this pork for Rm10, the chilly was freaking good. What so good about it? Its spiciness was a bomb, we even make use till the last drop of it by dumping cabbage into it and eat. Someone who is having sore throat still eats it..... ahem!

 The 'mother' of the 'family' cooks egg and garlic chives. Yum yum.

 The happy moment, the success of cooking food with rice cooker.

The initial plan was, we hide at one of the Villager's house and wait for the birthday boy to come back. Yet, there seem to be a problem, we were unable to enter Village because it's already 10.30p.m and we were not allowed to go in eventhough it's just 10.32p.m? WHY YOU NO LET US IN.. 

Since we can't go in + raining, the plan had a huge change and we have to keep calling Jonathan on his current location (he went out to celebrate with his other friends). So that time, i think he must have realize that we have a 'surprise' party for him. End of this celebration, john got a cake face palm...poor cake.

Happy birthday Jonathan the unexpectedly naughty boy!