we are in Kuching with Sarawak Tourism. Sarawak is a state on Malaysian Borneo
and today we're taking you on Part 2 of our food tour of Kuching city to
discover some of Kuching's most famous foods, I'm Thomas and I'm Sheena and
we're Chasing a Plate, we hope you're hungry, let's eat!
there is so much to eat in Kuching so this is part two of our food tour of our
Kuching city series Part 1 is linked up there so head on over and check it out if
you haven't already but for now stick with us we are going
to be doing a lot of eating today let's go and find our first snack
first stop
this big bao or big bun and it is pretty big let's just rip into it now
this is a chicken one so it's a steamed bun, they've got these stacks out the
front of the restaurant with them all sitting in the steamers and warming up
just get some of that paper off right oh it's really got quite a bit of firmness
oh look it's like a patty in there oh wow
oh and there's an egg wow so there's like a gravy sauce I'm gonna need this
fork so this is like a chicken patty almost, wow and then an egg I've cut a
big bit off and look at it so it's a really firm bit inside I've got no egg
here but let's just try it as is
that chicken with that sauce is amazing, it is so sweet but not in a
gross way in a really tasty way like a it's go a little bit of sourness I don't
know what from it's just got that sweet and sour sort of feeling to it oh and the
bun the bun is not super light it's kind of has a almost a skin on the outside
but it's very light once you eat it
oh that is so, so good I love how it's kind of a patty inside that's
awesome let's get a little bit of this egg, get some more of the, the actual
meat, woah look at that, all that egg yolk on there
creamy, that sweetness, the soft bun, that is a really good start to the food
tour day in Kuching but we have two things from the same restaurant this is
sio bee which is like a siu mai which is a something you'll get at yum cha
normally so what we'll have it's a little dumpling steamed once again which will
have pork inside, now the siu mai normally has prawn, I don't think these
do but let's find out, we've got some chilli sauce ooo that looks quite sweet
so we've got a little bit of chilli sauce we put on there it's just cut it
in half so I can see what's in there
quite hard in this little container yes so just pork so it's got a like a dumpling
skin on the outside and you can see that, the texture from that and then pork
inside let's get it, okay I'm just gonna go for the whole thing with some chilli
sauce
really plain it's got a seafood-y taste I didn't see any seafood in there but
it does have a sort of a fishiness to it, the sauce is not very spicy at all it's
just kind of sweet that's really good quite plain, the bun for me is
definitely the winner out of these two that is an awesome start to this tour
we crossed the Sarawak River on a boat to track down our next snack and that is
kek lapis or layer cake which is famous in Sarawak and look at the one
that we found it is so colourful and so beautiful there were so many different
colour combinations in this shop that we were in, it's basically just a butter
cake and what they do is they bake it layer by layer so this would have taken
one, two, three, four, five, six, it's got seven layers so it would have taken
quite a while I've got to get into it because it looks so good now we don't
have a fork so I'm just gonna break a bit off
wow it's like a rainbow that's so cool, alright, mmm it doesn't have really any
distinctive flavour it's just made up of butter, milk, flour and obviously some food
colouring and sugar so it's just a really simple butter cake but I think the
attraction obviously is in the way that it looks it's just stunning
and we're so happy to be able to try this in Sarawak finally. Over on this
side of the river is a Malay kampung and there are quite a number of these
kek lapis shops and it doesn't just come in like plain butter flavour there was
durian flavour there was blueberry and cheese there was mint, pandan, coffee like a
whole range and what is even better is that before you make your choice there
are a tonne of samples basically every single flavour is there for you to try so
you can make sure that you're onto a winner before you buy
next up pisang goreng
or fried bananas this is a really
popular stand behind us and these look amazing
these are actually fried plantains and that's why they're so big look at this
one actually, look at this, unreal
so that is why they're so round because they're cutting these massive plantains to chuck
into that hot oil they're really hot she just did a fresh
batch so let's try it, it's all like caramel-y, you can see where the sugars are
coming out of it, so it's all shiny from that sugar oh it's gonna be so hot
oh my god the batter's gone all sticky cos of the sugars, it tastes like caramel it's so sugary the bananas
gone really soft inside or the plantain it's gone really soft inside
there's so much crunch, the sugars just come out of the plantain
into that batter so it's so crunchy and it's sticky on my fingers so it's
still a little bit oily from being in that hot, hot oil but it's kind of dry
like it's oily but it's not crazy oily is what I'm trying to say but then that
sugars come through so it's kind of oily and sticky all at the same time
they are amazing, they are so good this is a well well
worthy stop on any food tour in Kuching that's the best pisang goreng I've ever
had wow!
we stepped in from the rain because
we smelt these delicious-looking pork skewers, look at them they're just
glistening with the marinade and you can see that they're laced with like the
perfect charr off the grill and they're wallowing in this peanut sauce
and the sauce is actually if you can see here, it's quite runny but you can still
see the little chunks of peanut in there so let's just give it a big ole dunk in
that sauce and try this satay
the meat is so tender and so full of flavour and that peanut sauce just accompanies
it perfectly like it complements it because it's not overpowering it's not spicy
so there's no chilli hit it's just a really mild but flavoursome peanut sauce and
then I've also got this cucumber here so I'm going to give that a go when you
eat satay in Malaysia you'll always find that it comes with cucumber or maybe a
little bit of red onion and it really just cleanses the palate and sorta wipes
away all those bold flavours clears the palate for a next round
that is super tasty
next up we've stopped for a few more sweet treats this
is an ice dessert called matahorn so it's got a pretty
interesting name and you can see there's this shaved ice and all this liquid
and there's a whole lot of treats underneath so let's just break the ice
down and see what we can find so this looks like some maybe pandan
noodles or some maybe tapioca flour noodles there's that looks like a piece
of fruit I think that's pineapple there's some grass jelly which are the
dark bits in there, there's obviously the slice of lemon on top there is oh
look at that looks like a lychee that will be a canned lychee by the
looks of it let's just try some of this it's like really syrupy looking
it's got a real lemony taste and then that lychee flavour from the juice that
was around there, let's try a bit more with the ice and the
noodles
there must be some lemon syrup or something because it's got a real lemony
taste
and the noodles have a little bit of texture so they're just like ah I
think they must be they're either rice or tapioca flour so they're kind of
like jellies oh here's another jelly thing this is like a white some sort of
white jelly item
it's a lychee jelly, and then a fresh lychee
so like all canned lychees it's got a burst of juice because it's been in that
sugar syrup this is super refreshing now I've got some pineapple let's try that
actually so I got this bit right here look at it lots of
these noodles, grass jellies, ice a big bit of pineapple
that is really good, really fruity flavour it's just all those fruit flavours, the ice, nice
and sweet that's really good, really really refreshing
so we've come to Swee Kang Ais Kacang which has been around
since the late fifties and it's apparently a locals favourite and they
don't just have what we've ordered today they've got a huge sign board filled
with all the different ice or shaved ice desserts and drinks
that they offer but I've got a White Lady here and it looks really
interesting and colourful so it's all layered there's a layer of evaporated
milk and then an orange layer of I'm not quite sure what, but then there's also
some fruit in there so there's I think maybe mango, maybe pineapple
and perhaps that's a lychee floating around in there and then
there's some shaved ice, so I'm going to give it a bit of a mix-up there's also a
slice of lemon maybe to add a bit of tartness hanging around on the top so
let's just give it a mix oh I can see some jellies okay let's give
that a slurp and see what it tastes like
it's really tropical tasting
so lets oh look at this so it's got grapes, a lychee, there's some pineapple
and that's another lychee, some jelly let's give that jelly a go
like a mango jelly this is a really fun drink
I may give that fresh grape a try oh
it's really refreshing in the heat, milky, it's like a tropical milky drink, tasty
Part
2 of the Kuching food tour done so much great food and make sure you check
out part one where we had heaps more amazing food, thank you so much to Sarawak
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