With foodie influences from Malay and Chinese cuisine, mixed with the jungle
flavors of Borneo tribes, Sarawakian food is something to experience. So come
along and I'll show you the top 10 foods taking in Kuching Sarawak. You thought Durian was bad...
This is Bubur Ayam and it's a popular rice porridge dish in Malaysia. It's got
some ginger in it and onions and I actually has little bit of chicken in
it. I thought maybe I might be able to pick out chicken bits but it's actually
really finely grated in there. It's a little challenging to navigate otherwise
the flavor is really nice.
It's breakfast time and i was told i should go to Chinatown to try some of
the Laksa or Kolo Mee.
I have no idea what either look like so glad they have picture signs.
Kolo Mee is a super popular Sarawakian in comfort food.
It's boiled noodles with a little bit of spring, tossed in light oil soy sauce
garlic and msg.
It's said to be the signature dish of coaching and locals just go crazy for it!
Not really sure to do with that. Eat it separately or together.
Decisions, they're just so hard to make on a morning like this. I'm really stoked about the noodles
The noodles are kinda tasty. I think you need to pour them together.
That's what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna mix them together.
mmm
That big difference. It's a little on the oily side.
But that's probably where the flavor is. In Sarawak, there's a whole menu of drinks to try.
Anywhere from Teh C special, which is like a three-layer drink. I've been noticing they also sell wheat grass. In the United States,
wheatgrass is very expensive and it's like a very strained version.
This is more like a syrup drink. Their herbal and flower teas can be a
little too sweet for me. I'm not sure what kind of sugar they mix it with
I feel like all teas can kinda taste the same. Although actual wheatgrass
taste a whole lot more horrible than that.
Laksa is a must try food. It's like thin white vermacelli noodles...
in a curry broth.
It's got bean sprouts, a little dressing of cilantro and some prawns in here.
Wow, that looks great. Let me go ahead and try it.
Straight off the bat, I can taste the curry that's on the noodles!
It's spicy. I wanna say it's almost like Indian curry.
A little milky, a little musky, earthy.
Here we are at Zhun San Yen vegetarian restaurant and I'm totally
stoked because we finally, I'm finally going to get some good stuff!
right now , I'm in veggie heaven because I'm in a vegetarian
restaurant in Sarawak.
and you can pick and
choose what items on your plate you want
And they'll weigh it and charge you for it.
Well, I'm excited.
Jungle fern. Texturized meat.
Not bad. So this entire meal cost me 6.5 RM
That's a lot of goodness in there.
The foods in here are all vegetarian.
We got some jungle ferns right here , the Midin.. midin. I'm not sure what this is..
it's kind of a protein fritter.
we got some tofu... This is dried bean curd in some kind of soy sauce. Tastes like chicken.
The midin dish , the midin salad i want to call it. That was another really
amazing dish too. It was like a cross between morning glories and okra.
And the midin is found in the forest and it's a really good plant because
the more it's cut, the more it grows and regenerates. They sautee it in like a fish paste spice or a chilli spice.
It's kind of got a nice... you know clean feeling going down and
got a slimy feeling as well. I like that midin a lot because it makes me feel
like it was detoxing me or cleansing me out. At the UTC or the Transportation Building you have
Topspot. It's a seafood buffet.
You would order this by kilogram. They have anything from parrot fish to sea bass, talapia, sting ray,..
a lot of different fish.
It's like a.. I'm not sure what it is.
That's prawns...
Crab... huge prawns!
So basically I"m seeing people with huge orders or huge plates filled with
seafood. If it's cockles then it's like a huge plate filled with cockles.
like if you're really into seafood then you'd want to come here.
For a single traveler, it might not be economical to eat anything here because everything's looking like a lot of food.
This is layer cake and it's only in Kuching. Siti, here, was telling me that they're different flavors to the layers.
Many people come to Kuching to buy layer cake. Only in Kuching have the layer cake. So it's all layered flavors.
yeah, all flavors.
One cake can do 16 layers.
16 layers?
That's a lot of different flavors. -Yeah. Cheese, barley, sweet sour, ice cream cheese, coconut blueberry plus
chocolate. This one is Oreo, , multiara.
All people like three... this one. More famous
Sweet sour.
Kind of like pineapple, no? - No, orange peel
Oh, orange peel a little bit of a sweet but tangy. I feel like I can keep trying these, like there's so many
different flavors and they're all a mixture or combination of flavors.
This one use chocolate brownies plus icing, plus fruits and dates.
cook by steam.. 8 hours.
You can keep this one, more than 3 months.
You don't have to refrigerate? -Don't have.
if you want to traveling, you can bring this one.
Oh, that must be a popular one for people visiting relatives to right?
Oh, so that's called Hati Pare.
This one is most popular.
That was the one I taste it too yeah? That was a distinct taste like sweet and
Only in Kuching can you find this kind of layer cake.
Pandan, lemon and strawberry. All of that in one mouthful. I'm gonna get this one.
I can spend a while here cause there's just so many flavors.
Right off the main bazaar and Kuching waterfront is Ah Yong ABC, a popular street hawker known for his
ABC kantong.
ABC is a Malay abbreviation for mixed ice and it's a popular and refreshing desert in
Sarawak.
Here you can see like jellies of different types.
Anything from the little small round ones and the green ones.
Right now it doesn't look very appetizing, but it tastes really good especially on a hot
day like this.
ABC can talk is a local favorite striking fond childhood memories in
locals who remember pre-ice cream days. It's shaved ice flavored with syrup
and it's inexpensive and a great dessert for the Borneo heat. Just make sure you eat
it fast, before it melts!
Sarumbana.. sarumbana... What is what is in Jaon?Jaon.. J..A..O....N. What is in...
whatever you want and they will grill it up and in the end, count and charge you by piece.