Again, the once a year event, Kuching Food Fest arrived! What pop out in to ur mind first when someone mentioned about Kuching Food Fest? Lot of foods? or lot of people?? Trust me, my first thought went for the latter one, lot of people, lot of cars, and then less tables and super warm, then only i think of, oh ya, lot of food also, haha.
But u have to attend such an event no matter what right? Once a year, cincai lah.
This year, the Kuching Food Fest started from 30/7 until 22/8, and it happens to be our Malay Friends fasting month, but no contradict anyway, people tends to go food fest during evening time and it is almost or pass Buka Puasa hour.
Me, together with some kaki, went there last night, and it was the third night of the event. We thought if we go on weekdays, then should be less crowd, but it turned out, we were wrong, it was still so crowded last night. The moment i walked in the area, i told my friends that i felt the warm immediately, and few minutes later, i started perspiring.
However, lucky us, we found our seat after few minutes we walked in the area, well, technically, we shared the table with two strangers, a mother with her daughter. Then we splitted to buy our dinner, i was starving!!!
One funny thing about the food fest, it seems like there are so many options, but u have no idea of what to eat. Well, i dono about u, but i know i was, i was like lossing my way in the jungle, dono where to turn, where to go... Actually i planned what to eat before i came, and i decided to stick with my original plan, together with me, was SiangTing, and she was having the same issue also, dono what to buy, haha.
Finally, I went to buy the rice roll, which i planned before i came. I tried that last year, and it wasnt too nice actually, but i felt like trying it again. It turned out, it tasted better, and the size got smaller, well, i wasnt sure if i went to the same stall as last year. I bought the Ham Rice Roll, sorry, no picture, hahaha. But i googled for the picture. Another nice thing about the rice roll is u can still feel the heat.
Then i bought a Pork Chop Burger, which occurred to my eyes when i first stepped myself into the food fest. It basically just a pork chop between two burger breads. The pork chop tasted not bad, but not the breads and it kind of cold already.
Lastly, i bought the deep-fried twisted dough stick, dono what it is?
Ya, 油条, i dono it has such a long english name leh...hahahah...until i googled it, ahhahaha. Well, the pictures werent from my phone cam, i googled it, and if i not mistaken, i bought from this stall actually, they have a blog, not bad. I bought two, one with peanut butter, no picture found, and another one with mayonnaise. However, i was abit dissapointed, because they were cold, but still crispy, just wish they would have gave me the new fried and hot sticks!!!
That was more than enough actually, haha. When me and siangting backed to our table, waiyee already backed to the place, eating her pork burger, exactly the same as siangting bought, haha. SookKuan and SooFong finally went to hunt for their food. The strangers that spared us the table turned out to be very talkactive, in a good way i mean, haha. We chatted, non-stop, well, basically i was just answering to the mother and listened to her. I wasnt very good in chatting with stranger after all, haha.
Waiyee bought chicken chops, and also an appetiser, mango salad something like that, and both hot and spicy, haha. The chicken chops, you can feel the curry powder when u bite, and the mango salad, u would chock on it if u eat too fast, haha. We shared the food actually, and sookkuan and soofong came back when we almost finished the food, and they bought quite a lot as well. They bought the Mango Fish, which is two fried fish chips with mango slices. I would not recommend for the Mango Fish because the fish chips tasted nothing but flour, flour and flour. They bought the twisted stick as well, with kaya.
They also bought 龙须糖, and there was one dish, i dono how to call it, it was a combination with rice and mango fruit, sook kuan said it is Mango Rice, haha.
Siangting also bought a traditional chinese kuih, i dono how to pronounce the name, hahaha.Got to say my mandarin getting worst each day, and so do other languages, headache.
Forget another nice one, the durian puff. The durian paste tasted very nice, but not the puff, haha. However, it is so expensive, RM2.80 per piece, but RM5.5 for two, what's the point??
We talked, and the memory brought us back when we were first came to Kuching back in year 2006. Sook kuan and I together with other 8 friends, whom were then turned out become the Ten-Brothers group in our faculty, we walked to Kuching Food Fest from the Crown Plaza, dono where is Crown Plaza, then u should know Parkson at down town Kuching, near the Sarawak Plaza. Ya, we walked from Crown Plaza to the Kuching Food Fest location. It did sound like a bit crazy, and we were lead by two local kuching girls, Ms AnnChee Wong, and Ms MeiHui Chang!!!! They told us it wasnt far away, ya, it wasnt, if we go by car!!! hahaha. However, it was fun, we walked, talked, and even took the picture with the big white cat!!!! The crazy TEN!!! haha...I actually appreciate the walk, even though it sounds crazy, but we have to do something crazy when we were young and capable to!!! haha.
Speaking of crazy, that wasnt the only craziest thing we done. There was one time we walked from the same location, the Crown Plaza to the HockLee centre, which is even further than the Kuching Food Fair location. And again, that time, we were lead by a local kuching citizen, our senior, Mr ShihMin Tian!!! He told us it was near, and Ms AnnChee and Ms MeiHui agreed!!! Turned out, it is even further!!! Why Hocklee center? Because i wanted to go to the HP Center, which is near to the Crown Square, and we made a mistake, taking Crown Plaze == Crown Square, damn!!! But what to do, we walked!
And if u think that was the end of our conversation last night, u were wrong!!! Waiyee wasnt with us with the two crazy walking, but her memory came back to haunt her as well. I wasnt too sure about the exact time, but i would never forget that day too. We were supposed to pick Mr KianKok Cheung from airport, but we went to BDC everise for shopping since we went out from Unimas earlier. And i remembered what we bought, precisely i remembered some of the things we bought. A friend bought a 5kg pack of rice, and some bought the brooms, toilet papers. If we took a van to the airport from the everise building, it wanst an issue at all, but the thing was, we had no transport at that time. We took a van from Unimas to BDC, then we told the uncle came to airport to pick us while we were stopped and shopping at BDC everise!!! We could have asked the uncle to pick us and send us to the airport after we done shopping, but we didnt, because, once again, our lovely senior, Mr ShihMin told us it is a short distance to go airport from the everise!!! Gosh!!! A short distance??!!! We were young and naive that time, hahahahaha, and we wasnt know Kuching well that time, so we trusted him!!! If we walked with empty hands, then ok lah, but we werent. We bought quite a lot of things, imagine my friend bought a 5kg pack of rice, she needed to carry all the way to the airport!! God help US!!!!
And when we reached airport, some of us put the stuffs at the carts. The epic moment finally came, because me and waiyee were at the back, so we heard someone said, "see, someone bought brooms eh!", they thought my friends going to bring the brooms to somewhere, since we were at the airport!!! OMG!!!
I couldnt stop laughing last night when we talked about that, it was definitely one of the crazies thing that i had done so far. But it was something that u would never forget, hahahaha.
It was no longer just a Kuching Food Fest to me, it is a memory flashback moment. Got to admit, I am about the age of doing those 想当年 le...
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