Posted: 20 Nov 2013 09:35 AM PST

Rooftop dining is not odd for excellent dining restaurants and bars. But what about seafood in a hawker setting? Well, in Kuching there's this place called Top Spot Food Court where half a dozen of restaurants – mostly portion seafood (halal options available) work on a roof of a 6 level automobile park.

The sourroundings is low though ethereal and always buzzing with activity. If we are staying in a hotels along a Kuching Waterfront, Top Spot is reachable on feet within minutes.

Although we could lay down and sequence a dishes off a menu, it is some-more endorsed that we crop and collect a seafood yourself – supposing if we know how to decider a uninformed fish. But from what we saw, a seafood accumulation here is good and some-more importantly fresh. So a tastiness flattering many depends on a chef's skills. Anyway, we chose Ling Loong Seafood among a accessible options simply given a name sounded nice.

The star plate of a night has to be a Grilled Spiny Lobsters, that were wrongfully listed as prawns in a menu. So we could suppose a warn when these tasty lobsters arrived on a table. They were baked perfectly, as a corpulent sized lobster strength was sweet, luscious and succulent.

2nd best goes to a Fried Bamboo Clams in Curry Powder, a sweetmeat that has a special place in a heart of Kuchingians. Compared to a few other renditions I've had, Ling Loong's could be deliberate one of a best given a clams were unequivocally uninformed and did not have any uncanny taste. And mutation is a categorical thing to demeanour for in clams, given satirical into a flowing and tainted tasting one is a final thing we wish to do. we have gifted that before first-hand and we can tell you, it's unequivocally nasty.

Midin is a contingency try in Sarawak. These wriggly nonetheless crunchy jungle ferns are versatile adequate to be enjoyed in many ways though sambal belacan character is a personal favorite.

Steamed Sea Bass – we could not find any error in this common dish.

Unfortunately it was all downhill from here, as both a oyster pancake (more like a oyster cracker) and ikan bakar were utterly terrible. You could take my word for it and skip these two. The oysters were overly low boiled that led to a dry and rubbery taste.
The ikan bakar on a other palm tasted like it was not cooking during all and we consider a piquancy pulp was practical alone after a fish was grilled. The usually good thing about a ikan bakar was a stingray that tasted unusually fresh. So it's a genuine contrition that a credentials was not adult to a standard.

Overall it was still a pleasing dish and we usually got myself to censure for a oyster pancake given we knew they were not going to ambience illusory only by a looks of it. The food's still good for many of a customary equipment like grilled lobster, steamed fish, curry bambooo clams and sambal belacan midin.
These common dishes are flattering tough to screw up. Price correct it was suddenly affordable given we paid a small some-more than RM200 for all of a above including a seafood tofu that we did not show, dual cups of sugarine shaft juice, a vast bottle of drink and rice.

Top Spot Food Court (Taman Kereta Food Court)
Jalan Padungan, Kuching
GPS Coordinates: N1 33.367 E110 21.145

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Posted: 22 Nov 2013 06:12 PM PST

Our Kuching Restaurant: TopSpot

While in Kuching, we found some interesting and delicious food atop a parking garage. This isn't anything new to us as we ate at, and thoroughly enjoyed Miami Beach's Juvia last year. In fact, Tom and two friends once lived in a New Orleans parking gargle for a few days, but that's a whole other story Back to restaurants and parking garages…

TopSpot is a wonderful restaurant. But Kuching Borneo isn't Miami Beach, the parking garage on which TopSpot is located certainly isn't a star architect showpiece as in Miami, and TopSpot certainly isn't a star turn for a renowned chef. It is, however, a wonderful group of restaurants which we highly recommend. TopSpot is actually about ten restaurants and is best described as a seafood centric food court in which all of the food is totally fresh, patrons select exactly the fish, crab or lobster they want, and one of perhaps six ways in which they would like it prepared.

While those that specialize in seafood have attractive displays of a large range of fresh fish and shellfish (and often vegetables as accompaniments), not all sell seafood. A few have other specialties,such as meat, satay and local Malaysian dishes. One even focuses exclusively on coconut deserts.

We were like kids in the proverbial candy shop. We didn't know where to start. We chose Lung Loong Seafood (restaurant #6), starting with bamboo clams steamed in soy sauce and garlic (small, but very good), followed by barbecued stingray (underdone fish and overpowering sauce) and finished up with a delicious, steamed river crab. We rounded this off with a plate of steamed oyster mushrooms, baby corn and sugar snap peas. All this and a bottle of Wolf-Blass Chardonnay for about $40–with the wine accounting for over half the total tab!

So good, in fact, that we didn't even consider going to another restaurant and returned the next night for more clam and crabs, and to try another fish and one of the coconut deserts.

When we returned, we tried Bukit Mata Seafood (#25). Since our appetites were limited by a late lunch, we reluctantly limited ourselves to two dishes and vegetables: large stir-fried, garlic-ginger sea clams; followed by their specialty–a large ( over 2 kg) steamed river crab that was then pan-fried in slightly sweeten, roux-based salted egg yolk; accompanied by steamed oyster mushrooms, baby corn and sugar snap peas in a light mushroom sauce. Everything was incredible, with every dish,aided by the sauce. Combined with a bottle of Chilean Vina Maipo Chardonnay, this feast set is back less than $50, again with the wine wine more than half. Absolutely one of the most satisfying, best price/value restaurant meals we've ever had.

As if this weren't enough,we stopped at the coconut stand for a fresh glass of coconut juice with strips of coconut meat and longon fruits. Again delicious.the price for this, less than $1

Doing Chinese In the Pullman Hotel

We were travelling during the rainy season and encounter pouring rain around lunchtime (plus TopSpot wasn't open for lunch). So we decided to eat lunch at our hotel (Pullman). After a review of our dining options, we decided on its Chinese restaurant. After all, we hadn't been in China for almost a month, and it would be another month since we would return to Hong Kong.

We began with two orders of dim sum: very good chicken and shrimp dumpling and pretty good, lightly deep fried (versus pan-fried which we generally prefer) pork Shanghai dumpling. We followed this with a "medium (versus large) order of Peking duck three ways. When we saw the half-duck come out, we were surprised to see that it all went into dumplings, which our server made for us. Then, a few minutes later, came a platter with four duck dumpling and stir-fried duck with ginger and scallion. We weren't overly impressed. The duck, while crisp, was dry and lacking in flavor. We disguised this by adding more hoisin sauce to the dumplings. The dumplings, however, were in a rather bland broth and the stir-fried duck was a bit too heavy on ginger for our tastes. This being said, however, the service was excellent.

Hotel: Pullman Kuching

Our hotel in Kuching was the Pullman Hotel. It was very comfortable and a close walk to "downtown" and to the museums. The bathroom was very large with a nice shower, scale, toiletries, etc. Linens were soft and we had plenty of towels plus bathrobes. They even had wash cloths, which not all hotels have. The bed was very comfortable too. As a bonus, the hotel was right near a laundry and TopSpot. Even though their web site said they charged for wifi, they did provide free passwords for wireless in the common areas and in the room,

Eating in Kuching 2012 - Rock Road Seafood Restaurant

Posted: 20 May 2012 03:00 PM PDT

In Kuching we are still fortunate to be able to enjoy very good seafood at relatively reasonable prices. Though the variety can't compare to Kota Kinabalu, the quality and freshness of what we do get is usually pretty peachy.

You can find seafood restaurants almost anywhere in Kuching, but if you are looking for Halal outlets then there are really only 2 options - Top Spot Food Court right in town centre - or Rock Road Seafood. Rock Road Seafood has been around for a very long time, and they haven't changed much except the decor has been incrementally upgraded over the years. This is one of the most popular restaurants with our local political class, especially during the State Legislative Assembly Seatings.

The ground floor of the restaurant is like a mini wet market. Here you can select the seafood and other items that you want, and let them know how you want the items to be cooked. You can also get them to weigh the items so you know exactly how much you will be paying - instead of getting a sticker shock later.

We ordered the usual - starting with stir-fried midin with garlic. It was very good.

The Sweet Corn Soup was one of the best we've had - very tasty and with chunks of fresh crab meat.

The Oyster Omelette was pretty standard - and with lots of oysters.

Buttered Prawns with Egg Floss - nicely done, with the prawns still tender and sweet.

The main reason we went there - Crabs in "Satay Sauce". This is one of their signature dishes, and it never disappoints. I don't know why the sauce is called "Satay Sauce" because it doesn't taste anything like its namesake, but is sure is tasty. We picked two of the largest crabs they had - and they were both excellent - with lots of fresh, sweet meat inside the gigantic claws.

The food at Rock Road Seafood has steadily improved over the years. Today I would say they are one of the best seafood places in town, but you will be paying a bit more then most other establishments. However since you get to actually pick the seafood yourself, you are getting what you pay for.

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