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<b>Restoran halal di kuching</b> - Come Sarawak - Come Sarawak - Come Sarawak


<b>Restoran halal di kuching</b> - Come Sarawak - Come Sarawak

Posted: 16 Nov 2013 11:22 AM PST

Kembara <b>Halal</b> - De&#39; Kayu Manis Cafe ~ Scdha Sein Photo And Travel

Posted: 16 Nov 2013 05:49 AM PST

Hari ni 16 November 2013... Kembara aku kali ni adalah kembara mencari makanan halal... Insyallah... Aku akan masukkan info menarik tentang restoran halal di mana juga aku berada... Dunia Allah kan luas... Hu hu hu...

Kadang2 ramai orang merungut susah nak cari makanan halal terutama bila berada di luar negara... Aku akui memang akan ada situasi begini... Tapi... Itu bukan alasan untuk kita menyentuh bende yang haram melainkan dalam keadaan darurat untuk meneruskan hidup... Pada aku lah... Sebelum nak travel... Cari dulu tempat makan yang halal... Kalau boleh tempat penginapan kita pilih tu biarlah berdekatan dengan restoran halal... Ok?

Malam ni... Restoran De' Kayu Manis Cafe menjadi pilihan aku... Restoran ini terletak di No. 9, Jalan Kolam Air 1, Nong Chik Height, 80300 Johor Bahru, Johor... Jika anda dari Thistle Hotel... Kedudukan restoran ini adalah di sebelah kanan... Dan tak jauh dari Malay Village Restaurant... 


Menu di sini adalah pelbagai... Pilihlah yang mana yang anda suke...  Antara menu istimewa restoran ini ialah Nasi Arab Kambing atau Ayam... Nasi Ayam Penyet... Tulang Merah Special... Dan Sup Tulang Power...

Untuk malam ni aku pilih Fish N Chip berharga RM 12.00... Mexican Chicken RM 6.00... Air Bandung Soda RM 3.30... Sirap Limau Nipis RM 2.30....

Untuk maklumat lanjut bolehlah berhubung sendiri dengan owner restoran ni...


- XOXO -

Makan <b>di kuching</b> - Come Sarawak - Come Sarawak

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 07:18 PM PST

Went to Kuching for a business trip last weekend. Before I went, I insisted that I wanna see the Cat Statue (of coz ma, if go Kuching didnt see the cat statue, how can I consider that I have been to Kuching before lei). And there I went, Cat Statue in the town. Although not the 'real' one (I mean the first cat statue, original one), but I am still happy that I found it. This one is just located in front of Magarita Hotel.

Topspot Seafood

Hotel shutter driver told us that there is a nice place for seafood which is Topspot at the top of the parking lot. Luckily it was walking distance from the drop off point to Topspot. It was 5.30pm and we were really hungry. We walked to the top and saw 5-6 restaurant of seafood there. Opps, the shutter driver didnt tell us which restaurant offers the best seafood.

We walked along the place and all the waiters or waitress trying to lure you into their place. At first, my strategy was to patron which ever restaurant that has more customers. Since it was 5.30pm, which was still early for dinner, there were not many people there. Thus, my strategy doesnt work.

So, I went by instinct --> Bukit Mata Seafood. Hehe. If a kuching chap reading my post sure I kena scolding if I went to the lousy seafood restaurant. But, no choice la, no one recommend me ma.

The fella who took our order was really friendly and honest. We kept on asking about the price for each seafood, he patiently poked his calculator and told us each price.

Buttered Prawns (300g). We went for the small prawns as we already ordered one 'luxury' before that. Do not aspect this dish to taste like the ones in KL / PJ. This Kuching version was really buttery, sticky, and it was tasty! I should have order 500g!

Belacan Sabah Vege (RM6). Go Sarawak and eat Sabah vege. Hehe. Need to eat this coz I couldnt find it here in PJ. Normal only.

Mango Thai Style Fried Fish. I forgotten what type of fish already. It was a bit fishy taste and the sauce was so-so only.

Ta-da! our luxury item --> Lobster stir fried with black pepper. Woohoo~!!! It was really meaty and the pepper was really hot and the aroma was really good. Sarawak indeed has the best pepper, no doubt about it. Should have order a bigger one. Hahaha.

Guess how much was the bill for the two of us? RM57. Darn cheap! For RM57 u only can get a tiny lobster in PJ. When we left, it was 7pm and the sky was dark already. We walked pass another restaurant and they have the most customers out of all 6 restaurants. Oppsie! I think we went to the second best one. The restaurant we went also got lots of customers ok.

Taipei 101

Celebrated Mooncake Festival in Kuching. Actually didnt celebrate also la, just thought of eating a nice meal for this special occasion. Didnt dare to go to the town anymore coz it was dem difficult to find a taxi there (it took us 15 min to see the first taxi passed by). Walked out to the shophouses area in front of the hotel.

There is no western food, or higher class cafe or Japanese food, or Korean food. There is one Italian restaurant but I dont feel like eating cheesey things that night. Saw a Chong Hing Steamboat restaurant which was full of people. But my stomach was not up for super spicy 'ma latt' soup that night as well. There are lots of Chinese seafood restaurant there but all full house. I do think that the seafood there is more expensive than the one we had in Topspot.

So, we settled down at a Taiwanese restaurant. The milk tea was priced at RM3.50 each.

Taiwan Sausage (RM2.50). It has strong herbal taste in it which is quite good. But I still prefer the spicy sausage version.

Red Oil Dumplings (RM5 I think). I prefer Dragon-i version of this dish.

Mee soup (RM5)

Pork ribs mee (RM6).

The food served here was so-so only.

Hawker stalls

My hotel was near the airport, in other words, is far from town. So my choice of food hunting were really limited. We went to this Hawker center for lunch. Mee Kolo stall was closed. WTH! Go sarawak must try mee kolo but I didnt get to try it. This was our last meal in Sarawak, and I havent even mee kolo and sarawak laksa. Dem.

Chap Kuey. I think is mix pork parts with something that looks like kuey teow thingy. The soup tasted almost similar to bak kut teh but was not as strong taste as BKT.


ABC. The brown syrup tasted like sarsi.
Kam Pua Mee. Ah-ha, at least I tried something that only Sarawak has. It tasted almost like Hakka mee but it was more bland than hakka mee.
And I do not know what is this being called, it has 3 words and the last one was 'ding' (that was the only word I remember). Since we do not know what was it, we order it and see lor. It was mix pork, squid, mushroom, the kuey teow thingy in a strong ginger soup. It was like eating porridge but not so porridge-y like that. Hehe. weird.

And these 2 tiny things also I have forgotten the name. It was from the same stall as above. The bread was crunchy and slightly hard in texture. It has minced meat in it. Tasted not bad.


That was all I could try in Kuching for the 3 days. Of coz it was not much, I went there for work ok, not vacation le. All I could say that the food in kuching were not really my cup of tea le. I dont know how to eat their food. It wasnt that bad, but it wasnt that good either. Maybe I didnt go to the really really delicious one?


Journey to Korea ~ Day 1~ <b>Kuching</b> – LCCT – Incheon – Seoul <b>...</b>

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 09:07 AM PST

Wednesday, 17 October 2012

7:10PM Departing Kuching International Airport, Kuching, Sarawak

8.50PM Arriving LCC Terminal, Sepang, Selangor

Travel Cost: Flight Tix RM29 (No Baggage)

Thursday, 18th October 2012

1.00 AM Departing LCC Terminal, Sepang, Selangor.

8.20 AM Arriving Incheon International Airport, Korea.

Travel Cost: Flight Tix RM 249 + Insurance RM24.50 + Processing Fee RM5 + Meal RM13 + Baggage 15kg RM50 = RM341.50

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"We all travel for different reasons, and taking off solo trip seems to be a very powerful experience that will change not only how you view travel, but also impact who you are as a person" – Anonymous.

My first solo trip outside Malaysia. Well, if consider my trip to a village at Brunei's border few years back as not really going outside Malaysia (as I didn't even undergone passport/security check to enter and stay there for a night); we can call this as my first official trip outside Malaysia too. Crazy right?

This is actually last year….mianhe mianhe….gila lama terperap gambar baru nak upload….lol

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Pre-book International meal, i thought they gonna give me something like pasta or burger…unexpectedly they give me Kimchi Chicken Duruchigi rice. Tho I love Korean culture so much, I don't really into their food..mianhe

Subhanallah

I don't know why I didn't took much photo in Incheon Airport. Probably I'm too tired to took out the camera…lol.

I took my time at the terminal. Wash my face like normal morning routine (just that I didn't know where to get morning shower…huhu). We took a train from arrival terminal to boarding terminal (will post picture of this area later during my journey back journal insyaAllah).  They have large baggage claiming area. I walk around for few minutes, clueless of which carousel for my fight's baggage, and I can't find my beg. I ask the airport staff, and they help me find my beg. Actually, because I was late, my beg was already taken to a side. The carousel will be busy for other flight, so they won't let the beg on carousel for so long. But the airport staff is really helpful, so please ask them if you need any assistance.

This is my pic that I upload on Instagram after I came out to the arrival area.

Then again, taking my time asking question at the tourist information booth, request for map etc. Buy my T-money card, phone card, and train ticket to Seoul Station and Singyeongju Station. You can actually ask the staff at tourist booth to help you to book hotel room if you need too.

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Leaving Incheon Airport to Seoul Station using Express Train. Quite empty right? Why? Because there's few more cheaper alternative. This is why you need to study properly before traveling..hahaha. But as this is my first time arriving here, I try to use the safest method possible. It save time too as I still have long journey to go. And luckily there's an AREX Direct Line promo price at that time, where the ticket is only 8,000won (about RM23), which is relatively cheap :)

So here is some option if we want to go to Seoul Station from Incheon Airport:

  1. Deluxe Limousine Bus cost 12,000won – 13,ooowon (about RM35).
  2. Standard Limousine Bus cost 7,500won – 8,000won (about RM21).
  3. Airport Railroad (AREX) Express Train: Direct non-stop from Incheon Airport to Seoul Station; 43 minutes; 13,300won (RM39). [current 2014 cost is 14,300 won]
  4. Airport Railroad (AREX) Commuter Trains: Stop at 9 stations between Incheon Airport and Seoul Station; 53 minutes, fare 4,050won.

#Price may varies now. RM – KRW conversion is rough estimate based on 2012-2013 conversion rates, rates may differ from time to time.
#Read HERE for more on AREX and OTHER METHOD FROM INCHEON AIRPORT TO SEOUL.

seoul station

Just for clarification, in layman term,  AREX is 'Airport Special Line' (between Incheon Airport to Seoul Station and vice versa; either direct line or commuter line) similar to the 'Metro/Subway'. Meanwhile KTX is 'real train' going from a city to another. KTX and AREX is under KORAIL.  Not to be confuse, AREX stop at Incheon Island (where the airport is); while normal subway stop at 'mainland' Incheon (Line 1 last stop is near China Town).

In the above picture, it is 'Seoul Station' for KORAIL service (KTX and AREX). It is connected to 'Seoul Station' for subway/metro. Look for a sign/direction of 'METRO' if you want to use subway from here (it's about 5-10 minutes walk).

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I book the 1.30PM to Singyeongju Station as I'm afraid I will miss the 12.30PM train. With heavy backpack, I can't really walk around the station much. Thus I just wait at the staircase not far from train entrance.

Kat dalam area train ada je kedai runcit, tapi  macam mahal gila la…pastu time ni aku masih was-was mana satu halal, mana satu haram. Adik-adik sekalian, sila faham bebetul apa yang buat makanan jadi halal atau haram ye. Kat sini takdenya cop JAKIM. Jangan la korang buat selamba order McD ke KFC ke…ayam daging tu semua tak sembelih dik sayang oii. Ramyeon tu mostly ada daging ye, kalau teringin sangat, cari yang ada cop halal KMF (Korean Muslim Federation kot).  Even coklat atau biskut pun meragukan sebab kebarangkalian ada gelatin atau mengandungi sumber haram. Pringles oversea ni pun aku tak sure, even yang Malaysia punya pun aku tak beli…hahaha. Untuk rujukan boleh refer FB Halal Korea ni, banyak dah list halal haram :)

 KTX

I made my first friend here in the train enroute to Singyeongju. She's study in Pohong (about 1 hour bus ride from Gyeoungju, there's no direct KTX to Pohong i believe). She is really friendly and we talk for a while. She share her experience backpacking to Turkey, and she offer me to show around Pohong or Seoul if we manage to meet again. But I didn't contact her while I'm in Seoul, I believe she is busy with her study in Pohong at that time. I left the pamphlet where she wrote her  email address at my guesthouse in Seoul as I totally forget her email address is in there. Should let her wrote in my Korea guidebook instead. Really regret that I lost her contact info, now I can't even recall her name too…paboo me :(

Haha…it's only up until mid-day of my first day here…lol. Will continue my Gyeoungju journey at later post.

p/s: kindly ignore my bad english…lol

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