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CHERITERA KAMI...: Jalan-jalan Cari <b>Makan di Kuching</b> - Come Sarawak


CHERITERA KAMI...: Jalan-jalan Cari <b>Makan di Kuching</b>

Posted: 30 Oct 2014 07:22 PM PDT

Selain tempat untuk shopping, Kuching terkenal dengan syurga makanan. Ada pelbagai jenis makanan di sana yang susah untuk kita dapat dekat Semenanjung ni. Kalau ada pun, mungkin tak sama kot. Bagi kami, memang first time ever la nak try all signature food Sarawak ni, so dah alang-alang pergi kene la terjah antara tempat makan menarik di sana.

RJ Ayam Bakar Kopitiam
Actually, dari waterfront kami terus jalan ke sini. Kononnye malam tu tak payah la nak keluar lagi. Tapi macam lost, tak jumpa kedainye so dari penat nak berpusing-pusing cari kedai, kami terus balik hotel dulu merehatkan diri. Malam tu keluar balik meneruskan misi.

Dengan bantuan google, baru tahu exact location kedai ni berhadapan dengan Alliance Bank Kuching.Kalau jalan kaki dari Pullman Hotel dalam 10minit.

Masa sampai ni kedai penuh tapi nasib baik ada tempat kosong. Dah la lapar ni, tak sabar nak melantak. 


Antara pilihan menu yang ada. Ada macam-macam menu - Asian, western, kek pun ada. Menu yang paling hot kat sini ialah Pisang Cheese (time ni tak hot lagi pisang cheese kt KL) tapi sayangnya pisang takde stok masa tu. Kuciwa i...


Ini menu yang kami order - Ayam Penyet, Ayam Bakar dan Baked Fries. Semuanye adalah sedappppp!Sambal ayam tu memang mantap.


Masa kami datang memang ramai orang, tapi servis sangat cepat. Baru duduk dah ambil order tak lama tu makanan pun sampai. Kedai pun selesa.

RJ Ayam Bakar Kopitiam

Lot 291-295, Jalan Abell, 93100 Kuching, Sarawak.

Dari pukul 530petang- pagi

082-414797

#Ada satu lagi cawangan RJ Ayam Penyet bersebelahan Kopi O Corner.


Kopi O Corner
3 kali tak silap kami singgah kedai ni. Lagipun memang dekat dengan Dormani Hotel , lebih kurang 10minit drive. Masa mula-mula nak ke sini pun drama jugak sebab kami berpandukan gps. Kalau korang google maps memang terus dapat la Kopi O Corner tu tapinya kami dah reach destination, tak nampak bayang lansung Kopi O Corner tu.2 kali pusing tempat yang sama.Tanya la orang. Try la pusing jalan lain, baru jumpa. Huhuh.Nak makan punya pasal kan;)

Berjaya juga kita sampai ke sini. Apa yang menarik di sini??


Mee Kolok special dan Mee Kolok Sapi. Special tu sebab sup tulang. kalau biasa sup sayur je. 2-2 sedap!!memang dah jatuh suka dengan Mee Kolok ni. Ada try dekat kedai lain tapi sini jugak yang sedap.


Laksa Sarawak.N memang kurang sikit makanan berkuah yang berempah camni. Tapi cik B cakap sedap. Rasa rempah kuah dia tak kuat sangat.


Hari terkahir sebelum pergi airport, N order nasi ni.Kalau dari menu nama lain, tapi rupe dia sama dengan nasi ayam penyet. Rasa??kurenggg.So, tak payah order tau.Heheh.


Ada juga nasi berlauk dan ala carte yang lain.Kami ada tapau nasi goreng ayam.Memang sedap, banyak pulak tu.

Map ke Kopi O Corner. Nampak tak beza exact location dengan yang dah mark dekat maps. Mana tak sesatnya.Haishh.Kalau google maps, korang type la wisma sugarbun. kedepan sikit, jumpa la kedai ni.ambil jalan ke bawah flyover.




My Village Barok

Kedai popular dengan makanan signature Sarawak dan seafood. Tapi sayang, masa kami datang ni dapur tengah renovate. So, pilihan makan sangat limited. Malas nak pk kedai lain, kita order la ape yang ada.


Senang je kesini. Dari Mira Cake House tu terus ke hujung area foodcourt tu akan nampak kedai ni.

Lupa pulak nak snap notis sampai bila dia renovate.Ni jela menu yang ada haritu. Tak dapat nak rasa sayur midin dengan ayam pansuh.


Nasib baik la dekat Lepau Restaurant ni dah merasa makanan authentic Sarawak, takdela terkilan sangat.

Warung Nusantara

Kami lunch dan breakfast dekat sini masa stay di Pullman Hotel. Kedai ni area shoplot belakang Pullman Hotel. Ada nasi campur, ala carte. Dibuka 24jam. Kalau stay area Pullman Hotel boleh la terjah kedai ni. Sedap jugak makanan dia.


Kredit pic : Google.. tak ambil pulak gambar masa dekat sini.;p


Aroma Cafe
Actually, kedai ni nak singgah sebelum ke airport hari Ahad. Boleh pulak tak tahu kedai ni tutup hari Ahad. Masa baca review takde pulak perasan pasal tu. Dah sampai depan kedai dah.Memang sadis betul la. Tu yang kami pergi Kopi O Corner tu je.Hehehe.

Kredit pic Google. Ramai yang rekemenkan kedai ni tapi tulah takde rezeki haritu nak makan dekat sini. So, korang take note ok HARI AHAD TUTUP.

Ground Floor, Sub Lot 126, Section 33 KTLD, Jln Tabuan, 93100 Kuching, Sarawak KTLD, Ground Floor, Sub Lot 126, Jalan Tabuan, 93100, Section 33, Kuching, Sarawak

082-417 163


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Posted: 05 Oct 2014 07:08 PM PDT

How Taib Family Built Huge Housing Wealth In The Name Of Kuching's Poor

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1/2 million ringgit price tags on CMS built homes in Bandar Samariang

1/2 million ringgit price tags on CMS built homes in Bandar Samariang

The Taib family company CMS proudly boasts of its "vast land bank" in its annual reports and has started selling off chunks for tens of millions in Kuching.

Commercial centres and grand housing estates are also being developed in two key areas, Bandar Samariang, where CMS has 5,200 acres, valued around half a billion ringgit, and of course on the Kuching Isthmus, where land is even more expensive.

But, how did CMS acquire all this property and who has benefitted?

Sarawak Report has acquired shocking information about the way Taib and his family members have profited from this land, which was forcibly taken (official term is 'alienated') from local people and state ownership.

We did it to help the poor

The story that the Chief Minister told from the start was that this was land that difficult and expensive to develop, but that his family company was kindly determined to provide housing for poor people.

Back in 2001, he even made out that CMS was doing this supposed favour in Bandar Samariang entirely "for the people's benefit" for "not much profit", because other developers didn't want to get involved in such a loss-making venture!

Sarawak Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud denied yesterday that the development projects implemented in the state had benefited him personally as alleged by some quarters. Stressing that the projects were for the people's benefit, he urged them to think rationally all allegations of nepotism and cronyism which were levelled at him before making any conclusion….he cited as an example the low-cost housing project in Rampangi, Semariang of which he was accused of benefiting personally. Taib.. said the project did not bring much profit to the developer Cahya Mata Sarawak Bhd due to the peat soil condition. Not many companies wanted to invest in the project because of the high cost involved to prepare the site for the project, he said. But in the interest of the people, the project had to be carried out to provide housing to the low income group, he said. "We do not want them to remain without houses and live far away from the city. That's why we continued with the project," he said.[Bernama Sunday, April 08, 2001]

Such a kind old fellow!

Chief Executive and key shareholder at the time, Taib brother Onn Mahmud

Chief Executive and key shareholder at the time, Taib brother Onn Mahmud

Interestingly no mention has ever been made again of these poor soil conditions by CMS.  This is probably, not least, because in every other country in the world, developing tropical peat soil has been banned, because of the severe environmental consequences.

To gain a sense of the value of this land handed to CMS in the guise of helping the poor, consider the recent news that the company has decided to sell on a parcel of 500 acres for over RM45million to Sentoria Group to build a theme park.

Suddenly, another developer has been found willing not only to take on the job of developing the land, but to pay big money for the plot.

However, this time of course the money has gone to CMS, not the government or the people from whom the area was 'alienated'.

At the time CMS got this land for free it was largely owned and run by Taib's brother Onn Mahmud, who shortly after passed on his shares to Taib's wife, with the remainder being largely in the hands of the Chief Minister's four children.

No nepotism at all then!

Sucking money out of pensions too

Robert Geneid, the Head of CMS Property Development and husband of Taib's sister Raziah Mahmud.

Robert Geneid, the Head of CMS Property Development and husband of Taib's sister Raziah Mahmud.

But, of course, the Taibs didn't really want to invest their own money in this mission to assist the poor with 'quality low cost housing'.

Far better to use their influence to encourage the government controlled Employee Provident Fund (EPF) to put in the money instead.

After all, this fat milk cow has been used to pour vast sums of money into endless pet projects to benefit BN politicians, meaning public employees can look forward to far lower pensions, despite being forced to pay a quarter of their salaries into the obligatory savings fund controlled by the government.

EPF therefore was dragged into a joint venture with CMS and the investment in the "low cost housing" in Bandar Samariang began.

But, in fact, low cost housing was only ever planned to form a small part of the project from the very start.  The original terms of agreement, as explained in CMS's own annual reports, made clear just 1/3 of the area was to be housing for the less well-off.

Housing for the poor?

Housing for the poor?

The rest of the huge site was to be developed as an ambitious commercial enterprise.

CMS's 1997 Annual Report was certainly not bashful about the profit-driven nature of CMS's latest housing project or the ambitions of its new Property Development Division, headed by the new husband of Taib's sister Raziah, the Lebanese Australian, Robert Geneid.

It also reveals that, thanks to Taib's ability to pull the strings, that the State Housing & Development Commission had already been tasked with buying whatever 'quality low cost housing' CMS Property produced on the site, ensuring a guaranteed profit.

1997 Annual Report

Property Development

"This is a new growth area for the Group, and CMS Properties Sdn Bhd has been set up to develop and manage the Group's vast land bank, with the long-term objective of becoming Sarawak's principal property developer and a major player throughout Malaysia and the ASEAN region. The Group's strategy is based on using the natural synergy between the infrastructure, finance and property divisions….

Bandar Baru Samariang is a joint venture with the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) and will be the largest low-cost housing project ever undertaken in Sarawak, and the first housing development project undertaken by the Group. 

The 13,500 low cost houses (approximately 36 percent of the project) will be sold to the Housing & Development Commission……The remaining 64 percent of the project will comprise medium-cost homes, commercial centres and ancillary buildings, providing a total of 42,200 housing units on the vast 5,200 acre site just 15 km from Kuching. Phase 1 of the township is currently being implemented, to provide over 4,000 units of low-cost housing, as well as hundreds of other residential and commercial properties."[Ann Rpt 1997]

So, in fact, a mere 4,000 units of the token low cost housing have been included in the first phase of the project, all promoted in the beginning in a blaze of positive publicity, before CMS moved speedily to the much more lucrative "medium cost" housing, where units are currently being sold for the very fancy prices of anything up to half a million ringgit!

Bandar Samariang Phase I Plan

Phase 1 - including 4,000 low cost housing units guaranteed to be purchased by the Housing Committee

Phase 1 – including 4,000 low cost housing units guaranteed to be purchased by the Housing Committee

Of course, the fact that the state has ploughed in major infrastructure, in terms of roads and amenities into the area, has made the development potential of this project ever more lucrative.  Yet, the Chief Minister is still justifying his handing of it all to his family in the name of charity for Kuching's poor!

Presiding over his family's vast profitable land venture.

Presiding over his family's vast profitable land venture.

However, this mother of all land grabs from the Sarawak people is just the start of the story of how the Taib family set about enriching themselves from this project.

In 'Phase 2′ of our investigation we will be looking at how individual members of the Taib inner family circle, set about using the massive housing project to develop profitable businesses for themselves, with disastrous consequences for the very poor people in whose name the Bandar Samariang land grab was executed.

"The new township boasts a myriad of vibrant features such as improved road connectivity between central and South Kuching" Borneo Post

"The new township boasts a myriad of vibrant features such as improved road connectivity between central and South Kuching" Borneo Post