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The following list and info created by www.akiraceo.com.

FNBWell Kuching is famous mainly for the unique and different food.

Here's a list of some of the food Kuching has.

Following list only consist of 5% of Sarawak food. And mostly cover on Chinese dish.

Food

No. Food Description Recommendation Time

1 Kolok Mee

Sin Liang Shen Morning

Sekama KY cafe Night

Da Wan Gong (Petanak) Morning

Tabuan Jaya Urat Mata Billy House MorningElectra house open air Night

2 Laksa Sarawak laksa. Served with prawns, omelette, chicken meat strips.Chong Choon Morning

Golden Arch (3rd miles) Morning

3

Sekama Morning

SongKimHai Market. Afternoon -Teatime

Hui Sing open Air Night

4 Kueh Chap Thick pork and internals herbal soup served with Kuehs.

3rd mile market Night

Satok Thompson Corner Noon

Petanak market Night

5 Cha Kueh Stutong Market/ 101/ HuiSing Morn ing/ Night /Night

6 Kampua New Choon Chong Green Height Morning

7 Kong Pia Foochow baked bun stuffed with marinated minced meatSongKimHai Market Afternoon

101 Night

8 Belacan Beehoon Beehoon served with belacan gravy and served with squids.Afternoon

101 Afternoon

9 Malak Noodle Noodle served with spicy sauce and minced meat. Life Caf (Ren Jien Cha Fan) Day-Night

10 Sio Bee Kuching version of SiuMai. Electra house open air Morning to late night

11 Beef Noodle Electra house open air Morning

12 Mee Jawa Special Jawa Mee with Satay Morning

13 Kolok Mee with Pork soup Thick pork peppery pork soup served with a bowl of kolok mee. Carpenter street Morning

14 Ting Mian Hu Foochow's delicacies. A kind of Kueh soup Tabuan Jaya Morning

15 Fried Kolok Mee Fried Kolok mee. LOL

16 Pork Satay Hui Sing open Air Night

17 Satay Beehoon Satay with Beehoon Carpenter street

18 Sambal Fried Mee/Kueh Tiao Fried KuehTiao/Mee with Sambal Belacan. 101

19 Sweet Fried Mee/KuehTiao Fried KuehTiao/Mee with Sweet Soy Sauce

20 Manok Pansoh 101/ Topspot Night

21 Umai Sarawak Sashimi Topspot Night

22 Steamed buns Kuching version of buns.

23 Red Chicken Wings Chicken wings marinated with Cha Siew Sauce and BBQ. India Street Afternoon

24 Ginger Chicken Wings Chicken wings marinated with Ginger and deep fried. Lok Lok Night

25 Kuih Muihs Sarawak Kuih Muihs Markets Morning/Evening

26 Kuih Momo A kinda like kuih bangkit but melts in the mouth.

27 Cookies/Biscuit Local Chinese Cookies. Pandungan

28 You Cha Kueh You Cha Kueh with Kaya Butter or Meat floss etc. C121 Stutong Morning

29 Seafood

Batu Lintang Night

Top Spot Night

Electra house open air Night

Green Hill Day-Night

101 Night

30 Kacama Herbal spices cooked with white wine and chicken

31 Sambal Midin (Bilin) Sarawak paku pakis cooked with sambal Restaurant

32 Paku Restaurant

33 O Chien Sarawak version of O chien. Pizza look alike. Restaurant

34 Manni Cai (Money Vege?) Sweet leaves. Usually cooked with eggs or beehoon. Restaurant

35 SkySnails (Tien Lou) A type of sea snails. Sweet and crunchy 101 Night

36 Kek Lapis Sarawak Layer cake. Opposite waterfront . Day-Night

37 Tebaloi Sago cookies

38 Sago worms Fresh sago worms :D

39 Crocodile soup Crocodile soup lar. Apa lagi Life Caf (Ren Jien Cha Fan)

40 Roti Beef Corn A type of roti canai found in Sarawak only

41 Ayam panggan rempah Local styled Grilled chicken Matang Jaya Night

42 Linut Sago Flour Thingy Barong Tinuk Night

43 Tumpik Sago Coconut thingy Barong Tinuk Night

44 Dayak food Dyak Noon-Night

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Beverage

No. Beverage Description Recommendation Time

1 Tea C Peng Kuching signature drink

2 Tea C Peng Special 3 layered Tea C Peng. Either with Pandan syrup or Gula Atap. 7th miles

3 Tea C Peng 4&5 layers 3 layered Tea C Peng with wheat grass and grassjelly. Jalan SongRH plaza

4 AngTao ChenLuk SongKimHai Market. Afternoon

5 ABC, Special Ice kacangs.

6 Matterhorn Kuching signature Ice kacangs Hui Sing open Air Night

7 White lady Kuching signature Ice kacangs Hui Sing open Air Night

8Milo Ice Jubilee Field Tea Time

9 Sugarcane + Coconut SongKimHai Market. Tea Time

10 AloeVera AloeVera served with vanilla syrup Coffee shops

11San Suan (3 Sour) Coffee shops

124 Sour/ 5 sour Coffee shops

13 Tuak Local Bumi rice wine

14 Bing Coffee Kuching version of Starbuck Bing Coffee

15 Black Bean Coffee Sarawak Highland Coffee Black Bean Coffee

16 Gordon Latest Ice Kacang. Hui Sing open Air

17 Tuak Ice cream Ice cream with Tuak Dyak

to be continuedOthers

a visit to the local grocery shop/supermarket can see a lot of local brand items/ food /beverage etc

POI

Kuching's signature dish. Served with Cha Siew and minced pork.Available in 2 different type. Red and White.White is original. Red is mixed with Cha Siew sauce (little sweetness).Recommend order: Red with Q-mee, a type of curly mee found inSarawak

KioChap Mee(Tomato Mee)

Kuching's specialty. Deep fried Kolok Q Mee cooked in thick gravytomato sauce and served with seafood and sliced meat.

Sarawak Carrot Cake. Two types. Sweet and Salty.Sweet:- fried with Sweet Soy Sauce and Chai pohSalty:- fried without sauce with egg, chai poh and salt

Sibu's signature noodle. Served with slices of Cha Siews.Best eaten with chilli sauce

SongKimHai MarketJubilee Field

Bamboo Chicken. Dayak's delicacies.Herbal Chicken cooked in bamboo

Another type of paku pakis.I would recommend Midin which is only found in Borneo

Sarawak version of Cendol.The Cendol is bigger, greener and chewy. Red beans are smaller andsweeter

Shaved Ice with Milo powder served with your choice of ingredients.Sweet Corn/ Red Beans/ Nata etc

A mixture of Sugarcane and Coconut.Well blend so it's not too sweet.

A mixture of 3 different sour ingredients( water semboi, semboi, lime etc)

A mixture of 4-5 types of sour ingredients(which include dried orange skin)

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Kuching City Centre (local called it "Pasak" which means "Town" in Bahasa Sarawak)

- Waferfront: A park beside the Sarawak River

- Fort Magherita: Kuching famous fort located at the opposite of waterfront.

- Square Tower: Located in the Waferfront. A tower that faced the Astana (The palace White Rajah used to lived)

-Astana:

- Civic Centre: A tower for viewing Kuching.

- Pandungan: Kuching Chinatown (this is where the Big cat located). Can find cookies/biscuits here

- Carpenter street: Another Chinatown.

- Indian street: The street without indians. LOL. Selling mostly cloths

- Gambier Street: Street of spices

- Main Bazzar: The oldest shoplots in Kuching. Selling lots of handicrafts

- StarCineplex: A cineplex, can view the Waterfront from the top floor of this building.

- Muzium Cina: Used to be a chinese court in the old days. Now a muzium to tell the history of Kuching Chinese

- Muzium Testile: Located just right opposite of the Main Post office and behind the Brooke Courthouse. Display local textile art

- Brooke Courthouse: An old courthouse. Now a Tourism Centre with Lebanon Restaurant

- Post Office: The british style building was once an office but currently Kuching main post office.

- Muzium Tun Something: Located right opposite of Muzium Sarawak. Info about Sarawak and each district- Muzium Art etc Some other muzium next to Sarawak Muzium.. I have no idea..what inside

Sub-urban territory ( Kuching is not a concentrated city. Population&crowd are widely distributed.)

- Friendship park Located in Jalan Song. A park to memorize the friendship between Malaysia and China. Artifacts are imported.

- Cat Museum Located at the hilltop of Northen Kuching. The city council as well as a museum of cats from around the world including a cat mummy

Rehabilitation Centre for Orangutans. See uncaged orangutans roams the forest and swing from trees to trees, break your bones and make curry

-Sarawak Cultural Village A living museum where imitation houses of major races in Sarawak.

- Damai Central Beach getaway beside the famous Santubong mountain. Located between the Damai Lagoon Puri Spa Resort and Damai Beach resort.

- Santubong mountain With hiking trails

- Bako National Park One of the oldest national park.

- Muara Tebas Temple Located in Muara Tebas Village. One of the oldest temple in Kuching.

- Matang Family Park A park on a stream. Place to bbq, soak in cool chilling water (depends on monsoon)

- Wind Cave/Fairy Cave Caves

To see Rafflesia

Outskirt of Kuching

- Serikin Market A day market located at the indo sarawak border

- Borneo Highland Highland resort located at the borderline

- Anna Rais Long house A longhouse open for tourist visit.

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The Pasak area will be quiet at night beside running pubs. P/S: Careful of pickpockets at night.

Locals nowadays hangout at the sub urban areas where you can find cafes, shops, malls operate till late night or till morning.

- Semanggong WildlifeRehabilitation Centre

- Gunnung GadingNational Park