Since the last posting about bak kut teh I have been craving for it!!! Sibu is about an hour flight from here and I missed the only flight into Sibu this morning…arrgghhh…
hihihi… sound as if I’m so rich to fly in for a bowl of bak kut teh
The weather today was a bit crazy…rain, shine, rain, shine… When I got to Grandma’s the sky was pouring… so I had my Bak kut teh… nothing beat a bowl of soup on a rainy day.
A hot pot like this plus a bowl of garlic rice were all I needed!
And of course a glass of cold ngo mi t’ng (‘5 flavours soup’ – as in the name it has barley, white fungus, dried longan, dried persimmon and jelly) for my desert.
There’s a very nice bak kut teh (herbal pork rib soup) stall at a corner coffee shop next to the Public Bank building. Try it out!
This is a night market (pasar malam) scene at down town Sibu. This place sells anything from food to kitchen utensils to RM2 stickers.
Fast food Sibu style…
Barbeque chicken to barbeque pig head!! Yummieeee…err… pig head not for me of course
The famous Sibu kongpiah (cousin of European bagel). It comes in sweet or savoury taste. I love the savoury ones and taste nicer overnight… delicious to dunk into my kopi-o (coffee with sugar no milk). Fresh ones are soft but you can knock somebody unconscious with an overnight kongpiah!
In the middle of the steamer is what we called sio-bee (steam meat dumplings). The other is kongpiah stuffed with minced meat a.k.a. Foochow hamburger. Sibu has the largest Foochow community outside of China, so much so that Sibu is also fondly referred to as “Xin Fuzhou” or “new Fuzhou” and thus most of the food originated from this dialect group.
Colourful steam buns. Different colours have different fillings - tau-sa (red bean paste), cha-siew (barbeque pork in gravy), bak-pau (meat), etc.
For those of you who don’t understand Bahasa Melayu or the Malay language; “Malaysia Boleh” means “Malaysia Can”.
The government has been telling us in so many campaigns that Malaysia CAN stand proud and tall and equal, if not better, anybody out there in the world.
We can Achieve!!!
And you better believe it – look at the pic; squeezing 2 cars into one parking lot with a upright beam in the way some more!
Malaysians surely can if these 2 drivers are anything to go by!
Well, it is bound to happen sooner or later; I putting up a CNY related clip.
So, for the last few days, I’ve been prowling the streets visiting popular sites customarily all dressed up for the upcoming festivity this time of the year.
Frankly, got to say I am quite upset; some places unexpectedly are very “passive”.
Not even the must-have lanterns, red banners and floral deco – what is happening?
Could it be the rain??? But but but, the rain is gone!!!
Well, it’s not all gloom; some newer places like “tHe Spring”, Stutong and the grand old “Kenyalang Park” are bright and cheery – in red of course.
So from me to all of you,
“Gong Xi Fa Chai” and don’t forget my “angpows”…..
