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fish-mixed noodle soup with fresh milk

Fatt Kee, a small little store in Hilltop Commercial area, makes some of the most wonderful seafood noodles along the Lintas Highway. Specialities at this store are mixed fish noodle, fish head mee hoon, and tom yam noodle. Fatt Kee prepares many interesting and tasty fish parts in its dishes, from the common fish balls to less encountered fish lips, customers get to choose and mix what stuffs they like in their noodles. Some uncommon stuffs that warrant a mention are fish stomach, fish skin, fish slice, foo ken fish, and fish wanton. Scallops and prawns are also available. Like most Chinese way of serving noodle, one can order the noodle in soup or in dry black sauce. Two sizes are available, small size starts from RM 5.50, and the big one starts at RM 7.

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laksa noodle

Where does one begin to search for a good bowl of laksa in down town Kota Kinabalu, which has so many restaurants. Well the search stops at Yee Fung Kopitiam. Located along the oldest street of Kota Kinabalu, which is famous for it’s Sunday Gaya Street Fairs, Yee Fung Kopitaim serves one of the best laksa in Kota Kinabalu. The crowds testify to this, for Yee Fung kopitaim is always full with customers from morning until afternoon, and this has been going on for the past 25 years.

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Just 2 kilometres south of Kota Kinabalu at the suburb of Sembulan, Grace Point tagged as The City’s Secret Garden is a well designed and a well managed food court. High ceiling and open air are the main building features. The eating area has a modern setting consists of white tables that mixed and matched with orange and white chairs. These combination of colours is very smoothing to the eyes. The atmosphere at night can be very relaxing too, as warm lights are used to light up the gardens around the food court. The Double Six Monument is located at Grace Park which is just beside Grace Point food court, and there are plenty of parking space available for the guests. Grace Park and Grace Point are both managed by Sutera Harbour Resort. (more…)

Tanjung Aru area is probably one of the oldest suburbs of Kota Kinabalu. Lies just 10 minutes away on foot from the Terminal 2, the old International Airport of Kota Kinabalu. Tanjung Aru used to be a trendy township. During the colonial time this was where the British Crown housed their civil servants. Today these housing has been demolished for new development, and just a few of these houses survived, which would be good for historical conservation. Tanjung Aru township consists of a post office, a police station, a small market in the centre and a few blocks of shoplots. This is also where the popular Daily Express newspaper printing factory is located. More than a dozen eateries operate at Tanjung Aru, which cater for the many government and private offices around this area.

Of all these kopitiams at Tanjuna Aru township, Wah Juan Kopitiam would no doubt be the most popular. Wah Juan Kopitiam opens day and night, but what people come for, especially KK Lites, is the pork mixed noodle. This tasty mouth watering pork mixed noodle is only available in the morning, from 7 am to 11 am. At times one must be prepared to wait for a table, which can take up to almost half an hour long, but the faithful customers are always seen patiently happy waiting for their table.

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