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Good Taste Bah Kut Teh

December 17, 2009 By: olombon Category: Chinese, Eating Out, Restaurant, Sandakan


drunken prawns

Bah Kut Teh literally means meat, bone and tea. If one lives in Malaysia long enough, he or she would know that Bah Kut Teh is a very popular and yummy dish indeed. Most Bah Kut Teh restaurants would serve pork and pig’s internal parts with Bak Kut Teh soup poured on to them. Good Taste Bah Kut Teh (BKT) restaurant in Sandakan town, does one better than the rest with a special twist in seafood Bah Kut Teh. Since Sandakan is famous for its fresh and cheap seafood, Good Taste BKT is taking full advantage of this. Numerous magazines and newspapers have already written about their wonderful experience eating here, and Good Taste BKT restaurant is not shying away from this by displaying these articles on its walls. With its unique dishes like fish slice BKT, fish balls BKT, cuttlefish BKT, and prawns BKT, Good Taste BKT is really one of the must try restaurants in Sandakan.

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White Man Chicken Rice

December 08, 2009 By: olombon Category: Chinese, Eating Out


drumstick white man chicken rice

Situated on the northern part of the Kota Kinabalu district, Inanam is a major township that serves the surrounding small and medium size industries including the Kolombong industry area. Inanam kopitiams are popular places for workers and businessmen to have lunch and tea break. Currently the talk of the town is this new stall called White Man Chicken Rice. Yes, real white man serving us, KK Lites, chicken rice in original Hainan style.

The stall is run by a husband and wife team, Terry and Shirley. Terry came from New Zealand. He is easily recognised with his European feature and a sporty sunglasses. Shirley is a Sabahan, and she is normally the one taking down orders. They started their chicken rice stall just a few months ago, as time goes by and more people get to taste their Hainan style chicken rice, customers can be seen increasing all the time. (Note: White Man Chicken Rice has since moved to the shoplot at Taman Sinar Baru, Dah Yeh Villa, not far from the Sabah Medical Centre). (more…)

Restoran Wong Kee

August 31, 2009 By: olombon Category: Chinese, Eating Out, Restaurant


penang prawn noodle

Penang Prawn Noodle is originated from Penang, a northern state in West Malaysia. This dish is most probably created by the Hokkien Chinese in Penang, and today it is a very popularly dish in most of the big cities in Malayasia. The prawn noodle most important ingredient is its soup, it has to be sweet and strong with prawn taste. With that in mind not many kopitiams in Kota Kinabalu that sell prawn noodle did a good job with the soup. Only a few kopitiam has good quality prawn noodle soup, and one of these kopitiams is Wong Kee Restaurant. Located on Jalan Kolombong, Inanam, Wong Kee Restaurant prawn noodle is highly recommended. The boss has eight years of experience on preparing prawn noodle. What are the ingredients included in the prawn noodle? These ingredients are prawns, fish balls,fish pastes, sliced pork meat, and egg. Note: the fish balls and fish pastes are home made, with no preservative used. (more…)

Heng Long Restaurant

July 07, 2009 By: olombon Category: Chinese, Eating Out, Restaurant


steamed shrimp & pork siew mai

Thinking of having a good and mouthwatering dim sum breakfast in Kota Kinabalu, then Heng Long Restaurant at Warisan Square will surely build up your appetite. With as many as 40 different types of dim sum available, be it steamed or deep fried, customers are really spoiled for choices. Apart from dim sum, the chief chef and assistant chefs at Heng Long Restaurant help to prepare host of Chinese delicacies like soup, noodle, fried rice and many other notable dishes. La Mian (ramen), with some 11 different types to select, is also another specialty here. Customers will also get the pleasure to see how the La Mian is produced. The chef behind a glass wall will demonstrate how the dough is stretched, pulled and twisted, before it is expertly cut into fine pieces of La Mian.

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