SONG KHENG HAI FOOD CENTRE: TEA TIME EPISODES

Today, we're about to adventure to a few famous stalls at a well known recreational food spot, where you can find many different types of local delicacies sold. This spot is famous for their kom piahs, a popular snack consumed in Sarawak in which consists of deep fried flat buns coated with sesame seeds and filled with sweet savoury minced meat, and also famous for a stall selling quite an interesting combination of juices- coconut and sugar cane.

This popular recreational food ground is known as Song Kheng Hai Food Centre.

It is a 2 story open air centre, with the ground floor almost like a car park, but sometimes, you can see teens skateboarding or dance practices going on.

The top floor is that hot spot many people go to for delicious variety of local delicacies. The whole area is filled with food stalls, with a tiny percentage of stalls selling newspapers, groceries and sweets.  Surrounding the food stalls were fixed tables and chairs.

This well known stall selling kom piahs is called Rihga, stall no.7, located just at a corner around the back. They are known for their crispy and savoury kom piahs, with delicious flavourful filling. Also, they have many other types of fillings in their kom piahs besides the usual meat filling.

Sio bees and rojak are also sold at Rihga.

This is their kom piah.

It was freshly deep fried once again before serving to customers. It arrived fresh and hot, smelling delicious.

The meat filling was glistening as I opened it to have a look. The dough was crispy and not too tough, held it's shape very nicely. The meat filling was juicy and sweet and went very well with the fried dough. It was a really good combination and one is never enough.

Here is their rojak.

What I like about their rojak here is that they used crispy dried dough fritters, also known as dried 'iu char kueh' or 'you tiao' in their rojak, and they are always very generous in serving those. The rojak came with a heap of crushed peanuts as well.

The rojak sauce, which was the most important component of this delicacy, was a bit more towards the salty side. Personally, I think rojak sauces should be more towards the sweet side, but overall, this dish still had it's own unique flavour. The fruits used were fresh and pieces of boiled squid were also put inside.


Next, another stall here, selling a combination of sugar cane and coconut juice. It's stall no.1, Mao Zhong.

It might be a weird combination for many who heard of this for their first time, but it is quite a well known drink here.

Juices are extracted from the sugar cane, combined with coconut water, and servied with a generous amount of freshly scraped coconut flesh.

The combination made the drink refreshing and cooling. This drink is perfect for a hot weather, and also a definite thirst quencher. The coconut flesh was served in huge chunky pieces and was a great compliment to the mixture.

If you're planning to visit Song Kheng Hai Food Centre, you definitely can't miss trying out these 2 stalls here. There are also many other food stalls to try out from here, so you can get to try other local delicacies at the same time.





Opening hours:
Everyday from 7am to 6pm

Song Kheng Hai Food Centre
Lorong 15 
Jalan Song Kheng Hai off Jalan Padungan
93100 Kuching,
Sarawak.








This is Jolynn signing off this week's episode on The Makan Post. Stay tuned for more.

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