PINOY FESTIVE IHAW IHAW: FILIPINO FOODS

Right after Kuching Fest, we planned to go eat some filipinos food after. There was this place at padungan road, where the signs are bright and neon. PINOY FIESTA IHAW IHAW. It always distracted me when I go through that area and when we saw the other night, we made plans to really go there for dinner.  I mean we all say that sort of thing, we should eat there next time, but we get comfortable with our usual restaurant and we don't. But fun thing about running a blog, you get to have motivation to have yourself go there and eat at that restaurant.

So off we went to Pinoy. It's bright place, with pictures on the walls of reminders of Philippines with rickshaw and donkeys paintings on the tiles. It was quite empty because it was already later in the night. So our food came pretty quickly. The atmosphere was lovely, with old songs from previous generations ago coming out. The waitress explained that her grandmother collects old CDs. By the way, service in the place was good, the waitress I think is the granddaughter of whoever owns the place and was very friendly and talked to us about the food we were eating. Explaining to us things we had never heard about.

We ordered a couple of things. SISIG BABOY. It's tomato and pork skin and eggs inside with chopped onions and a lime to squeeze atop on.

I like this the most out of all the rest. It came in a hot sizzling plate, still hearing the sizzle. The pork skins and some pork meat in there were cooked well, with this sort of chewy yet crunchy texture. The lime took out the fattiness in the dish and add some tartiness which I welcomed. 

And then the TORTANG TALONG, just eggplant and egg.

 It was eggplant and egg, seasoned well and crispy. I got the feeling they used alot of egg in Fillipino food. I also heard they do pork alot as well. Villages would roast whole pigs for festive dinners. So you could say they were quite good.

We ordered DAING SILOG, which is fried milk fish and fried egg and rice. 

 It was an odd taste to experience. Not bad but actually different. It was sour the fish. I didn't know adding milk could do that.

 Here's Jolynn's Candid shot. HAHAHA hi Jols.

 More pics of me trying to get a close up on the food.

Address: 143, Jalan Padungan, China Town, 93100 Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
Phone: +60 12-888 0639

Hours:  

Sunday	11AM–11PM
Monday	11AM–11PM
Tuesday	11AM–11PM
Wednesday	11AM–11PM
Thursday	11AM–11PM
Friday	11AM–11PM
Saturday	11AM–11PM

 

This is Sharon, signing off this week's post. Stay tune every week. XD

THE KIMBAP: KOREAN FOOD

It's pretty pricey to get things of foreign aspects in Kuching. It is therefore expensive to cater it to the masses. It is a fact that most korean restaurants in Kuching is expensive but yet people still flock to it.

There is however a new restaurant in Titanium area. Right before Sukah, with a cute heading above it's eatery. It is called Kimbap. as it's name suggests, yes, it does serve kimbap as well as other korean delicacy.

The interior is well furnished with a cafe feel too it. The restaurant doesn't serve main meals like barbecue, it serves simple dishes that is street food like kimchi pancake and spicy sticky rice cake, ddeokbokki or it's commonly known, marinated fried chicken and that is exactly what we ordered for our lunch that day.

Ddeokbokki, with a slice of cheese on that top. I never had the real thing from the streets of Korea, but nether less I had tried it several times in other situations to know what it is suppose to taste like. It is sweet and spicy, with the glutinous rice cake chewy and warm to my tastebuds. The amount was enough for all of us, even though it is a side dish.

We also had the pancake with kimchi, crispy not to oily and savoury. I like dipping mine with the soy sauce which is I think mixed with vinegar.

There was the japchae next, delicious as well. I've made japchae enough times to know that every kind is different, depending on the chef's taste. This one isn't sweet as I'm used to but it is still good. The noodles al dente, the vegetables that go along with it, seasoned well.

There was the kimbap, which was the best I think out of all the food we had. The rice was well done, not to mushy and just right, with the ingredients inside like pickled radish carrots and beef well seasoned and taste well together. The thing about this sort of simple dishes is that if you jut seasoned it well enough, it beats any hard recipes out there.

They gave us our meals fairly fast and it was good service though the side dishes like kimchi and beans weren't very big portions. Also you can't have a refill unless you want to pay the extra price. But this restaurant is by far the cheapest in all the korean restaurants in Kuching and well worth the price too.

Address: Sublot 16, Lot 7691, Brighton Square, Jalan Song, Brighton Square, 93350 Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia

Opening times : Sunday	Closed
Monday	10:30AM–9PM
Tuesday	10:30AM–9PM
Wednesday	10:30AM–9PM
Thursday	10:30AM–9PM
Friday	10:30AM–9PM
Saturday	10:30AM–10PM

This is Sharon signing off this week's blog. Stay tune every week for more. Bye:) 

MANCHESTER FOOD HUNTING- SEOUL KIMCHI: KOREAN FOOD (UK)

It's been raining for awhile in Manchester, since it's the start of the winter season. Malaysia's weather is usually tropical so I'm used to the rain, but it's mixed in with the cold air, making it so much worse. So I love how conveniently located this particular restaurant was. It's like a ten minute walk from my dorm to Seoul Kimchi, and not to mention the food is really good.

 They sell mostly Korean dishes, as well as Japanese ones. It was really good comparatively to other Korean places. From what I've been told, it is the most authentic and delicious Korean meal to every other Korean restaurant in Manchester. But it has westernised a bit, seeing as some ingredients can't be found here in the UK.

We ordered a set meal, consisting of Jeon (korean pancake), salad, korean miso soup, galbi (a beef stew) and matcha ice-cream. As well as being very well represented, there were also some side dishes. Traditionally served with a meal, like kimchi, kongjorim (marinated soy beans), marinated sliced potatoes( I'm not sure what the name is).

The korean pancake traditionally consists of sliced vegetables mixed in a savory batter and fried like a pancake. It's really delicious if done well, but if the batter is too thick, it would have this doughy consistency which isn't very good. Usual good pancakes will be crispy and not too oily. Korean pancakes would have kimchi usually in them, it is optional though. But others would have sliced vegetables, like in our's, spring onions, some capsicums, both red and green. It was seasoned well, and was crispy. The salad was just a typical leafy salad, with lettuce, rocket, and some sprouts, and capsicum, with a light caesar dressing.

Galbi was a braised beef stew, with carrots and onions and capsicum. It was a nice consistency of sweet and salty, delicious to the taste, with the meat so easily broken apart and therefore melting in my mouth. All the vegetables were boiled properly and not hard at all, and you'll be able to bite easily into it.

The miso soup, something I don't usually like drinking, is as salty as I remember. I have a biased view towards it but it taste like a normal miso soup, though with cabbages, and tofu in it. Miso soup has soy bean base and I don't know why I dislike the taste so much but my friend drank it finish so I assume it was quite good.

 I have to say, matcha ice cream is my Achilles heel. Actually anything matcha just have me sinking on my knees. I absolutely adore eating match base products, and this was delicious. There wasn't any over powering taste of matcha, or under powering that you can't even taste the matcha. This was jsut right. I love the dusty green colour of it, and I'll always be able to eat, even in a cold weather.

This place is a must visit in Manchester if you're looking for good korean food. But I have to say, that the food there is quite expensive, I assume because of the ingredients they have to procure from Korea. The price range well above six to eight pounds for a meal. That's like forty something ringgit or more, including extra dishes. 

They have a facebook page, where you can come and check it out : https://www.facebook.com/seoulkimchimanchester/

Address:

• 275 Upper Brook Street, M13 0HR Manchester, United Kingdom
• The opening times : 
  

  Mon-Sat:	11:30 am-3:30 pm 5:00 pm-9:30 pm
  Sun:	12:00 pm-8:00 pm

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