Malaysia / Borneo: Kuching – Top Spot Food Court
Editing holiday photos is so. freaking. boring.
Normally I force myself to edit them within the first couple of weeks of arriving home. But this time, I haven’t done it and a month has gone past, and they keep niggling at me.
GO AWAY PHOTOS.
At least I’ve edited a few. Enough to put up one post!
As mentioned, we spent a couple of weeks in Malaysian Borneo at the end of July. Our first stop was Kuching, the capital of Sarawak.
Our hotel gave us a map, so I used that to navigate our way around the town and look for places of interest. It wasn’t a very good map. We did a lot of walking around in the heat to find that places marked on the map didn’t actually exist. Erm.
I thought Top Spot Food Court was going to be one of these non existent places. We could see a sign, but couldn’t find an entrance to the food court, and there didn’t seem to be anyone around during the day.
When we returned at night time to give it another shot, I was sure that I could smell food. It turns out that the food court was on the very top level of what is otherwise a multi storey carpark. I followed my nose and the sounds of frying woks to find it.
Once upstairs, the entire top level opened out to numerous food stalls and tables and chairs. The food stalls were all mostly selling seafood (there were a few selling other things, but not many) and – after looking around – they all looked pretty similar so we just picked one.
We ordered a couple of these beautiful (and large) freshwater prawns.
They were simply cooked with garlic and butter and were very fresh and sweet.
The stallholder suggested that we try midin, a fern that grows in the jungles of Sarawak. Stir fried with belacan, it was crunchy and delicious.
We returned on a different night, trying out a different stall.
We pretty much ordered the same things as last time (hey – if it works) except we also got a plate of butter squid.
Err, okay this was weird. It was coated with a buttery soft crumbed batter – which is fine – except it was really sweet.
We also had another plate of midin. I liked it a lot.
And more of those fresh water prawns. These ones were even larger than the previous evening.
I’m glad we persisted and eventually found Top Spot. But who builds a food court on top of a car park? Sheesh. š
View Off the spork in a larger map
Top Spot Food Court
Jalan Bukit Mata Kuching
Kuching
Sarawak
Malaysia
September 9, 2013 @ 9:19 pm
Lol totally agree with you. I got soo bored w editing my Peru & Chile photos I started finding ways to avoid doing it. My new technique would be to be less trigger happy and have less photos for the whole trip.
Incidentally I still have unedited pics from a trip taken in… 2007!
I’m very curious about that midin, not seen or heard of it before!
November 4, 2013 @ 9:32 pm
Hah I also have pics unedited from the end of a trip in 2007… eeeepp.
September 10, 2013 @ 8:06 pm
God, took your time š lol
That butter squid looks like cinnamon donuts… and now I feel like donuts!
November 4, 2013 @ 9:34 pm
The butter squid kind of tasted like donuts too… so weird haha.
September 11, 2013 @ 11:23 am
Hahhaah it’s ok I’ve still got holiday photos from Europe! And i went in January you’re doing a pretty good job š
Hmmmm love the food courts in Asia, it looks quite similar to the one I went to in Singapore but the food is a little different hehe!
November 4, 2013 @ 9:37 pm
Food courts in Asia are great.
I still haven’t edited any more holiday photos… shame….
September 11, 2013 @ 7:11 pm
YUM!
Everything looks so good!
I have to edit photos as I go as much as I can or none of them see the light of day š
November 4, 2013 @ 9:48 pm
Oh you edit as you go? That’s so good and smart of you… I always intend to but never do… haha…
September 30, 2013 @ 8:40 pm
Glad you visited my hometown. Hope you had a great time there š
November 4, 2013 @ 9:48 pm
I did – it’s lovely š