In case anybody, after seeing my previous two posts, is wondering what on earth I was doing in Kuching, actually I was hoping to go over with my daughter sometime so that she could get to eat some of the things that she loved there.
Then, I received word that my cousin and her family would be home for the Christmas holidays and she would be having a get-together to celebrate her 50th birthday and her son’s 21st simultaneously…
Some of you may recall meeting her that night when we happened to bump into her at the Muar Restaurant in KL…
So there we were for the celebration…
…but sad to say, the karaoke machine broke down a couple of days earlier, so singing our hearts out at the party that night was completely out of the question.
It was a flying visit, a really brief one (29th – 31st December, 2010)…and unfortunately, on our first night there, the restaurant that I had wanted to go to with my daughter was fully booked and we went to the Indian restaurant instead. I was hoping that she would be able to eat her favourite baked cheese crabs…
…and thankfully, another cousin of mine, Gundot, bought a whole lot for us to take home and enjoy.
Melissa also loves the hay p’ia (prawn fritters) at Peterson’s…
…but we did not get to go there for that. In the end, Gerrie (who took us for the kolo mee at Oriental Park) bought those for us to bring back to Sibu, lightly cooked so that we could fry them ourselves and enjoy them piping hot and nice and crispy. As a matter of fact, she bought us so many pieces that it would come as no surprise if anybody were to see us serving that, come Chinese New Year. LOL!!!
The trip was timely – certainly a good way to wrap up the old year as although it was a really brief one, what was most important was that we got to meet most, if not all, of our dear ones in Kuching and we had a really good time.
...STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS! 