My other half flew to Kuala Lumpur this afternoon with her sister en route to Adelaide for a two-week holiday. So we won’t have home cooking for the next two weeks. My son and I decided to try out Hank’s Meat & Wine in Pujut 7. It is located just next to Fish & Co. We were there quite early ...

Someone commented on my blog article “The Best Steamed Buns In Miri” that House of Buns sells the best buns in Miri. So I dropped by House of Buns to buy chicken buns and char siew buns. House of Buns is situated near Dr Teo’s Clinic in Miri Waterfront Commercial Centre. Having tested the buns of House of Buns, both ...

Birds are very inquisitive by nature, and they tend to explore everything with their beaks. For many birds, paper is a fun item with which to play. In Kuching this morning, I witnessed a bird playing with a strip of paper. My eldest brother Chin Tian, my third brother Ching Sien and I were on our way back to my ...

Su, a reader of my blog, made a comment that I have a good blog and that he appreciates what I do as a Mirian. However, he suggested that maybe buying a new camera will make my blog even better. And I replied that the problem is not the camera but the photographer.  Anyway, thank you for your comment, Su! ...

Where can you find the best steamed paus (buns) in Miri? A lot of Mirians will tell you it is Sau Pau Bakery Café. But I beg to differ. I do like the pau at Sau Pau Bakery but my top choice is the buns sold at the makeshift stall in front of Toni & Guys Unisex Saloon near the ...

Eating places are mushrooming all over Miri with new cafes, restaurants and watering holes springing up almost every month. With competition rapidly increasing, it is getting tougher to run a successful café or restaurant. But there is one food court that is doing extremely well since its opening earlier this year. I am talking about Lung Meng Café. Its name ...

It has been a long time since I last saw her. About 3 decades ago, to be exact. I was driving along Medical Store Road in Miri in the early 1980s when I saw a roadside stall selling rambutans. I pulled over and parked my car. Alighting from my car, I realised that the woman selling rambutans was the hawker ...

With about forty five minutes to spare before I had to pick up my son, I dropped by Taman Selera to have an ais kacang and to just relax. Sitting at the food bazaar, I had a great view of the sea and beach. The sky was overcast with dark clouds. I guess the dark clouds matched the sombre mood ...

It has been quite a long time since I last watched a Korean movie. Last night, I decided to watch the Korean blockbuster “Ode To My Father”, currently the second highest-grossing film in the history of Korean cinema. Ode to My Father (Hangul: 국제시장) is a 2014 South Korean generational epic capturing more than half a century of recent Korean ...

I drive past the Visitors’ Information Centre almost every day and it was only this morning that I noticed the tallest bougainvillea plants in Miri in the small park surrounding the centre. I parked my car at the parking area in Tamu Muhibbah and made my way across the road to the Visitors’ Information Centre. On closer look, I noticed ...