Sabah really leaves too much sweet memories for me. So I decided to post more on my experiences there. Besides climbing Mount Kinabalu, the other best thing that you need to enjoy is the foods there. The type of food that you can find there is varieties and it is very fresh. The prices also fair. If you have the chance to visit Sabah, do not miss to try out the local food there and the most importantly you must try out the seafoods there!
These are some of the foods that my friends and I had at a quite famous restaurant, Gayang Restaurant.
They said if you visit Sabah, do not miss the seafood there. So as a smart tourist I also do not miss this opportunity. Actually I wanted to order for lobster, but because of limited budget, we substitute it with centipede prawn (left) and tiger prawn (right). The prawns are very fleshy and fresh. We chose this prawns from an aquarium where all of it still alive. Can you imagine how fresh it is? I ordered the centipede prawn to be fried with special blend flour and the tiger prawn to be cooked as fried butter prawns with cheese and curry leaves. All of us do not like these dishes much because it is not spicy and the prawns were overcooked.
If you want to take tiger prawns, I will suggest that you order it to cook as stir fried black pepper with chilies.
This crab is fried with black pepper and chilies. But I don’t like the taste because it is not spicy and it is too oily. Maybe my friend and I like spicy food so we don't like much the food there.
On the left is fresh mushroom cooked with cauliflower in oyster sauce. All of us like this very much because it tastes just nice, not too salty or too oily. On the right is a type of wild plants that only can be found in Sabah. it is cooked with 'belacan' (prawn paste). Yummy! Yummy! We all like this dish very much.
On the left is fresh mushroom cooked with cauliflower in oyster sauce. All of us like this very much because it tastes just nice, not too salty or too oily. On the right is a type of wild plants that only can be found in Sabah. it is cooked with 'belacan' (prawn paste). Yummy! Yummy! We all like this dish very much.
This is Sabah Chicken Rice. My friend brought us to a famous restaurant to have this chicken rice. It is very different from the one we have in West Malaysia. The black bowls are filled with salty fish, ‘taugeh’ and steam egg as the side dishes. The bowl in the middle is filled with soup and is served hot. If you want to compare the taste, I will prefer the one that I have in my hometown, Johor. In my hometown the chicken rice is cooked in Hainanese style.
P.S: Please wait for my next post ( Kota Kinabalu Trip Part III) for futher information about my vacation in Sabah k! This week is busy with school work because next week my students going to sit for their first assessment test. So have to prepare question paper!
