Kuching - Cuisine

Cuisine

Kuching has a number of notable local dishes served at hawker stalls.

• Kolo mee – Egg noodles, flash-boiled, then classically served with crushed garlic and shallot, minced pork or beef, white vinegar, either vegetable oil, pork oil or peanut oil, and sliced barbecue pork known as char siu or beef.
• Sarawak laksa – Spicy coconut prawn paste-based broth served with rice vermicelli, omelette and chicken strips, prawns, sliced deep fried tofu, and occasionally clams.
• Tomato sauce mee or tomato sauce kway teow – Crispy deep fried noodles or ricecake strips served with tomato sauce, vegetables, and chicken.
• Bubu cha-cha – Concentrated mixed syrup of sago, agar, and sweet potatoes.
• Kway chap – Ricecake strips served with pig entrails, deep fried tofu, and hard-boiled egg.
• Lui cha – Rice served with seven types of shredded vegetables with a bowl with bitter herb soup accompanied by a small bowl of roasted peanuts.

Kuching has some very good local seafood restaurants, often run by the Chinese residents serving prime local shellfish. There are many such establishments in and around the city, most notably along the way to popular seaside resorts located on the island of Santubong.

While global chain outlets (McDonald's, Kentucky Fried Chicken, The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, Starbucks, Marrybrown, Pizza Hut ) are ubiquitous in the prime commercial complexes, a local fast food chain "Sugarbun" also serves a variety of Malaysian food in a more Western style.