Monday, November 30, 2015

YummY! - Cendol Sabah @ Fong Ip Cafe Kota Kinabalu

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CENDOL SABAH @ FONG IP CAFE
Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia - November 2015
I have a penchant for cendol, those stringy green desserts immersed in santan and topped up with good Gula Melaka. And I try to savour them whenever I visit a new place that have good cendol. Among the good ones that I have tried are the Malacca's Nyonya Cendol ; the Teochew Cendol in Penang and Taiping's Indian styled one.
This time round, while on a cycling bike-packing tour in Sabah, I managed to try one from East Malaysia. So let's see how it fares against the others.
We had it at Fong Ip Cafe, located at down-town Kota Kinabalu. These days the coffee-shops there have dressed themselves up to look more traditional and it's good as this gives the area an old world charm.
Except for the self-service counter, this old charm has been maintained within Fong Ip's interior.
We ordered for two: two cendols, some yong tau foo and a set of their famous toasted bread with butter and kaya.
Let's have a quick look at the yong tau foo. We were having an afternoon tea there so we did not order much, just a stick of sweet tofu, a couple of piece of soft white tofu and on eggplant. All were stuffed with fish paste that was one of the best that I have tried. The paste has a good content of fish making them very tasty indeed.
Okay, then. How did their cendol fare?
The santan lacked creaminess, it could have been thicker with a pinch of salt added to give it that good coconut cream flavour. The Gula Melaka was also too thin thus not giving it that strong aroma of palm sugar. The saving grace was the green cendol noodles, in this they excel as the noodles were real pandan green and had that good bouncy bite. Pricing per bowl is at RM4-00, this may sound expensive but their serving is rather large, large enough for two.
The cendol is prepared at a conspicuous corner of the shop right at the front of the building.
Nicely done!
Like most of the traditional coffee-shops, Fong Ip is also renown for their bread for either eat-in or take-aways.

 Below are their menus, please note pricing is at time of this blog:
Fong Ip's Food Menu.
Fong Ip's Snacks Menu.
Fong Ip's Drinks Menu.
FONG IP CAFE
Lot 100, Jalan Gaya, 88000 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
Tel: +60 88-213618
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fong-Ip-Cafe-Gaya-St-Kk/136734763065464
Hours: 7:00am to 1:00am (Opens everyday) 

GPS: 5.983799, 116.076926
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Sunday, November 29, 2015

YummY! - Tuaran Mee @ City Food Corner Kota Kinabalu

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TUARAN MEE @ CITY FOOD CORNER
Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia - November 2015
While on a cycling bike-packing tour in Sabah, we stopped at Tuaran for a rest. I have had heard much about the famous Tuaran Mee; but by the time we reached the town it was past noon and the stalls had finished selling this noodles.
So, a few days later, back in Kota Kinabalu, I was determined to try this noodles and went to the  City Food Corner (CFC) where amongst other things, they sell this renown noodles too. Located at the Sinsuran Street area, this corner shop is very noticeable with it's bright red signage.
The corner location means ample seating!
And the best thing about this place is that it is opened 24 hours a day, seven days a week. So anytime one feel hungry in Kota Kinabalu, just pop by this place and satisfy one's tummy.
Other than Tuaran Mee, this place serves a wide range of noodle such as tomyam, soto, laksa, fried keow teow, fried rice, etc.
More choices - Curry noodles. And a variety of fruit juices. They serve pretty good coffee and their toasted bread with butter and kaya is renown too.
The Fried Tuaran Mee came in two choices, chicken or seafood. I opted for the seafood version.
The noodles came, looking wet and slightly soggy with a bit of gravy... just the way I like it! It was stir fried together with some prawns, slices of fish cake and a generous helping of choy sum. The eggs were sort of scrambled and did their job well, they had absorbed the seafood flavour and spread it through the dish.
!YummY!
The noodles themselves were like wantan noodle but thicker and nicely bitey... that's what Tuaran Mee is about... it has to be home-made noodles like this.
Don't miss this, it's one of the good food in Kota Kinabalu to savour.
Other than noodles, CFC has a good range of pastry. Their loaves of bread for take-away seems popular.
CITY FOOD CORNER
Ground Floor, Block J, Lot 10, Jalan Sinsuran, Sinsuran Complex, 88000 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
Tel: +60 88-267972
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cityfoodcornersinsurankk/
Hours: Opened 24/7

GPS: 5.979472, 116.072011
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