Sarawak Black Pepper Chicken

Ingredients :

1.    1kg boneless chicken

2.    1 table spoon of cornstarch

3.    Onions

4.    Cooking oil

5.    ¼ oyster sauce

6.    1 teaspoon dark soy sauce

7.    1 teaspoon Sarawak black pepper

8.    ½ Sarawak white pepper

9.    1 teaspoon wine

Method :

1.    Mix together all the sauce in a small bowl and set aside.

2.    Cut chicken into a small dice.

3.    Heat 1-2 cups cooking oil.

4.    Place cornstarch in a small bowl and begin to dust chicken pieces, shaking off excess.

5.    Fry in hot oil in small batches until crispy and golden about 2-3 minutes, then drain it.

6.    Remove oil from wok and discard.

7.    Heat 1 tablespoon oil in wok and stir-fry onion about 1 minute.

8.    Add sauce mixture to wok along with chicken and stir to coat everything evently.

9.    Serve it with hot steamed rice. 

Sibu, The Swan City

Swan that be the symbolic of Sibu Town

Sibu is a quiet town along the Rajang River where the Chinese population forms a majority. Sibu is the main tourist gateway to the Upper Rajang River, alongside you will find numerous authentic towns and many Iban and Orang Ulu longhouses. In and around Sibu, you can enjoy numerous recreational parks, a wonderful night market, a huge central market and many nice Chinese restaurants with delicious local dishes. In the central area of Sarawak along the Rajang River the town of Sibu forms an entry to a wonderful part of Borneo as tourists visit Sibu for the longhouses and many Chinese cultural attractions. The town has a population of over 265,000. 

Sibu Central Market (outside)

Sibu Central Market (inside)

One of the attaraction in Sibu is Taman Jubli Bukit Aup.

Animals I want to Keep Before I Die.

I come from the family that really loves animals. Those are the animals that I really want to keep before I die.

1. Tiger

2. Lion

3. Dolphin

4. Shark

5. Cobra

Bako National Park

A National Park since 1957, Bako offers the perfect introduction to Sarawak’s forests and wildlife.  The park covers the northern tip of the Muara Tebas peninsula, an area of 27 sq km.  Despite its seemingly small size, Bako contains a wide range of vegetation – swamp forest, scrub-like ‘padang’ vegetation, mangrove forest, dipterocarp forest, delicate cliff vegetation and more.   In fact, at Bako it is possible to see almost every type of vegetation found in Borneo. Bako also contains a rich variety of wildlife and a coastline covered with small bays, coves and beaches.  The park has a number of well-marked trails offering interesting walks ranging from short pleasant strolls to serious full-day hikes.  Unlike some national parks, visitors to Bako are almost guaranteed to see wildlife.  Long-tailed macaque monkeys and silver leaf monkeys are ever present, wild boar are often found rummaging around the park HQ, squirrels and monitor lizards are also common. There is every chance of seeing the rare and unusual proboscis monkeys on trails such as Telok Paku and Telok Delima, particularly if you go late afternoon.  You are more likely to see wildlife if you quietly follow the trails and keep listening.  For example, you’ll probably hear the crash of vegetation before you are able to locate a proboscis monkey high up in the forest canopy. 

Bako also has some good white sand beaches that provide perfect resting spots in between jungle treks.  Telok Pandan Kecil is perhaps Bako’s best beach.  After an hour or so the Telok Pandan Kecil trail comes to a rocky headland.  The view down to a beautiful secluded bay, and the thought of a swim in the cool waters, has a magical effect on tired calf muscles.  The following 20 minute descent suddenly becomes more enjoyable.  All of the beaches are bordered by limestone and sandstone cliffs, and the action of the sea has left some remarkable rock formations, such as the famous Sea Stack.

Here video about Bako National Park 

Song that remind me of Him :')

Grandpa (Left)

       Amazing Grace is one of his favourite song. I used to called him "Babai" because in Bidayuh language, grandfather we called as "babai". When I was small, babai always sing this song for me so. Whenever I hear this song, automatically my tears will drop. After he had passed away two years ago, no one sing this song for me. So, here his favourite song. Amazing Grace

Bidayuh - The Land Dayak

Bidayuh Traditional Costume

               Bidayuh is the collective name for several indigenous groups found in southern Sarawak. These groups are categorized as one because their language and culture is similar. The Bidayuh itself means ‘inhabitants of land’. Over time this group has been known by many names. During the White Rajah’s time, they were known as Land Dayaks, but were officially named Bidayuh by the Sarawakian government in 2002.

                   Some Bidayuh community lives in small villages close to Kuching, while the others close to the border of Indonesia such as Serikin and Tebedu. They include six main dialectical subgroups: Bau-Bidayuh, Biatah-Penrissen, Bukar-Sadong, Padawan-Sembaan, Rara and Salako. They mostly lives in mountainous areas, from one hillside to another, living solely on plantation. Before the British era, they were all believe in Animist, but today, many of them were Christian and some becoming a Muslim.

Sarawak Ethnic Cuisine.

Ayam Pansuh/Chicken Bamboo Recipe

Chicken in Bamboo or usually know as “Ayam Pansuh” is exotic food that very popular in Sarawak.

           

Ingredients (Marinate) :

·         ½kg chicken

·         Gingers

·         Onions, Garlics

·         Lemon grass

·         Cassava leaves

·         Salt

·         Young bamboo

Optional Ingredents :

·         Turmeric stump

·         MSG

·         Fermented durian

·         Black pepper

Method :

1.      Before using the bamboo, fill it with water for ½ -1 hour to clean the inside and encourage the water to seep in.

2.      Marinate all the ingredients together. Leave some of tapioca leaves to cap the bamboo later on.

3.      Emptied the water from the bamboo. Fill it with the marinated chicken.

4.      Do not compact all chicken. Let it loose lightly.

5.      Do not forget to cap the bamboo with tapioca leaves.

6.      Cook over pit fire-charcoal or stand about 60-80 degree.

7.      Pansuh is cooked if the water start to gurgle at the cap.

8.      Serve the pansuh into the bowl.