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Fresh dabai, delicious New Capitol Restaurant
savoury fruits resembling (46 Jln Kampung Nyabor)
olives in appearance, and Beii Jin Restaurant
and to some extent in (155-159 Jln Kampung
taste, are usually sold by Nyabor).
Iban ladies at the Central
Market. These need to David Bak Kut Teh, 3 Jln
be briely dunked in hot Central, serves generous
porions of bak kut teh,
water to soten them before serving - a hotel room stewed pork ribs with special herbs cooked in a claypot,
ketle will do nicely. A wide variety of other tropical morning to early evening.
fruits are also available at the market, including
Hai Bing Seafood, 31 Jln Maju, opp. Rejang Esplanade,
exquisite pineapples from Sarikei and unique green has a good selecion of reasonably priced local seafood,
oranges from Bintangor. dishes and friendly, eicient service.
Cofee Shops Esplanade Seafood , Rejang Esplanade, has a good
selecion of local seafood and a varies od simple
Cofee-shops are found on just about every street western dishes.
corner, and serve thick Borneo cofee sweetened with Kheng Hock Café, 49 Jln Maju, facing Rejang Esplanade.
condensed milk, as well as a huge range of other drinks. This popular and very friendly café serves local noodle
dishes and steamed buns and dumplings in the
Food ofered usually includes local noodle dishes, morning, tasty barbecued pork and duck for lunch and
chicken rice, and mixed rice or nasi campur. superbly cooked seafood (especially the soon hock ish)
Food Centres in the evenings, all at very moderate prices.
Min Kong Café, Jln Bank, is famous for its delicious
These are the most popular eaing places. There is prawn noodles (RM20), and also serves other local
always a wide selecion of value-for-money stalls and specialiies. Open daily, lunchimes and evenings.
you can select food from as many as you like. New Capital Restaurant, opp. Premier Hotel. Not to be
Sibu Central Market, 1st loor. Over 30 mostly Chinese confused with the more upmarket New Capitol, serves
stalls serving almost every kind of local dish imaginable, tender Hainanese chicken rice all day long.
Restoran Bahagia (Jln WongNai Siong) serves robust
mostly from 6 am to lunchime, but some are open in local dishes lunchimes and evenings (the claypot beef
the evening. is paricularly good) and is open 24-hrs for noodles,
Jln Market Food Stalls, near Premier Hotel. Variety of fried rice and other light meals
Chinese stalls, plus Malay stalls ofering curries, mee Sri Merani, 1 Jln Hardin, is a Chinese Muslim seafood
jawa (spicy noodles in a thick sauce) and roi canai. outlet. Their steamed tapah ish is perfectly cooked
Kampung Bandung Food Court & Taman Selera MUC, and the ish head curry is famous throughout town.
Jln Jasmin, take a taxi. Ofers a variety of Malay seafood Evenings only.
including the popular ikan panggang masak belacan
(ish barbequed with prawn paste), satay and many Japanese
others.
Pusat Mara, Sibu Plaza building, Jln Mission, opp. Akatsuki Animate, 8 Lrg Sena, of JlnPedada. Japanese
AmBank. Malay and Melanau food stalls ofering popular fast food and steamboat restaurant, with an Anime
breakfast dishes, then later freshly cooked nasi campur theme. Take a taxi.
and home made umai (see page 61). 7 am - 9 pm. Sushi Tie, Jln Pedada, behind Rejang Medical Centre.
Taman Selera Harmoni, of Jln Awang Ramli Amit (take A very reasonably priced Japanese eatery with a good
a taxi). Open air food court with dozens of Malay stalls selecion of authenic dishes.
ofering a selecion of local delicacies. One stall serves Zen, 16 Jln Chew Geok Lin (near pagoda). Stylish
delicious sup power (beef tendon soup) and the cendol Japanese and fusion dining for those with deep pockets.
(a popular Malaysian dessert) is the best in town. Open
5 pm - late. Malay
Malay food stalls can be found in many Chinese cofee
Chinese & Seafood shops, serving halal food with their own crockery and
cutlery. See also Taman Selera Harmoni, Pusat Mara,
Sibu has plenty of upmarket Chinese restaurants,
Kampung Bandung Food Court & Taman Selera MUC
serving a blend of Foochow, Cantonese and
Shanghainese cuisine. Notable ones include Ming and other lisings in Food Centres, above.
Ziang Restaurant (Kingwood Hotel), Golden Palace
Restaurant (Tanahmas Hotel), Gold Hope Restaurant Kasturi, 18 Jln Tunku Osman, is Sibu’s leading Malay/
(Sarawak House), Blue Splendor Restaurant (Level 5 Melanau restaurant, serving spicy curries and Malay
Wisma Sanyan), Golden Happiness Restaurant (Jln style seafood, as well Melanau dishes such as tebaloi
Chengal), Yi Pin Lou Restaurant (20-32 Mission Road), crackers and umai (see page 61).
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