Where can you find the best steamed paus (buns) in Miri? A lot of Mirians will tell you it is Sau Pau Bakery Café. But I beg to differ. I do like the pau at Sau Pau Bakery but my top choice is the buns sold at the makeshift stall in front of Toni & Guys Unisex Saloon near the ...

Eating places are mushrooming all over Miri with new cafes, restaurants and watering holes springing up almost every month. With competition rapidly increasing, it is getting tougher to run a successful café or restaurant. But there is one food court that is doing extremely well since its opening earlier this year. I am talking about Lung Meng Café. Its name ...

It has been a long time since I last saw her. About 3 decades ago, to be exact. I was driving along Medical Store Road in Miri in the early 1980s when I saw a roadside stall selling rambutans. I pulled over and parked my car. Alighting from my car, I realised that the woman selling rambutans was the hawker ...

With about forty five minutes to spare before I had to pick up my son, I dropped by Taman Selera to have an ais kacang and to just relax. Sitting at the food bazaar, I had a great view of the sea and beach. The sky was overcast with dark clouds. I guess the dark clouds matched the sombre mood ...

It has been quite a long time since I last watched a Korean movie. Last night, I decided to watch the Korean blockbuster “Ode To My Father”, currently the second highest-grossing film in the history of Korean cinema. Ode to My Father (Hangul: 국제시장) is a 2014 South Korean generational epic capturing more than half a century of recent Korean ...

I drive past the Visitors’ Information Centre almost every day and it was only this morning that I noticed the tallest bougainvillea plants in Miri in the small park surrounding the centre. I parked my car at the parking area in Tamu Muhibbah and made my way across the road to the Visitors’ Information Centre. On closer look, I noticed ...

Miri has joined the upcycling bandwagon whereby something old is turned into something new with the recent launch of the 1629 Kontena Cafe. Tucked inside the compound of Persatuan Jatti Meirek along Jalan Jee Foh, the café uses an old container as an operational hub. Intrigued by reports in the local dailies as well as Facebook postings, I decided to ...

Older people are especially vulnerable to loneliness and social isolation for a variety of reasons such as no longer being the hub of their family, leaving the workplace, disability or illness, and the deaths of spouses and close friends. Whatever the cause, it’s easy to be left feeling alone and vulnerable, which can lead to depression and a serious decline ...

We were at my mother-in-law’s house yesterday afternoon for longevity noodles cooked with chicken, ginger, mushrooms and red wine (长寿鸡汤红酒面线). My mother cooks very yummy longevity noodles and she asked us to drop by yesterday as she wanted to treat us to her specialty dish. She knows my son Clarence and my daughter-in-law Amanda do not have the chance to ...

If you have been to the fourth floor of Bintang Megamall lately, you will have seen the beautiful 3D wall art on the walls near the GSC. Launched on August 7, the 3D Artwall showcase will run till September 30. Noticing that there were plenty of empty walls, the management decided to pimp the walls and turn them into spectacular ...