The Most Special Foods Thats Only In Sarawak :D

  Kuching Sarawak is one of the heavens for food in Malaysia. You’ll get all sort of variety of delicious local Malaysian dishes. I got really carried away and bloated myself with all sort of food. Below is a short list of some of the food that I tried and recommend that you do too. They can be commonly available anywhere in Kuching town, but some of the dishes are only best if consumed at the recommended outlets.

Special foods,

Laksa Sarawak! It is one of my favorite foods! :) Plus, this is in the month of Ramadhan, I'm sure all of you guys wanted to try it for Iftar. Unlike the Assam Laksa and Penang Laksa, the Sarawak Laksa has a taste of it’s own. Both sourish and spicy at the same time with a curry like zest to it give this dish a in my must try food in Sarawak. They are usually served in the morning as early as 6am so you’ll have to be early to get a good bowl. I tried the Sarawak Laksa at 2 spots, the tastier one was at Green Hill Corner Restaurant and the other was at the Sarawak Cultural Village. There are 3 main variations of laksa. Assam laksa, curry laksa and Sarawak Laksa. Assam laksa would be those laksa you can normally find in Penang or Ipoh. Curry laksa on the other hand is more commonly known as curry mee by Penangites, because they use yellow noodle/rice vermicelli instead of laksa noodle. In Singapore, they would be known as Katong Laksa. Also known as the ‘Great Borneo Breakfast’ Sarawak Laksa is most similar to curry mee in the main ingredient used: coconut milk. However it does not use curry powder but other spices for the taste. For Penangites, imagine a bowl of curry mee, with mee hoon only and lots of lime juice squeezed into the soup. That’s how Sarawak Laksa generally tastes. Yes, it’s a bit sour. A bowl of Sarawak Laksa would consist of rice vermicelli, taugeh, chicken strips, omelet strips, and big, fresh peeled prawns. It also comes with a lime, so you can squeeze as much lime juice as desired into the soup. I thoroughly enjoyed it, so it deserves a big thumbs up from me!

Mee Kolok

 Kolo Mee comes from the Hokkien Chinese culture and is quite a famous dish in Kuching Sarawak. You may want to try them at multiple stalls because they taste quite different. Basically Kolok Mee consist of Egg noodles that are flash-boiled, then classically served with crushed garlic and shallot and minced  beef. 

Terubok Masin is a salted 'terubok' fish (or American shad fish), a type of oily fish with lots of scales and Y-shaped bones. The fish can be either freshwater or seawater, local or imported, but local seawater 'terubok' fish costs more than other types.

Ikan Terubok Masin Sarawak is another Sarawak main food that mostly ordered and bought by visitors who came to Sarawak. This is salted fish which can be eaten with rice.

Sarawak's uncomparable favorite and identical unique souvenir craze is the Salted Terubok (American Shad) Fish. Visitors would generally come back from Sarawak carrying salted terubok (nicely wrapped up in a package for more long-lasting preservation) for their friends and family.

Terubok are fully of bones but tasteful nevertheless. The trick of the trade is to find out the biggest terubok fish because the bones are bigger and more at ease to cast out. Also available are the terubok eggs, and far more pricey. It might set you back more or less RM200 per kg or lower.