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Thursday, December 19, 2013
Satay Mee @ Sri Aman
(Quoted from: http://ccwen08.blogspot.com/2011/01/satay-mee-sri-aman.html)
Years ago I introduced to you about Cha Kway, one of the very few local delicacy you can find in the town of Sri Aman. Recently I found another one which I believe worth to mention about. The food itself is quite common actually, but what make this food in a way special and unique is the gravy serving with it. The local Chinese called it "Satay Mee", i.e. noodles in satay sauce.
So, basically it is fried yellow noodles in Foochow style (stir fried noodles topping with gravy), but they made some modification to the gravy by adding peanuts into the cooking. This method gave the food with very nice peanuts aroma just like the taste of satay sauce (if you know how satay sauce taste like). That's where the name of the food came from.
You can opted the yellow noodles with Kway Teow, depends on individual preference, but for me they tasted equally nice! Sorry I didn't really note down the exact shops to eat these, but the noodles in the photo was taken at one of the stall at top floor of market building and the Kway Teow was at another coffee shop opposite the riverside. I shall be more detail next time!
Anyway, it is definitely a food that worth a try when you are in the small town of Sri Aman. So far I only found such cooking variation in this town, but feel free to argue if you have try it at another part of the state. One plate of the food is about RM3.50 - RM4.00, not that cheap actually if the living standard is taken into consideration.
So, basically it is fried yellow noodles in Foochow style (stir fried noodles topping with gravy), but they made some modification to the gravy by adding peanuts into the cooking. This method gave the food with very nice peanuts aroma just like the taste of satay sauce (if you know how satay sauce taste like). That's where the name of the food came from.
You can opted the yellow noodles with Kway Teow, depends on individual preference, but for me they tasted equally nice! Sorry I didn't really note down the exact shops to eat these, but the noodles in the photo was taken at one of the stall at top floor of market building and the Kway Teow was at another coffee shop opposite the riverside. I shall be more detail next time!
Anyway, it is definitely a food that worth a try when you are in the small town of Sri Aman. So far I only found such cooking variation in this town, but feel free to argue if you have try it at another part of the state. One plate of the food is about RM3.50 - RM4.00, not that cheap actually if the living standard is taken into consideration.
Sri Aman Cha Kueh
(Quoted from: http://ccwen08.blogspot.com/2009/03/sri-aman-cha-kueh.html)
There are not much of specialty foods from Sri Aman that I could introduce to you. Anyway, this one is particularly my favorite! The Sri Aman Cha Kueh or foochow called itCha Kui. It is fried rice cake with eggs and chai po (savoury).
[The famous Cha Kueh stall in Sri Aman]
This Cha Kueh stall in Sri Aman had operated more than a decade already I guess. Since I was small and visited the town, my lovely uncles or aunties or grandfather would tapao this food for us. Even until now, I still never get bored of it. Thus, whenever I visit Sri Aman, I would never forget to taste the food!
[The cook was frying the rice cakes in pan]
Honestly, this Cha Kueh is the most delicious Cha Kueh I ever ate! No offence, ok? This is my personal point of view. I had tried few Cha Kueh stalls in Kuching, but I never like those Cha Kueh as they were mostly not tasty enough. The way they cook were not thorough hence the aroma couldn't penetrate the rice cakes when they fried it.
[Frying the yummy Cha Kueh]
But for this Sri Aman Cha Kueh, the cook fried the rice cakes more thoroughly. Therefore when the final food is served to the customers, the taste was really delicious! The aroma spread equally to each and every piece of the rice cakes, that's why it is so yummy!
[Eggs are one of the main ingredient to fry Cha Kueh]
[Those Cha Kueh were ready to be served to the customers]
You can have 2 flavours of Cha Kueh to choose from. One is the salty Cha Kueh. The rice cakes were deep fried with oil before they were fried again on a pan with eggs and chai po. The taste? Yummy!!
[Salty Cha Kueh]
[A plate of salty Cha Kueh costs RM2.50]
[The sauce]
The 2nd type - sweet Cha Kueh. The ingredients are almost the same with the salty one, but the sweet Cha Kueh is fried with sweet soya sauce and the rice cakes were not deep fried before they were cooked on pan.
[This is how a plate of sweet Cha Kueh looks like]
If you ask me which one is more delicious, I would say it depends on individual preference. Some said the salty one better but some prefer sweet one. As for me, I like both. The better way to eat is to mix both salty and the sweet one. That will make the Cha Kueh even yummy!!
[Closer look of the sweet Cha Kueh]
The price? Normal serving is RM2.50 per plate. But if you wish to order bigger portion, you can go for RM3.50, RM4.00 and RM5.00.
[The famous Cha Kueh stall in Sri Aman]
[The cook was frying the rice cakes in pan]Honestly, this Cha Kueh is the most delicious Cha Kueh I ever ate! No offence, ok? This is my personal point of view. I had tried few Cha Kueh stalls in Kuching, but I never like those Cha Kueh as they were mostly not tasty enough. The way they cook were not thorough hence the aroma couldn't penetrate the rice cakes when they fried it.
[Frying the yummy Cha Kueh]But for this Sri Aman Cha Kueh, the cook fried the rice cakes more thoroughly. Therefore when the final food is served to the customers, the taste was really delicious! The aroma spread equally to each and every piece of the rice cakes, that's why it is so yummy!
[Eggs are one of the main ingredient to fry Cha Kueh]
[Those Cha Kueh were ready to be served to the customers]
[Salty Cha Kueh]
[A plate of salty Cha Kueh costs RM2.50]
[The sauce]
[This is how a plate of sweet Cha Kueh looks like]
[Closer look of the sweet Cha Kueh]The price? Normal serving is RM2.50 per plate. But if you wish to order bigger portion, you can go for RM3.50, RM4.00 and RM5.00.
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Call to organise support for Fort Alice heritage museum
Tuesday June 4, 2013
KUCHING: Residents in Sri Aman division are encouraged to form a volunteer group known as Friends of Fort Alice (FoFA) to support the Sarawak Museum Department to set up and operate a heritage museum to be housed in Fort Alice after its conservation has been completed.
Consultant for conservation project, Mike Boon, said as the Sri Aman people helped to build Fort Alice nearly 150 years ago under the Rajah Brooke, it was only right and proper for them to help set up the heritage museum.
“Concerned stakeholders including Sarawak Heritage Society (SHS) and Simanggang Soon Heng Society (the first Chinese association in Sri Aman) could help provide some guidance. We will retreat to the background after FoFA has been properly set up,” he told The Star when contacted yesterday.
Boon hoped that the three main ethnic groups in Sri Aman — Iban, Malay and Chinese — who played a big part in developing the division would pool their resources and run the show in the future.
“FoFA will run on volunteerism and will be a platform for the locals to be involved in taking care of the fort and museum,” he said.
The idea to form FoFA was mooted during a recent a community-based cultural heritage conservation programme called “Reminiscing Forgotten Treasure ... Simanggang”.
To date a few persons had shown some interest in the idea, he said.
The community programme was held by SHS as its second series following the first one implemented in Siniawan near here called “Reminiscing Forgotten Treasure ... Siniawan”.
This programme was funded by SHS with the Malaysian Institute of Architects Sarawak Chapter as the co-organiser. The corporate partner was NS Bluescope Lysaght (Sarawak) Sdn Bhd.
Simanggang Soon Heng Society, the local partner, played an important role in the implementation of the programme and logistic coordination.
Sarawak Museum Department and The Talents and Arts Performing Group also supported the community programme.
Boon said the programme consisting of talks, workshop and site visit was held to raise public awareness of future conservation of Fort Alice and to turn it into a heritage museum.
During the programme, he said, participants including secondary school students visited Fort Alice and witnessed a “miring” ceremony to mark the beginning of the conservation project.
He said it was pivotal to include the community in the overall conservation because they were also the custodians of Fort Alice, and not just government agencies.
“We hope that in the coming months the project implementor, the Public Works Department and contractor, will allow us to bring programme participants to the site to see for themselves the work progress and how conservation is done.
“We hope to create an interest in them particularly the students so that they can tell the story of their experience in the future, otherwise it will be a missed opportunity,” he said.
Bengkel Jejak Makanan di Taman Panorama Benak 13-14 Ogos
Oleh : NewsDesk
Tarikh Disiarkan : 11-Aug-2013
SRI AMAN, Sabtu – Kesatuan Warisan Sarawak (SHC) akan mengadakan bengkel bertempat di Taman Panorama Benak, Sri Aman bermula dari 13 hingga 14 Ogos ini nanti. Siaran media memberitahu bengkel-bengkel tersebut adalah Jejak Makanan Dan Kesenian, Sesi Penerangan Awam (Mandarin / Inggeris) serta Jejak Makanan Dan Demonstrasi Kerja Pertukangan di tapak pembinaan Museum Warisan Sri Aman.
Jejak Makanan Dan Kesenian akan bermula pada dari jam 2 petang hingga 4.30 petang pada 13 Ogos di Taman Panorama Benak dengan Sesi Penerangan Awam akan menyusul dari jam 7 malam hingga 9.30 malam. Para peserta bengkel akan mempersembahkan hasil Jejak Makanan masing - masing selain diberi peluang untuk meluahkan erti Kubu Alice (Museum Warisan Sri Aman) menerusi sesi bengkel interaktif bersama Karen Shepherd dan Mike Boon dari SHC. “Kemudian, para peserta menerusi Sesi Penerangan Awam akan dibawa berdialog dalam Bahasa Mandarin tentang Kubu Alice oleh Chue Cheen Choon dari Kesatuan Budaya Cina Sarawak pada malam itu,” katanya.
Pada 14 Ogos, kesemua para peserta akan dibawa ke tapak pembinaan Museum Warisan Sri Aman bagi menyaksikan demonstrasi tentang penggabungan semula perabot lama yang ditemui ketika proses pembinaan semula tapak itu oleh Pakar Pertukangan, Ting Nik Sing dan pasukannya. “Demonstrasi ini akan diadakan dari jam 8.30 pagi hingga 12.30 tengahari. Justeru diharap bengkel seperti itu dapat menambah ilmu mengenai sejarah warisan di Sri Aman kepada para peserta selepas ini,”katanya. Terdahulu kesemua bengkel berkenaan adalah merupakan rentetan daripada program Reminiscing Forgotten Treasure ‘ Simanggang’ yang dilancarkan di Sri Aman pada bulan Mei lepas.
Ia dimulai dengan bengkel awam pada 23 Mei dengan para pesertanya menyaksikan proses Miring sebelum kerja pembinaan Kubu Alie kepada Muzeum Warisan Sri Aman dimulakan selepas itu. Program itu mendapat sokongan daripada Simanggang Soon Heng Society, Malaysian Institute of Architects Sarawak Chapter (PAMSC), NS Bluescope Lysaght (Sarawak) (Lysaght), Jabatan Muzium Sarawak dan Kumpulan Persembahan Bakat Dan Seni WuJiaoJi.
Jejak Makanan Dan Kesenian akan bermula pada dari jam 2 petang hingga 4.30 petang pada 13 Ogos di Taman Panorama Benak dengan Sesi Penerangan Awam akan menyusul dari jam 7 malam hingga 9.30 malam. Para peserta bengkel akan mempersembahkan hasil Jejak Makanan masing - masing selain diberi peluang untuk meluahkan erti Kubu Alice (Museum Warisan Sri Aman) menerusi sesi bengkel interaktif bersama Karen Shepherd dan Mike Boon dari SHC. “Kemudian, para peserta menerusi Sesi Penerangan Awam akan dibawa berdialog dalam Bahasa Mandarin tentang Kubu Alice oleh Chue Cheen Choon dari Kesatuan Budaya Cina Sarawak pada malam itu,” katanya.
Pada 14 Ogos, kesemua para peserta akan dibawa ke tapak pembinaan Museum Warisan Sri Aman bagi menyaksikan demonstrasi tentang penggabungan semula perabot lama yang ditemui ketika proses pembinaan semula tapak itu oleh Pakar Pertukangan, Ting Nik Sing dan pasukannya. “Demonstrasi ini akan diadakan dari jam 8.30 pagi hingga 12.30 tengahari. Justeru diharap bengkel seperti itu dapat menambah ilmu mengenai sejarah warisan di Sri Aman kepada para peserta selepas ini,”katanya. Terdahulu kesemua bengkel berkenaan adalah merupakan rentetan daripada program Reminiscing Forgotten Treasure ‘ Simanggang’ yang dilancarkan di Sri Aman pada bulan Mei lepas.
Ia dimulai dengan bengkel awam pada 23 Mei dengan para pesertanya menyaksikan proses Miring sebelum kerja pembinaan Kubu Alie kepada Muzeum Warisan Sri Aman dimulakan selepas itu. Program itu mendapat sokongan daripada Simanggang Soon Heng Society, Malaysian Institute of Architects Sarawak Chapter (PAMSC), NS Bluescope Lysaght (Sarawak) (Lysaght), Jabatan Muzium Sarawak dan Kumpulan Persembahan Bakat Dan Seni WuJiaoJi.
Dipetik daripada:
http://www.utusansarawakonline.com/news/4834/Bengkel-Jejak-Makanan-di-Taman-Panorama-Benak-13-14-Ogos/
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