Monday morning. I woke up feeling as stiff as an arthritic centenarian, aching from top to the tiniest muscle of every toe, and SO grateful that our next trip to Nyegol had been postponed to tomorrow. There had been a moment of weakness last night when I had begun to consider the repercussions of cancelling the second leg of the expeditions and just idling the rest of the week in Kuching, or possibly even booking an early flight home... Thankfully, that bout of cantankerousness was nothing that a day in the city couldn't fix, and it passed quickly enough.
Part One of the adventure had ended: our new friends left for home early this morning. We haven't said very much about them here to preserve their privacy, but these people are a really cool bunch, and I do hope to come across each of them again sometime in the near future. I can't remember the last time I met a group of friends so passionate and quirky and even (I tend to be skeptical about throwing this word around, but it's definitely appropriate here) inspiring.
If any of you are reading this: Thanks for being such awesome company, and for making the trip so much more fun and memorable than it might otherwise have been!
So, Monday morning. Chris and I woke up late, made ourselves a stack of kaya and butter toast, then took a leisurely stroll down the Kuching waterfront. We had mediocre nasi lemak and kuey teow for lunch at a shopping mall (nothing beats real hawker food), did some shopping and got caught in the rain.
Around dinnertime, we paid a visit to the well-known TopSpot Seafood Restaurant, highly recommended by many travel websites and even the receptionists at Lodge 121, where we were now staying. It had every indication of being 'touristy', i.e. exactly the kind of restaurant we tend to be rather wary about, but we decided to try it anyway since we had been in tourist mode all day.
TopSpot is basically a rooftop carpark with about six or seven huge seafood stalls lined up along the sides, each of which is like a restaurant in itself. Every stall sells fresh seafood by weight, cooks it however you want, and also serves rice and a variety of accompanying dishes. A firm favourite here is the stall called ABC Seafood, but to first timers like us, every stall can seem nearly indistinguishable from the next! The only pointer one could possibly rely on is the queue at the front of each stall.
This isn't a food review, because it's difficult to order lots and lots of different things when it's just the two of us eating, but this is what we had...
...and they made for a very satisfying meal indeed.
By the end of the day, another trip up to Ulu Bengoh didn't seem like such a bad idea after all. ;)
If any of you are reading this: Thanks for being such awesome company, and for making the trip so much more fun and memorable than it might otherwise have been!
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| My favourite picture of the group (if only because of Silicon's hilarious face) :D |
Around dinnertime, we paid a visit to the well-known TopSpot Seafood Restaurant, highly recommended by many travel websites and even the receptionists at Lodge 121, where we were now staying. It had every indication of being 'touristy', i.e. exactly the kind of restaurant we tend to be rather wary about, but we decided to try it anyway since we had been in tourist mode all day.
TopSpot is basically a rooftop carpark with about six or seven huge seafood stalls lined up along the sides, each of which is like a restaurant in itself. Every stall sells fresh seafood by weight, cooks it however you want, and also serves rice and a variety of accompanying dishes. A firm favourite here is the stall called ABC Seafood, but to first timers like us, every stall can seem nearly indistinguishable from the next! The only pointer one could possibly rely on is the queue at the front of each stall.
This isn't a food review, because it's difficult to order lots and lots of different things when it's just the two of us eating, but this is what we had...
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| sweet and sour garoupa |
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| stir-fried paku |
By the end of the day, another trip up to Ulu Bengoh didn't seem like such a bad idea after all. ;)
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