One Religion, Many Cultures - Borneo Talk
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Food<strong>Talk</strong><br />
Sarawak Laksa<br />
Visitors to Sarawak are always taken<br />
on a laksa tour of Kuching city’s<br />
favourite stalls when it comes to food<br />
sampling. For food connoisseurs, the<br />
laksa is something that has to be tried<br />
to know why it is the local favourite<br />
and one that is fast becoming an<br />
international icon for the state.<br />
<strong>One</strong> of Asia’s television and gourmet<br />
celebrity, Singaporean Moses Lim got<br />
on the laksa trail while on the first<br />
leg of his “food escapade tour” to<br />
Kuching and subsequently gave the<br />
thumbs up to the unique spicy blend<br />
of beehoon (rice flour noodle), spices<br />
and sprinkling of shredded chicken,<br />
eggs, prawns and bean sprouts<br />
concoction. Even after tasting a<br />
number of laksa outlets, Moses was<br />
still undecided on his own favourite<br />
one, choosing instead to give two<br />
thumbs up to the lot!<br />
gaining international<br />
popularity<br />
“It all depends on individuals<br />
whether they like their serving spicy<br />
and with thick and creamy gravy or<br />
otherwise,” said Moses, who readily<br />
admitted that Sarawak had wide<br />
variety of local delicacies that could<br />
be promoted as a tourist attraction<br />
among food lovers worldwide. Apart<br />
from Moses, the production crew<br />
and his wife also remained just as<br />
undecided when it came to making<br />
their choices on their favourites<br />
and this wonderful agreement on<br />
disagreement would be part of their<br />
selling point when they will be leading<br />
a group of tourists here on the Sarawak<br />
Laksa Escapade tour.<br />
The recently launched laksa tour<br />
is part of Sarawak Tourism Board’s<br />
(STB) new packages to bring in<br />
tourists to the state. These trips can<br />
be just a quick short tour of the<br />
city’s favourite food outlets or an<br />
extended tour of the diverse range<br />
of food unique to the state in all the<br />
different towns in Sarawak. While<br />
here, Moses and his crew also tried<br />
the kolo mee, beef noodle, midin<br />
fried with belacan, chicken pansoh,<br />
umai, prawn noodle, belacan beehoon,<br />
oyster omelette, seafood like ambal<br />
(bamboo clam), prawn, fish and crab<br />
and even linut (sago flour mixed with<br />
boiling water).<br />
As every visitor to the state will<br />
testify, food is a unique thing here<br />
as the multi-ethnic and multi-culture<br />
people each produce their own<br />
specialty that has to be tasted to<br />
know! Other well renowned chefs<br />
too have been to Sarawak to sample<br />
these diverse food and came away<br />
pleasantly surprised and enriched<br />
as they also add to their repertoire<br />
of cooking skills and taste from this<br />
Land of the Hornbills!<br />
For further information, please call Sarawak Tourism Board (STB) at (6) 082 423600, fax at (6) 082 416700 or e-mail to stb@sarawaktourism.com<br />
38 | <strong>Borneo</strong><strong>Talk</strong>Jul-Sept2009
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