KK holidays 8

Family holidays also means eating together, a lot!

Family prays together stays together; family eats together jells together! (who says? Me!)

Our second day in Sandakan basically spent on eating. One of Jonathan's colleagues had prepared a long list of " must eat & must see " for him.

So starting with our breakfast, we went to Jetty 7 at the water village to eat fish balls, "peidan gao"( century egg dumplings).










After breakfast, we went up to Pu Ji Temple which is situated at a hill top to have a panoramic view of Sandakan water front.


Later, we went over to St. Mary's Cathedral for a brief visit.

Agnes Keith's house is a piece of conservation masterpiece. She is the author of "The Land below the wind".

After all the morning activities, time for the famous Sandakan Bak Kut Teh - pork and fish.

Before & after - embarrassing scene

After lunch, we dropped by our friend Peter Lee's shop to say hello and have the best Madras tea/coffee in town...or among places I have visited. Later, we visited the cleanest market we have ever seen - the Sandakan market.

The cleanest market - hardly can see a fly even at the salted fish, ikan bilis stall

One of the "must" items listed is "the best coffee in Sandakan" at Equator Cafe. We took a break at this cosy cafe to have another round of latte and cappuchino.


We returned to hotel to wash up for the dinner appointment with some Sandakan friends - Jerome and wife Grace, Monica, Mary and Paul.

We had steamboat at the Trig Hill sea food restaurant at about 6:30 pm. It was on a hill top overlooking the Sandakan port.



In order to complete the "must" list, we went out again at about 10:00pm to a restaurant 918 to try out the Tan Gong Mee (spring mee). Jonathan loved it very much!

It is a long day and long list of ea....t......ing!

"spring mee" - a slightly harder (springy) mee, fried pork, dumplings, few pieces of yao Za kui