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Out of boredom, I went to the Kuching Festival last weekend. Yes, it was the same old festival that happens annually in Kuching. Every year, it’s more or less the same thing. Some get sick of it and do not bother. I, on the other hand, was there to enjoy the crowd and the variety of food it had to offer, not so much because I love the fair.

As usual, the crowd that weekend was stupendously horrible, not to mention some couldn’t even walk properly and had to be blocking every single way there was for me to get through. Even when they wanted to take their leisure time peeking at what had to be offered by booths, the just had to freaking stop right in the middle of the walk way where everyone was walking. Ab-fuckin-solutely annoying, OK!

Anyway, as usual, people opened up stalls offering a variety of food ranging from Chinese, Korean and all the way to local delicacies. Yew Char Kuay, Sio Bi, Lok Lok, Seafood, fried chicken, KFC, friend ice cream, pretty girls and many more. You name it, we’ve got it.
Before any food, I just wanted to see what they had on display at the fair. As usual, cars were on display. Ford, Proton, Naza, Suzuki, Honda and Toyota were all there. Yes, contrary to popular belief, we do not travel on wild boars. We travel on cars way better than some of you might expect!!!

The next thing I noticed, which seems to be the trend nowadays, were credit card booths. This was rather disturbing to me as it felt like as if banks and credit card companies were shouting, “Come come, have a look at our cards. They are so good, they can lend you few thousands of cash when you need it the most. You can pay back later. If you can’t afford it, we’ll kick your ass all the way back to China.” They look more like legal loan sharks to me. More often than not, banks are there to help you when you don’t need it the most and no, you don’t get any help when you need it the most. Try approaching a credit card booth and tell them you do not have a source of income and tell them you wanna apply for a credit card. I bet you a hundred bucks they will tell you to FUCK OFF!!! right in your face. Thank you very much!

As for the rest of what was on display I’ll just let the pictures do the talking.

As I said, you name it, we’ve got it. Even alarm systems were on display.

Cars and that’s Ford’s booth by the way.

Pardon the picture quality. I was shaking when I was taking these pictures and I was using a K750i. <_<
Nonetheless, aircond, anyone? It was damn hot that night. Guess this stall must have had quite a number of visitors that night.

Anyone wants to get married? Photographing services are being offered as well! Beats me to it. What was a wedding photography booth actually doing at the fair? It just doesn’t blend, well at least to me.
After all of that, which was like less than half an hour, I proceeded to the food section. I heard of this particular stall selling friend chicken. Being curious about what was so great, I headed over to Uncle Bob Fried Chicken. Hmm, they didn’t sell chicken wings and neither did they sell drumsticks. They sold chicken boobs breast, which they claimed was as smooth as drumstick. Huh?!?! As smooth as drumstick? Since when was chicken meat smooth? This I have got to try. Perhaps they meant as tender as drumstick?

Turned out, it was just OK. I meant the taste and of course after tasting it, I agreed that it’s as smooth as drumstick. So next time, you guys can try Uncle Bob without skin, without chicken fat errr.. chicken boobs breast?

I also saw this Roti Tissue being served at the fair. In case you haven’t noticed, roti tissue is just a piece of roti (I don’t know what you call it) which is so thin that it looks like a piece of tissue paper, hence the name Roti Tissue. Now, it could just be me, but if compared to the ones being served in KL, our Kuching version of the Roti Tissue is pathetically puny!!!

Last but not least, who could miss the Sio Bi stall? That’s the infamous Kuching Sio Bi. For those who do not know, Kuching Sio Bi is one of a kind. No, it doesn’t taste anything like those Sio Bi or Siew Mai (in cantonese) that you have for Dim Sum. I don’t know how to describe it. You have just got to taste for yourself.

Oh, in case you haven’t notice, the one in front, that’s my brother. Ya ya, he doesn’t look anything like me. I have heard that a gazillion times, so enough of that already.

To sum things up, it was the usual fair held annually to liven up the lovely city of Kuching. Nothing new to me but like I said, I went there for the crowd and also for the food. Meantime, stay tune and take care. Cheers.:)