Kota Kinabalu, The Land Below the Wind

in Worldmappin4 years ago

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Finally, my long awaited vacation from the mundane mentally tormenting work-life.

Here I am! At Sabah, East Malaysia. The flight took a good 2 hours and 35 minutes or so from Kuala Lumpur. Sadly, we were greeted with gloominess due to the rainy weather.

Feeling hungry from the flight and rainy weather, for some reason. Hence, we went in search of food immediately after checking in. Walking under the drizzling rain, would have been somewhat a romantic scene if it weren't for our growling tummies. Then, we saw a quaint corner shop lot filled with people - Ang's Restaurant. People queing for a table and servers were rushing from table to table and to the kitchen.

Looked it up and realised this is one of the recommended places for a decent homecooked meal with a reasonable price. While waiting to be seated, we observed the foods served at every table and noted a pattern/repetitiveness (while salivating....hahaha). As there was only the two of us, we had to carefully select our orders (there are many people going without food and we try not to waste food). Alas, due to the chilly rainy weather, we selected a winter melon soup with pork ribs which was warming to the stomach, light but healthy (doesn't taste like there is much MSG in it and we did not experience dry mouth after which tends to happen to me personally, after consuming meals with relatively too much MSG).

Winter Melon Soup with Pork Ribs (Non-Halal)
Winter Melon Soup with Pork Ribs (Non-Halal)

For mains, we ordered seafood in curry soup. The seafood i.e. prawn, fish, calamari was indeed fresh, meaty and succulent. The curry soup had an interesting originality to its taste. It is not your typical thick creamy coconut milk based red curry but a slightly watery red curry with a tinge of sourness to it, which could also be passed off as a thick creamy Tom Yum soup but not in its entirety. Well, it might be a hybrid of both curry and tom yum or not, nonetheless, it sat well with my tummy and i loved the fact that it had plenty of vegetables in the curry soup.

Seafood Curry
Seafood Curry 

Here, i also discovered a new type of drink - homemade seaweed drink with no preservatives and apparently helps with heatiness and detox. It tasted like an overly sweetened lemongrass drink with hardened jelly bits. This costs Ringgit Malaysia 3.80.

Seaweed Drink
Seaweed Drink

Overall, it was good and reasonably priced. Service was as fast as possible (at least it seemed so) and the place is clean.

Tummies filled, feet worked out and calling it a night ^^


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how is the seaweed juice taste like? Never try one before. :D

Hi @nbbmag :) It tasted like an overly sweetened lemongrass drink with hardened jelly bits (nata de coco). All in all, I would say sugary 😂

Nice food 

Yes! @noemilunastorta It was and definitely worth trying after covid subsides or becomes manageable 🤗

from Sri KL?

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Blogging 😊... Exploring still 😁 btw, I noticed 3speaks on your blog... Is it like youtube?

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