Kuching & Sibu Trips 2015 in Random

Because of attending my friend’s wedding, I had opportunity travel to Kuching and Sibu in December.

Picture credited to HK

Fly with Malaysia Airlines (MAS)

In this trip, I was using MAS flight flied from Kota Kinabalu to Kuching to Sibu to Labuan. All the ticket price was considering cheaper except the return ticket which cost me around RM 300++ per way. When I backed, it has transit in Miri for a while and the flight delayed half an hour.

2^nd – 4^th December (Kuching)

This was not my first time to Kuching because my last visit was in year 2013. When I was arrived Kuching, my friend who fetched me told me that another University friend (Winnie) also came to Kuching so we took my Uni friend to search for cat statues in town.

When bought for Kek Lapis, I had spotted a street art which near with waterfront there.

In airport, when I saw the wall art, I thought it for message place. When I saw clearly, it is a toilet. Hehe..

At the back of the toilet door has a paper which show different message. The second toilet which I went into, the message as below:-

Picture credit to Google Image

4^th – 6^th December (Sibu)

When in airport, I had seen free copy of “Borneo Talk” so I grab a copy to read it. Inside of this magazine is about the current happenings and events in Sarawak. You can get it at any other collection point in Sarawak.

On 5^th December which was my friend’s wedding day. Early of the morning, we (jimui or bridesmaids) need to prepare ourselves and wait for groom and hengdai or groomsmen come to play the wedding door game.  After that we went to church. Last we went to groom’s house for tea ceremony.

At the same night, after wedding banquet, my friends in Sibu had brought us to sing Karaoke until the shop closed which around 1:00 a.m. After that we backed to hotel. At the next morning, they bring us to hunt for food and see around.

Tua Pek Kong Temple

Tua Pek Kong Temple is an icon of the town with its 7-storey pagoda. It is also known as Sibu Eng Ann Teng Tua Pek Kong Temple.

Beside the temple have some ferry which can bring you to Kapit and some places in Sarawak.

Corridor Chuang

Near with Corridor Chuang has Lembaga Pelabuhan Rajang or Port Authority. My friend told me that must take picture with this Authority because the design of the building likes a ship.

Wisma Sanyan

Wisma Sanyan is the tallest building in the state of Sarawak, Malaysia. Opened in 2001, the building serves many purposes, amongst them shopping mall, restaurant, hotel and offices. It is the headquarters of Sanyan Group which is one of Sarawak’s largest timber companies.

Wisma Sanyan is near with Swan statue so when go there, don’t forget to take picture with Swan statue. One of jimui had told me that they plan to see the whole view of Sibu at the top of Wisma Sanyan but due to the maintenance of lift, they did not have chance to see the view. 

Sibu Heritage Centre

Sibu Heritage Centre housed in the former Sibu Municipal Council building, displays the rich cultural heritage of the various ethnic groups of the Central Region.

I did not go into Sibu Heritage Centre to take a look but I just quickly took a picture with the “word”. My friend told me that inside of it can buy some souvenir.

Jade Dragon Temple

The Yu Lung San Tien En Si a.k.a Jade Dragon Temple at the Sibu-Bintulu Road is believed to be the largest temple complex not only in Malaysia but believed to be in South East Asia as well. It is a religious place for Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism and is known for bringing all 3 different forms of practice under one roof.

Before went to airport, my friends had bring me to Jade Dragon Temple, the biggest temple in Malaysia. Not many people go here, I think maybe it is so far away from town.

The temple is so big and the times I went there, I can saw that some construction are going so I think if next time I come again, this temple definitely will have some new building.

I like the stage very much because the wall paintings are so beautiful. This reminds me of the Peking Opera which saw from TV.

When searched for information about Sibu, I found out some interesting places which can be going if I have chance to go Sibu again. 

Lau King Howe Memorial Museum (1^st and the only medical museum in Malaysia)

Bawang Assan Longhouses

Sibu Night Market

Wordless Wednesday: Qing Dynasty

'Wordless Wednesday: Postcard' is recording all the postcards that I had bought from time to time for exchange purpose.

Through the postcard, can see that the clothing for people in Qing Dynasty is so beautiful. Hope in future has an opportunity to try for their cloths. Haha..

Sibu Swan Statues & Street Art

I just curious that why Sibu is called as “Swan City” so I searched online and found out some information from Wikipedia which as below:-

Between 1999 to 2004, Sibu Municipal Council decided to adopt the swan as a symbol of Sibu to inspire the people to work towards the goal of becoming a city in the future. Sibu is also nicknamed as “Swan City”. This came from a legend where famine in Sibu ended when a flock of swans flew through the skies of Sibu.

There is another story where the Sibu Chinese immigrants regarded Sibu Melanau people as “Go” people because a staple food of Melanau staple food was “Sago”. Coincidentally, “Go” pronunciation is similar to Hokkien pronunciation of “Swan”. 

When come to Sibu, my friends had taken me to see and take picture of swan statues.

These two swans are near with Wisma Sanya. 

The times I went to take picture of this swan, the wind blow and dazzling rain so I just faster took picture of it.

From all the swan statues, this swan statue is my favorite because beside of swan statue has 12 zodiac animals but because of rain was starting fall so I did not have time to take picture each of the zodiac animals.

Street Art

When came out from arrival hall, I can saw the wall art of Sibu with its landmark building.

The first street art which my friend bring me was food murals. The artwork included kompia (foochow unleavened bread cooked over hot burning charcoal), dian bian ngu (a thick soup made of cooked rice paste served with squib, meatballs, black mushroom and golden needles), kampua (foochow dry noodles), pulut panggang (sticky rice), kuih jala (Melanau and Iban net cake) and penyeram ( a Malay sweet cake).

At there was quite difficult to take picture with street art because many motorcycles park at there. All the food is Sibu famous food which you should try of.

In Sibu Central Market, it has another street art at 1^st floor which is “Childhood” (in food court). This is also a little bit difficult to take picture with because beside the wall art is table and chair for dining. If you want take picture with this painting, I think either early go there or wait when there are no one eat at there.

Besides that, it has mural of ayam bungkus (chicken tied and wrapped up with newspaper and nylon string).

Before this, I knew that Sibu is famous with ayam bungkus because the way of its pack the chicken is so special. When I saw the ayam bungkus, suddenly I feel sympathy with them because they are lost their freedom whose cannot walk freely. I just curious they wrap until the day they being buy by customer or every end of the day, they will be release and wrap again at the next day if they are not buy by anyone?

If I not mistake, this street art is at the back of “Wang Xi Lou”, a Chinese restaurant. This mural is so cute.

To know the location of the street art, you can refer post of Just Sharing.