The Swan city

One of the most favourite pic. taken during the whole trip

I found a specialty in each city of Sarawak – each of them is symbolised, whether it is an animal or food. We have cat for Kuching, swan for Sibu, pineapple for Sarikei, Seahorse for Miri….
Swan and Sibu? You may ask why both are related...of course, it comes with a stories, perhaps a legend….in old days, swan taught people in Sibu learned how to make sago from the sago trees during starvation…That’s why in Chinese sago is named as ‘Suo Er’, 硕莪, ‘Er’ means swan…
Sibu, indeed, it is a different from other cities…Fu Zhou culture makes it distinguished from them…You will found that the food, language, culture are totally different…
‘Ang Zho Bak’ is famous dishes among Fu Zhou folks…Besides, Midin (paku-pakis), ‘Ang Mo Loi’ (shells) and ‘Ding bian Hu’ are specially found in Sibu…Most of the mentioned food are served by Chung Eng’s family…Thanks for that!!Unforgetable…
If you never try ‘Gong Bia’, you are never been to Sibu…RM1 for 5 of it, cheap and nice!! Those with meat and other contents such as kaya taste better!!
Actually, there is not many places to visit in Sibu except ‘Tua Pek Gong’ temple, ‘Jiang Bing’ garden…But you can buy many things (local products), namely pepper (quite cheap compared to Kuching), tebaloi (Sago biscuits), Bario rice, dried kolo mee, sago (instant snack)… Sure, I get a lot of pepper from there, Emm..almost 5kg for about RM100…1kg kolo mee and some tebaloi…Damn heavy!!

This is only seen in Sibu Bazaar...Cute!

Don’t expect to buy souvenir here as they are much more expensive than Kuching and most of them are imported from Kuching…Regrets!I don’t buy enough from Kuching as thinking will get cheaper one in Sibu...
With 6-7kg of my stuffs, I continued journey to Miri with ‘lou-yah’ (old) bus…8 hours, it took my time, energy, mood away...Lousy roads with no lights…Doing nothing on bus besides chatting…