Thiam Hock Restaurant

After hiking, my friend and I went to meet up with a couch-surfer from the States working in South Korea and decided to have lunch at one of Brunei's most famous Chinese restaurants: Thiam Hock Restaurant

This be the signboard of the restaurant. It's in Gadong area behind The Mall right next to Restoran Anee Puri Sdn Bhd, and yes, our food seemed to mostly originate in Gadong now, doesn't it? It has a reputation of serving the best curry fish head in all of Brunei, despite being a regular Chinese restaurant, and those who come here to have big dinners tend to order curry fish head most of the time





This be the interior of the restaurant. They have both downstairs and upstairs dining, but the upstairs is only allowed for group dining of 10 people and above, so we had to settle for dining downstairs instead. It has a very nice Chinese restaurant feel to it, almost high-classed, but not so high-classed that it might scare the budget people away. Though I have NO idea what that seashells on our table are for. Definitely not eating, but not exactly decorative either

This be the menu of Thiam Hock. Standard issue size, at least not like the one in WyWy. LOL!


This is what my friend ordered: Pai Gu Wang with rice. It's pork chops with (probably) barbecue sauce and tomato and cucumbers for condiment along with rice. It looks delicious,and my friend said it to be delicious as well. Wonder how it really taste like. I never tried it though

This is what our couch-surfer ordered: Curry fish head noodle. After hearing all of us praising how it is famous with its curry fish head, he decided to give it a shot and tried their signature dish, and he was glad to have followed our recommendation coz he thoroughly enjoyed. Made me wish I'd ordered it

This is what I ordered: Sweet and Sour Fish Head Noodle Soup. I've always been intrigued by tastes such as these and I definitely gave this a shot to see how this version taste like. It's rather tasty, to say the least. Not too sour, not bland, quite flavorful and the fish was so good to gnaw on. Mmm~!

Attempt to capture steam: FAIL!

So if you have a craving for fish head, or you'd like to go to one of the best Chinese restaurants in the Gadong area, be sure to aim here.

Ideal Cafe & Grill

My friend and I went to watch "Date Night" afternoon show, so before that, we went to grab a bite for lunch at Ideal Cafe & Grill

This be the signboard of Ideal. Ideal is a local fast food branch that had a lot scattered around Brunei, but since we were to watch a movie at The Mall, which is in Gadong area, we went to the Gadong branch, and it's just right across the street


This be the interior of the restaurant. Looks just like any standard fast food interiors, just the fact that it was bloody narrow and all.


This is what I ordered: Ideal Plate. It's basically spaghetti with sauce and grated cheese, a piece of chicken, some french fries and a drink of your choice (I chose lemon tea ping). Served in a rather small portion, but it's all good. I like the french fries though. Very crispy


And this is what my friend ordered. Basically the same as mine, minus the chicken

I would recommend to go if you're interested in local chicken made into ala American fast food style, or if you're not a big eater or just not really too hungry and want something just right

La Mee Restaurant

We were in a spot for noodles, so we decided to go to one of the best noodle restaurants in town: La Mee Restaurant.

This be the signboard of the restaurant. It's located in Serusop and is labelled as one of the few Chinese restaurants that Malay people can actually go in to eat because the chef is a Muslim-convert from Taiwan, if I'm not mistaken. There's another branch in Gadong area, but the noodles are not as good as the main branch here, that's why we prefer eating here.




This be the interior of the restaurant. They have a see-through window where you can see the chef do their magic pulling and kneading the dough to make the noodles for us. So even though it's a long wait, it's worth it because you would know that the food is fresh. In fact, anything that can be made from the dough of the noodles were all done here as well

This be our drinks: Teh-C Ping Special. It's basically milk tea with three layers: the tea, the milk and the sugar, in which they usually use gula Melaka, which is uber sweet, almost as sweet as rock sugar. They serve it in the three layer mode and you have to stir it to mix all the layers together, or else you're gonna get a really weird flavour

This is what I ordered: Tom Yam La Mee. It's not as spicy as I've hoped, but it's got the great sourness a tom yam usually have, and the texture and taste of the noodles is just sublime and tangy to the mouth

This is what my friend ordered: La Mee with Fish Fillet and Coleslaw. Basically it's their signature La Mee with fish fillet and coleslaw as the side dish. The skin itself is nice and crispy, just the way we like it


Close up pics of my friend's food. I wanted to capture the steam actually, but it was too thin and fine to be caught on regular camera

So, for the best noodles in the whole of Brunei, be sure to drop by here. You won't regret it, trust me. After eating this sort of noodles you will want no other, seriously.

Millennium Fast Food and Restaurant

More entries for you guys~! Today's first post will be on Millenium Fast Food and Restaurant, since my friend had a very big craving for burger and claims this place to have the best burger in Brunei, compared to McDonald's. LOL

This be the front door of the restaurant. It's actually split to two sections, the fast food section and the restaurant section (obviously). The fast food sells burgers and set meals that you'd mostly see in fast food restaurants, while the restaurant section mostly deals with high-classed eating like ala carte and buffett





This be the interior of the place. As you can see, it's just like any other fast food restaurant, it's just that it also has a fine dining restaurant at the side and it's both under one same company. I have actually tried eating the fine dining when I was a tour guide and taking my tourist or accompanying them to have lunch before the next tour. For $9.80 you can actually have pretty good buffett deals there, though it'll probably be one of those first-come-first-serve and you have to grab fast.


This be the burger we ordered, which is the Mighty Temburong. Well, as you can see it is rather "mighty", especially the size of it. And it is so much more filling with more stuff in it than the usual burgers we always eat in McDonald's. Although they could be a little bit more generous with the fries...

So, got a craving for burger but feel that the ones you usually eat is not filling enough? Come here and eat your heart out

Piano Lounge

After eating at Champagne Restaurant, we were craving for a bit of ice-cream dessert, so we went to Centrepoint Hotel in Gadong and went up to the Piano Lounge to get us some high-classed ice-cream.

This be the view from the Piano Lounge itself. I've had my stay before in this hotel, and I can tell you one thing: the air-conditioning in here is brutal!! It's like as if they don't even need to pay for electricity bills or something. They really have this crazy centralized air-conditioning in abandon and can probably freeze you to death or something!! Gah!

This is the piano itself. It's actually a mechanized piano in which they have a gadget under the piano that programs the piano to play whatever song that was put inside the machine and let the keys do the work, without having to pay a professional pianist to play the piano for your enjoyment. Although when we were there, it was playing the same song over and over again. An oldies called "Without You", I think (not the Mariah Carrey or Air Supply version, mind you)



I bet this is what they use when they play horror movies that focuses on pianos. LOL

Here's the ice-cream parlour. All the stuff there is actually courtesy of Royal Brunei Catering, so you can say we really had a bit of high-classed dessert-dining there

While we chose the ice-cream, I took pictures of some of the cakes and pastries they have on display for sale. They look utterly yummy~!












This be all the cakes and pastries they have. I'm too lazy to type everything, so just click the pic to see what they are

These are the ice-cream that we got: Mine is chocolate and my friend's is vanilla. Looks very yummy and creamy indeed, and the wafer cone itself was very sweet-smelling and crunchy, and the smell will linger on your hand even after eating and cleaning

Eating ice-cream in a hotel accompanied with music. What could be better?

So go ahead to Centrepoint Hotel and go upstairs to the Piano Lounge to have ice-cream in style