QQ Roasted Duck Specialist

Went to Miri last weekend and all the eateries we went to were familiar ones, until finally at dinner time, we're going to some place new, which they rave have the best duck in the house: QQ Roasted Duck Specialist (at least that's what they call it)

Location: Just across the street from Gloria Hotel downtown just after a right junction from Parkson (I think)

Setting: Typical Chinese kopitiam style kind of setting
Atmosphere: 6.5/10 (pretty good, though it's pretty much past dinner time prolly, so not much patronage)
Design: 6.5/10 (also pretty old-school design for a typical Chinese kopitiam)

Below are some of the food we have ordered:

Oily meat rolls

Broiled ferns

Bah kuh teh soup

Claypot rice

Bitter gourd with egg

Roasted duck and char sau sau rou

The food tastes pretty good actually. Nice and filling and all-round flavourful. Overall, I'd give it a 7/10 for it. To be honest, I wouldn't say this is the best duck I've ever eaten, but they did a pretty good job nonetheless. So I would recommend this place to have your meals

Buon Gusto Ristorante

We went to celebrate my little niece's birthday, and thought we'd go for Italian. And thus we decided to try this new Italian restaurant called Buon Gusto Ristorante

Location: Down at the old Gadong area closely near the Menglait district, just opposite SuperSave mall (it seems that the area has turned into a food district now)

Setting: A bistro-ish setting with a few decors with an Italian feel to it
Atmosphere: 7.5/10 (good music and goo ambience, though prolly coz it's new, patronage is still a little lacking)
Design: 7/10 (design is nice, plain and simple and not overly decorated, with complimenting pictures and the best part would be the ceiling lights)

Trigger-happy on the menu

Appetizers: Bread sticks with dip
Presentation: 6.5/10 (a little extravagant serving on a huge tray, but kudos on the effort)
Taste: 6/10 (pretty good, as a usual bread stick would taste, and the dip complimented it well)

Drinks: Cappucino (dad in law), fruit juice (bro in law and the kids), Chocotinni mocktail (my hubby and my maid), chocolate milkshake (mine and mom in law) and pineapple/apple mix mocktail (sis in law, forgot the name of the drink)
Presentation: 8/10 for all (brilliant presentation, makes it so appetizing and you just want to sink your mouth into it and slurp the shit outta it)
Taste: 8/10 (my drink) and 7.5/10 (my hubby's) respectively (both taste pretty good, though when they said chocotinni I was expecting a martini taste to the chocolate drink, but it's just basically chocolate with a slight tangy taste)

Food: Pumpkin soup (mom in law), Hawaiian pizza (the kids) beef steak (my maid), beef sirloin (mine), chicken steak (mom in law), pasta (sis in law), spaghetti bolognese (bro in law), lamb shank (my hubby) and tuna steak (dad in law)

Presentation: 8.5/10 for all (each and every one of them looks amazingly delicious. If it weren't for my still recovering morning sickness, I would love to try a bite of everything)
Taste: 8/10 (my hubby and my mom in law) and 8.5/10 (for mine) (I would've given it a 9 for my sirloin steak if it weren't for the blooper they made; I requested well done, but they gave me a medium-rare instead, and it was quite bloody. Gotta admit, quite juicy though)

Dessert: Molten chocolate pudding (mine and dad in law)
Presentation: 9/10 (very appetizing and had the explosive chocolate smell that you can just basically taste it in your mouth already)
Taste: 9/10 (the moment you press into the chocolatey crust on top, the chocolate lava inside just explodes, with the warm rich thick creamy taste to be eaten together with the cold sweet ice cream, it was just a taste to die for)

This is a restaurant with a lot of potential to make it big, and their food are just amazingly delicious. Highly recommendable and should not be missed out. Might make a reprisal soon

Big Mama's Restaurant

Trying to combat my morning sickness again that day by going out with my buddy to have our usual lunch date, at the same time retrieving a package sent over by my dad. So we set our eyes on a place that serves something that might be light on my stomach, which is Big Mama's Restaurant

Location: In Kiulap area, just right between the pet shop and the flower shop, and also opposite the block where Escapade (Kiulap branch) is

Setting: Typical old-school Chinese kopitiam-style
Atmosphere: 4.5/10 (a little lack of patronage, even though it's already lunch hour time, though sadly it used to be very popular with hustle-bustle of customers)
Design: 5.5/10 (nothing too special and nothing too different than the last time I've been here, which was forever ago)

Drinks: Coke (my buddy) and chrysanthemum tea (mine)
Presentation: 5/10 and 4.5/10 respectively (my drink looks surprisingly bland)
Taste: 5/10 (for my tea, coz this is really those old-school, without any indoctrinating and without sugar, just plain pure tea with chrysanthemum in it)

Food: Fish porridge (mine, had no choice since I couldn't stomach anything solid) and fried boxing (?) chicken (my buddy)
Presentation: 6.5/10 for both
Taste: 7.5/10 (my porridge was surprisingly delicious. I've always had an aversion for rice porridge since I've been shoved down the throat with it since I was a kid due to my ill-prone body, but this was actually quite delicious, with the right taste. Though I wish they didn't make it so watery; where I come from, porridge should be gooey like oatmeal)

It's a recommendable place, and real dire need to be revived, because the first time I went there, the food was great (still is) and patronage was amazing and service was top notch. So if you fancy Chinese food, give this place a shot. They need it