Begawan III: Smoke and Surprises
Learning from yesterday's experience, we got up a little later. Breakfast was more decent with fried rice and egg toast. We went directly to the server room to start installing our application. Was inexperienced with Windows Server 2008, so we hit several snags along the way. Luckily things started looking up by lunch. Had fried mee hoon at the nearby foodcourt. It was just beside a restaurant selling live lobsters for B$7.80 per 100gms. Saw some really giant lobsters! I think they were staring at me. And so funny to see them label cockles as seaham. LOL. I made a conclusion about Brunei food. Salt, sugar and MSG is used liberally. And their MSG is of premium quality. Spend a year there and you'll lose all your hair. After lunch, we chilled out at Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf. Ordered my Today's Brew as usual. I showered myself with raw sugar after flapping a faulty packet. Sienz! I think I found sugar in my underwear. :P. Worked and worked till 7:00pm. Stopped for some kuih-muih during tea time. The client served some chunks of BLUE bricks. I did not touch those. Like eating sabun busa. :S.
On the way home, the driver stopped us at Pasar Pagoh, a night market of sorts. But it was so quiet (and devoid of the Chinese. We looked quite out of place there, macam alien). Hardly compares to Malaysia. Perhaps people stay away beause it's such a smoky affair! Plenty of hawkers selling barbequed fish and chicken. Horrible. They do not know how to control the flames. I was so tempted to drive a fire engine over and hose them all off. Wasn't interested in the food. Just bought some pulut udang for later. Upon reaching the apartment, we had our dinner at the nearby Restoran Golden Leaf. Ordered prawn noodles. Out of stock. Ordered laksa. Out of stock. Celaka. Ended up with pork ribs mee kolok. Fantastic! The noodles were fragrant with pork oil no doubt and the ribs were wonderfully done. Managed to catch the opening ceremony of the World Cup. A giant dung beetle pushing a soccer ball? Fuiyoh. Supper was the pulut udang washed down with Oishi green tea. The pulut udang was below expectations. I felt like I had been munching on ciggie buds. Ugh. Watched a bit of the World Cup match between RSA and Mexico. No excitement there. Online then tidur lo...
On the way home, the driver stopped us at Pasar Pagoh, a night market of sorts. But it was so quiet (and devoid of the Chinese. We looked quite out of place there, macam alien). Hardly compares to Malaysia. Perhaps people stay away beause it's such a smoky affair! Plenty of hawkers selling barbequed fish and chicken. Horrible. They do not know how to control the flames. I was so tempted to drive a fire engine over and hose them all off. Wasn't interested in the food. Just bought some pulut udang for later. Upon reaching the apartment, we had our dinner at the nearby Restoran Golden Leaf. Ordered prawn noodles. Out of stock. Ordered laksa. Out of stock. Celaka. Ended up with pork ribs mee kolok. Fantastic! The noodles were fragrant with pork oil no doubt and the ribs were wonderfully done. Managed to catch the opening ceremony of the World Cup. A giant dung beetle pushing a soccer ball? Fuiyoh. Supper was the pulut udang washed down with Oishi green tea. The pulut udang was below expectations. I felt like I had been munching on ciggie buds. Ugh. Watched a bit of the World Cup match between RSA and Mexico. No excitement there. Online then tidur lo...
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It is quite good! Even my Sarawakian colleague came back for seconds.
@Pikey:
Not say low quality la. But fry one plate of rice or noodles is also B$4.00 to B$5.00. Mahal lo.
@Nicky:
Makan, makan, makan ada la.
@JJ:
Hahaha.
@-alex-:
Wakaka. There's only one decent hotel near BSB, The Empire.
@Savante:
You never come fetch me!