Food Place at Jubilee Recreation Ground, Kuching for belacan beehoon & awesome desserts!

This small unassuming circular food court is just known as Jubilee Ground & its located near the school ground of SRK Chung Hwa No.3 School/DBKS office. Though small, it is a very popular place and is always packed; be it a rainy day or a hot day or weekdays or anyday!

As you can see from the picture below, even the Malays dine here, although the stalls are all operated by the chinese. Could it be that the Malays here are more open-minded??

The school right beside it.

We were here specifically for the desserts, and the BELACAN beehoon.

Yup, these plates of pungent, murky beehoon are elusive in the Peninsular and there is no way Im leaving Sarawak without trying it!

Everything about the belacan (fermented shrimp paste) beehoon lies in the stock/soup. Seriously, as you can see below; the dish is very very plainly just beehoon, boiled cuttlefish, belaca! n stock & a shot of chilli paste.

Yup, thats it. My plate of Belacan Beehoon RM2.50.

Taste-wise? Well, think of belacan diluted into soup form. Flavours is a complex amalgamation of slightly sweet, sour, fishy and all in all, it is very difficult to pinpoint the exact taste. But I can assure you, it takes some getting used to!

Kuching totally tops the rest of the states for their innovative desserts. The popular ones are White Lady, Matterhon, Lady Gaga (yes, you read right, funky isnt it??) and the tall glass you on the right below is given the moniker Shui Kuo Ping, or otherwise known as Fruit Ice. It consisted of nata de coco, fruits, lychees, papayas, etc. I just wish we have these concoctions back in our food courts & coffee shops in KL. Though sweet, it is still such a refreshing & healthy drink no?

The red beans used here in Kuching totally beats the ones we are accustomed to in KL. These red beans are of a better variety & the beans retains its shape though it is fully cooked inside. Soft and smooth, it was really pleasant to eat.

Another thing that I realized, desserts in Kuching tends to have more ingredients per bowl. A simple bowl of desserts has chockful of jellies, beans, nuts, fruits and anything else you can imagine! Value for money since each bowl ranges from RM2 RM3.50 only.

The same stall was churning plates after plates of fruit rojak hence we ordered a large one (RM6.00) out of curiosity. It was ok but just so -so for me as the dressing was really mild. It is almost similar to the Penang version, but lacking in he kor (shrimp paste) and chilli.

The desserts stall: Yeo Ah Leng.

The belacan beehoon stall: Ah Kheng.

And again, we were very thankful that we had Pierre & Norman the Sarawakian social media avengelists as our hosts during our Kuching adventure .We had such fun on our foo! d hunts. Stay tuned for more posts coming up!

Food Place at Jubilee Ground, Kuching.
GPS: N01 54.993 E110 36.067