SABAH KAAMATAN HARVEST FESTIVAL 2017 - THE FOOD FAIR.

The celebration of harvest Festival this year comes early at the KDCA with the the large participation of hawkers ever. The feast has been on for over a week and will continue till 31MAY from 4:30pm to almost midnight. 

The big gong at the KDCA.

 

It's interesting when you move along the 50 over stalls and see the food and beverages available. 

BBQ lamb corner.

A varieties of pork dishes.  

BBQ Pork sausages and pork belly

Fried pork belly.

Best of the best - Roasted pork belly

Fried pork, "kampung" style.

  This young man preparing "the black pepper pork".

 

 The popular burger stall.

 

 

 

My favourite - the traditional fried and stewed wild boar meat.

The head parts of the pigs.

Sweet and sour pork.


Pork satay and BBQ bush meat.

 

 

A couple of seafood stalls

 

The "Halal" stalls selling BBQ chicken and fish.

I enjoyed the feast of the local food. I believed any one who comes over to KDCA will have a good time. It's very crowded after 6:30pm as many locals are there for their dinner. All visitors to Sabah are welcomed to celebrate with us especially on the 30 AND 31May at KDCA where cultural performance, traditional exhibitions, games, beauty contest(Grand Finale) are held.       

 

MOTHER'S DAY DINNER

On mother's day, I gave my wife a dinner treat at a Japanese restaurant in a 5 star hotel in the city. It was a real disappointment as the quality of Japanese food has seriously deteriorated since our last visit almost a year ago. 

Both the starters of baby octopus and the maki sushi rolls were disappointing as the octopus were  tough while the sushi maki were more to the local taste.   

 

The main dishes of "tempura" and "unagi" sets were another disappointment. The broken pieces of "unagi" fillet in thick black sauce was not what I expected. The tempura set was greasy and tasteless. The rice was not properly prepared and the salad was not appetizing in look and taste.

KOTA KINABALU - TAWAU VIA KENINGAU.

We drove all the way from Kota Kinabalu to Tawau via Keningau and Kalabakan for the first time 3 weeks ago.  Last year, we drove to Tawau via Lahad Datu which was a different route.

The total distance is 448 kms and it took us about 7 hours or so on non-stop driving. Thanks for the google map.

After a 53 kms drive from Kota kinabalu, we crossed the 58 kms Crocker Range road to Keningau.  It's a pleasant drive through the mountain road.

 Keningau in sight.

From Keningau, it's another 257 kms to Kalabakan passing through Sook, Nabawan and Sapulut. The driving was smooth for the first 180 kms as there was not much traffic with good roads as shown in the pictures. 

Approaching Sook.

Wow! The first logging truck we encountered.

Logging truck.

The joyride was over after passing Sapulut. Many parts of the roads were damaged with very heavy traffic of logging trucks.

 

 

A one lance crossing.

 

 

 

Too close for comfort.

 An Express bus from Tawau on the way to Kota Kinabalu.

 

 

The only small car we met.

This part of the road was OK.

 A rest area.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The worst part.

 

 

 The Kalabakan "round about" - the final 90 kms to Tawau.

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 Good road with plenty of green - Oil palm plantations all the way to Tawau.

It was a real comfortable drive with this Toyota Camry Hybrid.