Dining With Jewelle

Because I am not a seafood fan, I am not impressed when folks kept saying how good the seafood are in Sabah. In fact, I will draw a little blank when asked where the best seafood eateries are in Sabah.

However, since my circle of family and friends are mostly seafood fans, I have had the pleasure of knowing about obscure-out-of-the-way-known-mostly-to-locals seafood eatery such as the Gayang Restaurant.

This place, which is along the route to 5 stars hotels such as the Nexus Karambunai and Shangri-La Rasa Ria is a good 20 mins drive from downtown Kota Kinabalu.


It's located on a huge plot of land as they also rear their own fish and prawns. The whole restaurant is built on stilts on water and when we first arrived there in the afternoon, it was low tide and crabs were swarming the riverbed. I was told that you'd get lovely sunset here too.

Even though it's way out of town, it's popular with local diners. This is also one of the eatery which serves tourists and when we were there, 3-4 busloads of tourists also came for lunch.

On that day, we had the usual seafood fare of clams, fish, prawns, vegetable and one of my very few seafood favorite : soft-shelled crabs.


The meal was fine but the crab was sure expensive. That plate cost us RM45.

*During my Christmas 2007 trip home to Sabah*

One of my favorite destination for shopping in KK is the City Mall which is along the Kolombong-Penampang highway, which means that it's out of downtown KK.

But don't think that makes it jam-free. I was told that during certain times of the day, it is better to go through the city rather than use this highway! However this area is usually alright on mid day and being less than 5km from my house, of course I had to visit it for some shopping expeditions...

So a few clothing items later, we hit one of the eatery here.

My sister didn't recommend the City Mall Food Court and judging from the smell that was coming out of the place as we walked by, I think they have slight ventilation issues and you know what that means to your clothes.

Instead we went to another one of those chain-restaurant called the Olde Station KopiTiam, located on the ground floor.


When it comes to eating outside without the kids, it means only one thing : Spicy Food!

And once I spotted the word "curry mee" of course, I couldn't pay attention to whatever else they have in their menu! So curry mee was what I had while sis Caneeliea had the "nasi lemak" - which she said was super spicy.


When we were there the place was busy but we I waited until everyone left I took these pictures.

One funny thing I noticed about this place was that they adopted the customer greeting style you'd usually get at Japanese restaurants and it was a boisterous "Hello!" and "Bye!" by all the staffs to any incoming and leaving customers.

Do you know that a company can sue another company and get some advance money even before the lawsuit is settled?