Today Jo arrived from New Zealand after a nightstop in Singapore. With an afternoon arrival, it made sense to pick her up at the airport and continue to the Siniawan Night Market not too far away. It was an interesting introduction to Borneo for her. Old buildings there are a rarity as the wooden structures tend to burn uncontrollably in a fire.
While it isn’t great food, it has a good mix of street food in a fast-disappearing atmosphere.
Siniawan is a small town on the outskirts of Kuching that sits on the banks of a branch of the Sarawak River. A small ferry runs across the river carrying pedestrians and motorcycles.
Pre-dinner walk with family and friends before the stalls set up.
The old inn at Siniawan.
Siniawan night market starting up in the evening.
Mashed cangkuk manis (vegetable) stir-fried with eggs, mashed cangkuk manis fried with vermicelli, ngo-hiang (meat rolled in soya-milk protein skin, deep-fried).
Fried yongtaufu (stuffed tofu deep-fried, more usually cooked in soup), chai kueh (vegetable dumplings in a rice-flour skin), “carrot cake” (cake made from white carrots, fried with pickles, soya sauce and eggs), rojak (cucumber, jicama, pineapple salad witih some tofu dressed in condensed prawn sauce garnished with peanuts)
BBQ sting-ray topped with good sambal packed with dried shrimps. Lovely creamy flesh of the fish with pungent spicy sambal.
Dessert of ABC (air batu campur). Beans, jellies with shaved ice and syrup.
The atmosphere at the Siniawan Night Market takes on a different feel when the sun sets and the lanterns come on.
The atmosphere at the Siniawan Night Market takes on a different feel when the sun sets and the lanterns come on.
With family and friends at the Siniawan Night Market.