Salt N Pepper

Anyone of you ever heard of Top Hill Kitchen? First thing that comes to mind would be the restaurant is located on top of a hill... :P..  Well, the actual location of the restaurant is indeed nearby a hill. If you are a local, you would have known where is SRB Chung Hua No. 1. The shop is just at the corner lot of a block of shop located beside the foothill of SRB Chung Hua No. 1.

This is our first visit to the restaurant. We have been driving past it quite often but somehow never gone in to try but on this particular Saturday's afternoon, we paid a visit. When we reached, the shop is almost empty with only one table occupied by a couple. Not a good sign though.. :P However since we have reached and couldn't really think of another eating place if we were to switch location, we just went in.

We were served immediately and the waiter passed to us a Set Menu's menu. First thing we checked out was the pricing and the meals are priced reasonably. Secondly, we checked out what are on offer.


Salt ordered the Deep-fried Chicken Cube with Marmite Sauce and Rice. The plate used to serve the set menu is big but not the portion. It also comes with a piece of keropok (cracker) and fried egg.

Deep-fried Chicken Cube with Marmite Sauce and Rice

Pepper ordered the Deep-fried Prawns Meat with Salted Egg Sauce and Rice. Same serving style.

Deep-fried Prawns Meat with Salted Egg Sauce and Rice

Halfway eating, Salt felt like ordering another side dish and asked the waitress for the main menu, which is another menu that shows all the available dishes from appetizers to desserts. After browsing through, he ordered the small sized Oyster Omelette (beside small, there are medium and large size too). When the dish was served, we were surprised by the size as it didn't look small enough to what we thought and the price is only RM8. It is quite worth it.

Oyster Omelette

Drop by and have a try yourself at this restaurant.

Recently during one of our weekend lunches, we went to try out a new dining outlet which is located inside our most happening shopping mall in Kuching, the Spring. The dining outlet is opened not long ago, if not mistaken only a few months back.

It serves taiwanese cuisines so if you happened to be a fan of taiwanese foods, can consider giving it a try. The name of the shop? It is called Xian Ding Wei, which is the pinyin for the shop's name in chinese characters 鲜定味.

We glanced through the menu outside the waiting area before entering the restaurant to have a rough idea what is served and the pricing. But judging from the appearance and decoration of the restaurant, it seemed quite high class so the pricing one can guess that it is more or less reflected by that.


There are quite a large selection of dishes to order from but we decided to just give the set menu a try first as it is served with soup and appetizers. We too have trouble choosing which set menu to order as there are around 20 plus set menu to choose from. In the end, we ordered the menu with the recommended sign.

Side Dish of the Day

Salt ordered the Deep Fried Pork Chop Marinated with Wine's Grain. He was curious about the taste of wine's grain so give it a try. When the meal was served, both of us smelled something of strong odor, something smelly!!! Anyhow, the meal was served and Salt made his own decision to order this dish, there was no other choices but just to eat it. However upon eating the first piece into the mouth, it tasted not that bad. The smell was gone, directly opposite as when before it was in the mouth. This reminds me of stinky tofu (smelly beancurd), another popular delicacy found in places like Hong Kong which has this characteristic, smells bad but tastes nice.

Deep Fried Pork Chop Marinated with Wine's Grain

Meanwhile, Pepper ordered the Taiwanese Supreme Chicken in 3 variety of sauces (三杯鸡). It smelled nice and the meal was served in a claypot. This dish is one of the highly recommended and signature dish. As the name suggests, the dish is cooked using three (3) different kinds of sauces. To the exact details, we have no idea what are those sauces.

Taiwanese Supreme Chicken in 3 variety of sauces

This restaurant is not only available in Kuching but also available at Penang and KL. Do drop by if you happen to come across one around you. The place is not really only for heavy meals but you can try out their varieties of desserts and drinks as well.