Hot & Roll @ Wisma Sanyan

Spotted another franchise business in Sibu. Last week, I blogged about iglool snow ice @ Delta Mall. This week I'm surprised to see a newly added franchise stall at 2nd level of Wisma Sanyan, Sibu. It's called Hot & Roll.

Hot & Roll is a food outlet which specialized in baked wrap foods. There are 3 types of wrapper to choose from - crispy wrap, paratha wrap and chapatti wrap. For crispy and paratha wraps, there are 2 range of flavors for option, savoury flavor or sweet flavor.

For savoury flavors, you can choose the following fillings:

• Chicken & Cheese
• Chicken Floss
• BBQ Chicken
• Satay Chicken
• Pizza Beef
• Black Pepper Beef
• Bolognese Beef
• Double Cheese Onion
• Tuna Salad

For sweet flavors, the variants are:

• Apple Cinnamon
• Banana Chocolate
• Crunchy Peanut 

For the above fillings, you can choose your favorable wrapper either crispy or paratha. For your information, paratha is actually what Malaysian called it as Roti Canai! Yeah... I just knew it as well... sorry for my innocent. The price is ranging from RM 3.90 to RM 6.90.

[Preparing crispy wrap with its fillings]

Chapatti wrap so far has only 2 choices of savoury fillings, Chicken Sausage and Chicken Rendang. They priced at RM 4.90.

I bought 2 flavors for testing. Chapatti Chicken Rendang and Paratha Tuna Salad for RM 4.90 each. In my personal opinion, both taste good but not too much of surprise. I believe I'll be more joyful if the fillings could be more in term of its quantity.

[Chapatti Chicken Rendang]

[Paratha Tuna Salad]

Sometimes you just have to believe that the pictures are strictly for reference only! ;)

Anyway, for those who haven't taste the foods, they are worth a try! For more information about Hot & Roll, you can visit: http://www.hotandroll.com/main.html

Iglool Snow Ice @ Delta Mall Sibu

Iglool Delta Mall is a newly established franchising snow ice dessert stall in Sibu. I was not aware of its existence until I visited the shopping complex this afternoon. I have not been there for quite some time.

The stall was located at 1st floor of Delta Mall shopping complex, just beside the escalator towards the floor. I was stunned by the crowd surrounding and queuing in front of the stall at the time I was window shopping there at around 1.30pm. 

The fresher concept of this franchise is that customers can place their order through a self-service touch screen kiosk standing in front of the stall. Operation of the kiosk is rather simple and user friendly. Just follow some simple on-screen instruction to place an order.

Kiosk users are first asked to choose their preferable language throughout the ordering process.

Upon choosing the language, menu of various snow ice flavors will be presented to kiosk users in tab form. Among the flavors available are chocolate, milk, green tea, strawberry and also mango.

For each flavor, there are different topping for customers to choose from.

After confirming the order, a resit will be printed out as a prove of ordering and payment. After the payment was made at the counter, you will be served very shortly and not much of waiting needed.

I had tried 4 flavors with family members. 1st - green tea snow ice with chocolate sauce. The ice have very strong green tea flavor and less sweet. It is nice to eat with the sweet chocolate topping it!

2nd - milk with champagne snow ice. Milky taste with the special sauce and cherry topping the ice!

3rd... mango flavor with passion fruit sauce. For mango lovers, this would be your choice! Very nice and strong mango flavor!

... last but not least, Season Strawberry Snow Ice. I am not sure what's the sauce topping it, but it is not bad to eat. However, the colorful sweets are a bit too hard to chew. Am I too old for that!!??

Each of these snow ice costs RM 4.80 per bowl, but the price might be vary depend on type of flavor and topping ranging from RM4.80 to around RM6.00.

The snow ice tasted "dry" and powdery, totally different from what we used to feel while enjoying traditional cendol or ABC. The well shaved ice not easy melt inside the polyethylene bowl, but the smooth and fluffy texture of snow ice melted instantly when contact with your mouth! That's a quite special experience for me!

I found out some interesting "knowledge" on one of the board at a corner of the stall titled "How to Enjoy Our Exotic Snow Ice". Lets ponder about it:

"To maintain its unique fluffy and smooth of the Snow Ice, the best way to enjoy the snow ice is by not stirring or mixing it.

It is advisable to scoop a little snow ice with a bit of its topping and put it to your mouth to feel the wonderful sensation of the delicious snow ice melting in your mouth thus feeling it exotic flavor spreading around your tongue. Hmm... it is the most indulgent treats you'll find anywhere."

So next time if you happen to try out the snow ice @ Iglool Medan Mall, don't forget to try enjoying this cold beverage using the above method and see if you are able to get the sensational and exotic feeling as described above!

For more information about this franchise, you can visit http://www.iglool.com.

Busy Sibu Wharf Before Hari Gawai

Sibu wharf is always the busiest place few days before Hari Gawai when Iban friends were going back to their hometown/long houses to celebrate the biggest festival in their culture.

Wish all Iban friends Happy Gawai Festival, Gayu Guru Gerai Nyamai!

Hii Tiong Huat Strikes Again On Street!

The most controversial local social activist, Hii Tiong Huat was seen this morning in town, near Sibu Gateway. He sat on top of his old Toyota car, which was modified to be his stage/platform to give political speeches and publicize himself during the recent Sarawak state election. For those who may not know, Hii was the independent candidate for N45 Bukit Assek constituency during the election. He lost the battle by getting only 180 votes which also caused him to lose his deposit. 

Today as usual he parked his car at the pedestrian street in front of Ling's Garden, stood a billboard created by himself beside the car, he sitting on top of his car, then waving at cars passing by to attract attention. He was protesting on something. Written on the billboard:

"Soon Koh, Thai King, Ho Leng

Pekerja : 16/5, 8AM

Bermula Dari Sini, Perlu

Meninjau Tajuk Yang Berkaitan

Dengan Kehidupan

Bos : Hii Tiong Huat Mengajak"

Emmm... I am wondering if Hii learned from Putrajaya government by using Google Translate to produce the message on his billboard as the entire sentence are not properly structured, grammatically wrong and very Google Translate feel! From my interpretation, Hii actually wanted to ask the 3 politicians he mentioned, who are Bukit Assek ADUN Wong Ho Leng, Bawang Assan ADUN Wong Soon Koh and Lanang MP Tiong Thai King to start doing their works by solving issues relating to daily life of Sibu people.

Why 16/5 8AM then? I believe Hii means these politicians never do their duty as the elected representative of Sibu, so he wants them to start it by the coming Monday which is on 16/5.

A police was seen interrogate with him, but I guess he did nothing against the law and didn't block the traffic, so the police can do nothing on him. It's believe that Hii struck again on the street to attract attention as he is preparing to be an independent candidate again in the coming parliamentary election which is predicted to be held in a near future!

Scary Accident Scene @ Standard Chartered Bank Sibu.

Spotted an accident scene this morning. It was located at Standard Chartered Bank, Jalan Ramin Sibu.

According to 2 security guards of the bank, the accident occurred at around 4am this morning. A motorcyclist believed to be working as a deejay at some pub/karaoke was the victim of the accident.

It is believed that the motorcyclist somehow run onto the pedestrian street, hit a alloy pillar and he flew off the motorbike and his head hit into the thick glass of the bank building.

From the blood stain, it's believed that the motorcyclist still able to stand up and walk around after hitting the glass before collapsed in front of it!

The scene is pretty scary with bloods everywhere and pieces of broken helmet covered with blood on the floor! Unofficial information saying that the victim already passed away. It is unsure that if the motorcyclist was riding in drunk condition or there are other causes of the accident. Anyway, to know about the details of this incident, please read the newspapers tomorrow!

Related news:
1. http://www.seehua.com/node/17504

A Short Trip to Tanjung Manis

10th April 2011, a sunny morning. It was still in the campaign period of Sarawak 10th State Election. Sparkish had suggested to take a drive to Tanjung Manis on that day. 4 participants - Sparkish as driver, CoolFace King as co-driver, Rojak Toh and me as followers.

Tanjung Manis is a new integrated port which will become the primary import and export gateway for central region of Sarawak. Before this the newly developed township can only reachable via water transport through the mighty Rajang River. One can take boat express from Sarikei to Tanjung Manis which would spend you about an hour's time. However recently the road connecting Sibu - Tanjung Manis is almost complete. The 87km route which includes passing through as many as 8 bridges will only need around one hour if travel by car.

We took our breakfast at Fong Hing Seafood House across Igan River before officially started our journey to Tanjung Manis. This is what I ordered, the claypot noodles which was very big in portion and it is RM4.50.

After the breakfast, we began our journey. As I mentioned earlier, this journey needed us to pass through 8 bridges, big and small! After about 20 minutes of drive, we reached the first bridge, which is also the most major bridge among them called the Lebaan Bridge.

Just in case you don't know, the 1.24km Lebaan Bridge is country's longest bridge across a river! "Unbelievable? Believe it!" This bridge actually had caused some controversy upon its completion as it disallowed ships 20 meters and above to pass through. Want to know more about this issue? Click here for my older post about it.

We stopped a while at the highest spot of the Lebaan Bridge to see the scenery around it. As at that time it was still in the campaigning period of Sarawak State election, we discovered that BN was doing some activities at a long house nearby.

We then continue our journey. We passed through bridges after bridges, I can only name few, Sg. Lengan, Loba Satubah, Sg. Loba Pulau and Batang Belawai. When we reached each bridge, we stopped the car at the roadside and took some photos.

Some of the bridges were still under construction, so road users are advised to use the facilities on their own risks.

After rounds and rounds of stop and drive, we finally reached Tanjung Manis new township. We stopped our car just beside Tanjung Manis wharf. The wharf itself is nice! As it was near to the sea, you can see the water is light green in color.

The wharf was roofed so for those who are waiting for boat, they have a good shelter from expose under the hot sun.

Of course it was also a good choice for fishing enthusiasts where they no need to worry about the burning heat directly hit their skin as they can get protection from the roof.

There were nothing much to explore here except enjoying the breeze from the sea. The day was burning hot, the lunch time was here and we were all hungry. Thus, time to eat!!

Not much choice of foods around really. Only one stall was on business near the wharf area. We took a sit and it took ages for the eatery worker to entertain us. About the foods, we all went for mixed rice. It was all self-service including taking the rice! Yes! Take the rice yourself! Then, scoop the dishes you like and pay the money!

The standard price for the mixed rice was RM5.50! Expensive? YES!!! Especially when it was not delicious!! The curry chicken taste ok, but the livers were as hard as rubber and the mixed vege was like never cooked!!

There was a souvenir shop beside the eatery, but for me, nothing worth to buy.

 
There were actually few shoplots near the new township, but because of Sunday, most of the shop were closed so we didn't explore it further.

There was it! The 1/2 day Tanjung Manis trip! After the lunch and fooling around, we then headed back to Sibu. Nothing much on the visiting itself, just went to look at the place that we never being there before but overall, I enjoy the trip a lot as I spent quality time updating with friends and sharing some life experience together! Thanks Sparkish for the free ride again!!