Lutong Cafe

I've long heard that Lutong Cafe serves the best porridge in Miri and people travel all the way here just to have the porridge. Well actually this coffeeshop (just across from Kelab Rekreasi Petroliam) is just 10 minutes drive from home! But they finish fast and we were never up early for it. So I've only tried their fried rice and fried noodles for lunch. But last Friday we woke up early to go Brunei so we decided to have breakfast at Lutong Cafe. Augustine ordered kolo mee (possibly the cheapest place to eat kolo mee for RM2!).

I ordered one bowl of porridge to share with Augustine's mom. Long after finishing our drinks also the porridge hasn't arrived. I think we waited more than half an hour! Sigh, the reason is coz the porridge is not cooked using normal gas stove but using charcoal fire. Using charcoal they can't control the fire and heat I guess. Everyone else who ordered this porridge was waiting very patiently as well. The porridge costs RM3 and u can choose to add an egg, like how u add an egg to your claypot yee mee when it's ready! Yummy! Using charcoal fire really makes a difference to the taste! We're not sure what type of rice they use to cook the porridge though. A lot of people told us about the "highland rice" here which makes very good porridge, we plan to buy some soon ;-)

Below is a picture I took of the porridge ;-)

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Kelab Rekreasi Petroliam

Augustine joined Kelab Rekreasi Petroliam (formerly known as Kelab Shell Lutong) recently and I was pretty impressed with the sports facilities they have here, although it's highly unlikely I will be using them all. Sofar I've only gone to the gym, it's called "Why Gym", not sure why! And the badminton courts (air-conditioned!). And we sometimes read newspapers in the lounge. The pool looks good and I can't wait to try it next (waiting for Augustine to get a new pair of goggles). They've also got a playground for the kids, restaurant, karaoke lounge and snooker etc, meeting rooms and fields and courts for beach volleyball, netball, basketball, football, futsal, tennis, squash, hockey, etc. They also organise aerobics, dancing, cooking, yoga, karate, chess for kids etc. And there are events held here from time to time as well, for example we came here for Augustine's company Raya open house last Sunday for makan-makan ;-)

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