IKEA in Kota Kinabalu

Well, not quite, but close. Other than a shop in Karamunsing I found that does sell some IKEA furniture, there is now a shop called Living Concepts selling almost 100% IKEA products.

You know you got hypermarkets and supermarkets, well this is the supermarket version, they have a much smaller range of IKEA products. As an IKEA fan, I am very happy that someone has decided to bring in IKEA here. Previously whenever I was in KL i would use up 15kg of my baggage allowance just to ship IKEA stuff over here. The showroom is similar to IKEA's layout, of course to a smaller scale.

Hope they do well and expand the product range :)

Streamyx is down :( well.. sort off

Around mid day today streamyx started to go haywire.. I could connect but what do u know.. I cant do anything.. Surfing the internet has random success, getting the google page to show is such a luxury. emails can't be sent via streamyx but i'm able to send using my jaring account. Well.. What happened?

I decided to call customer service (even though I've had almost no service from them). The moment I called, there was an automated voice saying that there are service disruptions in Sandakan, Tawau from Sabah and some other states. KK should be ok, so I proceeded to speak to technical support. I spoke to a lady and as usual, they go through the script, please check your modem lights, please off and on the modem, please use adsl without filter, bla bla bla it went on like this for 10minutes. I guess by that time their script ran out. After wasting 10 minutes of my life( plus time on hold), they told me they would lodge a technical report. Well.. doesn't solve my problem, but hey, at least i can add to their statistics. Oh well, no internet for tonite..

A few hours later I got a call from a 2nd level technical support guy who explained to me why I am paying for internet that doesn't work. Seems they have problems with remote access to the servers in KL. I'm not sure how that affects the internet here, but at least they called. Unfortunately, they do not know how long this problem will take to fix, so I have to bear with it..

Since I trade US, I need the internet at night.. Well.. DiGi comes to the rescue.. RM6 I can surf all I want at err.. well.. some sort of speed. At least I can use MSN and blog now hehe.. Hope the net comes back

Lunch at Gunter's Gasthaus

Been hearing good things about this place. So finally decided to give this place a try. Took my mother there for a late mother's day lunch :p Had trouble finding the turn though, luckily there was a sign at the front of the junction. We parked in front of the kindergarten, didn't really know where the place was, could have parked closer. 


My first impressions? Looks like a home style restaurant, these are plentiful in Jakarta, although the interior is much nicer here. 

 

What's different bout this place? Well for one thing, you can eat up to three dishes and all you pay is for the most expensive meal you ordered and of course this only applies if your not sharing :p

We ordered the sausages and the boneless chicken (no 7 and 8 on the menu)

They also have an buffet salad bar. When we went, there was only 3 choices. a typical green salad, shredded carrots and a potato onion salad which i've never tried before. Overall its decent. Very home style of presentation. 

Salad Bar

I had a bite of the Masthuhn Hawaii, it was pretty good.  Accompanying it was a bowl of rice,  but i think it went better by itself. 

Masthun Hawaii (Boneless Chicken)

The sausages to me were the best as i'm a big fan of gourmet sausages (not those factory manufactured frozen stuff in Giant). The sausages went well with the mash potatos, onions and bacon. Fantastic combination. I wished there was more of the mash potato's though, it was just so soft and flavorful, sort of a melting feeling when it touches your tongue, absolutely lovely.  

Nurnberg Sausages

As sausages aren't the most tummy filling meals, I ordered a second dish called the chicken cordon bleu.  This unfortunately was quite disappointing, the chicken was dry and i expected cheese to be oozing out when i cut the chicken. Instead I got a some watery cheese. Maybe this is the way its supposed to be, but I've tried this before elsewhere and it was way different. 

Chicken Cordon Bleu

Overall, it was a very pleasant experience and the food is priced reasonably and if your able to eat more than one dish, i'd consider this place a cheap eat. The bad side is I'd probably won't order the Cordon Bleu anymore though, just not to my taste. The atmosphere is very family like and warm. I'd go there again in a flash.  

Looks like another blogger Elsa has written a review about Gunter's and she did mention about the cordon bleu and the cheese :p