My Favourite Time of the Year

Greetings, today marks the start of the Holy month of Ramadan. It's my favourite time of the year... It is not because more than 1 billion people around the world will be starving... , I am not that evil yet! LOL. I love this time of the year because this is the month of FOOD!

All around Brunei, there are stalls being set up for this special month. You can literally smell food in the air! I'm wondering how can those fasting people stand this, it must be a torment. Better yet, there will be tonnes of food promotion this time of the year.

The best things about Ramadan are:

1) There are 50% discount from RMS group... they own my favourite Italian restaurant Fratini's (also available in the Miri branch). They also own a classy American diner and authentic Indian cuisine.

2) Nyonya restaurant offers Dim Sum at 99 cents each! That's freaking cheap! But it is for lunch only... Was thinking of going today ... but my sister slept till 1pm. Well, may go tomorrow.

3) One of my favourite: Japanese food buffet at Misato (called Edo Ichi elsewhere) at $12.90 only. A very rare move for a franchise restaurant especially for Japanese food. I think it's a great deal considering my typical expenditure per visit to a Japanese restaurant is at least $20... and I'm not even full yet.

4) As usual, there'll be Ramadan stalls selling huge variety of local and not so local cuisine. Read from the newspaper today some stalls are coming up with new secret recipe such as Thai style bbq chicken... the picture sure looks great. Think will give it a try if I can find this Awang Ali. Wonder from which are is he in? Gadong? Stadium? Bandar? The news also said some stall will introduce their secret recipe in a few days time... how I love competitions. Capitalism rules!

Millenium Restaurant is offering a Middle East buffet but its at $16.xx Kinda pricey considering all the food promotion around. There are also a lot of $5 buffet around also but this is not that special since we do have some restaurantthat offers $5 buffet all year round.

Will be going to Yayasan Complex tonight for their Gerai Ramadan. Found out there are some really good restaurants like RMS's Zaika are taking part.

That is all for the special update from Borneo Food Hunter. Bon Appetit!