3 Points Restaurant 三喜楼, Miri

Have you been to the new restaurant - 3 Points in Miri?

This is how the restaurant looks like in the evening.
A traditional China building design with 2 stoned lions & a nice curving wooden bridge.
It has spacious parking area in front of this restaurant too. 

The restaurant is cozy, well-lit, cooling and comfy.

If you are a vegetarian, you can do special order by telling the chef that you want dishes without meat, seafood, egg/onion/garlic/chives and oyster sauce etc.
And this mixed vegetable dish definitely passed the test.
It has broccoli, cauliflower, cashew nuts, mushroom, jew's ear, baby corn and carrot. Yummy!

Another vegetarian dish~ Cold bidin/midin
(a type of fern, an authentic wild vegetable grow in Sarawak) 

Seaweed bean curd soup (100% vegetarian friendly)

There are 2 types of bean curd available ~ Homemade (with egg) and local bean curd (without egg). Please remember to inform the chef your preference when you order any bean curd dish.
Personally, I like this dish the most. The mushroom is juicy, the green is crunchy and the bean curd is yummy. Feel like eating them again. 

Ok. Non-vegetarian dishes starts here.
A cold dish (jellyfish) which we never miss in a Chinese restaurant. 

Try this tom yam seafood soup. Only RM5 per bowl.
It's a big portion for 1 person though.
It comes with candle heating/boiling underneath all the time.
Never worry your soup will turn cold,
 even if you decided to enjoy it after you have finished your dinner. 

For prawn lovers!

Steamed Cod Fish. Very fresh and nice one. 

My family and I feel lucky to be invited by my best friend's sister, who is working as a managing personnel in this restaurant. We haven't seen each other for a very long time. I feel so happy to see her. The whole night was so wonderful, partly due to this dear friend of mine. We have unlimited topics to chat. Too bad she has gone back to Kuching on the next day, else I would love to ask her out often in Miri.


We would like to thank her for giving us such a nice treat in this restaurant! ^^



Some brief introduction about this restaurant:
The 3 Points Restaurant in Miri is one of the ten restaurants operated by Triple Chain Sendirian Berhad in Sarawak. It is the second branch in Miri. The first one is called After 3 Restaurant at High Street Road. 


If you are thinking to have a birthday celebration, fun party, family gathering or even wedding reception there at 3 Points Restaurant, you can call them up for special arrangement. 

In case you have no idea where is this new eating area located:

3 Points Restaurant 

(Backlane at Rustica Furniture) 

Lot 1359, Block 9. MCLD, 

Jalan Bendahara 98000 Miri, Sarawak. 

Tel: 6 085 - 424414.

Operating Hours: 

11am to 2pm
 530pm to 10pm 

(Monday to Sunday)

Mega Hotel ~ Dim Sum Feast

We had a dim sum feast at Mega Hotel the other day. Compared to our previous visit at 1 year ago, this time we kind of enjoyed more as we have nice friends to introduce us what are the specialty there. Thank you for the managers who treat us such a wonderful feast. We would love to go back again. 

Finding out the truth about the 13 teaspoons of sugar

(Advertorial)

If your children are drinking milk powder every day, I believe you will be aware with the recent news / TV commercials / research / websites about how many teaspoons of sugar you have been feeding your children daily.

 Leading authorities around the world including United States, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand clearly identify sucrose, corn syrup solids, glucose syrup solids and similar ingredients as added sugars. Whereas our Ministry of Health has declared that SUGAR includes sucrose, fructose, sorbitol, mannitol, corn syrup, honey, malt, malt extract, maltose, rice extract, molasses, golden syrup and invert sugar.

Foods which contain natural sugars like fruits, vegetables and milk are considered healthy in our diet. However, excessively added sugars in some foods especially in growing-up milk powders are considered unhealthy, as it can cause obesity, diabetes and bad teeth. It can also worsen the symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder.

The milk company which published their research informed us how to find out the 'truth' behind all the ingredients written on the food label if we want to avoid feeding added sugars up to an extra 13 teaspoons to our children. Well, before we feel relieved that this company has brought up such an important issue, we have to be aware that NOT ALL growing up milk powder in Malaysia have 13 teaspoons of excessive added sugar. And the most important thing is, NOT ALL carbohydrates are sugar!

I have done some research and discussed with some dietitians and doctors about this issue. All of them have a similar conclusion, that is, not all carbohydrates are sugar! Exactly! But look at how the online calculator at http://www.semakgula.com.my/calculator.aspx measure the number of teaspoons of sugar in milk powder?

If you read the newspaper advertisement carefully, it is noted that only sucrose, corn syrup solid and glucose syrup solid are the added sugars that we should be aware of. However, they have added in this misleading chart and confused most of us. It is similar to the sugar calculator mentioned above; the amount of sugar is calculated based on carbohydrates, which is not totally true.

I believe many parents must have been shocked when they first read about the so-called extra sugar intake that they have been giving to their children. Before you get a second heart-attack, let me tell you the REAL TRUTH about this entire sugar thing!

The information below is from the Dumex official website. I found that it is a very good example, showing us the correct way in differentiating the different types of sugar in the milk powder.

The carbohydrates in Dugro and Mamil Gold are NOT just sugars. The carbohydrates in Dugro and Mamil Gold also include non-sugars such as:

•  Oligosaccharides e.g. lcFOS

•  Polysaccharides

Only 1-2 teaspoons of added sugars are found in 1 serving of Dugro or Mamil Gold. This level of added sugars is within World Health Organisation (WHO) recommendations. We add a minimal amount of sugar to suit the taste buds of young children and to encourage the optimal consumption of milk during their years of rapid growth.

Moreover, the advertisement from the milk company who claimed about the added sugar thing has been pulled down by the Ministry of Health (MOH) on the 23rd of May 2011 due to misleading information. For more information about the news, you can read it by clicking on this link http://bs.serving-sys.com/BurstingPipe/adServer.bs?cn=tf&c=20&mc=click&pli=2771474&PluID=0&ord=[timestamp] 

After reading this article, do you feel more relieved now? I do. ^^