Sabah Bakery & Hospitality Expo 2019 - The First to Held in East Malaysia!

Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.

Congratulation to Sabah Confectionery and Bakery Association (SCABA) for organising the first bakery and hospitality expo in East Malaysia - "Sabah Bakery & Hospitality Expo" (SBHE)

The three days event was held from 22nd - 24th November, 2019 and start from 10.00am, at ITCC Exhibition Hall (1st Floor), Penampang.

The launching ceremony was held today at 11.00am and was officiated by Guest of Honor, State Minister of Agricultural and Food Industries, YB Datuk Junz Wong.

SBNHE is the first bakery and hospitality exhibition held in East Malaysia which aims to invite individuals and companies to further understand this industry as well as making new bonds with suppliers of various companies. At the same time, it will enable participants of booths to showcase their branding and expanding clientele at the same time. To further boost the exhibition, the organiser also invited the International Federation of Chinese Bakery and Confectionery Association (Asia) as well to be as their guest. It will also further strengthen the economy.

The exhibition consist of various participants from different industries such as Bakery Machinery, Food Ingredients, Frozen and Dry Food, Sanitary and Packaging, Industrial/household cleaning chemical, F&B Software as well as others related to the food industries. Furthermore, there are also participants from countries such as China, Taiwan, Brunei, Indonesia and more. A total of 135 booths participated.

 

On stage : YB Datuk Junz Wong, together with SCABA's President - Mr. Peter Khoo, SBHE's Organising Chairperson - Mr. Collin Tan, guest of the International Federation of Chinese Bakery and Confectionery Association (Asia) and all the important guests.

Had an opportunity to take photograph with Mr. Ceasar Mandela Malakun, Group General Manager of Sabanilam Enterprise Sdn Bhd and Tuan Hendry Idol, the District Officer of Penampang.

 

One of the highlighted today would be the booth visiting by Datuk Junz Wong accompanied with the President and the organiser of the said event.

Let us what's we could expect from the expo.

 

 

 

In fact, there are also activities and demostration being presented during the three days event, check out the above list! 

Demostration program such as Cake decoration, Chocolate Praline Demo, 3D Cake Demo, Coffee Art (Barista) Show.

 

 Interesting booths with mixture of relevant industry involving with food preparation. Well, I may say I learnt a bit more about bakery and hospitality.

Thanks to the organiser for inviting us to witness the event.

For more information :

The Event - Sabah Bakery and Hospitality Expo 2019

Website - Sabah Bakery and Hospitality Expo

The Organiser - Sabah Confectionery and Bakery Association

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Sabah - Kota Kinabalu : Sunset motion by Rooftop at Le Meridien KK

Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.

The opening of Rooftop @ Le Meridien and Au Soleil

The rain was drizzling on and off, but we were certainly lucky that we are able to see a perfect purple pink sunset from the rooftop. 

I always think how should one hotel/ business operator operates when there's actually involving the weather, people go there it's because of the view.  What if raining? It would be awful and daily worry to carry the necessary from under the sun and to avoid the rain. Oh my.

 

The sunny smile won't let us down!

We had a number of drinks and we enjoyed our evening with friends and new friends as well. 

Thanks to Le Meridien for having us on this private preview.

Cheese Wheel

Le Méridien Kota Kinabalu GM, Mr Kanit Sangmookda

Going through the menu and reasonably priced and more with happy hour rate!

Thanks to lovely Elaine to take these lovely photos of mine.

And now, I'm going to share the "sunset in motion" :)

Cheers!

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Le Meridien KK

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Sabah Food : The Native Butod (Sago Worm) Eating Challenge

My goodness sack!

With SOW Sabah having a booth at Borneo Eco Film Festival from 2nd November to 4th November at Suria Sabah.

We saw the native food booth is there as well. For the first time in my life, we challenged ourselves to have Butod. Sago Worm as widely known. 

Butod is one of the source of energy to the native and they just had it like a norms. For us, it's like heaven and earth. Watch our video for hilarious moment.

Above : Live Eating Butod Experience.

It's just Butod wriggling there.

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Sabah : They Say Harvest Festival in May, Is Like Sabah Style "Oktoberfest" (WHY LA!)

Sabah : Harvest Festival
Vlog : Available at the end of this post.

I bet our Harvest Festival would be a happening event in fact!

It's an annual event that Harvest Festival is one of the largest event of Sabah, it is celebrated by all the natives, the Sinos and I guess even their friends who are non- natives. Which who don't drink, right? ;)

It's been a while since the last visit to KDCA for it's happening event held annually. This year, we were wondering why the weather was so bad that it has been heavily rained and some of the core area was flooded after the heavy rain poured on the 31st May.

It was drizzling when I was there on the first day (30th) of the event, sometime in the afternoon since it was a public holiday. The weather was nice and cooling, we were able to have a walk there and I did took a short clip which you could scroll to the bottom of this post.

Photo credit : Kupi Kupi FM Facebook.

The highlights of Harvest Festival would be the Unduk Ngadau, definitely congratulation to al the winners. The 1st place - Inanam (Hosiani James Jaimis), 2nd place - Penampang (Sherrylyn Jane Rannytho) and 3rd place won by - Putatan (Vanessa Audrey Gilbert).

Creative snacks

Harvest Festival is the highlights, there's also snacks, beers and other interesting food and booth available at the venue. The main highlight of the food, would be the pork and lamb, varieties of dishes available for us to try!

Yes, people drinks there. And it is definitely a crowd behind every stall of finger food. And that's why it started to be known as the "Oktoberfest" in May. The Sabah style.

KDCA

It was crowded and definitely recommend to everyone to feel the Sabah spirit!

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