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As I read through my blog posts for 2008, I found most of them are restaurant related reviews. I think this is deviating from my original purpose of food blogging, which is to discover and promote local foods, especially hawker fares. If not, it wouldn't be fit to be called "Malaysia Food Blog" So, my main aim of blogging for year 2009 would be to continue to do what I actually enjoyed the most - to travel, discover and promote cheap and tasty food.

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Cat Statues of Kuching

Posted by: vkeong In: Sarawak| Travel () (13 views)

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Kuching is also called ‘Cats City‘ or ‘City of Cats‘ for nothing. The cat statues not only gives a unique feel to the city, they are also nice photography subjects. This white cat is the Kuching South City Council Cat Statue, it was built in the 90s and is the first ever cat statue in Kuching. For me, it is the nicest and friendliest looking of all. It sits in front of the Little China Town along Jalan Padungan and looks like it is welcoming visitors with its waving hand lol.

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This cat changes into different costumes during the major celebrations, cute eh? And I think the whiskers can be bent into different shapes to signify its mood.

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Just to show you its relative size, here’s a photo of me with the cat statue. Nice kitty.

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The Kuching North City Hall Family Cat Statues can be found in the intersection of Jalan Padungan, Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman and Jalan Abell. This cat statue is the easiest to spot because of its strategic location, in the center of major shopping complexes and hotels in Kuching (it is directly in front of Holiday Inn) This cat statue is also known as the ‘fake’ cat statue by Allen because it’s not the earliest one lol.

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Behind the cat statue is Teo Hoe Hin, a shop for local products.

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If you are careful enough you will spot these small playful cat statues along the Kuching Waterfront in front of James Brooke Cafe.

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And this is a cartoonish cat statue in Malaysia-Chinese Friendship Garden on Jalan Song. Let’s do a group hug!

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Strangely enough, although Kuching is a ‘Cats City’, I didn’t see many cats roaming the city. Ah Seng is a female cat in Sarawak Cultural Village living in the Bidayuh Longhouse. She is pregnant and looks after the paddy by chasing away birds, so cute. So if you happen to be in Sarawak Cultural Village, lookout for her ok, and say hi for me hehe.

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7 Responses to "Cat Statues of Kuching"

1 | jason

October 10th, 2007 at 12:48 pm

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so many kitty statues!

2 | Florence

November 12th, 2007 at 7:34 pm

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Hi MB kia, personally i like your web page so much, as it intro so many many good food in my home town, kuching…And the most funny things on you is, you even could find ‘ah seng’ in the S’wak culture village! ha ha, she is languistic, because she’ve been meet with the people all around the world!

3 | vkeong

November 13th, 2007 at 8:39 pm

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lol Florence, I am “BM” Kia, not MB kia :P MB Kia sounds so bad lol. Ah Seng is really a cute cat..

4 | PainterP

December 6th, 2007 at 8:15 am

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Lots of great art with cats. There’s an American artist who is aspecialist with this subject matter as well, thought you might be interested in this article

6 | Joyful Digesting

March 23rd, 2008 at 3:01 am

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Amazing collection, and very unique statues!

Joyful Digesting’s last blog post..Digestive Help for Your Beloved Dog or Cat!

7 | Attila Tormus

April 11th, 2008 at 6:18 am

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Dear Mb Kia,

I am the ditor of one of the biggest cat website of Turkey, kedimveben.com (~my cat and I). I met your comments and photos on Cat Statues of Kuching. We are a non-profit web-site which dedicated to supply protection for cats and animals who live under poor condition. With your permission, we would like to publish your photos and your comments in Turksih in our website. I hope our readers will find very interesting it. If you respond us as quickly as we would be appreciated.

Hi, of course you can publish my photos, I am flattered.. if you could credit me as well that’d be great!

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