WHERE TO SHOP IN SARAWAK

In Sarawak, the choice of shopping opportunities goes way beyond a walk in a mall or a morning spent visiting a market. Shopping is a day-and-night operation in Sarawak, while also offering a glimpse of the East ‘s cultural individuality and soon you will come to understand why Sarawak is such a common retail centre.

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1.Shop at the Main Bazaar

Location: Jalan Main Bazaar, Kuching, Sarawak

A few minutes’ walk from the Tua Pek Kong Temple and Kuching Waterfront is the Main Bazaar, The Main Bazaar is a row of two-storey shophouses that runs parallel to the main road and the waterfront.

The shop houses face the water and this is the place to come if you are looking for souvenirs or traditional arts and crafts. Here, visitors can find a variety of native handicraft items including necklaces, bags, wood sculptures, rattan mats, baskets, ceramics, pottery items and native hunting weapons.

2. Shop at the Sunday Market

Location: Medan Niaga Satok, Petra Jaya, Kuching.

The Sunday Market in Kuching is also often called Satok Market as it is located at Medan Niaga Satok and actually begins on Saturday and lasts until Sunday.
The Satok Sunday Market is actually like a “morning market” to all. The stalls provide a huge variety of local offerings, from snacks, kitchen wet and dry goods, plants, and pets to fashion items, toys, fashion items, and not so many local handicraft items and souvenirs. More specifically, Satok Weekend Market is a fresh ingredients market.

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3. Layer Cake or ‘Kek Lapis’

Every state in Malaysia must have their own kek lapis but unlike Sarawak, their kek lapis got a drastic palette swap. By dyeing it in vivid colors, and then cutting the cake into logs before reassembling those logs to form intricate designs reminiscent of indigenous tribe motifs, also the taste is much more different with bakers in peninsular. The Sarawakians really how to handle with flavors. Below are most famous kek lapis bakers in Sarawak

Below are among the most famous bakers with high demand in Sarawak

Mira Cake House

Location: 43, Jalan Brooke, Kampung Gersik, 93050 Kuching, Sarawak
Operating hours: everyday 8am – 12am

Dayang Salhah

Location: Petra Jaya, 40, Jalan Gersik, Kampung Gersik, Kuching
Operating hours: everyday 9am – 11pm

4. Pasar Serikin

Location: Serikin, 94000 Bau, Sarawak
Operation hour: : Saturday & Sunday (8am – 6pm)

One of the places you must visit is Pasar Serikin. This market is very suitable for those who are shopping. There are various types of items such as clothes sold here. It is an interesting place in Kuching, Sarawak. The goods sold here are very cheap.

5. The Spring Shopping Mall

Location: 24 Jalan Simpang Persiaran Spring, Kuching
Operation hour: everyday 10am to 10pm

It’s not as big as Vivacity or other megamalls, Spring packs a punch in many ways that other malls don’t. The selection of shops is well-curated. Many of the stores that appear here exist only here in Kuching: Sephora and Bath & Body Works to name a few. The jewel in the crown is undoubtedly Ta Kiong supermarket offering a wide variety of imports. Their selection is immense, perfect for those seeking particular sauces from different countries.

6. Miri Handicraft Center

Location: Jalan Brooke, Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia.

The new Miri Handicraft Center was built at a cost of RM1.6 million, which is quite reasonable, considering that the entire building was town down and rebuilt. Interior wise, it has two levels and a modern design for the vendors.

Once you get into the main area, you will be welcomed by a 270 degree angle of vendors selling all sorts of Sarawakian ethnic items, where 90% of them are all hand made by the different ethnic groups. There are countless items available, depending on what you want to get.

7. Wong Sian Hup Pottery

Location: Lot 933, Batu 5 & Jalan Penrissen, Richmond Hill, 93250 Kuching, Sarawak
Operation hour: everyday 8am – 5:30pm

Pottery made in Sarawak is of two distinctive types – one done by the Iban, Murut and Kelabit potters and the other by Chinese potters. Today, the range of Sarawak’s potters have improved vastly as they create ceramic stools, drinking water cisterns, decorative jars and vases, lamps, candle holders, ashtrays, teapots, mugs and even photo frames.

Among of top pottery factory in KUCHING:

Yong Huat Heng Brick & Earthenware Factory

Location: 5th Mile Penrissen Rd, 93250 Kuching, Sarawak.

Yong Huat Heng Brick & Earthenware Factory

Location: 5th Mile Penrissen Rd, 93250 Kuching, Sarawak.

8. India Street, Kuching

Location: Jalan India, Kuching

Kuching’s India Street has been transformed into a pedestrian mall lined with shops. India Street is lined with shops selling all kinds of goods, particularly textiles. Mid-way down India Street (if you can find it!) there is a narrow passageway that leads to Gambier Road

9. Arts & Crafts @ Tanoti

Location: Tanoti House, 56 Jln Tabuan, Kuching
Operation hour: evryday 9am – 5pm

The group of women at Tanoti are the only people to practise a distinct Sarawakian form of songket weaving, a way of creating embroidered fabrics. Visitors are welcome to visit the workshop and see the weaving, but call first to make arrangements. There’s a small number of pieces for sale in the gallery shop

10. Borneoartifact Asian Art, Antiques, Cultural artifacts

Location: No. 464, Lorong 14, Jalan Stampin, 93350 Kuching, Sarawak
Operation hour: everyday 8:30am – 5:30pm

Gallery of museum quality Borneo tribal ancient arts, artifacts, antiques, crafts & info, We specialize in museum quality Borneo tribal art, antiques, native`s collectibles, native`s charms, and native`s traditional musical intruments, native`s used items, native`s hunting trophy and the native`s weapons.