Receta Sun, Sweat and Satay in Borneo

Let’s get something clear from the very beginning: Borneo (that’s the top bit of Borneo, East Malaysia to be precise, Sarawak to be even more so), is really, really hot. We’re talking 35 degrees, but then 80% humidity, so what that ‘feels like’, as the Met Office so very helpfully like to tell us, is actually 45 degrees. That’s warm. That’s serious. That’s ‘don’t go out doing karaoke until 4am because you might nearly be hospitalised the next day’ hot, but we’ll come back to that later.

For now, I shall tell you why you absolutely must visit Malaysian Borneo. It has a lot to do with the food, but I expect you guessed I might say that. I saw two sides to Sarawak: the remote, dense jungle side, and the city of Kuching, which is home…