Jeff D’Corner is known, by those who do know, to have the best steak in Kota Kinabalu. And those who know that, also know that on Saturdays & Sundays, Jeff D’Corner has the best BBQ Lamb in Kota Kinabalu.

Jeff D’Corner isn’t Kota Kinabalu’s best kept secret on purpose. It simply fills up every night with a crowd of regulars who already know where to find the best tenderloin steak and BBQ lamb in Kota Kinabalu, so much so that not much additional advertising goes into disclosing the location of Jeff D’Corner.

But when traveling from Damai in the direction Beverly Hills, when you’re at the crossing of the Lintas-Kolombong highway, you may notice an exit from the crossing at about one thirty (if you imagine the face of a clock). At this obscure exit is where you will locate Jeff D’Corner.

With quality beef and lamb regularly flown in from New Zealand, and the proprietor and expert griller, Jeffery Chung, wielding his magic behind the grill, it’s virtually guaranteed that you’ll end up with a succulent, juicy piece of meat on your plate.

Jeff D’Corner’s popularity can simply be summed up with good food and good prices. The most ‘expensive’ item on the menu (and the best steak in KK) is the flown-in, chilled (never frozen), Australian tenderloin beef at mere RM21 per plate of perfection. The Lamb BBQ is an absolute bargain at RM12 for the biggest plate of boneless lamb you’ll find anywhere in KK. The menu also feature starters, soups and a selection of seafood items.

Jeff D’Corner serves beer by the bottle or bucket, soft drinks and a selection of fresh fruit juices.

To satisfy your steak and lamb craving, do drop by and eat your fill at Jeff D’Corner for the best steak in Kota Kinabalu.

Ground Floor
Lot 1, Luyang Phase 6 Shophouse,
Luyang, Kota Kinabalu
Ph: 019 881 8427

Featuring imported Australian and New Zealand beef and lamb, Jeff D’Corner is located at a 2 o’clock exit at the Beverly Hills-Damai and Lintas-Kolombong intersection (with Beverly Hills at 12 o’clock).

Featuring heavenly Oxtail Soup on Mondays and Thursdays and BBQ Lamb on Saturdays and Sundays, and the best steak in Kota Kinabalu every other day.

Jeff D’Corner is open from 7am – 11pm daily.

Big Apple Donuts in City Mall is Kota Kinabalu’s (KK) first donut shop of its type, and beyond the initial teething problems, it’s proving quite popular.

Called Big Apple Donuts & Coffee in full, Big Apple Donuts do more donuts than it does coffee, which isn’t surprising, as it’s wedged in between Starbucks Coffee and Old Town White Coffee on the mall-front of City Mall in Kota Kinabalu.

Big Apple Donuts started operations in KK late in 2007 to seemingly little fanfare, however, it proved popular virtually from the day it opened. Its success bamboozled itself initially, as quickly queues developed with which it was unable to cope, often leaving long lines and too few donuts.

Today, a month or two later, the queues seem to have quieten down. Whether this is due to better management, or whether already its popularity has waned, is difficult to tell. What remains certain is that Big Apple Donuts at City Mall KK is doing brisk business and the punters love it.

The official website of Big Apple Donuts is very well hidden, or it doesn’t exist, which makes it more difficult to tell where Big Apple Donuts are from, or any Big Apple Donut history for that matter. Unlike J. Co Donuts, the more prominent and better marketed cousins, albeit only because they have a website, Big Apple Donuts are shrouded in a veil of mystery.

Nevertheless, Big Apple Donuts offers a simple menu of 24 different kinds of donuts, likely at least one to suit every taste. Ranging from the vanilla of donuts, Glacier, which is just a plain glazed donut, to the more exotic Say Cheese and Spicy Flossy donuts, which feature cheese and flossed chicken respectively, Big Apple Donuts has a few offering worth exploring.

Big Apple Donuts’ dough is of the light and fluffy variety, which means, to me at least, that you can gorge on more donuts compared to their competitors in KL, J.Co, makers of a solid, heavy based donut. The fillings are sweet and for the most part quite delicious, although I did choke somewhat on Spicy Flossy. In my opinion, chicken floss should be kept well away from donuts. Although I didn’t try Say Cheese, and I’m first to admit I love chocolate-chip-cookies-and-cheese, I also feel cheese and donuts might be a bit much.

Donuts prices are reasonable, although predictably more expensive then their KL counterparts. A single donut will set you back RM2.30, whilst a half-dozen box will cost RM12 and a dozen, as is standard in the industry, is most economical at RM22 per box (or a R5.60 saving compared to buying 12 single donuts).

For those who actually care about Big Apple Donuts’ beverage selection, and I doubt many do, the cheapest beverage on the list is RM2.50 for Skye Juice (mineral variety), RM4.50 for a variety of teas, RM5 for an Americano coffee, and at the top end, Latte’s and Flavoured Latte’s at RM7 and RM7.50 respectively. Their beverage selection has so far gone untried by this Blog.

To the question of background and history on this fine donut company, I guess we’ll have to approach the source for the answer: Big Apple Donuts & Coffee, City Mall, KK.

Kinabalu Park is the starting point for a climb of Mt Kinabalu, but is also one of Malaysia’s first World Heritage Sites. A range of accommodation is available at Kinabalu Park.

About a two hour drive away from Kota Kinabalu, at the foot of Mt Kinabalu, lies Kinabalu Park. At 1,585m above sea-level, it’s Head Quarters to Kinabalu National Park, the start of the main trail to the summit of Mt Kinabalu, and location of a variety of accommodation managed by Sutera Sanctuary Lodges.

The accommodation at Kinabalu Park is most often used by those either about to climb Mt Kinabalu or those who have just climbed Mt Kinabalu, or travelers, families and couples wishing to experience the abundance of nature to be found in Kinabalu Park.

In 2000, UNESCO declared Kinabalu Park as Malaysia’s first World Heritage Site. On the UNESCO web site, part of the justification of this declaration is that Kinabalu Park contains high biodiversity featuring more than half of all flowering plant families. It further states that the majority of Borneo’s mammals, birds, invertebrates and amphibians (of which many are vulnerable and threatened) occur in the Park.

Indeed, from top to bottom it’s possible to experience habitats as diverse as tropical lowland, hill rainforest, tropical mountain forest, sub-alpine forest and scrub in the higher elevations. Kinabalu Park is truly a human heritage and as such, a popular tourist destination.

On behalf of Sabah Parks, Sutera Sanctuary Lodges manages the various types of accommodation at Kinabalu Park, as well as the restaurants.

Sutera Sanctuary Lodges
Website: suterasanctuarylodges.com.my
Contact: info (@) suterasanctuarylodgoes.com.my