Kota Kinabalu — Places to eat
Borneo's sunset city, fifteen minutes from the islands
- Welcome Seafood Restaurant (Asia City) — Pick crab and prawns from the tanks, get them back in butter sauce
- Suang Tain Seafood Restaurant — Air-conditioned seafood house since 1983; butter prawns are the draw
- Kota Kinabalu Night Market seafood grills (by the Filipino Market) — Smoky seafront stalls: pick a fish or squid, they grill it
- Yee Fung Laksa — Start a Gaya Street morning with a bowl of seafood laksa
- Kedai Kopi Melanian 3 (Sang Nyuk Mee) — Sabah's pork noodle soup, offal and all, in one bowl
- City Food Corner (Tuaran mee) — Tuaran mee: springy egg noodles, Sabah style
- Yu Kee Bak Kut Teh — Afternoon-only herbal pork rib soup on Gaya Street
- Fook Yuen Cafe & Bakery (Gaya Street) — Self-service kopitiam: nasi lemak, kaya toast, dim sum on a tray
- Kah Hiong Ngiu Chap — Sabah beef noodles: slices, tendon and tripe in clear broth
- Jothy's Fish Head Curry & Banana Leaf — South Indian rice and curries served on a banana leaf
- Seri Selera Kg Air (Sedco Square seafood) — Evening seafood at Sedco Square; pick a fish, they cook it
- Yuit Cheong Coffee Shop — Kaya toast for pennies, chicken satay in the afternoon
- October Coffee Gaya — A wood-panelled café in a restored old building, open till 11 p.m.
- Nook Cafe — Bright brunch café: avocado toast and a latte
- Keng Wan Hing — Dawn bakery: pineapple-filled polo buns and curry puffs
- Tuaran Mee Restoran (Inanam) — Springy egg noodles, Tuaran style
- Sin Kee Bah Kut Teh — Herbal pork-rib soup in a claypot
- ENSO Teppanyaki — Japanese teppan seafood and beef beside the pier
- Breeze Beach Club — Grilled food and cocktails at the water's edge
- Santola — Espresso from Sabah's own Cap Kuda coffee people