Malaysian Trip Part 4

Saturday 21 February 2009

Hello People!

Right, I shall pick up immediately from where I ended last time. So, I was back in Klang, and we went to far away place (beyond banting)..er can't remember the name. Some place called clam hill (O.o) if translated word for word.

AAAAaanyways, moving on, we were there to try out the famous (heck, all the food we tried are famous wth lol) Beggar's chicken, so called because err.. it's.er.. crap. How do I explain this. Basically, it came from a novel by Jin Yong (well maybe it's the other way round.. who knows) where Huang Rong cooked a chicken for Hong Qi Gong aka the leader of Beggar's clan (right.... I suspect this is no longer making sense to most of you guys) in order to trick him to teach Guo Jing a martial art skill ( I shall not translate the name to English to preserve the very last vestige of dignity remaining). Anyways, the chicken and herbs is wrapped in something, with hot coals around it and buried under the earth to cook it O.o


Okok pictures:

The enterance to the restaurant. Those two lines of words....is that Dui Lian? forgot liow lol

Mud skipper!

With my two aunts. It's supposed to be a candid picture but my aunt managed to flash a smile at the last moment hahah!
More pictures of mudskippers. For those of you who don't know, these fishes have evolved to live on both land and water (well, mud and water). They can hop around with their powerful fins on dry land and thus travel between puddles of water. It's a proof of evolution! Fishes evolving to live on land! (alright alright please don't drag me into a debate about the theory of evolution)

Coconut! This is the sweetest coconut i've ever drank/ate. It's really fantastic! Ahh it is really nice to sip cool sweet coconut water(juice? liquid? Gah I really don't know the correct term) on a hot day. Especially when you're at the beach. wahh.....................................................
Sweet and sour Pork's leg! Not that great. I've tasted waaaaayyyy better pork's leg before... with mantou! Wahh... I'm starting to make myself hungry.
This is how they cook the beggar's chicken (and that pork leg, or so I was told). O.o
Beggar's chicken! Well, not that tasty. Nothing special. It tasted like any other chicken with herbs, and it's not that nice also. Hmm dissapointed.. I was expecting some sort of earth-ly aroma soaked into the chicken, complimenting the chicken's taste (at first I didn't know they cook it with herbs lol)
Chicken soup! Wah.. damn lots of meat man... luckily we could take away the leftovers for my brother. Wahhaha he kinda served as the rubbish bin for the day.

Now this, is a very interesting dish! It looks like any ordinary deep fried fish, but look carefully! Lo behold! It's innards is fish ball material! They took out aall the flesh and bones of the fish and used it (well, not the bones of course) to make that.. fish cake paste (ahh that sounds better than fish ball material T__T) and put it back into the fish.. and the they deep fried it!
Whoa... sounds like something from science fiction/horror story T__T
That's my first time seeing it and it's so damn cool!!!! Don't you think so!? Even the bloody head is still there! When I first saw it I thought it's a real fish.. walaoeh.. Gengz

Unfortunately it tastes ordinary T__________T

More mudskippers

Well, in conclusion, besides the novelty of Beggar's chicken and that fish cake fish thingie, it's nothing that special, taste wise. So I wouldn't really recommend going that far to try it, unless you want to brag about trying beggar's chicken once in your life. Well, at least now I can brag. Wahahhaha! More life experience! Muahahha!


Nah, photos for my dad and Yee Huai who like these olden days settings

Old enough?

Hohoohoh... this picture.... Well, ladies and gentlemen, this roadside stall sells a drink which... unfortunately I have absolutely no idea how to call it here. It's made of mashed pears, salt, water and left to err ferment for a couple of days. It's very nice.... and also, it's hard to find this drink being sold nowadays. It's at someplace near Port Klang, and I still remember how I used to cycle here with my brother and also my father to drink it wahhaha! It's about 6km away from where I live T___T
Oh, I even cycled to the North Port with my brother before... not sure how far that is but it took us more than an hour to get there lol! Probably more than 10 km. Just remember that we have to cycle back T___T (and we did that in pouring rain lol!)
Now that's one memorable experience. Ah, I digressed.

Moving on! After the drink we went to the err..South Port to watch the sun set.

Sunset in South Port

While we were there, we saw lots of people "balik Kampung" to Pulau Ketam to celebrate Chinese New Year. I was beginning to feel the "spirit" of Chinese New Year then lol. Watching the people go back with their family for a reunion... and also the huge number of kids walking back home happily I saw on my way to try the Beggar's chicken as it was the last day of school (it was a Friday, and I think the schools are closed for 3 days for Chinese New Year.. ahh.. how nostalgic, I used to count down the days to Chinese New Year since December lol)

Going home!

The Sun

Unfortunately, the sun was hidden behind clouds so it wasn't such a beautiful sight. Nevertheless, quite beautiful. I've never really like sun sets.... it often makes me down because it's the end of the day. Everything's getting dark and everyone's going home. Well, just makes me a bit sad somehow.Nonetheless, I've seen some really spectacular sun sets that are really beautiful.

Yeapz. DURIAN! This particular breed is called the red ant... or something that sounds similar to that in Hokkien hahaha! Very tasty!

Well we kinda had durian for dinner because we had a very heavy lunch. After that, we took a stroll in Pandamaran to soak in the CNY atmostphere. It was all hustle and bustle but there wasn't that much of CNY atmostphere.

Lanterns an decorative stuff

Which kind of reminds me, I didn't take any picture of those decorative stuff my family put up! Darn... that was the first time we put red lanterns up... gahhh.

Anyways, after that I rushed to a mamak stall to meet up with my old buddies from my secondary school days. I was really suprised to see so many of them there! Can't believe I met Hao Shen there lol. I thougth he was suppsod to be in Australia. Who else... Yik Chuan, Wai Loon, Horng Tat, Kenny (were you there? I think so.. wahhaha) Ian... and some few random guys I can't remember. Or was that all? whahahha

So we kinda spent the whole evening bitching about Min Soon who kind of dissappeared to the unknown. LOL! Min Soon if you're reading this reply to me!

Lol. Anyways, that's it for now. I shall write a post on CNY eve soon.