My adventures in Malaysia Pt 1

Sunday, 8 February 2009

Hello people!

I'm back again! Now, for the first part of my journey in Malaysia!

Right right, on the first day.. well what did I do on the first day...
Oh yea! I arrived at night, and my first meal was at a famous (or so I was told) Wan Tan Mee stall! Somewhere in KL... fantastic! After that we tried looking for some tong sui as dessert but since it was already 12 plus.. we could't find any.

The next day was a busy one for me. I exchanged some sterling pounds to RM (it was 5.19! yay!) and did some bank stuff... re-activiate my bank accounts etc etc, cut hair, eat BAH KUT TEH, and some stuff.. lol Basically a boring-ish day doing all those stuff I have to do..

THe dinner wasn't too bad though.. my turn to spend some MONEY wahhaha (so happy.. first time spending my own money mar... well, at least, a significant amount of my own money lol)

Anyways, for some of my less well informed friends (i.e. those who eat it everytime but don't know the name haha *cough cough), this, is La La!
Scrumptilicious. But it wasn't as tasty as the one you can get in Boston..a restaurant in Klang haha. The soup/sauce/liquid thing is sweet but the flavour isn't as good.
Next! My favorite! Crabs! I should have asked for the sweet and sour sauce crabs.. but nevertheless, not too bad. The only thing is that the restaurant shortchanged us..... babi give us less than 2 crabs... tipu orang punya. Oh, their bihun fried lala is very tasty! It didn't look great so I didn't take any pictures of it..wah.. already i have a craving for it just thinking about it.


Anyways, the next day, I set off with my family and my aunt to Penang. We left at about.. 7 (as usual, later then we we wanted to) to get the oh-so-famous Dim Sum in Ipoh.
Look at the mountains!


We tried a new well..er.. restaurant? called Ming Court.. but wasn't that fantastic except for a few dishes. As usual, once I started eating I stop taking pictures hahah so there's only a few pics here.

EGG TART

WEIRD PEAR SHAPED THINGIE MADE OF YAM AND SOME MEAT!

We also had... hmm what else. Oh, we had tau fu fa there! And we bought some err... Pao... damn, what do you call it in english.. PAMELO! lol mah favorite. I ate almost half at one go.. at the airport one the night I was flying back hahah

Alright, what else, oh yea, in order to try out the again, very famous fresh water prawns aka big head prawns (yes it all sounds so weird once you translate it into english lol) we wandered around the town a bit..to help digestion lol

Some old gentleman checking the stock... my dad and brother likes this kind of..well.. err ancient, ok not ancient, scenes from the olden days.. according to him you can no longer find these kind of stores o.O so he wanted to take some pictures. Untill now I still don't get how is it attractive haha

We went to a Burmese temple.. and I took this pic of water lily!

The.. temple... lol Looks quite cool eh?

This is some old little.. hamlet in the middle of nowher... about 40 KM from Ipoh.. and yea we drove all the way there to try out the prawns hahaha.
We found out that there are more than 5 restaurant famous for prawns there. . lol luckily my dad had the name of the restaurant stored away in his laptop. So, here's the more famous wan
PRAWNS! Well, I found that the flesh is SUPERB! Nothing I've tasted before! It's.. tough yet.. smooth.. yeah very.. chewy! Unfortunately, because it's a fresh water prawn, the meat is not that sweet nor does it smell as good. THe sauce is so so. So in conclusion, I won't drive all the way there to try it out again.... well unless someone really wants to try it. Not worth the effort cuz it's only the texture of the prawn that is fantastic.

After that, we initially wanted to use the.. coastal roads instead of the highway to continue the rest of our journey to Penang but unfortunately, we figured that it'll be a bit risky without a map.. and we couldn't get one at a nearby petrol station and no one seems to know how to get there.

So, we drove all the way back to Ipoh (and we saw an obsolete Tin mining ship)... and our next stop was in Tai Ping. i've not been there for ages.... couldnt' remember a thing at all lol.

We had a stroll in the park.. and had some egg tart after that (wasn't that tasty =( )

Pics pics! (can't think of title for picture haha)

Err.. this picture.. dunno why is it here ahha! This is the traditional lab chiong making process.. you dry them in the sun

I like how you can see the mountains from the park ^^

Nice scenery?

A monitor lizard going for a bird. See! My talent as a photographer for National Geographic society!
Monkey foraging for food lol. I wanted to take a picture of it's bum as it went into the dust bin but I was too late lol
Notice how the tree bends towards the pond and the edges of it's branches just touches the water ^^



Building in Tai Ping
On the frery to Penang! Couldnt' get a good night shot.. ferry was vibrating too much

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My parents and me!


Our first meal in penang.. Loh Mee! The prawn noodles there is also quite good! By the end of the day, we had so much we were sturggling to walk hahahah!My aunt's persian cat! Looks adorable right! Damn naughty i tell you.. when we went into the house.. it shitted..shat.. lol ... everywhere! Right in front of the door! Damn smelly man.


But with it's cudly wudly face.. we quickly forgave it.. well, me and my brother lar..hahaha..see look so kesian here


Anyways, I will post the rest of the trip's pictures soon.. Now, i'm savouring the Muruku I brought from malaysia..wahh damnn nice I tell you lol.

Kk, till next time!