Malaysia journey Part 2

Monday, 9 February 2009

Hello people!

My second post! Right, the very next day, we tried out the famous two sister's cha kuey teow... hmm wasn't as good as I thought it would be. To be honeset, I feel like so so only.

Whoaaa got crab meat on top summore

Woops.. more pictures of the cat... sleepy face =_=

I wanna sleep

zzzzzzz...

Actually he does that because he feels very hot with it's thick coat of fur... it's high time for a trim. It also enjoy's peeing on my aunt's sofa T__T

Pasar! There's a famous Kuey Teow soup stall here aparrently.. but we were all too full to try it out
Bargaining.. funny enough, right now, I'm cooking some curry downstairs using the curry packets I bought here T___T

Pamelo!

Cute little fruit... looks like the bottle ppl use to carry wine in the olden days

Queing up for soya milk ^^

After some wandering about, we went to try the... guhh pancake like thingy (no idea what it's called in English)

Cool shop number eh?

See! Cooked using charcoal!

Due to a misunderstanding (mainly my fault lar.. I didn't order properly lol)
we got more of those pancakes than we wanted... a lot more T__T

So we ate...

And ate.....

AND ATE T____T

LOL already awfully stuffed, we went to try the special rojak (the special-ness lies in the sauce.. it's very special!) but we couldnt find the guy selling it (Long ago, my dad asked him how to recognise his stall and he replied "Just find the guy who don't wear sandals lar!" (he really didn't wear sandals the last time i ate at his stall T__T) Thus his stall is known as the guy-who-don't-wear-sandals rojak to us now T__T)
Sigh I think the joke is kinda lost after so much explanation and translation.

Anyways, since we were already there, we tried yet another supposedly famous stall there.. for it's Prawn Noodles! The last time I tried it it was great! From my experience, there are 3-4 stalls selling very delicious Prawn Noodles in penang... but it's kinda hard to explain where. Anyways, this time it turned out to be dissapointing. Sigh. Even the person selling it is different... sadness.

Prawn noodles

Next, we walked around a bit to buy some stuff (wah damn hot man that day) and of course, to get my father's all time favorite, cendol lol

My dad still remembered when he came to Penang and watched a movie here O.o

Tree and house in one

Cendol! I didn't try any though.. wasn't in the mood for it.. and i already had some in Klang on my first day ^^
We then went to the beach for a short stroll to help digest the food o.O I bet you can now see the reccurent theme... eat, walk a bit to digest food, eat, walk a bit to digest food, eat...... LOL! Very unthealty T__T but what the hell I so long didn't go back d....

Posing

Nice background right?

Getting lectures even on holiday.. HAHAhHAHA

In the end we didn't walk that much.. too full and then came the next bit.. oh yea.. you guessed it.

MORE FOOD

we bought some.. snakcs..err what you call it. the Deep fried Yam with meat inside.. lol Wu Kok!
And the.. round thingie with sweet red bean in it... forgot name lol

I got off the car and snapped this photo on the way to moar food

This is the best chi chiung fan I've ever tasted.. damn smooth! And, it's not limp! Gengz.
My mum ordered Oh Chien.. but wasn't nice T__T The green drink is... something weird name.. sourish sweet and damn nice man! hahah Oh, it's called Ampalah...something like that lar hahaha


The aftermath. Notice the hands holding the head. My aunt suffered alot also on this trip. Too much food hahahahahha!

Ok, next update whenever I'm free ^^

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!

Homebound

Wednesday, 4 February 2009

Hello people! it's been a while.

This is gonna be part of the long series of entries about my trip to Malaysia, so bear with me lol

Again, the pictures update thing screwed up and all my pictures are posisitoned the other way round that it' supposed to, and I'm too lazy to rectify it so I would advise you to read from the bottom. Seriously. lol.


Last picture. The wonderful colour of the sky. Ok. That's all for tonight! Tmrw night hopefully, I will blog more about my first few days in Malaysia!


Picture taken on the plane. I like how the mountains appear behind the clouds/mist/dust lol. Oh, I also noticed that Boeing Planes are better than Airbus planes (better in-flight entertainment). And, during the take off in london, the plane experienced such a shaky take-off that for the first time i felt a bit of fear as the plane descended quite suddenly at one time.

Oh, I also met this South African gentleman on the flight. A very nice person. It's always nice to make new friends from ppl around the world. It opens your eyes and widens your view about the world.
Dubai's ariport. This is the new extended area. There's a nice garden and flowing water there!
Saw this in the airport. This system definitely won'y work in Malaysia lol
So! In the beginning! kinda... It was a long wait in the airport lol. Gatwick is so small! Smaller than KLIA! Next time I'm gonna fly from Heathrow. So few shops! And oh! It's the first time i returned something i bought.. i returned a box of cookies from M & S. I saw a better box of chocolates in WHSmith so I just returned it after i bought it for 5 minutes lol. That's so cool.. to be able to return stuff without any reason lol.

Back!

Sunday, 1 February 2009

I'm back in the UK!

Lots of pictures and stuff to do.

As most of you would have noticed, I've done away with that password/permission thingie.

Still a bit tired and have a slight headache... and I've got to go to work tomorow! and I haven't ironed my clothes!

guh.. i want to sleep soon @@

olrite, I shall update my pictures whenever I can ^^