Last week during Hari Raya, Bee Geok came to visit.
Thanks to her visit, I did some interesting things around KL. It’s not anything extraordinary, but it’s been a while since i have such good time and activities.

Interesting #1 – Actually parked my car and take picutres at Dataran Merdeka

 
Dataran Merdeka with Proton Saga producing since 1985

 
National flag – Jalur Gemilang

Didn’t know there is such nice library in KL at Dataran Merdeka

Very old St. Mary’s Church next to Dataran Merdeka (Since 1894, that’s 115 years old)

Went to Muzium Negara (last visit was 20 years ago). Unfortunately it was closed for Hari Raya.
What’s the odd of hitting one of the 2 off days from 365 days. Ha!

Went to Aquaria KLCC as the weather turns bad.

 
Greeted by this not-so-happy-face stingray

Then the other friendly-face stingray

For supper, we went to New Boston in Klang for Boston Lala with it’s signature 1 hour waiting.

Then on the 2nd day of Raya. We did something holy.

Went to Batu Caves.
Climbed all the way up of 272 steps before entering the main temple.

After all the exercise, we went Shabu-Shabu in Bandar Puteri, Puchong.

On the 3rd day…

 
Went to Thean Hou Temple (天后宫). Didn’t realize it’s just right opposite Mid Valley City and so easy to reach :p

Really nice view at the first floor – KL tower and KLCC Twin Tower in background

Dragon as if he is flying off into the clear blue sky.
Yupe, that’s right, there is no haze. The sky is so clear that it’s freaking hot.

 
God blessing you long live!

Then we wrap up Bee Geok visit with Daidamon BBQ Buffet, that will be cover in the next blog entry, cause it will a detail one. hee…

Stay Tuned.

Alrighty, Now we had reached Day 3, the last day of Penang Trip.

First we check-out from hotel, and have breakfast at a very old restaurant next door.
From the chicken rice stall, we ordered steamed chicken, roasted pork and BBQ sauce pork.

Right after this breakfast, we walk to get the food we missed in Day 02.

The pan fried carrot cake covered in Axian788 阿贤人情味!


Though it looks normal. the special was at the cake, and pork lard the auntie use.
The carrot cake is soft and Q. Put it in your mouth, and it gets melted and slip down the throat.

The chef auntie non-stop cooking for her customers.

Look at the amount of plates been used in just 2 hours of business.
 

I feel so privileged to have tasted it. Remember to drop by this place when you are in Penang.


Apparently they have other nice delicacies too. Others are sold out, we only get to have the last piece of this
 
Nicely shaped, half transparent, nice filling, nicely served.

After the satisfying secondary breakfast, let’s proceed to Penang Road for some refreshing cendol.
This is my second bowl for this trip, the first one was on the first day, but were too rush to take picture back then.

In the evening, many will stop by on their way home from work for Teow Chew Famous Cendol.
 

Then, we went to do something that every tourists in Penang would do.
Yes, we went to buy Tambun biscuits.

After that we go 2 more mission in our menu that hasn’t been accomplished yet.
So, waste no more time.

First, is the yam cake.

Oooh, the yam is so well-blended with flour, the ground dried prawn paste is exquisite and topped with crispy fried onion.
They even have special packing to let customers bring home on plane.

As for lunch, is Curry Mee with everything – by the word everything, they literally put everything in it.
There’s squid, taupok, pig blood, cockles and noodles. Got a shock when it was served.
The soup was relatively lighter compared to KL’s, put some sambal in it, it’ll a perfect match.
This place is about 10mins walk to Tune Hotels.

That’s a lot of foods there for the past 3 days, its time to do some sightseeing.

Old British building – currently government office (i guess)

Very old clock tower, the time is still correct though.

QE II at port


A little chinese temple on jetty (i was standing at Chew Jetty), not sure what jetty was that.

And, the artistic namely “A Celebration of Our Blue Sky” at the promenade


officiated by Lim Guan Eng, Penang’s Fourth Chief Minister
 

Well, that’s the end of my Penang trip. Looking forward to go again to finish one business….the Nasi Briyani Beratur!

Hi, I’m back with sequel of 2nd day route for my Penang food trip.

In the next day morning, local Penang colleague brought us to eat Hokkien Mee as breakfast.
(* In Northen Hokkien Mee = Prawn mee = Har mee in Klang Valley & Southern)
This Hokkien mee is located somewhere in the middle between Georgetown and Kek Lok Si.
This shop sells only Hokkien mee and drinks (which also serving toast and half boiled eggs).
They open from 7am in the morning, sold out around 10am.
Gotta have pre-booking before go there, unless you would wait at the shop before 7am.
It took quite a while to get serving after sit down
(that’s when toast and half boiled eggs come handy to keep our sugar level balanced and not getting fainted).
Well, its worth to wait, worth for this “heavy weight” hokkien mee.

Check out the big prawns!

Warning: the original soup is fragranced and spicy enough. Mixture of the sambal from spoon will bring those weak-tongue rocket flying to sky with eyes full of tears.

After exhilarating breakfast, we proceed our journey to Kek Lok Si (极乐寺 – Temple of Supreme Bliss).

 
Very well preserved and maintained. Really enjoyed the serenity sitting in the garden.
Everything seems peaceful, all the troubles fly away above cloud 9.

However, the beggars sitting at corridor does become eyesore of the place

On the way up, don’t forget to stop by to feed the tortoise.
They are extremely hungry since the low tourist season and bad economy.
Spotted a couples of young tortoise body floating in the pool, uncertain on cause of death.
RM1 for a small bunch of vege is really expensive though.


During the time, there was construction going on to build a roof for the big Buddha statue.

The administrators were seeking for donations by selling pieces of roof at RM30.
They still short of many roof to complete the project. Please support and sponsor if you happen to be in Penang.

We could write our name on it with blessings.
Visitors from Thai, Japan, Australia, India, Korea, Europe had sponsored too.

The accomplished project will look like this from the poster.
My name will be on one of the thousands roof, cool huh.
 

After a few hours touring in Kek Lok Si, its about time to have lunch.
Just right at the bottom of Kek Lok Si, there is a famous Asam Laksa stall located at the busy T-junctions.

 
Well, the taste……. hmm…. its not my preference type.

Must order the hot-N-freshly fried popiah and fish balls from the neighbour stall Uncle.

We head back to Georgetown by bus after the simple lunch (not really satisfying).

Once we reached Georgetown, first thing to do is quench the thirst with 100 Plus.
Then walk around town for mini shopping before landed at a restaurant for Wantan mee.

Then, in the early evening around 5pm, we went to New World Park located just next door to Tune Hotel.

Friend want to shop for shoes, but I spotted some white coloured boxes queue in front a toy shop.
Yes! It’s Gashapon. I gotten a huge Keroro head and a huge Tamama head. Each head could have 2 expression face. Happy!

Must try in the hawker centre in New World Park is the Ice Kacang King served with fruits namely banana, mango, papaya and a scope of peanut butter vanilla ice cream.


And the second must order item is Yam Cake. Dumpling is so so only.

The yam cake is soft, yam well-blended, served with medium size crispy fried dried prawn (虾米)
Stall that sell this yam cake can be easily spotted, cause they are the only stall with long customers queue.

After “light” snacking, we proceed to search for the expensive fried kuey teow in Lorong Selamat
(from New Park World’s main entrance with Starbucks – cross the road then walk straight for about 500m)
You will find the Auntie with her unmistakable red hat.


A plate of Fried kuey teow like this selling at RM6.50
With 2 giant fresh prawns, fat si-ham, crispy fried pork fat and tasty soft kuey teow, Definately worth it.

Be there early, they close around 6pm.

Then I spend a night resting in hotel reading Crayon Shin Chan i bought from 7-Eleven at lobby of Tune Hotel.

Will be back with Day 03 menu. Stay tuned.

This is a backdated blog about my Food Trip in Penang about a month ago in April.
Gotta warn you, it’s going to be a long blog entry with lots of photos. (of course, mainly saliva inducing delicious food)

I went with Air Asia flight because Ann got vouchers due to be redeemed.

I’m not sure if this is river in klang valley, its beautiful.
 

Well, the aircraft and stewardess still the same, you know…
And this is the famous Nasi Lemak, served steaming hot.
 

We arrived just the minute we finished the flight meal.
Then we checked in to Tune Hotel located right in the center of Georgetown, very strategic.
 

Its a new hotel opened for couple of week ago when I stay there.
The room looks clean and new, facilitated with basic necessities.

The room is great though its a bit small. Security controlled, non-smoking building with safety deposit box.
Air-conditioning, in-room WiFi, towel and toiletries are available on request with charges.

After settling down and refreshed ourselves, we took a walk down to Upper Penang Road end at E&O Hotel.
This is a place with all the happening lounge and bars. Mostly Guinness and Tiger outlets.

The classy E&O Hotel.

After a night of beers, turn to Mamak’s at corner for a bowl of hot Sup Kambing or Roti Canai, Teh Tarik, you name it.

To be continued with my day 02 route with more food.

This is a replacement blog about my visit to Phnom Penh in Feb 3rd-7th, 2009

It was a business trip. It was my first visit to Cambodia.
It’s nice decent country, friendly people, nice food, cheap beer. yeah…
For more info about Cambodia, please visit Wikipedia here

Woke up in the morning at 6.30am, just nice to see sunrise over Mekong River from my room window.

Busy market, heavy traffic, hard working locals….
 

And in the evening, the villager will “walk” their cows…
 

Big casino for the rich splashing their money….

Road side food stalls at the surrounding of casino pulling customers, hard earn money, total contrary scenario

Local restaurants and corn stalls at the city, relaxing slow life

And when back to hotel, you can see tourists sun bathing at pool side…
Most of happening restaurants (especially near Mekong River) are depends on tourists.

I will be back to Cambodia, cause I could not visit Siem Reap for Angkorwat due to short of time.

Standby for me.

  
This picture was taken in the middle part of the highway. So please double up the length of tolls for the total number.

And then they never fail to serve the "bestest" food, I know there is no such word, but no word can describe the "best of best" here.
As some of my friends would know I like to eat Blueberry contained pastries, e.g Blueberry cheese cake, Blueberry cheese tart.

i was so lucky to lay my hand on this heavenly made Blueberry tart. Yes, thats right it is a blueberry tart.
When i first saw it, I thought they are serving blueberry in mini tray.
Then only I found out that it actually has a small piece of biscuit hidden underneath the over flooded blueberry filling.
Mother lord of jesus christ, it taste damn good. God Bless Thailand for producing such a nice blueberry tarts.

I had my dinner at road side hawker stall, it was nice, but don't ever bother ask or mention on how they wash their dishes, ok. thank you.

By the way, no case of food poisoning, because the of chilli effect.

i hope to review something about Tom Yam, all the tom yam soup i had tried since i'm in thailand were all very nice.
it was so nice that I forgot to take picture. Therefore I could not include it's review in this blog.
Maybe next time ya.

I'm here in Bangkok for a week training for PQ standard PKE training.
Touched down at Bangkok Suvarnabhumi airport this afternoon.
Checked in Royal Princess Hotel at Larn Luang, about 2km from Grand Palace.

These are the view in my room. Quite ok. They even give complimentary drinks at bar and fruits in room.
God blessed for in room LAN connection, I get to online and update my blog

Alrighty, going to have some rest before dinner time.

Will keep on updates from Bangkok.

Hi all....

Please click the links to view photos i taken during my last trip to Langkawin Island, 99 islands under the sun. [Langkawi map]

1) Venue: Crocodile Farm. One of the stunt man is posing for tourists in crocodile performance. I wonder if his girlfriend would agree with this....[photo]

2) Venue: Crocodile farm. Braveheart kissing the beast! Anyone need a Wringley's chewing gum? [photo]

3) Venue: Crocodile farm. Brighten up the smiles   [photo]

4) Venue: Pool side, Langkasuka Beach Resort, Padang Matsirat. Tropical, hot, cool deep. Always the perfect combination. Splash!!! [photo]

5) Venue: Beach (Straits of Malacca), Langkasuka Beach Resort, Padang Matsirat. "Waiter! May I have a coconut drinks, please?" [photo]

6) Venue: Galeria Perdana. The gallery houses over 2500 gifts and awards presented to former Prime Minister of Malaysia, YAB Dato' Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamad and his wife Datin Seri Dr. Siti Hasmah bt. Mohd. Galeria Perdana consists of 3- double storey - well decorated building is sitting in a nice botanical environment in Kilim, Ayer Hangat Road, ~11km from Kuah Town. [photo]

7) Venue: Galeria Perdana. F1 car year 2001 exhibiting in the gallery. This piece was driven by Nick Heidfeld, presenting Sauber Petronas Team. [photo]

8) Venue: Galeria Perdana. Fine crafted crystal. [photo]

9) Venue: Underwater World. Hey hey, the smartest looking animal is in da town. Bird in tuxedo yo! (am i right kt? haha.) [photo]

10) Venue: Oriental Village, Pantai Kok. Ouch, its hot down there. Why not take a ride to somewhere, like 709m above sea level for a breeze. Got ya ticket? [photo]

11) Venue: Oriental Village, Pantai Kok. Aaaah...Nice overview of Kok Beach. [photo]

12) Venue: Eagle Square, Kuah Town. The main attraction of the square is the magnificient statue of the reddish brown eagle majestically poised for flight. Langkawi derived its name from the eagle or "Helang" (lang) in malay. "Kawi" denotes reddish brown. Hence, Langkawi means reddish brown eagle. [photo]

13) Venue: Eagle Square, Kuah Town. The square is located just next to Kuah's jetty. In the evening, we would see the fishermen ships coming home to labour, sunset.....romantic   [photo]

14) Venue: Mahsuri Mausoleum. Legendary fair Mahsuri whose was unjustly accused of adultery and executed in year 1819. In the dying breathe of the innocent maiden, she laid a curse on the island that it would remain barren for 7 generations. Fact or fiction? Well, seven generations have since passed and today, Langkawi is a flourishing tourist destination. [photo]

15) Venue: Black sand beach. Some said there are skulls, broken bones and ship wrecks on Black Sand Beach which remains from the great battle between Garuda and Jentayu. Meanwhile, some claims that these remains belong to the traders who sank together with their ships, because of the whirlpools that existed in the Northern part of Langkawi. Creepy jeepy.... [photo]

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Win, a verb, to defeat everyone else by being the best or by finishing first in a competition.

You win, you can't win; win hands down, win through; no-win situation, and the best of all kind --> win-win situation.

Since the toddling age, we've been learning to win over parents' attention, to earn caring. Then in kindergarten, we fought for puppy's love. The ego growing in primary, gotta be No.1 in whatever things, from academic to eating speed during recess. And yes, all the way through in our life, whatever we do, is all come to winning at the end. Abo then, what makes u think that the hokkien song 爱拼才会赢 made such a great debut in donkey's years?

 Eagle Square

During my current visit to Langkawi Island, so called 99 islands under the sun, duty-free island. I would really taste the different of cultures between northern and Klang valley. God blessed the taxi's driver in Alor setar! They don't even bother to ask the visitors / passer by if they would like to call for a cab. They were like lay on faith and wait to be call. Is that a good way to strategize their business? I doubt. Then when we landed in Langkawi, so much of a tourism info posted in the internet, hack the 4-stars resort, screw the expensive entrance fees at the attraction spots.

 Galeria Perdana

The A-rated tourism spot i would recommend for those who wants to visit Langkawi is Galeria Perdana, an exhibition hall for Dr Mahathir's souvenirs. The items are really eye opening of seeing the art reaching the limit. Everything are so fine. Items are mostly souvenirs Dr Mahathir received during his diplomatic visit and partly from his fans / supporters. Awesome place, 3 blocks of double-storey fine decorated buildings, cheap entrance fee. RM5 for adult, RM3 for golden veteran above 55yrs old, RM1 for camera.

Again, we can see the "win" culture here. Other country's admin head giving out precious souvenirs as a mark to win over our respect to his, and the other way round.