Penang Trip Part 2
Well, I reckon it's time for me to clear off some long overdue posts...Here comes the 2nd day in Penang...
Woke up quite early, meet up with Siao Gu & Uncle Richard for breakfast at Song River, just beside our hotel. Yea, they spent us the breakfast, thanks again! This place is famous for its Bat Kut Teh and some other dishes. One thing I dont understand about Penangnites, they have Steam Fish, Fried Teo Chew Beancurd, etc, heavy stuff people normally had for their lunch or dinner as their breakfast. Quite weird lo... But one thing I cannot deny is the tastiness of the food and it's pretty expensive for a breakfast!
After breakfast, we cam-whoring along the beach, just opposite of our hotel. We didnt manage to go to real beach, as in those you can build sand castle on, this time. Lack of time la... Our schedule are pretty packed. LOLZ~~~
The girls... (I only discovered this photo when I scroll thru Steve's camera, kinda special...)
The guys...
I had been to Penang countless time since a very young age. My family told me that I was only few months old when I first visited Penang. And I'm not willing to left! Erm...they said my little head kept staying outside of the car and was unwilling to go into the car. Haha!!! We used to go Penang at least once a year and our schedule were packed with eating, eating, and more eating. Penang is well known for its food, ok? I think this is my very first time going up to the Pagoda of Kek Lok Si, unless I had been there when I was really really young. Really enjoy it, especially with the company I had. And they had this new Guan Yin/Goddess Of Mercy statue, which is worth visiting in my opinion.
I shall let the photos illustrate it...
I like this pic ah...
The front view of the Pagoda...
Taken on the Pagoda, forgotten which floor... We went all the way up to the top floor and snap a photo with all of us inside there, but it's with Kwee Zhi.
The Guan Yin Statue (it's very nice in reality, my photography skills needs to be improve!)
The tiger babies~~~ Thanks to the cow baby who help us to take this photo :D
We spent hours at this place, end up dont have time to visit Bukit Bendera. Also we wanna go to Red Box, if not can go up the hill, but sing k is relatively more important to us la... Hehe... So after coming down from Kek Lok Si, all of us were hungry and opt to have the famous Assam Laksa. Unfortunately, the Laksa that I normally ordered, ie not the famous one, was closed. The famous stall that was recommended by tourists info is not that nice lo... That's what I feel la... The one inside the market, opposite the famous stall, is better still, and the stall owner is a mute. Next time, if you happen to go there, have a try on his Laksa.
After eating, we rushed to Gurney Plaza, because we booked the room earlier and dont wanna miss it. We sang for 3 hours 45 minutes, the people there forgot to 'cut' so we gotta sing longer. :)
Then, dinner at Gurney Drive, eating almost all the hawker foods we can find there. Yummy! We had Popiah, Pie Tee, Rojak, Bbq Dried Squid, Bbq Taufu, Fried Mee Shua, Muah Chee(My all time favourite!), Apong, Char Keow Teow, Oyster Omelette... Ate to the content of our heart obviously... We were afraid that it might rain while we were eating because there was once when we decided to go and get some more food, it suddenly started to rain. Everybody there got panic and tried to move away, but then it stops. Luckily, we get to finish all of our food.
Back to hotel, chit chat a while before call it for a day.
The next day, we were checking out, shall I say this is the day of disaster? First, I wanted to bring them to Burma Road for breakfast and none shops were open, then decided to go Pulau Tikus, but the place I wanna bring them to, also closed. End up eating at one kopitiam along the shoplots where Baskin Robin is, dont know the road name la. The food not bad la... Then go back to the hotel, wanna check out because it's almost time. Later, went to Him Heang, thinking of buying the famous biscuits, but sold out. Then, wanna lunch at Chang Kee, Nibong Tebal for its Crab Porridge. First, we got to the wrong way, then when we were at the correct place, it was closed. Bad Luck le...
End up, we stop by Taiping for makan. My friends dont seems to like the food a lot, but luckily they like the drinks, save the day a bit. What happen later was a total nightmare la... Alfeus not feeling well at first, then Khai Yinn, Steve, Shawn. The four of them vomit and diarrhea the whole night, only Kwee Zhi and myself safe. They suspected the food in Taiping caused them food poisoning, but I had been eating the food there for a long long time and I'm pretty sure about the cleanliness there, dont know la, perhaps it differs depends on peoples' body.
I'm glad that all of them got home safely regardless of feeling unwell. I feel sorry for them too, for not being a good host. Dont have the chance to bring them to Dim Sum because none of them got appetite, made me feel regret lo...
People, come to Ipoh again this year, and I promise to belanja you all Ming Court Dim Sum, and hopefully be a better host.
That's all for this trip. Thanks to Alfeus, Khai Yinn, Kwee Zhi, Shawn & Steve for being such a good company. Hope we got to meet up again and go for another trip.
posted by Dan Xuan @ 3:22 AM
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