went to penang for a short trip last weekend. waking up at 5.30a.m and dragging myself out of the bed in a weekend morning isn't fun at all. but when you think about the things that you can do at trips, ie: long highway rides (i love highway rides!!), sleeping cosily in the front seat with nice music (no need to drive!), and most importantly, you get to EAT (no diet plans that needs to be followed during trips). yay! going out from the house early morning is not so bad. as we reached Ipoh around er... i think it's 10a.m. we went to look for the ever famous dim sum in town. the restaurant is called Foo San. it's a bit old school type of restaurant where their waitresses still wears checkers uniform with a hankerchief-attached-hairband. they looked cute.
the food there, absolutely delicious!!!! i gave all thumbs up! the "siew mai" is yummy, no prawn smell and funny pork smell. super fresh! the "ha gao", i tell you... it has three prawns,50-cents big, in each "ha gao".
steam pork rib at kl dim sum will never be the same again.
we went to Gurney Drive at night for supper. look what they found!!!!!!!!
sibeh crunchy fried chicken skin!!!!!!!!KFC spicy chicken with crunchy skin also kalah! KFC will never taste good again.. this chicken skin.. is purely just chicken skin. and when you bite the skin, it's so crunchy that it almost melt in the mouth....
of course, nobody goes to Penang without stuffing themselves with at least two bowl of the infamous scrumptious asam laksa.
yummy asam laksa!
as we reached the hotel, it's only 12p.m. we requested for early check in but unfortunately, they can only give us (dyming and seanmoon) rooms on level 9 and they only have two bedded rooms left.
we checked in anyway.
moved the bed together and make it like it's king sized bed.
we changed into our beach attire and head to the beach and joined the rest.
it was a hot saturday. but very strong wind. perfect time to get a tan.
i put sunblocks on my face, my hands and my neck. i just want to tan my legs, back and my body. but half way through my nice sleep, it rained. we have to go in and wait for it to stop.
it didn't rained long enough tho. maybe around ten minutes and the sun is up again. and we're back to our sunbeds and trying hard to get a nice tan.
watched the guys fly kites. and i tried balancing it tho.. it's nice... very nice feeling.
didn't really stayed long enough to get tanned tho. it drizzle and stop and it's annoying. so we decided to dip ourselves in the seawater to cool down.
we played frisbee, fly kites, the guys played volley ball, and made some sand castle. we buried gary in the sand too!
chilling out with ming after the short rain.
with pekyee waiting for the rain to stop.
after long hours at beach (not to mention that i didn't get any tan), suddenly ming found out that the room key's missing. he put it in his pocket and maybe it dropped in the sea. we report about the missing key to the manager and luckily we only have to pay 30 bucks for it. the manager replaced our room. we get one floor higher. exactly the same room, but one floor up. phew~ lucky that we don't have to pay the missing-key's room. after we moved our stuff to the new room, we head back to the beach for second round of dipping.
went to batu ferringhi for dinner at those hawkers center. food there was so-so. prawn mee was nice. and homemade fried spring roll was unique in flavor. yummy too!
went to Kek Lok Si temple for prayers and lit up a candle. things are almost still the same since the last time i've been there, which is almost 5 years.
ming, gary, lun and donald posing with thier chinese zodiac sign, the Goat.
as for me, it's the cow....
here's one photo of everybody at the Bronze Buddha at the top of Kek Lok Si temple.
it was a wonderful trip.
my first road trip with ming.
totally worth it.
but totally broke.
we're planning our next trip already. PD, Phuket or Bali maybe? hehee....
