Penang Food Heritage

I would like to break the normality of my blog where I would like to introduce penang food to readers instead of just heritage sites. After staying 2 days at penang town center and I actually found all the recommended food that I would like to try. The 2 food highlight I would like to introduce is penang char kuay teow and penang lor mee.





Penang char kuay teow is really a long chinese food heritage in penang. Previously I try the sister char kuay teow near lorong selamat which I prefer mostly. This round I try another which is called Ah Leng famous penang char kuay teow near lorong dunlop off jalan anson. I order the one with duck egg which I found it not much difference to a normal one. But overall the char kuay teow still very delicious.





The second recommendation is the penang lor mee that located in the heart of penang core zone near lebuh ah quee. It is hard to find good food around that area as everyone also mention there are only good food near komtar. But to break the normality again, I really search for this penang lor mee and it is nice and special to taste it with sugar or garlic.

Walking Penang UNESCO World Heritage 2011

We heading to Penang for our pre wedding photos over the weekend. As you know I am really into world heritage sites and I would put piority to my own country world heritage sites like melaka and penang. We visited melaka on november 2010 which is 2 months ago.





I am targeting the heritage core zone for the photo shooting around beach road. After recommendation from the passionate photographer, we plan to take the photos at jetty in the morning then proceed to beach road where logan heritage located and end up on armenian street and kuan yin temple.







Anyway sunday was the photo shooting day and I hardly walk around the world heritage core zone. I took the opportunity on Monday to walk around with Jess to Kuan yin temple again, cheah kongsi and Dr.Sun Yat Sen museum.





My main target of this penang vacation is to visit penang 2 UNESCO restoration winner, which is Cheong Fatt Sze mansion and sulfolk house. I drop by at Cheong fatt sze mansion and is also call 'Blue Mansion' for a overall photo. I didn't enter the mansion but I save the best for last to Sulfolk house which located outside the core zone. It is a beautiful restoration if you can imagine the previous condition of the house.






Here is the result and effort of the penang photo shooting.

Weekend break at Kuantan Tembeling

Kuantan is the capital of Pahang state located near the east coast of Peninsula Malaysia. We are taking a short break for 3 days 2 nights at Kuantan for a breakaway for mostly food searching as there isn't any much attraction over there.

When we reach on friday, 7th of Jan afternoon, we had our lunch at Kemaman Kopitiam which is similar to Old Town Kopitiam and there isn't any fancy about this kopitiam. We also visited East Coast mall which say to be the largest in Kuantan. I guess the mall is sufficient for kuantan. Then we quickly check into kuantan tembeling resort for our stay. Our first day are quite simple as we are waiting for a group of friends from KL to proceed for our food hunting. We just end our day at teluk cempedak for macdonald as dinner.





Second day would be more interesting as we start our day at Hoi Yin restaurant for famous curry mee in Kuantan but I believe it is too commercial. We have a little break at teluk cempedak for kite even there isn't much wind.






Then we proceed to Chukai town near Kemaman which is around 60km from Kuantan which I found it little far but lucky we had a friend, wong that are familiar around that place. We had a famous 'Yong hai' or stuff crab at chukai town. This is pretty good taste I had so far for the trip. Then we proceed to Hai Peng Kopitiam which I believe it is the original Kemaman kopitiam comparing to the one at kuantan. Original mean it is located at Kemaman as Kemaman is a district in terengganu state.

Then after our lunch and tea break, we are heading back kuantan. We pass by a turtle sanctuary near club med and we visited for a short break. Reach back kuantan tembeling resort and rest. We had our dinner at a simple restorant at Kuantan which are quite cheap around Rm13/person for 5 person. We had fish, squid, clam, tahu and a vegetable. We also had the famous Satay Zul for supper as it is also recommended. I would say it is commercial again but it is worth a try when you visit Kuantan.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011

HAPPY NEW YEAR BLOGGER !!!

I believe we are looking forward to the year of rabbit and a bright 2011 year ahead. As for myself it would be a busy year as there are plenty of planning and sharing this year. Hope you get the experience sharing too. Keep in the loop!!

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