At last, I managed to spend some time to blog about my travel. Should have blogged about this Macao trip of mine long time ago. Let me begin with the planning part.

Trip Objective: Food Galore and Budget Travelling

For a budget trip, as usual, Air Asia provides the cheapest air ticket all the way from LCCT in Sepang to Macao International Airport. Needless to say, I managed to get my return tickets for roughly around RM300++ of which I booked 3 months prior to my trip.

Photo Credit: AirHostess.info - p/s Look at RM9.99, not the chicks!

Most people would take this budget airline transit before making their way ultimately to Hong Kong as this is rather a cheaper alternative if you don’t want to spend extra money for travelling on a direct flight. Not for my case, my trip does not include Hong Kong as my mom, my elder brother and I decided to spend more time travelling in Macao and Zhuhai in this 4D 3N trip. So, 2 days Zhuhai, 2 days Macao… just nice. Read the rest of this entry »

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A common post-exam question: “What to do after exam???”

Wah, Sien!!!!! Boring…

This won’t be the case for this year. I bet this would be the last time I am having my holidays as a student so I better be planning to do something exciting before I’m back to suffer for one last semester.

It has been plain post exam activities all this while, but this semester, I missed a trip to Malacca with my coursemates. Lucky, I had one hell of a night out with them before their trip. Had several beer towers before all of them began to “talk nonsense” after excessive bottom’s up. Total damage: 4 towers in 3 hours.

Piccadilly, with beer towers and three musketeers.

Piccadilly is a nice restaurant which serves nice and considerably cheap beers and local delicacies. RM25 per jug, is rather cheap by KL standards, right? They too have wide selection of food, from local Malay, Chinese and Indian food, as well as some western food! 

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When the going gets tough, the tough gets going.

When the exams get tougher, the hungrier I get. In the midst of exam preparation, I escaped back all the way to Penang and here I am again, bringing to you the very best of Penang food.

Last edition of my food galore featured the Dim Sum feast in Ipoh. How about some steamboat dinner this time?

It has becoming more and more trendy with steamboat restaurants everywhere promoting the eat-all-you-can style. Not for this case, this unique restaurant brings you back to the old-school style of the traditional steamboat.

Zi Wei Yuan Steamboat Restaurant is the name. From my knowledge, steamboat is actually a local cuisine of the native of Fuzhou clan. It can be seen here that the steamboat itself is not power by gas stove, instead the traditional charcoal method is being utilized. This actually makes the soup more tasty and brings out the real taste of steamboat by convention (if you get what I mean here). Try cooking for yourself by using gas stove and compare it by cooking similar food by using charcoal powered stove… you’ll probably understand the art of charcoal fire.

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Many of you would have heard of this place. Yes, desmond-t is going to bring to you his version of Look Out Point, Hulu Langat. Do expect nice KL views, attractions and food galore from this place. A perfect hangout place, for the young and old. Last Saturday it is, a perfect time to go to The Look Out Point in the night as it rained cats and dogs in the evening. Immediately, the skies emerged as clear as it is after several spells of hazy atmosphere. What a time for a drive to this hillside hangout place.

Jianz just bought a new digital camera, so this outing’s photos were taken from his brand new Olympus 850 SW camera. With 8MP and shock proof and 3-meters waterproof camera, he is still learning to fully utilize his camera. This is the best result of the night, taken by ShiMikY over the night mode. Not bad for me, at least.

More review on Look Out Point, food, scenes here!

This edition of travelogue brings you to another adventurous exploration, The Taman Negara Pahang or also known as The National Park, Pahang, West Malaysia.

It is widely known as one of the oldest, of not the oldest rainforest in the world (eh, my guide argues it is even older than the Amazon Rainforest, OK?)

My 3D2N trip depends very much on my two jungle guides, very much that we simply agree to whatever they said. If any of us found to be protesting against them, who knows they’d left us in the middle of no man’s land LOL Just kidding.

I’m sure you’ll be very eager to know how I actually planned my trip, just in case you’re planning yours in time to come. Make it simple, I depart from University of Malaya, KL and drove myself all the way to the Sungai Tembeling Jetty Entrance, Jerantut, Pahang.

You’d be killing me by now. Bear with me, for sure I’ll elaborate more about my commotion during my rough ride on the way there.

As you know, I drove there and no way I’m gonna have my hands on the camera. Neither do my friends, all just numb inside my car, some half asleep, some half dreaming, some half sesat.

From KL, we stopped by Mentakab for breakfast and a short visit to my coursemate’s house before we began the gruelling 2 hrs++ drive from Mentakab to Jerantut. Distance is around 150km, but the journey took us 2hrs plus! Winding road, hill slopes and not forgetting feases or cow dung in the middle of the road. For god sake, I was driving, not to avoid pot holes but shit holes! I bet it’s so called the natural toilet for the cows and goats.

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For one moment, I’m back in Penang.

Within a blink of an eye, I turned 23. Kept thinking how many places have conquered their food?

The moment after that, I found myself back in KL, back to reality.

It has been a fattening trip and filled with assignments and “money-risking” trip as well.

Fattening - food all over, plus mom’s delicious home cooked food. Plus vegetarian feast! Travelling back to Penang never fail to end up with extreme food festival. Everyday is a sumptuos day for me. LOL

Assignments - enough said, no one is interested that I’ve found my lecturer’s answer on the web!

Money risking - Snooker with lucky balls and Texas Hold’em at home, all kaki judi betul!

and this was the night I turned 23, in an old school Church Street Bar. This bar is one of a kind.

Why? Simply because it is so old school that so many youngsters begin to flock in and as if they act to be old and mature, drinking at the bar style.

Most important of all, they serve the chilling Snow Beer! It’s a premium beer, poured onto a freezing ice cold mug, thus freezing all the bubbles like snow. Snow beer it is for my birthday.

More funny and edited pictures at Eve’s Apple4today, with special effects by Mr. Kenny Ng.

 I’m one lucky dude to have all my bosom buddies back in Penang to celebrate with me all these years. If you guys still remember last year at Gurney Place and the year before at Bukit Genting.

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It’s been a month since desmond-t last returned to his food heaven, Penang. There’s so many things that were left behind when he left to surrender himself to assignments in KL, mainly his food feast!

He definitely missed this Mizi Bistro and Restaurant! Why why?

Simply because they serve his favourite Dory Fish! The best in town!

Read more about Desmond-t’s activities in Penang

Desmond-t is a man of his word. At least he is now posting about his trip, although it was so long ago…

Still fresh in his memory, he was there at The Venetian Macao on the 1st of July, 2008. Coincidently, it was the National Day of Hong Kong.

He never realized that it was a super-peak-season at that time. Gosh, all the “demi-gods” alike businessmen were already all guns blazing to slit all the tourists’ throats. Prices were unseemingly “expensive”. What’s more when it’s in a 99-star resort hotel? Hmm, you figure it out how much it costs for a bowl of Wan Than Mee in the Venetian Food Festivita a.k.a Food Court.

A whopping RM40 for god’s sake! Further thanks to our “strong” currency and so-called economic stability. Erm, that makes the food even more tantalizing than usual. Enough said.

This combo of Chee Cheong Fun and Chicken Congee cost approximately RM 50!

Read the rest of the Amazing Venetian Macao entry here!