Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts

Thursday

19.08.2010

the long-awaited holiday trip was just over. i just got back from haikou, hainan in china.
to be honest, i did not really enjoy the trip this time, as compared to my previous visit to china. i feel like i had culture shock when i was there. although i know and are familiar with the chinese culture, somehow there's something different when you are not in your homeland.



hainan is an island whereby the weather is almost the same in Sabah. but it was very hot due to the sudden temperature rise in some part of China, and the highest temperature during our visit was 38 C.


the main tourist attraction spots are the beaches..and you can see lots of coconuts in hainan. in every supermarket that we visited, surely we can see products made from coconuts, from candies to bags and even the facial products.

dinner on our 1st day in hainan: all were spicy..even the kacang panjang also very spicy..

we joined in the local tour to go around hainan for 3 days 2 nights. we visited pearl shop, jade, market, tea house, seafood products manufacturing factory, and lots more where we can get local products for souvenirs.


it's nice to see their scenery. it's good to see their local products..but then it's the food that i enjoyed the most. they are very cheap!

xiao lung pao & shui jiao: 3 yuan per basket

another experience is to eat pork burger in one of the famous fast food chain, which is unlikely or should i say, impossible to have back at home. :)


the last two days in hainan, we went to the same shop for dinner because they served nice food and big portion and not expensive.


a piece of information for you: you will not get hainan chicken rice in hainan. i'm not really sure how the 'hainan chicken rice' came about..perhaps, long time ago, a man from hainan traveled to malaya and got married to a local lady here.. and because he had to raise his family, he decided to start his own chicken rice business. so, that's how we have our hainan chicken rice, today.

the famous chicken dish in hainan is called Wenchang chicken. wenchang is the name of one of the city in hainan. to have wenchang chicken in hainan, is the same as having ayam kampung in malaysia..

this is the local food in haikou. and, this is something different. the taste is unexplainable.. you will have to try, to know how it taste..a combination of everything. sweet, sour, salty and spicy.

ah meng, tuako, me and mom

ok..now, it's time save again, for the next trip.

Monday

01.02.2010

leslie, jenn and i

i was away to kl-ipoh-penang-ipoh-kl to attend jenn's wedding in penang. it has been more than a year since i last stepped my feet in kl..and it has been at least 4years since i last saw them. and one word to conclude the whole trip: SUPERB!


although it's a short and busy one, but i enjoyed myself every moment.from the shopping in times square until i got headache, to the driving which i concentrated too much until i got headache..haha. i'm not complaining, i'm just sharing my experience. =)

journey to penang

i arrived KL at 9++pm and i took shuttle bus from LCCT to Salak Tinggi Station to Putrajaya-Cyberjaya Station. initially bunie asked me to get train to Bandar Tasik Selatan, then interchange to another train to Putrajaya. Luckily i was aware of the route map, or else i have to burden bunie to wait for me and fetch me at the middle of the night.

sunrise in old town, ipoh

i am so blessed with the gift of friendship that there's nothing that i have to worry about on where to sleep for the night? how do i travel? what am i going to do? etc etc. i am surrounded with wonderful people..

another 140km to penang

to be honest, the night before i fly, i was so worried that the trip will not go as smooth as how i imagined. i was so afraid that there's fear in me and voices telling me not to go.. and i cried ;p


somehow, God is so great that He took care of everything (in a form of friends).. the journey went well..oh, i love long distance journey..

the wedding ceremony went well, and i think everyone was in the mood of love, hehe. congratulation to Leslie & Jenn that finally they are one.

Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, Penang

i remember that day, i was in asayo with jenn when her boss was not around. i arranged and stuck all those selected pictures in front of her boss's wall.. that time, she had just started dating Leslie, and she would not want to tell me who the person is, but somehow i knew. i'm not sure how i found out that Leslie was the one, but when i told her his name, she was shocked. i'm glad that i have to opportunity to witness their big day.

the dinner (oh, not forgetting the singing) went well.. the food were all perfect! yum..












we went for Mass in pulau tikus..and it feels nice to pray with group of friends you knew. =)

Immaculate Conception Church, Pulau Tikus


we searched for foods of penang and we got penang laksa, ABC, mochi, air tebu, tauhu and popiah..and many more. but too bad, my camera was out of battery and i forgotten to bring the spare with me to penang (i left it in KL) and i didnt get to take the picture of that bowl of laksa i had.

pasembur

pai tee

chai kueh

ABC with mango

tee nya kueh


prawn noodle- very nice!


the day before i fly back to KK, bunie and i filled ourselves with another meal of chicken rice in The Chicken Rice Shop. we had the same meal on the first day..and because they were too nice, we decided to have them again on the last day. ;p






i flew back to kk at 2pm, arrived at 430pm and had another serving of food in the plane.



my appetizer and dessert: orange juice, ferrero rocher and fruit cake

chicken satay with fried rice

i was refreshed after the trip..really refreshed. and the whole trip (from the people i met, event i attended, things i saw, food i ate, conversation that i had, etc etc) just made me a happier person ;)

ok! now back to my diet plan..