the best I have ever eaten, in Sin Seow Fong Lye Cafe, 94C, Macalister Lane, 10400 Penang.

they’re like a kopitiam actually. =D.

I don’t really look like my mom =X. but we both love the chee cheong fun very much. we both had two BIG plate EACH!

TADA! the Ha Kou Chee Cheong Fun! <3. the best thing I’ve ever tried. but if you hate ha kou, then don’t try it haha.

after being hit by the hazard caused by my chopsticks!

okay the shop is not only famous for these.

their Char Kuey Teow is very famous as well. but the thing is, 90% of the kuey teow you can get will satisfy you. it isn’t the best, but it’s GREATTT.

their menu. I had Omelette B, C was sold out T_T. trust me, it spells D_E_L_I_C_I_O_U_S. I thought it was just normal omelette at first so I didn’t take any picture of it. they didn’t use normal cheese. they used CREAM CHEESE. oh nom nom nom nom!

otak-otak. I prefer the ones here compared to the ones in Muar, I’m weird. >=(. I like how they have those vegetables in it. YUMM. but the one sold at this coffee shop ain’t as good. go buy it from the “neighbour”.

here’s the neighbour’s contact. not sure if it’s RM2.50 or what. somewhere there. it’s seriously damn good. T_T. I wanted more but we only went there once. sigh.

and on the ferry, I thought I was going to face the most tragic situation of my life. the PETROL factory (Shell) was in that state. lucky it didn’t blow up or something. I was literally scared. T_T.

ever heard of Satay Celup? it’s basically lok-lok. but instead dipping it into boiling clear water, you dip them into boiling satay sauce!

the most famous Satay Celup Restaurant in Malacca, Capitol Satay Celup. EVERYBODY in Malacca knows about it. so to find it, just ask around =D. we reached the shop at approximately 6pm, and there was already a long queue. so we rushed over and look.

this is what’s behind us after 3 minutes? of waiting. it’s longer than what the picture shows actually, my bad estimation =(.

and we left at about 8pm. ate for about an hour plus hahahha. it was GREAT. and as a person so new to it, eating almost everything is a MUST. you need to TRY! =D

the inside seats. there are at most 10 tables from what I see, and their business is SO GOOD. pfft. look at the walls, most of them are singaporean celebrities.

they soon later brought a bucket of satay sauce. about the hygiene, I am not really sure about if they REUSE the satay sauces. but we usually just dip in it and take it out anyways, not like we lick it and put it back inside. what’s disgusting in my opinion is, IF they really reuse it, what if somebody coughed into the pot =X. or tercough or something. don’t know lah! but I guess there are no complaints since it’s so “laku”. =P.

I have NO IDEA what they kept adding into the sauce, but it was AMAZINGLY DELICIOUS. peanuts and sugar was one of the things I spotted. and something else.. it’s like those fragrant stuff which could be found in rendangs. I don’t really know how to describe it but it’s those long thin thingys =X. very delicious when eaten =D. chewy too.

like the normal lok-lok, they charge by stick too =D. and they standardize it to 80cents each! =D. yum.

what I heard is so great about this place compared to the others, their seafood quality is really good.

quote from Natalie about delicious prawns : those prawns were literally bouncing! (haha she’s so cute and that is one good quote!)

and what she said could be applied to the prawns here. they are HUGE. I am allergic to them but I ate 3. to the lazy people out there : the prawns are skinned, don’t worry =D.

my choice. exclude the vegetables, those are fatty Darren’s! =P.

those taiwan lapcheongs were awesome. they are like the number 1 thing I’d look for in pasar malam but who knows what chunks are in there to make it so tasty. =X. sometimes certain lapcheong I ate in china tasted lik intestines. ew. T_T. this is awesome too though =P.

and intestines are awesome too I just said ew for fun. ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ.

bread is a MUST order. it is SO DAMN GOOD. especially with the satay celup sauce. but then do be careful because dipping bread into the sauce is very different from dipping meat or cucumber in it. the bread soaked all the sauce in it, making it extra hot. watch out from burning your tongue!

hello. =D.

and hi Wei Zhong. you need a haircut. he hates appearing in my blog. but this one is rare okay Zhong? pfft.

aiyah I must take a picture with the food to prove that I was actually really there. =P.

PROVEN!

this is one of the more famous restaurant, called the “Famosa Chicken Rice Ball Restaurant”. it is located at Jonker Street but the one I had was.. where my GPS took me. it’s at the shop lots. =D. pretty near to Tan Kim Hock’s branched out shop. =D.

it’s basically the ordinary chicken rice RICE, squeezed into a ball — looks special, doesn’t taste special. it just makes me eat more rice because the rice became so compact. equivalent to : fatter.

we ordered pretty much just for the 3 of us. there was another plate of that rice ball. it is said that 5 riceballs = 1 plate of rice. but it doesn’t fill you so fast, because it’s in that form. haha. their poultry was.. quite good, not very but quite. I liked the chilli though =D. it is worth a try I’d say, but not something I would crave for.

I seldom have candids because I am very alert at when the camera points at me. but when other people are playing with my camera for an excessive time, I’d pay less attention. =D.

Malaysia’s next top model poses. HAHA. just joking. that shelter is so small if I were fatter, I couldn’t even squeeze in. the guys had to go in sideways already!

this is actually a trip suggested by Darren. he wanted to go on a short road trip as his birthday celebration with his two besties! awwwwww <3.

ugh, I HATE wearing flats whenever I meet both of them. they make me short.

we saw some Japanese aunties posing like.. how Darren’s posing. but much more dramatically. so we decided to do something similar =D. is it me or are the building’s fading. but red is no good, according to colour studies, it makes you more aggressive HAHAHA. =D.

Malacca is now under the world heritage site, by the way. =P.

I am scared of cats. not kittens but cats. they aren’t big but they’re always looking evil. >_<”.

meow.

my initial Idea didn’t work out. first, I had too little make up on. second, I don’t look emo, third, the weather ain’t helping me out on lightings.

so here’s the big poser trying to express my idea. phail.

he is usually not camera shy. just with mine. probably he knows it’ll be HERE. =P.

Wei Zhong’s work of art. the streets of Jongker on a weekday.

Darren is.. sigh.

it’s true. life would be dull and boring without him. heh.

we were entertained by a few performances that night. songs and dances.

US =D. I just love Feeq’s fisheye. it’s awesome on how it can fit so many people.

some of the Silat performance. perhaps the most interesting one. seeing kids fight against each other is really pretty entertaining xD.

lunch and breakfast! we had food they brought back from some kenduri (malay ceremonies) for lunch. they had RAISINS in the rice. very interesting, never had rice like that before. and it is YUMMY! for breakfast, we had nasi goreng kampung, which is the best nasi goreng/fried rice I’ve ever had. I think I shall start ordering nasi goreng at mamaks. =P. alongside with some curry puff, kuih and milo =D.

early that morning we went over to the padi field and we actually learned how to SKIN RICE. =P. in the traditional way, which is said to be better because we won’t lose the nutrients at the end of each rice. rice processed by factories have already lost these nutrients they said.

that long plank of wood is INDEED very heavy. and it is not an easy thing to do, requires skill to hit on the rice. if not, your rice will run EVERYWHERE!

before and after. =D.

and later on, we went to the GOATS PLACE!

I’ve never knew, goat have weird pupil. it’s long and it’s horizontal. like a rotated version of an evil cat eye. it’s like.. a horizontal line.

the beauty of life — my first time experiencing the birth of.. the birth! I have never even seen hamster give birth pfft. it’s really wonderful despite all gooey things. those gooey things don’t seem gooey anymore!

MEEEEEHHH. baby kids are super cute when the MEH. =P.

mother eating (I KNOW, IMAGINE YOU EAT) the placenta on her baby’s body. damn loving moment awww. but don’t you do that if not the doctor die of shock. =D.

have no idea what this is >_>”. I was wondering, maybe an empty placenta omg. maybe there was an extra egg fertilized by some ant’s sperm and this is what it produced. ok perhaps ants don’t have sperms. dunno lah!

lastly, MY FOSTER MOM : THE GREAT COOK! she already have 12 grandchildren. oldest one is as old as me. maybe she should be called my foster grandma T_T. but she is very nice and funny. =D. I like listening to grandma stories. mm.

great experience really, to all who don’t have a kampung, you should really consider joining this! and I am waiting for another kampung homestay to come about, hope it’ll be some chinese/hakka/nonya one or something! would love to learn more about my own heritage =X. I am not nonya, just saying. =D. 100% Hakka. how often do you find that?!

minus the dinner part. too many pictures! 500 pictures in 2 days without major camwhoring is a LOT.

Kem Modal Insan – the name of the place is to tell you they’d make you a better person haha. but by the first sight of the name you might think it’s some sort of NS camp haha like mine, it was Kem Tegas Mesra. it’s 3 words and it starts with a KEM. =X. anyways, thanks Agrotourism and NewsZapped Media. =D.

some people might like it, some won’t. if you’re a high class-person-who-only-loves-city-life, skip this post. haha. I liked how the road is so narrow with rows of houses along it. it’s.. warm. they are like a big family, everybody knowing each other, sharing food and fruits.

we were welcomed by a group of people in kompangs @@”. but they were in uniform that doesn’t look very traditional actually. hahaa.

TEA! it was some malay chocolate kuih (not a fan of kuihs.) and awesome curry puffs with FABULOUS DURIAN. at first sight, the durian is really pale. I didn’t expect it to be nice at all. so I took one little bite. and IT IS SO HEAVENLY. THE MILKY, BITTER, SWEET TASTE. it’s heaven. for those who doesn’t appreciate durians.. well, LESS MEN MORE SHARE!

and since it’s kampung, nobody really needs make up =X.

ADIK ZOE! we were divided into pairs/groups along with our foster parents. and my roomate’s ZoePorcelainSkin.

FIRST MEAL OF THE DAY! thats sambal fish, fried fish, sambal (they used the traditional way to make it! the stone thing? ) and the last and THE BEST, ubi kayu leaves with pumpkin + coconut milk. it’s HEAVENLY. some people got tempoyak as well T_T. but I consider myself lucky, mine’s really really good. =3.

FIRST ACTIVITY OF THE DAY!

menoreh getah. I’ve heard this a zillion times from my grandma about how huge orang utans and elephants walk pass her while she hides behind the trees. but this is the first time doing it. it isn’t really difficult! =X. needs more practice only. =/.

the hardened latex. DON’T TOUCH. it’s really smelly and I heard if you touch it with your bare hands, it’ll stay for DAYSSS. =X.

latex dripping down! I MENOREH-ED THIS TREE!

ACTIVITY TWO.

white faced monkey eating rambutan. according to them, this isn’t a monyet. it’s a beruk. which means a bigger version of monyet whom is more tamed and humanlike? I kind of pity the monkey. it doesn’t get to run around the forest =(. and according to the guy, it’s trained in a BERUK SCHOOL in Thai, who trains beruk to pluck coconuts @@.

and this monkey plucks 300 coconuts a day! amazing much. my condo say wanna pluck coconuts also need 1k HAHHA. and the number of coconut trees are….. what, 10? or less. dunno. =X.

A NICE MONKEY PICTURE NO? =P.

getah seed, satay sticks = kids entertainment in the kampung. it’s pretty fun but I got bored after 1minute. guess I am no longer a kid! =P.

the kampung’s nenek whom menoreh’s the whole field of getah trees ON HER OWN teaching us how to stitch the jackfruit’s protection. apparently, it’ll expand as the jackfruit expands. and she also mentioned that a jackfruit will always be “invaded” by worms if it is not protected. it doesn’t matter if it has holes, as long as there’s a layer of something.

made by 2 pieces of 3 paired leaves coconut leaf.

beautiful, isn’t it?

my kampung house! it might not be the best looking kampung house, but it really gave me an experience on WHAT IF I had a kampung home. my grandma stays with me and I am born in KL. never been to a kampung =(.

one thing lah, the weather is unbearable in the afternoon inside the house. but at night, FRIGGIN COLD.

ACTIVITY THREE!

making your own century duck egg?

I never knew it’s wrapped with MUD+salt. really. and that black thingy is the skin of rice! fried.

me and Tian Chad making our century eggs! my finger then smell of mud T_T. and salt. those mud are DAMNNNNN sticky. same reason why they used it to cover the egg. FULL COVERAGE AH.

ACTIVITY FOUR

our minyak kelapa sawit! at first I thought it is a coconut wth. it’s actually really really small OILY seeds. by the way, I heard kelapa sawits are considered as FATS not OIL. so consume it more to become fat =D.

ACTIVITY FIVE

our catch the eel activity. I don’t know if its an inheritance from my dad who can’t even take the snakes showing on tv, I AM SCARED OF EELS. they are long and slimey T_T. JUST LIKE SNAKES. I yelled as if its a poisonous snake when somebody dropped it and it was slithering towards my direction. *shivers*

ACTIVITY SIX the best part.

DURIANS! EVERYWHERE! FREE FOR EVERYONE! you see a durian on the floor, grab it. it’s yours to eat. the durian tree’s belongs to NOBODY and it tastes better than D24.+

LOOK! this is what they call the Kampung Durian. rich, fragrant, smooth… and found everywhere!

and look at it’s texture! MM YUM YUM.

it was like a durian buffet. I had so much durian I got a huge pimple on my nose that very night T_T.

LOTUS! I thought this is a cinapek flower only found in cinapek places. but to my surprise, lotuses there are abundant!

I’ll leave rest of the night and the next day (another half-day =D) for my next post. I shall sleep! TOODLES!

PS : end of sem = finals = stress = hectic = oil glands secretes more oil = pimples = FML.

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