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Kelantan Trip

Look at Kelantan On 2 Wheels

First travel post of 2014!! šŸ˜€

This time somewhere not too far from us but yet one of the least visited by us, Malaysians.

The Forgotten Kingdom, Kelantan.

:: First Impression of Kelantan::

This is my very first time to step on the east coast part of Malaysia >v<Ā I have heard good stories about the place. Ā Good people and unique food.Ā And I love food!

Upon arrival, the friendly people from Tourism Malaysia Kota Bahru brought us to a warong place inside the Kampung KraftanganĀ (Handicraft village) for lunch. What a good start XD.

Deep fried catfish and deep fried chicken.

It’s my first time to eat catfish and I can say it’s good and has a very unique texture. šŸ˜€ Well, I love fish. LOLĀ The deep fried chicken on the other hand was very tender and not oily at all but actually I was hoping it was deep fried with lots of spices. hehe

They say do what the Romans do in Rome, so we eat what the Kelate people do in Kelantan XD and eat it their way. With hands.

Kinda tricky tho as the rice was very hot. Ā At times, I feel like I’m juggling the rice more than eating. hahaha

Check out the other dishes I had. I have no idea the names of the dishes here except the one on top left, it is called Budu.Ā It taste a bit like fish sauce but with a bit of sourness and sweetness in it. Goes very well with rice. šŸ˜€

After a good lunch, we went on for a Volkswagen Combi Ride. I love this van. So vintage and hippy!

*hippies’ signature tagline *

Actually, I wanna drive one and go for a road trip to Bangkok with my comic blogger buddies in KL!! hahah sounds like fun right? hehehe Any sponsors? LOL

We went to the beach for hi tea. We hadĀ Colek, the dishĀ on the bottom left, it’s deep fried seafood served with a sweet chilli sauce with grounded peanuts. Very nice ^ O ^ but not as nice as the dish beside it.

Maggie Kari Ketam (Maggie Curry Crab), this one is pure awesomeness. The Maggie noodle was springy and curry was strong. šŸ˜€ And with the addition of crab.

Purrfect!! :3Ā I can eat this every day XD

Our tour guide told us, that the one I had wasn’t the best one in town. OAO !! I was like…

I wonder how good is the best one in town. Must really try it one day.

After the crab high tea, we rest a while before visiting a Honey “Museum”

Learned something new about the different types of bee hives and how unique and different are the one they have here. They even sell honeys here. If you’re a fan of honey, do drop by and have a look. ^ V ^

Dinner was served too.

The famous Kelantan Nasi Kelabu (top right). It actually tasted like Thai Southern Rice Salad.Ā Not really that fancy it as I’m not fond to the grassy taste of it.

And no, they don’t eat owls. That’s just their pet like Harry Potter. Unchained and un-caged, the owl can move around as he wishes to. Awesome! I wanted to pet it but afraid it will peck me LOL

Just some shots of the street outside my hotel. It’s interesting where all the shops here have Jawi writings on it even the Chinese coffee shops. Hmm I think it’s the only state in Peninsular Malaysia with such practice?

Many outsiders who never visited Kelantan thought that pork is very hard to find in this state where 90% population are Muslim. I actually found one pork satay stall just by the road side and only few metres away from this Muslim mixed rice stall. I heard from the locals, there are even a market where pork are sold openly with other stalls and the local Muslim are okay with it. Suddenly, I feel home. ^_^

:: First Bicycle Ride ::

Our trip this time is very different as we gonna travel on 2 wheels. It’s been ages since I last cycled. It feels so good to back on 2 wheels.

I love having fresh natural wind blowing to my face~~

Okay, not this kind of natural air >_<

Along the way, there’s a few places of interest such as Batik workshop, and Kriss & Dagger maker workshop where they showcase the production/manufacturing of the products.

We also get to see Malaysia’s top Top-spinning players display their skills.

Interesting part is that the top can go on for one whole hour OAO

A River Fisherman and a Trained Monkey preparing some extra food and drinks for our lunch. šŸ™‚

And here’s the other dishes waiting for us.

Ā Come guess which plate is mine?

Left or Right?

After that we went back to Hotel to be entertained with Shadow Puppet Show andĀ Dik Barat.

Something different about the Shadow Puppet Show we had. Looks familiar right? hahaha that’s the famous Darth Vader and Storm Troopers. Modern touch to traditional show. ^_^ Tho the literal translation of the names into Malay language is kinda weird.

Imaging this..

On the other hand, Dik Barat is a very interesting performance tho where a bunch of guys will sit in a circle and sings their hearts out as if they trying to force the heart out of their mouth. Lol. All their veins can been seenon their face and neck when they sing. Something like this.

Something like a traditional type of Linkin Park.

Good show must comes with good food. šŸ˜€ And we had some really nice one that night.

That’s Potato Porridge on the top left. A weird but good combination. First time trying such mixture.

Super Duper sweet jelly dessert on the top right. Kelantan people or Kelate love sweet food. Most of their food are sweet and some like one-bite-can-get-diabetes sweet. Something different from what I expected. I always thought Muslim food are more towards spicy.

Oh that white looking dish on the bottom left is Laksa Kelantan. Very different from other laksa. Not sour, not spicy, not too milky too.

:: Second Bicycle Ride::

Another morning ride and I love this ride a lot.Ā I get to cycle by the sea under shady tall coconut trees, with sea breeze, cows by the road side, and kids playing on the field. Ahh that peace and calm feeling…

It was a 30-45 minutes ride to reach homestay/fishing village. There’s a very old school store and I bought aĀ Pulut manis (sweet glutinous rice with santan) from there (the one on the bottom left). Omg!! Very nice :3

Took a small walk around the village.Ā We even found a small bomb shelter left from WWII there. Ā (top right photo)

Too bad it was monsoon, else I feel like …

But still sitting on the beach was good enough. After chilling for a while, we cycling back to the hotel before the day starts to get hot.

Later that day, the hotel arranged a high tea session with a cultural show for us. I saw this poor baby monkey there. Poor thing lost her mother, she died somehow, so the hotel people adopted it. It’s soo tiny. >_<

I had some local food while enjoying the show.

Took a walk by the beach before the sun sets. Missing 7 members of Ā my travel group, hence I replaced them with sea shells.Ā Hope to see you all soon in 2014. >v<

Friends come and go but some you know they will be there for you when you in need of them even you do not meet them often, or contact often or have not even meet in real life before. > v <

Sometimes I find how friendship works is weird.

Food, food and more food. All the calories burned during cycling came back in an instant. After the relaxing walk by the beach. We went for a steamboat + seafood dinner. One word, yummy!!! Maybe because Kelantan (Kota Bahru) is located just next to the sea, so all the seafood were very very fresh. And I love seafood!!! (I’m a cat, duh)

Dropped byĀ Wakaf Che Yeh (Che Yeh Night Market) before the night ends. It’s already 11pm at night and the place still very crowded. It’s basically like your night market in KL but opens until late night around 1am. I heard there’s another market which is located near the Thai border that has many Thai products * v *

Found Red bull selling at RM1 only hahaha super cheap tho the taste a bit dilluted. And that’s my Potong (cut) ice cream that cut off a long block of ice cream, champagne flavor.

Then, it started pouring..

Okay lar, at least it was not during our cycling session. hehehe

:: Last day ::

It was my last day in Kelantan. To complete the trip, one must really try their signatureĀ Teh Tarik Madu (Honey Pulled Tea).

Just look at the foams on the tea. How was it? AWESOME!!! šŸ˜€ Wasn’t as sweet as I expected it would be (which is good). My teeth can’t stand food or drinks that is too sweet.

The fish soup was good too. šŸ˜€ Seriously, a must visit!!

We dropped by a meat floss factory nearby and I met a friend over there who was the same color with my outfit fur of that day.Ā Hahaha honestly I almost die as the weather was super hot and I was wearing long sleeve.

After that, we went to the last stop of the day and the trip, the famous Central Market of Kota Bahru, Buluh Kubu Market. I shoudn’t have taken a photo from the top as it was too mainstream. Should have thought of that earlier. >_<

Kelate people are warm and friendly, the food was unique and tasty but one thing I don’t like is they are selling turtle eggs in Kelantan. šŸ™ Ā Hopefully, this practice will stop one day in Kelantan before the turtles extinct (which they are going to).

It was a great few days in this forgotten kingdom. There are lots more places I didn’t manage to visit during this trip. Will visit again one day. If you thought of escaping the noisy and busy city of KL, you can try put Kota Bahru into consideration. ^^

They have homestay programs too if you’re interested in knowing more of Kelantan as a Kelate.

Nevertheless, a bigĀ thank youĀ toĀ Tourism Malaysia KelantanĀ andĀ Air AsiaĀ for this wonderful trip.

AirAsia is flying to Kelantan daily from LCCT, KL and 3x per week from KK, Sabah.Ā 

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AirAsia Macau Trip: Walking Tour

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Third day yoo!!!! And lots of walking to do.

Like a lot as our first activity of the day is hiking.

Guia Fortress, Guia Lighthouse and Chapel

I heart trees~They are awesome!

Macau, 15 times smaller than Kuching but having the same population as Kuching City.

Look how dense it is OAO.

Luckily, they still keep some hills and parks green.

These are typhoon signs. In the old days, they hang this on the tower on the hill whenever there is a typhoon to alert the citizens.

Guia Lighthouse and Chapel! A very unique chapel, they have Chinese mythical beast drawing in it.

Nana nana na… bagman. Emo Chingy is emo.

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Dr. Sun Yat Sen Memorial House

After hiking down from the hill, we dropped by at the Sun Yat Sen Memorial House.

Sun Yat Sen, it’s the father of modern China (Taiwan). There are many documents and old photos. If you are into Modern China history, do check out the place. It was a little rush that day, so I didn’t manage to read much of the information.

but i did saw an animal friend in there. The Milu Deer.

It was nick named “Neither fish nor fowl (å››äøåƒ)” as it has features of a cow, a horse, a deer and a donkey.

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Lou Lim IeocĀ Garden

After the short visit, we dropped by at a garden.

and found out…

Okay, it used to be someone’s backyard but now it’s a public garden.

Still it’s crazy! The garden is so huge I almost got lost and took at least half an hour to finish.

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Tap Seac Square

It’s a big empty square with surrounded by important historic buildings.

We didn’t hang out much as it is time for…..

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LUNCH!!!!

Canton at Venetian Hotel

DimSum for Lunch!!!!!

oh wait. what?? Having dim sum for lunch is something new to me.

Dumplings and Dumplings!! Juicy!! \(^ O ^)/

From left to right:

– Another dumpling. LOL

– Popiah

– Braised abalone.

From top to bottom:

– Fresh prawn Dumplings with crispy thingy. šŸ˜€ Yumss!!

– Deep Fried noodles in Cantonese style.

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Awesome dim sum. One of the best I had šŸ˜€ but still Dim sum for lunch is not enough for my appetite.

I can eat a cow.. oh wait. I don’t eat beef.

I can eat a dinosaur!!!

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Dinosaur exhibition at Venetian

And dinosaur it is!! Lol

I always find dinosaur amazing, and how such awesome animals walk the earth in the old days.

I wonder why the artist made dinosaur green or grey?

Who knows, maybe they were colorful?

And T-Rex could be pink or rainbow colored, we never know right?

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After the exhibition, the group split into two. One who head back to the hotel to rest and the other group head for more food.

Taipa streets

Of course, I go for the food. XD especially when I heard what we’re going to have.

My favorite food.

Anyone wanna hired me to pain their wall??

CRABS!!!! I love Crabs a lot. I don’t mind all the hardwork of smashing, peeling just for the sake of the sweet savory fresh crab meat but..

it seems like the crabs from that shop was strong enough for my taste bud. You can try though but it cost RM80 for one.

Speaking of eating crabs, I wonder what was on the first guy’s mind when he grabbed a crab and went: “Oh, let’s cook this hard looking animal and eat. “

Literally means Cat Shit Coffee, it’s actually the civet coffee, one of the most expensive coffee in the world.

What Civet Coffee? Civet eats coffee beans, the best beans only. And the digestion system can’t process the beans, so when it poops, the beans comes out together with the poop. Somehow the biological chemistry in the digestion system makes the beans taste better.

Too bad, nowadays Civet coffee are commercially produce where civets are kept in cage and fed with coffee beans. Hence the beans are not as good as those from wild civet.

I didn’t try tho as I’m not a poop person…i mean coffee person.

I love walking around the streets whenever I go travel, I think one can see and learn much more on foot that in a car.

Someone open a kopitiam like this in Kuching please? šŸ˜›

Imagine having McD is at your doorstep. 😐 Not a good thing imo.

We found this street that is full of restaurant and cafes and all of them have their own style of windows. XD

And all of them are very nice :3

After about 30-45 minutes walk, we found out..

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we

we walked in a different direction. =.=

After another one and a half hour walk…

Venetian Hotel again!!

we are back at Venetian Hotel again as we missed out the famous Venice part of the hotel earlier.

Fake Venice but very nice!!! Can we have this in Kuching??

I wanna hang out at a shopping mall similar like this!

Can someone please buy that stupid ugly Cityone mall and renovate the inside of the mall into a street?

so much feel~~~

If they have real restaurant and cafes on top of the stores, it would so super duper whooper burger awesome!!

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They provide gondola (boat rides) in the fake Venice river but the gondolier is real and can really sing! OvO Super awesome!!!

After the awesome walk at fake Venice, we went back to our hotel to rest our tummy for dinner. XD

World Fireworks Championship + Buffet at Macau Tower

Dinner below the Macau Tower!! šŸ˜€

Didn’t had a single shot of the food as I was so hungry XD

I remembered the crab meat pasta was good hahahaha well because it’s crabs šŸ˜›

Only we going up the tower tomorrow and we ended our night by…

the peaceful sky with…

:: Last day of Macau coming up :: Ā ^^

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Dunno where to go this holiday? Go Macau then šŸ˜€ AirAsia flies to Macau daily! šŸ˜€

Check out the schedule below.

Everyone can fly even orange cat šŸ˜›

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AirAsia Macau Trip: The House of Dancing Water

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…continued from previous post.

Woohooo Dancing Water Show.

Got my ticket. ^^ The entrance fee cost around RM300 if not mistaken.Ā Imitating Chingy’s #ChingHandProject where she will hold something with her hand and took a photo over a white background.

She very against about it tho saying it’s copyrighted.

Honestly I have no idea what show is this about and I didn’t went and research/read about it on the internet either. From what I heard from my friend, it’s a very interesting show.

but at least I know the show gonna have water as the stage XD

After a while.. the show started..

with a fisherman on a bamboo raft..who proceed to fall into the stage/water/pool .. then

Lots of smoke were blow over the water stage..

and…

a Ship came out of the middle of the stage. FUWAAAAAHHHHH!!!!! OAO

with many humans on it!!

What is this cat sorcery??!!!

After a while, the ship sank…

and a giraffe came out OAO!!

The background also have changed into a rainforest.

Then, the water is gone!!

And it’s back again with hanging human disco ball!!!

And the pool became smaller!! Fountains came out! from the stage!

A small chinese hut thingy pop up in the middle of the stage!!!

There were stuff coming in and out and people were dancing in and outside of the water.

maybe because I have no expectation and thought it was just a normal dancing show in a water stage.Ā So please go without expectation, and best without knowing anything will come out from the stage.

Oh wait… too late. lol

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Dinner time

After that show, we went for our last meal of the day!!

From left to right:

– Tofu Red Bean salad thingy??

– Jellyfish salad.

– Braised Meat Soup that you put overnight in the fridge that turned into jelly thingy. LOL

Left -> Right:

– Sweet sour chicken with spring onions and dried chillies. 😐 There’s more spring onions that meat tho.

– Super plain normal fried rice.

– Fruits!! Sweet Juicy Fruits I like!!

Peking duck (skin)! Very crispy !! šŸ˜€ <3 niceee

Can’t remember what is this but it is very similar to our oat/malt chicken.

Sichuan Spicy fish!! Spiciness still acceptable. Probably, because they have reduced it for us. I’m like “Whyyy we’re Malaysian, we can eat spicy food. LOL”

Oh ya, we had vege too. I didn’t took a photo of it because I don’t eat vege but here’s a drawing of it.

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Well, it’s something.

Lastly, some warm water to wash all the food down. šŸ˜€

We ends our trip by walking all the way back to our hotel, doing some sight seeing along the way.

Too bad my phone and camera dies on me and I couldn’t snap anymore photos. šŸ™

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