Being in Ipoh part 2

This post is mainly on the place I visited over the weekend. Beware, it's gonna be picture-ful post!

南香蛋挞- Nam Hiong egg tart

One of the recommended (by friends) food I must have in Ipoh. I like the egg tart because its crispy crust and it is filled with a thick soft, aromatic layer of egg. You may  remember I did mention this egg tart in my previous entry and wondering why I talk about it again this time. Aha. The purpose of taking this pic is that I want to show my mom how the scrumptious egg tart looks like - the thickness of the crust and its filling, as she is learning to make egg tart now! oh Nom~Nom~Nom~

Bear Tree 

A tree that bears the resemblance of bear head which can be found outside Kellie's Castle. It took me quite some times to figure out where is the bear head. Can you spot the bear head?

William Kellie Smith's Castle a.k.a Kellie's Castle 

Kellie's Castle 

A ventilation hole that ...

A ventilation hole that leads to the Indian Temple 

Random shot in Kellie's Castle 

Random shot in Kellie's Castle - The red curtained table was supposed to be the family's ancestor altar

Random shot in Kellie's Castle 

Random shot in Kellie's Castle - The mysterious corridor (ground level). It is believed that the owner's spirit is lingering at this corridor~~ chill chill

* Ignore the red bag as it belongs to the other visitor who were eagerly taking pictures around the castle.

Random shot in Kellie's Castle - The mysterious corridor (upper level). It is believed that the owner's spirit is lingering at this corridor~~ chill chill

Random shot in Kellie's Castle 

The interior design of their room (daughter, Helen and Son, Anthony ).. Wondering if the wall was meant to hold the big portrait of the family members! You can find 4 frames like the above in each room!

Read if you are interested 

Some information pasted on the wall of master bedroom

Read if you are interested 

Read if you are interested 

Random shot in Kellie's Castle 

Random shot in Kellie's Castle 

The top floor of Kellie's Castle. It says that this floor was supposed to be their tennis court if the castle was completely built.

Random shot in Kellie's Castle - the guest room 

Me with my black spec

Random shot in Kellie's Castle 

F.r.i.e.n.d.s

At the top of the castle..Beware of tripping and falling down from the castle! There are no walls or fences here that keep you from falling~

Random shot in Kellie's Castle  - and graffiti on the floor & walls around the castle

Random shot in Kellie's Castle  with my friend in the picture

Random shot in Kellie's Castle 

Random shot in Kellie's Castle - The guard house and horse stable

My favourite picture of the day- It kinda reminds me of the building in the music video of  We Belong Together sung by Mariah Carey.

Kellie's Castle 

Ticket price to visit: RM4
Attraction point: Come here to take some pictures with the partly ruined castle. The wine cellar is dark and exciting!!



Then, we stopped at Sauk and had the chance to taste the local food.

Fried and steam fish balls at a chinese restaurant in Sauk

I like these fish balls. They are springy as you sink you teeth in them!

Their signature tofu

MEH...it is so so...I believe my mom's cooking is way better than their SIGNATURE tofu.

百须公- river fish

It is nice with its sweet fresh flesh.

they say it is paku-pakis....but is paku-pakis edible???

Me finishing off the remnant

After having the delicious (I dont think it worth the money and effort to travel this far into the secluded village just to eat) lunch, we went to Lenggong, Perak to visit an Archeology Gallery.

Archeology gallery

The gallery features the 3 main prehistoric eras (Paleolithic, Neolithic and Bronze age) existed in Malaysia. 

One of the creepy skeletons found in the gallery. There are a lot of prehistoric tools can be found here!

Back at home at night, my friend's brother came home from Cameron Highlands and Ta-dah....

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Red luscious strawberries

This is how a strawberry looks like from inside

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Ipoh food Week 2

Oh...This is my first ever post dedicating to food, more specifically, Ipoh food that I had chance to taste over this weekend.

As I have limited knowledge about many food names, please bear with me if I name any food wrongly. 

I am excited to share my experience of the food I had, and may be some humble personal opinions on how to improve the food. 

I am not a food expert/ chef/ gourmet, but I think I have the right to tell how I feel about the food I eat right?

OK, let's stop all the babble and continue to the food.

Tou Fu Fa from Funny Mountain/奇峰

LOL!!Just realize the stall has funny English name. I like it. It is not overly sweet. I could eat/drink the whole tou fu fa and the syrup without feeling disgusting because of excessive sweetness. I am not a Tou Fu Fa person, but this tou fu fa is really smooth. Honestly, I cant remember the ones I had in my hometown or anywhere, because I rarely have it and most of the time I eat it 

 just to satisfy my sweet teeth!

See its name?? I dont lie!

 We had it there last week. You have to queue up and stand at the corridor of the shop lot to enjoy the yummy tou fu fa or ta bao it back if u like! They sell soya bean milk too!

And in the afternoon, Mr T (my friend) brought me to Da Shu Jiao 兵如港大树脚,  and being touristy again! We came here under the recommendation of my friend who told me that this place sells the best Asam Laksa aka Laksa in Ipoh. How can I miss this food?!

Some random Rojak sold there. "Stinky, Pricey and not delicious" is enough to describe this food.

A lot of comment to this food: the Rojak source is heavily based on Shrimp Paste which makes it stinky, cheap combination of food, a few slices of mango (which is what I need a lot in Rojak) with sengkuang (turnips), tibum (cucumber) ,not even a piece of pineapple and a lot of cheap biscuit on top. *pissed* . I have to stuff all this down even it is stinky as I loath wasting food!

Asam Laksa

Being a Laksa person ( I have it everyday back in hometown now; everyday in the canteen when I was in primary school;almost everyday after/before tuition during secondary school), this Laksa is good, but you know it cant beat my Pang Long Laksa which can be found in Parit Buntar! Overall, I am satisfied with its taste, sourness, freshness and it is not oily as compared the one I had in Taman Pertama pasar malam during my first week stay in Ipoh.

Ipoh famous 炸料, fried food...

I only realize that the local like to have this food as side dish along with their noodles they have!
My opinion: Taste Okay, oily, unhealthy, I will only eat this once in a while/small amount if ever want to eat it again..
I sweated a lot while eating this with my Laksa...It was damn uncomfortable, when you are trying to concentrate on the taste of your(my!) staple food -laksa while you were sweating hard and all the oil was oozing out from every pores available on your skin!!

Zhu Chang Fen at  糖水街 Tong Sui Kai

So in the evening, after buying myself 2 formal shirts (for my intern) at AEON mall, Mr T's brother brought us to Tong Sui Kai to have supper! I love this Zhu Chang Fen as the sauce they use is sweet and not of those stinky shrimp paste (again) which is now commonly found in my hometown. I miss how the  Zhu Chang Fen tasted like this back then.. HEY..where all the delicious Nibong Tebal Zhu Chang Fen gone to har??

Ice with mixed fruits topping - 什果冰

The food is enticing with its colorful mixed fruits toppings! 

I love fruits! 

But, I dont like the syrup and condensed milk they pour on the ice. I prefer the ice is made less sweet or like those fruit ice blended drenched in their own fruit juice, so that it wont cover the natural sweetness of these fruits. The taste of syrup and condensed milk also makes my stomach stuffy!

Take 2. Trying to take nice pictures!

辉记鱼粉。。Dunno how to translate..Bihon vermicelli with fish.

I dont have much comment on it. Not something that can instantly invigorate my taste buds but I think I will come to eat it again if I have chance.

The sweet sour soup mixed with fresh milk is something new to me but it doesnt taste weird at all!

炖蛋。。Caramel custard

Not much comment also. It is Okay. I like the lingering egg smell it has when travelling down my oesophagus and the caramel syrup is not overly sweet (or I am too 重口味？？ and i should watch my sugar intake so I wont have diabetes later in my life?). Personally, I like sweet stuff. So, I like it. But I wont LOVE it as much as I LOVE LAKSA!

And now, do you have any suggestion of the places I should visit in Ipoh and the food I must taste/test??

I dont want to go back without exploring this place and its food~~~

Being in Ipoh

It has been quite a long time since my last update...

I remember I was quite down during the time I last updated my blog, with all the final examnination stress (oh, really?) and some happenings that I take them quite personally, seriously and dont want to tell. (bitch please, if you dont want to tell please dont write anything about it here.)

okok...

In this post, I am going to tell you (or my mere record of my life so that I can look back upon later in my life) about my first week staying in Ipoh.

The reason I am moving to this quaint town is because I got a placement in a factory here for my internship. I am very grateful to my coursemate, Mr T, for letting me to stay with him and his family. Not only does my accomodation problem is solved, living with his family also means I don't have to worry about cooking, doing laundry, cleaning house! HAHA...Imagine how much inconviniences this all would cost me if I got a placement in KL!So, I must again say that "thaank you, thank you, thank you" to my friend and his family. I hope that my 10 weeks stay will not bring many troubles and inconvieneces to them.

Haha..Since it is Sunday, I don't want to talk about my work. If you insist (bitch please, I don't!), I will tell you what I did for last week!

I am assigned to Quality Assurance department of this company. All I did last week was reading manuals of my department so that to familiarize myself with the operation of this department before I get my hands working on my project. I have to complete a Project during this 10 weeks internship before continuing my last year of study in UM. 

I must admit now that being student is best!! As a student, your have all time in your life. You can do almost whatever you want with the flexible time you have. And now, as I am starting to work routinely from 8.30am-615pm, I have started to get the feel I dont like this routine. I don't like routine. I prefer randomness, (doesnt mean that I have messy life) because routine bores me out! I am fickle, I cant sit still, I like freedom much....lol...and this has led me to start thinking what I really want to do in future...=.=..

( i am not complaining or wanting to critisize the job I have now since I havent really started to work, I just read so far)

As, I am writing this, only I realize that I am being long winded again...lol...please bear with me and continue to read until the end of this post.

As Saturday came, I feel so blessed.(LOL)..I have all time for myself again. I can roll in the bed until whatever time I like to, texting my friends in bed and then sleep back again, or sleep very late in the night!

So in this particular Saturday morning, I woke up very early in the morning (535am to be precise!) to download new The Sims 3 world in my game..=.= and went back to bed, listening songs and playing with my iPad until I fall asleep again. 

Then at 12pm I went out with my friend, Mr T, and his friends to Ipoh some old obsolete mall to sing Karaoke...I had shouted throughout the session and blown these newly made friends away with my insanity. May be I should behave more appropriately next time, like being modest and sitting still when meeting new friends? 

Then in the evening, my friends brought me to eat Ipoh Nga Choi Kai (chicken with bean sprouts)...ok..i shall let my pictures do the talking. 

The food is nice overall. But it is just too oily. 

 I like how this bean sprout taste better when mixing with the keow teow soup. 

 Meh, nothing special....look at  the oil...

 We ate alot...I dunno why people here keep asking me to eat when I am so desperately wanting to get rid of my belly fat....Oily keow teow, oily scented rice, oily chicken, oily bean sprout...argghhh,......

 Pork ball...Is that how it is called? lol... Nothing special too, and I am not a pork ball fan anyway.

 This is the place where we had our dinner..very touristy sport. My facebook friend and Mr T family later 

said that we should have gone other places (less touristy) one to eat...

And at night, we had our Yum Cha session (wah I am so fast to get along with new friends loh) at Sidewalk Ice Cream Lounge. 

 This was mine. Rocky road Sundae...(suddenly feel amazed with my memory... I forget things fast previously, but now even this ice cream name I can also remember even after a day)

And in today's morning, I have to psych up myself to roll out my bed and being touristy again because I dont want to waste my time rolling in the bed for 10 weeks and go back penang/kl with nothing at all.....

When I say "being touristy" I mean we eat at very touristy places, touristy food, pay touristy prices.....

Hmmm...the fabled (at least for me) stall selling the fabled-ly smooth Tau Fu Fah. You have to queue to eat, just how I must do to eat the Pang Long Laksa at my place during Saturday and Sunday!!

 OK...It is really smooth. I think this is my first time to ever tasted white sugar based Tau Fu Fah loh...I only ate brown sugar one before...

 And we also got Da Bao the famous egg tart too!

The aromatic egg taste/smell is lingering in the mouth as I crunched on these crunchy egg tarts.

So, where should I go and food I must try ? Any suggestions from those who come from Ipoh?