Category: Going Places

On day 2 afternoon, our friends decided to bring us to experience the nature of Penang. There are lots of nice views to share with you. Enjoy the photos!

The following is taken behind The Ship, the restaurant that serves great steak. It’s very expensive to dine there. I only dine at The Ship once, back then in 2006 at KL hahaha…

Our friend told us we can visit the beach from here. There are various activities such as paragliding, jetski and etc. that you can play there but we didn’t do any. Took some photos and we left.

Next, we went to the dam. Going up, up, up… You will pass by various places such as Tropical Spice Meseum(will blog about it later), Butterfly Farm(didn’t go there), and Penang Forestry museum. It’s very high up on the moutain before you reach Tropical Fruit Farm. You will not miss it.

View from the dam. In fact there’s a big signboard stating “Teluk Bahang” near the entrance of the dam.

The view of the mountain. Magnificent view!

View of the mountain from another angle.

The dam. Really love the view of water and mountain. You don’t get this view everyday unless you work there but I doubt I want to see it everyday ;p

Next stop, we just went down a bit and we reached Penang Forestry Museum.

If you like to challenge and be closer to the nature, you can do it here by going on the longest forest trail in Penang.

Visit the museum first, reminded me of Sarawak Timber Museum but Penang’s much bigger. No photos allowed in there. Once we came out, we went to the hanging bridge.

After that, our friend suggested that we refreshed ourselves at the stream by dipping our feet in there. There were many small fish in there. At first we just gently moved our feet in the water then when we stopped, sudddenly lots of fish came to us, surrounded our feet. I didn’t bother until I felt a bit of ticklish sensation then I noticed that these fish actually came to feast on our feet! However I didn’t continue on because co-incidently I decided to dry my feet since we didn’t have any towel and we’re wearing shoes, it took a bit of time to let our feet air dry. The guys continued on while I watched and took photos and video of their feet being eaten by the fish! *LOL*

HEY! FREE FISH SPA!!! ;p Here’s the video:

More of the nature, food and birthday party post coming tomorrow.

After brunch, we went to Toy Museum. We came across it when we were hunting for breakfast. After brunch, we decided to go there since we had managed to find a place to visit. This is what happen when you don’t plan your holiday. You got no idea where to go and just roam around with no aim *LOL*

It’s the largest toy museum in the world, hmmm… Is it? In fact we did think twice of whether to go or not. If not because of the “world’s largest”, we won’t bother going. The entrance is RM10 for Malaysians, you need to show your IC. Foreigner is RM20.

There were so many to see. Let’s just let the photos do the talking. I’m lazy already ;p These are just some, I only picked photos with less reflections. If you love toys, you should pay this museum a visit.

Very nice right?

Barbies and Lau Fu Tze.

Mr. Bean, Tomb Raider, and Pirates of the Carribean.

Lord of the Rings.

Charmed, Star Wars, and Wall-E.

Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs, Spiderman.

Garfield.

Superman, don’t-know-what but nice figurines, and Shrek.

The horror corner with all the scary dolls and toys.

See the head there? Very spooky ;p and next will be Ghost Busters.

I forgot what the blue and green creature called ;p Next is the view from the entrance. Then, it’s me, I know, I know… I don’t like this photo actually hahaha… Just to show you how big the statue is.

After toy museum, we had to go back to Batu Feringghi because our friend would be picking us up to some other places further up from Batu Feringghi.

The major jam on the way to aiport got me so worry that I migth miss my flight. I’m supposed to reach the airport before 6.30pm but didn’t expect the jam was so terrible at Simpang Tiga flyover but luckily I’m still not the last one to arrive ;p

Once we reached Penang, our friend came to pick us up at the airport. Then we went to get some food to eat. It was 11pm+ already, many places had closed or closing. Luckily there’s a kopitiam that was still opened but will close at around 12 am or 1am near our friend’s house at Air Itam area(if not mistaken).

This is the one, East Coast Food Centre(Not the exact name, I just direct translate it from the name on the fridge ;p)

We were told that Penang’s food is extremely cheap. Indeed! Cheap and portion is big! Worth it! I can tell you that you can never get such portion in Kuching with that kind of price. However, I have no idea the prices of the following food. Still it’s so much more cheaper than Kuching.

Left: I didn’t know Penang got Kueh Chap. However, theirs isn’t that thick. I still prefer our own kueh chap. Their kueh chap even got duck meat, ours are all spare parts of the pig.
Right: Mee Jawa, quite surprise that their mee jawa stall is owned by Chinese. I don’t think you can get Chinese mee jawa in Kuching. The mee jawa tasted a bit like belacan bee hoon *LOL* You get bee hoon in this, they mix the mee and bee hoon.

Left: Duck rice, nothing much to rave about this though. It’s just duck rice but portion is generous.
Right: Hokkien Char

Aiya… I just remember that I forgot to put in the photo of Tai Luk Mee, this is the only one with no bee hoon. *LOL* If you want to see the photo, you can go to sarawakian.net for it.

Left: BBQ fish, the sambal is great! They BBQ the fish with curry powder which is different from what you get in Kuching.
Right: Lala, lalalalala… ;p We saw many people eating this everywhere we went in Penang. Of course, our friend ordered it for us as well. Very tasty! The sauce is tasty but the lala’s flesh was very small. Hmm… Wrong season? Or it’s originally like this?

After eating, off we drove to Batu Ferringhi to where we stayed. It was very late already, when we reached there and settled down, it’s already 2am+.

Penand day 2 will come…