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  • Malacca: Short While At Jonker Walk

    Malacca: Short While At Jonker Walk

    Malacca: Short While At Jonker Walk – The famous Jonker Walk of Malacca, unfortunately, it’s not my cup of tea for this trip. It’s rainy and I only went there to eat Chendul and Nyonya Asam Laksa @ Jonker 88 and also grab a stick of favourite deep fried spiral potato and that’s it.

    Nothing much to explore as I’ve been there for several time, I prefer heading out to look for food where I found a very special back lane seafood stall and Malacca’s Wan Tan Mee – check out my blog later. =D

    So, yeah Jonker Walk a.k.a. Jalan Hang Jebat, the street beside the hotel I was staying and I was there a short while only.

  • Seremban: Good Lao Shu Fen @ Pasar Besar

    Seremban: Good Lao Shu Fen @ Pasar Besar

    Seremban: Good Lao Shu Fen @ Pasar Besar – Last weekend, I went down south for a little food and getaway trip with Clarice. The first stop of the trip was Seremban, hoping that I could get my mouth on the famous Hakka Mee at the Pasar Besar Seremban which I missed out last time.

    Very big market. Pasar Besar Seremban.
    The wet market area on ground floor.
    Famous Tow Kee Hakka Mee, so sad, sold out already.

    I arrived there about 11.30am with the help of GPS. I wander my way to the first floor of the big market where all the food stalls are and search for the Tow Kee Hakka Mee among the super many stalls, very sad, very unfortunately, the friendly staff told me that it’s sold out, oh that’s sad. It’s not only us that got dispersed away, there’s some other people who was looking for Hakka Mee too.

    Stall 735 is the Ah Di Lao Shu Fen.
    Lovely and small small bowl of dry lao shu fen.

    Nevertheless, I went to look for some other food, asked around and found out the the Lao Shu Fen is good too! So we went to order a bowl to try it out. It’s just a small meal before heading to Malacca for more good Malaccan food.

    It was a small bowl of Dry Lao Shu Fen (silver needle noodle) with plenty of minced meat, a bit of welsh onion, and their special soy sauce. It’s quite nice in my opinion, not too salty and just nice. Best of all, it’s only RM3 per bowl. Awesome.

    Pasar Besar Seremban
    Jalan Pasar,
    70200 Seremban,
    Negeri Sembilan

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  • Malacca: Good Morning, Where’s The Sunrise?

    Malacca: Good Morning, Where’s The Sunrise?

    Good Morning Malacca!

    Malacca: Good Morning, Where’s The Sunrise? – Hello, I just came back from Malacca people, the historical tourist city of Malaysia! I was so lazy this morning and reluctant to go out of my hotel to search for the sunrise spot, so I stayed in my room and keep my eyes out of the window.

    The dragon at the entrance of Jonker Walk sprouts out water from the mouth
    Looking lovely although no sun, I was facing the wrong direction. LOL

    I guess, there’s some problem with my compass on my phone where the East was not really the ‘Sunrise East’ that I was looking out. Anyway, I woke up early, 5 minutes before sunrise time according to Google and waited, but find no sun rise and only a ray of sun glowing at far end. Well, I slept back after that. =D

  • First Time Visit To Setia Walk, Puchong

    First Time Visit To Setia Walk, Puchong

    So many ‘To-Let’!

    First Time Visit To Setia Walk, Puchong – If you are from around Puchong, confirm you will know about the latest Setia Walk somewhere near Bandar Puteri, but in case you don’t know, here it is that I’ve just visited last weekend.

    Seems like there’s a Hotel, but I couldn’t find it.
    Very cool place because of the water features.
    Fountain!

    Setia Walk is a mixed commercial + residential + small retail mall development. Currently, there’s really nothing much at there, except some restaurants and a numbers of pubs, a cinema – TGV Cinemas, and a gym – Celebrity Fitness.

    There’s also some boutique at there.
    Brussels!

    I went there for the cinema actually and the rate is pretty reasonable when comparing to other TGV @ RM10/ticket on a Saturday! Watched Life Of Pi and the screen is pretty awesome, not forget to mention, it’s very cold too for the air-conditioning. Haha.

    Well, it seems to be a good place to chill with friend at the pubs at night, pretty interesting concept with nice water features, but then we’ll have to wait for the shops to open all up first.

  • Ipoh: 糖水街 Tong Sui Kai (Desserts Street)

    Ipoh: 糖水街 Tong Sui Kai (Desserts Street)

    Ipoh: 糖水街 Tong Sui Kai (Desserts Street) – Ipoh oh Ipoh, I spent the day eating at Burps & Giggles, and also some times in Ipoh Parade shopping centre, it’s also the day I went to watch Sinister, oh so scary, shocking and exciting. =D Night, I went to this Tong Sui Kai, which literally means desserts street near old town, somewhere just in front Sam Tet Primary School (SRJK Sam Tet).

    So this street has a lot of desserts right? Not really, there’s few stalls only, selling the same Chinese desserts like lin chi kang, ABC and mix-fruit ice and stuff like that. Besides there’s local food stalls like wan tan mee, beef noodle and more! Sounds interesting right?

    Once interesting thing in Ipoh is that they are proud about their food, unlike in Kuala Lumpur, hawker stalls tend to write food place name at the their stall like Penang Asam Laksa, Ipoh Hor Fun and blablabla. At there, it’s just Asam Laksa, Wan Tan Mee.

    Well, I ordered a plate of wan tan mee (RM3.50) and a bowl of qing bu liang  清补凉 (RM2.50). Cheap and yummeh! Well, consider this as a place for dinner in Ipoh. =)

    Tong Sui Kai, 糖水街
    (in front of SRJK (C) Sam Tet)
    off Jalan Sultan Idris,
    Ipoh


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  • Ipoh // Sekeping Kong Heng

    Ipoh // Sekeping Kong Heng

    Lobby, I assumed, A common area too.

    Ipoh // Sekeping Kong Heng – NG SEKSAN, one famous landscape and building architect in Malaysia whose concept is based on raw materials. Sekeping Kong Heng is one of his masterpiece located in Ipoh, Old Town, on top of of a old school kopitiam called Kong Heng.

    My classmate actually went there before on a class trip but I missed the chance last time. On my visit to Burps & Giggles, I accidentally came across it that this is connected with the cafe. They are just back to back.

    Well, talk a little bit about Sekeping, it’s a modern type of hotel, or you might call it homestay, it’s totally different from the typical hotel with a luxurious lobby, nice hotel room with warm light and shiny marble floor bathroom. The Sekeping is a hotel series located throughout Malaysia and which most of them have their different identity or style, but most of them with design based on bare raw material. There’s one Sekeping Victoria in Penang too.

    Well, side alley of the building.
    Kopitiam Kong Heng in front. It’s totally different thing from the back of the building,
    Corridor to the room.
    Green wall shading the area and the room.
    I was able to open up the louver window and snap a shot of interior of the room. Weird, cold, cool, open, raw feeling.

    Located on the first and second floor of the Kong Heng Kopitiam shophouse building is the Sekeping Kong Heng hotel, there’s like 10 rooms on first floor and and there’s a mini lobby at the ground floor. The second floor is more likely the roof area is a leisure/gathering spot. The whole building is open for visit except the hotel room.

    The sexy stairs.
    Attic area where there’s two more bed up here.
    Gathering, hangout spot at the roof.
    A view of adjacent building. Truly old town of Ipoh.

    It’s more likely something new that you haven’t experience before. Living so close to the local, you can hear the laughter of uncles drinking kopi-peng in the morning, chattering in local Cantonese dialect, a connection with the raw material and the original building, it definitely will bring up a lot of feeling and inspiration in you. Well, Sekeping Kong Heng is sexy, I would say. Yums.

  • Kampar: UTAR Grand Hall Has A Cool Chinese Architecture

    Kampar: UTAR Grand Hall Has A Cool Chinese Architecture



    Kampar: UTAR Grand Hall Has A Cool Chinese Architecture – Visited UTAR (Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman) at Kampar a week ago and found out that there’s a cool building in the campus – the Tun Dr Ling Liong Sik Grand Hall. It has a super duper Chinese-orientated architecture design like those Chinese temple roof, red bricks, water features which makes you feel as if you are in China, minus the cold.

    The grand hall that looks like a Chinese temple from far. LOL, that’s why most UTAR friends told me.
    The street lamp, beautiful Chinese pattern.
    Love red bricks a lot.
    A bit of contemporary design here at the lobby.
    Semi-circular rounder arch entrance to the hall.

    This is something different and awesome when comparing to my school – Taylor’s University which has a modern minimalist design.

    Check out the water features too. Must be something to do with feng shui, I guess.
    Chinese words on the water.
    Chinese word as sculpture.
    There’s fishes in case you don’t know.

    UTAR, a very famous university among the Chinese-educated group of people, and founded by the MCA (=.=), guess this explains the very-ching-chong-Chinese design of this building. Anyway, I kinda like things like this, at least it stand outs among the many universities in Malaysia. Which campus has special architecture design? Do share with me, down below. =D

  • First Time: Pubika @ Solaris Dutamas

    First Time: Pubika @ Solaris Dutamas

    First Time: Pubika @ Solaris Dutamas – Publika, a mixed development mall + office + residential located at Solaris Dutamas, Kuala Lumpur is a very cool place. I went there for the very first time last week for dinner and to check out that place as I’ve heard friends telling me that the place is cool. Yes, indeed it is.

    First Time: Pubika @ Solaris Dutamas

    It’s a very artsy mall which houses many cool and nice cafe and restaurant. The interiors of the mall is decorated with various arts pieces that also serves as furniture. If you are a designer, sure you will like that place, touching, taking photos and enjoying the place.

    First Time: Pubika @ Solaris Dutamas

    First Time: Pubika @ Solaris Dutamas

    First Time: Pubika @ Solaris Dutamas

    First Time: Pubika @ Solaris Dutamas

    Unfortunately I did not bring my DSLR with me, or else I would have busy shooting. Anyway, will go back again, eat and to see. =)

  • First Time Visit To Kampar & UTAR – Little Town Of Perak

    First Time Visit To Kampar & UTAR – Little Town Of Perak

    First Time Visit To Kampar & UTAR - Little Town Of Perak

    First Time Visit To Kampar – Little Town Of Perak – I went to Kampar, Perak yesterday! Kampar is a little town in Perak, far away from the big city but famous among Malaysian students as there locates a few higher institution – UTAR & KTAR. I have many friends who are studying at there but I’ve not been there before. I went to there with my girlfriend to check out some hostel room as she’s moving there to study.

    First Time Visit To Kampar & UTAR - Little Town Of Perak

    First Time Visit To Kampar & UTAR - Little Town Of Perak

    It’s about 1 hour 45 minutes drive from Kuala Lumpur and the place is kinda rural. The first place I came across is the little town of Tapah before reaching Kampar. Kampar is very peaceful, there’s many hill and lake, and a lot of residential terrace houses which serve as student accommodation.

    Nothing much, you can see coffee shops, rows of shoplots, cyber cafes, a tall hotel – Grand Kampar Hotel, Tesco, railway track and that’s all I guess. Haven’t explore much yet. UTAR is cool, the campus itself is big and has a modern squarish design. Unfortunately, the landscape doesn’t seems being maintained well. But afterall, it seems to be a good designed campus, just located at a wrong location. It should be something close to the city in my opinion.

    First Time Visit To Kampar & UTAR - Little Town Of Perak

    The student accommodation is one special thing. Each row of terrace houses is named according top institution in the world like Harvard, Cambridge, Imperial and so on. And don’t be surprise that there’s 20 student living under one roof. That’s so, dense! And bicycles are everywhere.

    First Time Visit To Kampar & UTAR - Little Town Of Perak

    First Time Visit To Kampar & UTAR - Little Town Of Perak

    First Time Visit To Kampar & UTAR - Little Town Of Perak

    First Time Visit To Kampar & UTAR - Little Town Of Perak

    First Time Visit To Kampar & UTAR - Little Town Of Perak

    Chee Pherng, Boon Hooi, Me and Peng Sheng in front of UTAR signage!

    Met some high school friends there, tour a bit of the campus and went back home. Will be visiting there again, perhaps explore some cool spot. I have found a nice sunset shooting spot at there, will be back with a tripod and a proper camera! =)

  • Malacca: Walking Around Chinatown

    Malacca: Walking Around Chinatown

    Malacca: Walking Around Chinatown – It was a sunny afternoon after eating some Cendol and Laksa at the always-crowded Jonker88 Cafe. We strolled around the Chinatown area, which also known as the area around Jonker Walk (Jalan Hang Jebat). This place is very similar to Penang, the old-school electic straits shophouses and the street are almost the same. It’s just that the street in Malacca is narrower and the number of these shophouses are less than in Penang.

    One thing I like about Malacca is that they truly develop this heritage part of the city into a living museum and tourist area. It’s so tourist concentrated with souvenir shops, cafe, restaurant and guesthouse all around this place. I like walking around the heritage area, it’s like bring me back in time.

    Jalan Tukang Emas and Jalan Tukang Besi are full of guesthouses.

    Joss sticks.

    Inside Cheng Ho Tea House & Museum. Ground level is free of charge and one have to pay RM10 to visit the upper level.

    You can check out the electronic puppet show which tells you the story of Cheng Ho.

    Little ang-mo kid who was watching the puppet show.

    The No. 8 Heeren Street is a museum located on Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock, also known as Heeren Street is currently number 1 to-do in Malacca according to TripAdvisor. Unfortunately, it was closed when we were there. I’ve no idea what is it about but curious.

    Li Hong, Steve, Arvin, Wesley, me and Jia Hui.

    Do you like Malacca? How about Penang? Penang is the best, because I am from Penang. =D

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