Short (Night) While At Hin Bus Depot – Brought a couple of friends to visit the former bus depot turned art gallery in downtown George Town to check out the place and found some interesting installation at site. Realised that shots from a Samsung Galaxy Note 4 are quite good!
Penang Port At Night – Penang Port is located at Butterworth. Read that it’s sold to Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary, the person who owns Johor Port. Kinda sad because to me, I feel the Penang Port should be own by the Penang people or the Penang State Government. I strongly disagree with the privatisation.
Anyway, forget about sad stuff, I was bored last night, took my camera out and took photos of the Penang port from my balcony via the 55-250mm telephoto lens. The result is, pretty cool, try zoom it, you might see the name on the cargo ship. =D
Some other part of Butterworth.
Malacca: Happenings Night @ Geographer Cafe, Jonker Walk – Every Friday and Saturday night, this street – Jalan Hang Jebat, or widely known as Jonker Walk came alive with big crowds of people walking along the street with stalls selling food, souvenir, clothing as well as pub, cafe decorated with many antiques.
This is the best part of Malacca and always very happenings during the weekend’s night. Shopping and street food were not our main activity that night as we had filled our stomach with Satay Celup. So, we chilled out at the Geographer Cafe, together with some live band and beer.
Geographer Cafe is one of the most happenings pub / cafe along Jonker Walk, there’s another one located right across the street. Any of these will make you stay until midnight with nice music, and crapping with friends. RM41 for a jug of Carlsberg Draught, what do you think?
Arvin – Medan Hokkien-kia.
Wesley – Seremban boy.
Jia Hui – Ipoh girl.
Nick Chan, the blogger!
Li Hong and Steve – Temerloh couple.
The night was simple yet, fun. It’s just a relaxing night and talking around with friends, fostering relationship and getting to know more about each other. Live band was OK, playing with oldies song that some I’ve heard before.
The whole street turned into a trash street after midnight. At about 1.30am, we went back home. The place was quiet then. By the way, you can find various cocktails and food too at this Geographer Cafe.
Geographer Cafe
Jalan Hang Jebat,
75200 Melaka.Telephone: +06-2816813
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Singapore City Night View From Marina Bay Sands & Louis Vuitton Island Maison – I was in Singapore two weeks ago and that time, I’ve my tripod and camera with me! Unfortunately, I’ve forgotten to bring my wide-angle lens. AIYA! Anyway, it’s still good that I can set on slow shutter speed and put it on tripod, and shoot a few cool Singapore night scene.
I’ve got to say that Singapore’s cityscape is really very awesome, comparable to Hong Kong, Shanghai and other big city already. Malaysia? Sorry, I don’t find a similar good one. The buildings in Malaysia are so spread out far away.
The nicest spot to see Singapore’s city is from Marina Bay Sands, the bay front area near the Louis Vuitton Island Maison. The view is just simply splendid. The photo would be perfect if I’ve bought along my wide angle, but nevermind, Singapore is like just an hour flight away.
The Louis Vuitton Island Maison is very very cool. The whole glass island structure specially dedicated to Louis Vuitton sports a retail showroom and museum gallery of Louis Vuitton products. Man! It’s just so awesome! Feeling jealous of Singapore already.
Tomyam Mee Near Guang Hua Primary School, Raja Uda – Raja Uda, Butterworth has two famous tomyam mee stall, one is Joo Heng tomyam mee, and another one is a no-name tomyam mee stall that locates near to Kwang Hua Primary School. People normally calls it the “Tomyam Mee Besides Kwang Hua Primary School”.
I have been to Joo Heng Tomyam Mee before and now it’s time to try this one. Some said this one is better, some said it’s cheaper, some said I’ve to wait longer.
I was there at about 7.30pm, I get to pick my own ingredient for the tomyam noodle. I picked minced pork, abalone slice, Taiwanese sausage, fried fish fillet and an egg. Yes, an egg is added into the tomyam soup. I felt weird at first because I did not know that how it’d taste like but Hueisean dear assure me that it’ll be nice.
Turn out, the taste of the soup was pretty good, especially the additional egg with turned it into something different, something special, and I couldn’t stop drinking the soup. The soup was not overly sour, it blends between sour and sweet, salty a bit because of MSG, so I have to drink more water after that.
The best part of all, it’s not expensive! Two bowl of them costs less than RM15 which I like. Although the tomyam is not authentically Thai-style, yet the bowl-ful of ingredient and the affordable costs make me wanna come back.
Tomyam Mee Besides SMJK Kwang Hwa
Jalan Raja Uda, 12300 Butterworth, Penang.
Telephone: +6012-4790283
Business Hours: 6.00pm-12.00am+ (Closed on Wednesday)
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Wednesday Farlim Night Market – It’d been some times I didn’t go to night market in Penang, except to those in Bangkok. Haha. Bangkok’s night market and Penang’s is somehow different as we have got more food here and they have got more clothing at there.
Night market (pasar malam) is fun but then the items and food are repetitive so it gets bored after some times. However, going to the night market once in a blue moon is kinda fun, especially eating the yummy and unhealthy street food.
The plan was actually to search for a cheap RM10 mop for cleaning the floor but it failed because there wasn’t anyone selling at there. I recalled back and it’s actually the night market at Taman Connaught in Kuala Lumpur that sells the cheap mop, but not here in Penang.
At Farlim’s, the stalls are more about clothing, accessories and FOOD! Hueisean and I found no mop and we turned our sight to food instead. Was craving for oily deep fried unhealthy food which is very yummy and we bought ourselves fried dumpling and the unhealthy deep fried chicken skins. OMG.
The after-dinner “desserts” was pretty satisfying. In addition, I brought a packet of sugar cane and grass jelly to balance the oily unhealthy meal. Fried food at the night market rocks! Chicken skin is so awesome, why it must be so unhealthy?! Haha.
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Bangkok Trip: Huai Khwang Night Market (Day 3) – Oops, I missed out a place after eating my dinner at Somboon Seafood Restaurant on the third day of my Bangkok Trip last week. Right after our dinner, we went to tour around the area of Huai Khwang. Walking along Ratchadaphisek, and turned left into Pracharat Bamphen Road when reaches a junction leaded us to a row of night market and stalls located along the road.
It’s the Huai Khwang night market and wet market area. Unlike night market in town, this one is more cater to the locals around that area, selling clothing, accessories, shoes, and also raw food and vegetables at the wet market. Besides, there’s many exotic sexy clothing because of the presence of night club workers at this area. We toured around this place for an hour before heading back to the hotel. The wet market is where we stopped as it’s boring and smelly. Now I know that they shop for meat and vegetables at night, something different.
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Visit To Kek Lok Si Temple & Pagoda – Last night I went to the super famous temple in Penang – Kek Lok Si Temple at Air Itam with a some friends. It’d been quite some times I didn’t go to Kek Lok Si Temple. During the Chinese New Year, Kek Lok Si Temple will turn on all the decoration lighting decoration. It’s very beautiful during this festival.
My visit was not perfect because the Kuan Yin Pagoda Temple was not on, as the lighting decoration at that part of the temple is turned off after the 15th day of Chinese New Year. However, the Kek Lok Si Temple is still pretty afterall. It’s not really a photography trip to the temple for me because I’ve already did a serious photography session at Kek Lok Si two years back.
Nevertheless, I still brought my camera along, Canon 60D mounted with Sigma 30mm f1.4 to shoot, it’s never be bored shooting around at Kek Lok Si. Photography is fun! This time, I take photos of lanterns hanging on the ceiling more. And with a fixed prime lens, it challenged me a bit but luckily 30mm was wide enough to do most of the photography.
For the first time, I went to the pagoda area of Kek Lok Si Temple, I have not been there before on my previous visits. One need to pay an entrance of RM2/person to get there and it’s another beautifully decorated garden at Kek Lok Si Temple. You can also climb to the top of the pagoda to get a magnificent view of Penang too! Super awesome!
Yeah, Penang is pretty right? So do Kek Lok Si Temple too. =) Happy Friday everyone!
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Bangkok Trip: Night Street Market Near Baiyoke Hotel & Petchburi (Day 1) – After checked-in to our hotel at Pratunam’s Petchburi area, we went for dinner just right out our hotel, which is Thai food (Tom Yum Restaurant) and it’s pretty good.
After dinner, it’s time to start our night hunt for some street night market at this area. We didn’t really know where has got night market, but instinct tells me that there’s one near the famous Baiyoke Sky Hotel. Baiyoke Sky Hotel is also the tallest building in Bangkok and located about 1.5km from our hotel.
Along the way to Baiyoke Sky Hotel, there’s many street food vendors along the road which serve food like Pad Thai, BBQ, fruits, and more. Since I’ve had my dinner, those food didn’t seem attractive to me by then.
After about 15 minutes of walk, crossed a big road with pedestrian bridge and we arrived the Baiyoke Sky Hotel area, happily, we found the typical Thailand night street market. Hueisean and my mom became excited when they saw a row of clothing stalls. I was then busy snapping around. Nothing seems amaze to me though. You can find the standard Thai’s singlet with Singha beer logo, fake Ralph Lauren, cheap pyjamas, t-shirts and more.
It’s quite interesting to see the night market and you can find some good bargain too. Though, I didn’t buy anything but Hueisean bought a few pairs of cheap ear rings at 20baht/pair.
After an hour of shopping and exploring, we went back to the hotel with tuk-tuk at 80Baht as we were lazy to walk back already. Be careful when sitting on tuk-tuks as they can be fast and be sure to bargain with them first as they always offer high price.
We actually went to foot massage later then at 200Baht/hour, which I think is pretty expensive. You can get cheaper one at 150Baht/hour.
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Uniquely Penang Island – A Nice Black & White Video Of Penang – This is a video made by David Thian features a mask man wandering around the beautiful Penang Island with no dialogue in the video. The video is very sensible, it shows you the beauty and wonder of Penang at night time with the mysterious “Moon Seeker” with a mask, holding a bunch a balloons and brings your around the George Town city.