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Sunday Morning @ Muntri Street

Sunday Morning @ Muntri Street – Last, last Sunday, I went to Muntri Street in Penang with my classmate and a group of pro sketchers to sketch the place, for leaning and sharing and fun. Muntri Street is really a nice place in Penang full of beautiful eclectic colonial style shophouses. It has history, it has story and arts. There’s many guesthouses at there too!

Interior design students from Taylor’s University was having a trip to Penang, the most beautiful city in Malaysia and one of the activity was ‘Sketch Muntri Street’, also an activity conducted by pro sketcher Ch’ng Kiah Kiean. I feel sad that my hand is not as pro as them, I don’t really sketch stuff, in fact, I kinda suck at it. I did some sketch, a bit, but then I went photo shooting around the place instead.

Teuku =)

It’s a nice sunny Sunday morning and the weather was pretty clear, but then it’s hot too! I sweat quite a lot. Back to sketch, looking at other’s people sketches, I told myself I really have to sketch more. It doesn’t have to be uber pretty or detailed, as long as it has feeling, has visual, has proportion than it’s good, according to one of the pro sketches. Sketching is for fun and to express one’s feel to a visual.

Guess what I have found on Muntri Street? It’s another super big mural done by Ernest Zacharevic who did the Armenian Street’s mural. This one is really huge on a big piece of wall. It looks a bit scary but what the story is that it’s about a little girl learning kung-fu.

Look brilliant isn’t it?

Aida. =)

Met Hua Kian, my high school mate at there. Penang is so small!

Penang is awesome isn’t it? Spot my sketch, it’s the smallest piece. HAHA. Happy weekend ahead. =)

June 1, 2012
Bangkok: Chatuchak Weekend Market / JJ Market / Jatujak

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Bangkok: Chatuchak Weekend Market / JJ Market / Jatujak (Day 2) – I am sure many people have hear about the Chatuchak Weekend Market in Bangkok. If you haven’t, HOW CAN YOUU??

Nevermind, if you are first timer, Chatuchak Weekend Market, also known as JJ or Jatujak is a famous weekend market in Bangkok and it’s a MUST-VISIT if you happened to be around Bangkok during the weekend as it’s fully open on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

But what if you are on there on weekdays? Actually there’s still stalls open on weekdays but then it’s not 100% perfect wonderful like on the weekend.

On my 2nd day of Bangkok trip, a Sunday, I went to the Chatuchak Weekend Market in the morning (I went here before, this is my third time), about 10am Bangkok time. Took a cab to there and it costs us 150Baht withou meter! On our way back was only 98Baht with meter. OMG. If you are near to BTS, you can stop at Mo Chit Station, if you are near to MRT, you can stop at Kamphaengphet Station or Suan Chatuchak (Chatuchak Park). Very convenient to reach there.

Since we were not near to any MRT or BTS station, we took the cab instead. It was still early at that time, many stalls were only started to open their stalls. I thought Chatuchak opens as early as those wet market in Penang. =D

There’s many coffee stall like this. Very cool.

Heart shape toilet sign.

As we started touring and shopping, more and more people, tourists, shoppers, locals flocked into the market. Do you know Chatuchak Market is very very very super duper big? There’s many sections, and parts in the market and you can hardly explore every part of the market in one day.

In case you want to split up with your friends, remember the section number and gather back at there.

You can find a lot of orange juice in this kind of packaging like this. 20Baht only!

Although the market is organized into different parts which sells different thing, but then we explored the market randomly without checking out at the map at first, which was so wrong as mom couldn’t find the stuff she wanted. Hahaha.

Well, in Chatuchak Market, you can find stuff like, furniture, home decor, super cheap clothing, lots of Thai street food, paintings, households, kitchen utensils, stationery, Thai gift, and even pet! There’s a pet section where you can find many pet stalls. Though, I couldn’t find that section, it’s just toooo BIGGGGG.

Not enough hand to carry your stuff home? You can find many delivery service at there too! I don’t know the price is affordable or not, any of you know the market rate?

Try the coconut ice cream, it’s nice! You get various topping and cheap too!

A little tips for you is that wear light at Chatuchak, shorts, singlets, slippers would be best. Don’t bring heavy stuff, travel with a light camera, get yourself a mini fan, handkerchief & FACE TOWEL (Haha, packs of tissue paper will do too). Yes, I think face towel is a good bring as Chatuchak is really very very hot! Perspiration will break out non-stop as you explore around Chatuchak.

Worms and insects! WT…ftttt. I tried before, not very nice. Very powderish inside.

Pork! Siu yok! Sio bak! Shao rou! Didn’t dare to try. Haha.

Chatuchak Weekend Market is very fun but then dad was not feeling well so we stopped our exploring and shopping in the afternoon. I was so sweaty and sticky at that time and wanted a bath so badly. Though, if there’s chance, I would love to explore the WHOLE Chatuchak Market, it’s just so big! I think I’ve just visited a small part of it. Anyway, I will visit it again, next time, yeah! Want sponsor me? =D

How to go Chatuchak Weekend Market?

Chatuchak market is adjacent to the Kamphaengphet station of the MRT Bangkok Metro Blue Line, or about a 5-minute walk from the Mo Chit station of the BTS Skytrain Sukhumvit Line and another MRT station, Suan Chatuchak (Chatuchak Park).

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February 10, 2012
Char Koay Teow For Breakfast At Perak Road Market

Char Koay Teow For Breakfast At Perak Road Market – After eating the famous Penang Hokkien Prawn Mee at Perak Road (Jalan Perak Pasar) Market, I realised there’s still space in the stomach, not feeling very full, and so I ordered a plate of Char Koay Teow to share with my friends.

It does looks pretty with a 3 shrimps in it, nicely fried with chilli sauce, and a few slices of Chinese sausage as well as beansprout. The experience with it was not the best, it’s not dry enough in my opinion as the “wok hei” 锅气, the heat / power of the frying wok was not strong enough.

After all, it does fill up my stomach well, not a bad char koay teow, just a SO-SO typical char koay teow to me, I want something drier, hotter, a little bit more spicy, more beansprout and it will be perfect.

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December 22, 2011
Good Morning My Penang Friends

Good Morning My Penang Friends – It’d been a while that I didn’t meet up with them, the friends that I used to mix with before I go to college last year, they are the people that I have been together for the 3 months holiday after high school a year ago.

Now, I am back for holiday and it’s time to meet up and talk and eat and crap!

It was a Sunday morning, woke up early and went to breakfast at Jelutong. There were Yiphing, Arron, Zez Chien and Chai Wei.

Talk, eat and it’s nice seeing them again! By the way, have you tried before the famous Penang Hokkien Prawn Mee at Perak Road Market? That’s our breakfast for the day.

December 22, 2011
Chawan, Bangsar

One fine Sunday night, I and my friends were searching for food at Bangsar area. We are all Penang people and do not familiar with the area. The area was rather quiet. Our mind is all about Chinese-style kopitiam, but somehow I couldn’t find any at Bangsar area. I parked the car at Bangsar Village Mall and decided to go tour around the place to look for cheap and good food. Unfortunately, none, and lastly we went to another Old Town-style restaurant, the Chawan.

One thing, do you know that the word “Chawan” actually means tea bowl? It’s a kind of bowl use for preparing and drinking Japanese tea. In Malaysia, Chawan means cup, but the spelling is Cawan.

Looking through the menu, the first impression wasn’t very pleasing because the menu was not in a good condition. Like I said, it’s another Old Town-style, so don’t be surprise to see the food choice similar. HOWEVER, Chawan is more centered on Malay cuisine, with a quite a number of Nasi Briyani, Nasi Lemak and more.

I read on Foursquare that the Kopi Frappe is a must order. So what it’s actually about is the mix of two different coffee. Like Ipoh White Coffee mix with Hainan Coffee. There’s many kind of coffee for you to choose on the menu.

I order Nasi Tomato Beef Rendang Tok RM10.90. I know you are now wondering what Tok is all about, beef rendang is curry beef cook in rendang style but what about beef rendang Tok? I also don’t know, it’s just appear that the beef is in dark brown color and doesn’t taste any spicy which is just not an good experience for my mouth. I was expecting something spicy with good spices. This disappoint me, and one thing, it tasted like a rock. It’s so hard to chew with my strong teeth.

On the other hand, Nasi Tomato Beef Rendang (RM10.90), without the word Tok tasted good. The spices fill my mouth and the spicyness exploded right in my mouth, gusting down towards my stomach and I felt awesome. It’s not super spicy, yet it brought me an all new experience after eating the beef rendang tok.

The Nasi Lemak Ayam Rendang (RM10.90) was up to my expectation. The lemak rice, sambal, curry chicken rendang, ikan billis, half boiled egg, cucumber slice and a little bit of kang kung, serves on a piece of banana leaf which made the presentation beautiful. In my opinion, it’s so much better than Old Town’s. The curry sauce was actually same as the beef rendang, but using chicken instead. What’s best about this is the sambal gravy which makes the dish perfect. First taste of it tasted normal, 2nd taste of it makes you eat more, 3rd taste makes you feel hot, and yes it’s spicy and good.

Lastly, a glass of sky juice completed my meal and I find it awesome because it’s the cheapest drinks among the menu at only RM0.50. =D

Chawan

69-G Jalan Telawi,
3 Bangsar Baru,
59100 Kuala Lumpur

Telephone: +60322875507

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September 14, 2011
Walk Walk At Bangsar

Sunday night was lame because I didn’t know where to eat. I was driving pointlessly at Bukit Damansara area and there’s no cheap and good food around HELP University College. That’s bored and I and my friends went to Bangsar, for fun, and to find food.

Found no parking by the roadside and was forced to park in Bangsar Village Mall that cost me RM4.50 for about 2 hours of parking. That’s really expensive.

Bangsar Village Mall is pretty cool, the retail outlet and the F&B outlet, however they are all out of our budget. Walking pointlessly along the road to look for food on a Sunday night, we’ve finally decided to pick one randomly outside the mall and we picked Chawan. Bangsar was pretty quite on a Sunday night by the way.

Chien Chern.

Tee Jin.

Hsieh Zhen.

Penang people in Klang Valley ROCKS! Despite having a variety of restaurants in the capital of Malaysia, I still prefer my hometown. Blah. What a random post. Come and follow me on Twitter, do you play Twitter? =)

September 7, 2011
Cadbury Pop It Or Drop It Ground Event At Pavilion

[ADV] Hello people. Last week, I went to Pavilion at Bukit Bintang to check out the Cadbury Choclairs Pop It Or Drop It Ground Event! Yes, you are right, it’s the ground event, not the Internet Facebook game that I introduced few weeks back.

It’s the real thing where people play the real game instead of playing on the keyboard. Damn cool you know. The event started at about 12pm and ended at around 4.30pm. I was around there to join the fun, see what were the contestants doing and having fun. The whole event was pretty interesting.

It was not really a sunny day, drizzled a little bit in the afternoon but luckily the drizzle did not stop the game from going on. However, the cloudy day made it a nice day to spend some times outdoor. I see people were having fun at the Cadbury Choclairs Pop It Or Drop It game. They were just playing hard to win the grand prize which is a ticket for 4 to Gold Coast, Australia!

The game goes like this actually which two participants have to race to the end, the fastest duo wins away the prizes. There’s different part of the game. The first part is the Bungee Dash is like tug of war. The player has to ran against the pulling to get hold of the big Cadbury Choclairs.

Then he need to bounce up the to the top at the next station, then slide down. It’s bounce, or jump, not climb. =D Then he has to slide down and find 10 mini balls.

After that, he will need to pop the balloons with only using the ass which sounds funny and fun.

After successfully popping the balloon, he will then need to climb up a spiderweb where chocolate milk is pouring from top as a chocolate rain. He will bath in chocolate, and he then reaches the final check point and TIME! Sounds interesting right? I actually like the chocolate rain part where people really can taste the chocolate with just an open of the mouth! I wanted to play so badly, just however that I did not bring any extra clothing to change. Aduh.

Besides the big game, there’s also small games like popping Choclairs on a big screen and treasure hunt on Choclairs which leaded to a handphone prize! It’s like a mini games and prizes carnival set up by Cadbury. Very fun.

Besides that, I was not so lucky to win the lucky draw which the prizes were handphone and cash!

And lastly, there’s the prize giving ceremony and want to congrats the winner for winning the ticket to Australia! OMG. I want it so badly. Haha.

ONE MORE THING, remember to check out Choclairs Malaysia’s Facebook Page for more and more about the event and some upcoming cool stuff by them. It’s really very awesome, go LIKE the page, enjoy and HAVE FUN! Choco BOOM!

June 28, 2011
Went To Petaling Street Last Sunday

I think I may have been to Petaling Street when I was very very small, just only a little bit of memories but still can’t recall when was it then I’ve been there. So last Sunday, I drove to town with my housemate, Han Tek to check out a basketball match between Malaysia’s KL Dragons and Indonesia’s Satria Muda. The match was awesome and it’s at the MABA Stadium which is quite near to Petaling Street.

So after the match, we walked to Petaling Street from the stadium to eat my dinner. I am surprised by the heritage old looked shop houses and area. It makes me feel a bit like home because they are cool and Penang is a heritage city as you all know.

The Petaling Street is covered with a roof to prevent rain from coming in but unfortunately, walking there was not a pleasure because the walkway is so narrow. The place is famous for selling imitation stuff and most of the stalls are operated by foreign workers. Very weird of this. Being in a Chinatown but not much Chinese selling stuff at there nowadays.

Went to the famous Tai Lok Mee or they call it Hokkien Mee here for dinner.

After that went back home without using a GPS because GPS couldn’t work that time. Luckily, I found my way back to Federal Highway. Then I found out that Kuala Lumpur and Bandar Sunway is actually quite near, IMO. =D

Tips: You can take LRT to Pasar Seni station and walk there. It’s pretty near.

October 15, 2010

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