Penang Trip during CNY 2010

After a week in Kuantan , i spend around a week in KL. Didn't do much except being trapped in the traffic jam 60% of the time. I guess i am not used to the hectic traffic anymore after living a while in Perth. KL drivers are ruthless .... I became KL drivers too in that week. Speeding , cutting Que and of course swearing when someone cuts into your lane without any signal. Hehe , KL life.. miss them thou... I meant the food there.

The last few days , me and Shelly decided to go Penang for a day. It's been a while since the last time i went to Penang. Back then i was working as a Project Surveyor managing a few survey teams for the Penang Second Bridge project. It was tiring , exhausting , all day out under the sun but then it was memorable. Hehe , enough with the good old days. Lets talk about my Penang trip.

First thing in the morning , we started driving from Kepong to Ipoh.. unfortunately we followed the wrong sign board and ended up driving thru the old road passing the Selayang town. Then we managed to jumped into the Highway and drove all the way to Ipoh.

First stop was the Famous Ipoh Tuck Kee's Bean Sprout Chicken.We order the bean sprout chicken and some meatballs. It was good but we did order too much and we didn't manage to finish it. Strange fact that i found out is that even thou Shelly is an ipoh-ian but she had never been there before. Hehe , it's feels cool to bring an ipoh-ian around in Ipoh. Hehe

Food for 2

Next , we set our GPS navigator and head out to find the origin of the Ipoh White Coffee , the first Old town Kopitiam. We could only roughly remember the name so we keep guessing the name in GPS.

We took ... about 5 wrong stops then abandon the idea... We went from Nam Heong... turns out to be Nam Heong Chicken Rice to Hwa Name Cafe... Hahaha. Shelly was disappointed so i told her that we could stop by Ipoh again tomorrow. I told her i would not rest until we have the famous white coffee. Hehe

Heading straight to Penang which took us another 2.5 hours drive , we finally reached the City of Penang.

The first stop was to have cendols in the city. The cendol was good and we order a bowl of Penang Laksa as well. Next we drove to Batu Ferringgi to our hotel the Copthrone Orchid Hotel. We checked in the hotel
and then went for the dinner. We had our dinner at the a hawker stall. Nothing like good old Penang prawn noodles , Fried egg osyter , barbeque chicken wing and chauw kuay teow . We manage to finished up everything with just the 2 of us.

Next , we drove all the way to Kek lok Si to have look of the night light festival. It's my first time there , wow... they are just too many people there.

Kek Lok Si

Penang Night View

After a long and tiring day , we went back to the hotel and slept like a log. Hehe.

The next morning , we went to the Queensbay Mall to meet up with a few friends. We had the Long de Chuan Ren Restaurant's Siu long bao. It was good but it is all because of the company.

Friends Gathering

It was a splendid trip. I think we should stay there a few more days as this trip we were rushing all the way back to KL.