Anyways, this week is currently a week of term break for te pre university students in my college. So, me and some office colleagues decided to take the day off yesterday (Tuesday) to have a small 1 day trip to... Ipoh!!!!
Objective: FOOD
There were 7 of us who went to Ipoh that day, in 2 cars. We started our journey about 8.45 am from the college, as we were waiting for a friend to arrive.So during the wait, snapped a picture of a colleague :p
Posing maut!!!
Well, we went to The famous nasi lemak stall in D.U. for breakfast about 9am before making our journey to Ipoh about 45 mintes later.
The whole trip was quite good actually, as I was driving, 3 other colleagues were in my car while another 2 went to the car that Alex drove. We had a brief stop at the Tapah stop along the highway, so that urs truly may ease himself at the restroom while the others went to buy guavas and other stuffs at the stop. Then saw a small kiosk selling KimoIce! Tried it (chocolate) - meh =.=
Anyways, continued our trip to Ipoh, reaching the stop at Ipoh Selatan about 11.30am - ahead of schedule!!! (:p) We drove past Jusco where me and my colleagues started to look into the map from a street food guidebook to go to our first makan place - some place near some road selling something good.
Let me tell you first, as I was somehow believed to lead the group, me and my colleagues in my car had the task of leading the other car and collegues to the place.
No need to say, as I wasn't a great leader, so the first stall took us about 20 minutes to locate. :p
We went round and round that whole road only to find that it was situated at the end of the other side of the road... Choi... =.=
It was a coffeeshop named Yong Suan, with a nasi kandar stall located at the entrance. Now this stall was highly recommended so we thought of trying it out.
And what do you know.... It's REALLY GOOD!!! I had a piece of ayam merah which tasted good but spicy, while the others had rice with whatever's thrown at them. Why thrown? Apparently whatever any of my colleagues said to the waiter handling their food wasn't taken into consideration.. Nasi setengah - plop! Whole plate of rice -
Tak mau kuah - Plop! More gravy!!!
But they did enjoy themselves, every one of the colleagues - Alex even 'bathed" in the glory of the spicyness!!! :p
Managed to take this b4 going off - just to show HOW FAMOUS IT IS
Next, we drove a 5minutes drive to the famous Jln. Theatre where many good food were supposed to be found there.Firstly, we went to shop at a store there for some things that Yati, Hema and Yong were looking for for some college activity. It's actually surprising to me here, that on this road itself, there are 2 shops/supermarkets that sells trinkets and decos for bridal events/events and such... U can find a lot of those ribbons lar, bunga mangga deco, masks, and others there. Unfortunately we were not allowed to take pictures there. sighh....
After the 10-15 minutes romp in a shop of it, we then went to another recommended shop at the same road for dessert. this time we had "tau fu fah". Taste - not too bad, but the texture of the tau foo fah makes up for the taste, as it was oh so smooth!!!! never had a smoother one that that!!!! Typing this is making me drool all over again, just remembering it!!!
hehehe... took abit first b4 the picture!!!
No. Me not in cos I had to take the picture!!!
Waitress too lulu to take for us.
After the soft makan, Yong, Hema and Alex decided to walk to a shop at the end of the street to order the Ipoh's famous salted chicken to take away, while Yati and Chee decided to shop at the remaining decoration shop. So off I went with Peter for our so called next stop - others too full to eat - the On Kee Chicken Rice with taugeh!!!
Unfortunately the much more popular Lau wong, situated next to On Kee was closed. So we went to this one - not that it didn't taste good!!! YUMMY!!! Also, as Peter was eating, people just staared at us eating... wonder why....
Chicken rice was good, slightly oily but good!!! To the point that I ordered an extra bowl of rice!!! Hahahahahaha!!!
Peter commented then after the eat, that he was then "TRULY HAD EATEN". Hahahahaha!!!
We were then very full by 2.30pm after that, andour initial planning was so way ahead, that we didn't know what to do then. Then we decided to go to Ipoh Parade as it was hot here too. SO Ipoh Parade - HERE WE COME!!!!
Went there, jalan jalan a bit. Bought some things there. I actually bought some things I wanted to get for so long. Got it in Parade only cos I had the time..Can u imagine that?!?!
Anyways, we had a small drink at the starbucks there... Yes - starbuck in Ipoh... WT?!?!
Again, no group photos cos this time there were only one worker in the shop that was BUSY BUSY BUSY
It was about 4 that time, so we decided to go to our final destination for the day. The plan to the Old town white coffee cofeeshop was scrapped as everyone had it in Starbucks aready (DUH!!).
So we went to Kek Lok Tong, near the famous Sam Poh Tong.
I can tell u this, a 15 minutes trip from Parade to this temple ended up becoming a 30 minutes trip, thanks to yours truly...
Thank you colleagues, for your patience!!! I've never gotten the wrong road as riduculously funny as this one!!!
Let's just say that towards the 4th U turn out of a remote bend, Chee messaged to tell me not to give up hope....
But Kek Lok Toong we managed to reach, and it was breahttaking...
We went into the cave and saw really good cave stalactites and mites as well. The cave was littered with statues of Buddha and other gods, among the beautiful stalagmites/tites. Best of all, the cave opens into a nice man made garden which house a small lake.
Had an episode of breathing difficulty though here, a sudden pull and tug of pain that I had to sit down and wait it off...
Then after that we went back to the main road. Of course stopping at the tambun pomeloes stall to buy 3 for the family :p
Then we went back to KL, reaching DU again about 8pm...
Not too bad for a day trip!!!!
1 comment:
was suprise that anton asked me in class about the trip, i paused for a while & wonder how did they know about it, they replied with the smile that they knew something. then i visited fb & found ur blog :)
ya, u forgot 2 mentioned that u drove us 2 U OK counselling ctr,the most hilarious part of d trip, XD
& v r sure glad that u managed 2 made it thru d trip ^_^
urs sincerely,ccw
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