Finally I am blogging out my experience at Penang, a 4D3N trip! (From 6 Aug - 9 Aug)
Its a trip to Sheauwei's hometown because I promised her that I would go over one day and she will bring me around. ^~^
I heard that Penang is famous for good food!
On the 6 August 2011 we set off, taking Tigerair over.
Reached Penang at 1pm+, Sheauwei and Andrew were one day earlier than us so they came over to fetch us.
Sheauwei's sister is so kind to borrow her car so that they can drive us around!
The weather there is very hot, hotter than Singapore!
Before checking into our hotel, we went for our lunch first.
I am not very sure of the place that they brought us.
豆蔻 Nutmeg Juice which is made from Penang.
I think its nice, taste sweet.
Root Beer but the color is darker than Mugs root beer.
Hokkien mee if I am not wrong.
And yes, its soup based unlike Singapore.
Taste great and I love it!
After our lunch, we were being drove to Batu Ferringhi where our hotel is located at.
Lone Pine hotel where we stayed in.
The bed.
Bathroom
The balcony.
With SPA, but we didnt used it.
View outside our room.
It would be nice if there's no trees. =/
Changed and then we went over to the beach.
They have a few water sport activities for us to choose from.
We choose the parasailing and banana boat.
Finally got to try out parasailing.
Its quite fun but the banana boat is more fun!
Sheauwei and Andrew go up first.
They are up in the sky!
While waiting for our turn.
Preparing.
Up up we go.
We were quite nervous but was ok when we are up. Hee.
Next the banana boat, but no photos because 4 of us are taking it together.
I was at the front seat and it was really exciting.
Luckily we didnt drop into the water.
I think the guy didnt sabo us. HAHA..
And I guess you have to control and not to let the banana boat overturn as well.
Then, we went for a swim at the swimming pool before we went back to our room to shower.
After showering, we headed out for a full and sinful dinner outside.
Not sure the places again because we were being drove there so I didnt take note of it. =X
Lor Bak
Oyster Omelet (Or Luak)
Ban Mian
We also went to another night market to eat.
Assam Laksa
Fried Guo Tiao
Satay
See how much we ate! LoL!
~End of Day 1~
Next morning, we woke up at around 10am.
Prepared and meetup at about 12pm.
Because its Sheauwei and Andrew last day, they have to check out first but their flight is night time so they have half day more to bring us around.
Then we went out to have our lunch at Pasar Air Itam, Laksa @ Jalan Pasar, which is famous for their Assam Laksa.
I am not a fan of assam and laksa.
But this is not bad.
I like the noodle.
Their sugarcane drink.
The color of the drink is quite different from SG isnt it?
Laksa uncle @work
Can you see many people queueing?
Sugarcane drink uncle @work
吃飽飽，拍個照。 :)
It rained for a while and stop.
The weather is weird there.
Penang is almost surrounded by hills.
After food, we tried to find LokLok at the area but to no avail.
Instead, I bought a balachan back home as granny requested.
Then Andrew drove us up to the hill to
Lok Kok Si (极乐寺)
In the car, going up!
Here we were up at the hilltop where Lok Kok Si is located.
The big statue, Guan Yin
There were the 12 zodiac sulptures but I'll just post the rabbit as this year is the rabbit year, my year.
There were a lot visitors on the day we went.
We also took a chance to pray and also wrote the wishing ribbon!
There are a few you can choose from.
And I got 2!
And this is where we hang it.
Full of wishing ribbons!
Next, we went to the Penang Hill.
For tourist, entrance fee is more expensive than the locals.
Sheauwei and Andrew tried to cheat and want to help us buy, but not successful. ._.
Cost us RM15 but their entry ticket is less than RM10!
Can you see the tram's track?
BF @ Work
Camwhoring while waiting for the tram to come.
Finally it came and we all get all excited!!
Finally the one and only photo of the four of us!
The Lovely Couple. :)
The tram went up quite fast.
Like within 5mins, we reached our destination.
And it really went up quite high. (Not sure how many meters high)
And we reached!
High above the ground.
And can you see the Penang bridge from the above photo?
Damn cool right? We can even see the bridge from Penang Hill.
Its quite cooling at the top, the weather is so different at the ground area.
Sheauwei said this canon represent the Penang Hill so must take photo with it!
The Tram with Penang National flag.
After which, we saw a big fat worm!
Really super fat and digusting with many leg.
Manage to capture it. Gosh!
Last pic at Penang Hill before we left the place.
Track going down.
Then Andrew drove us to eat tea break again.
Mee goreng if i am not wrong?
Sorry I dont really know the name of those food. =X
I like the crust but dislike the filling inside.
Mua Chee
After eating, we were send back to our hotel and Sheauwei and Andrew left us to go back to Singapore first as they have to work the next day.
So BF and I decided to head to the beach to chill and wait for the sunset!
Did I tell you that the beach there is not as beautiful as
Redang?
The water is not as clear as Redang.
The sand is not as white and powdery as Redang.
However, the view of the sunset is great!
During the night time, we went to the night market, as known as pasar malam.
Its just located outside our hotel.
Didnt buy any stuff from there, just 1 or 2 DVD for us to get through the night. Haha..
There are really a lot of fake branded goods there. -_-
Settled our dinner at the coffeeshop there.
Food are a ok, the price are just like SG so I guess considered as expensive than the outside?
However, the pizza is nice and very cheap.
BF keep raving how nice the pizza is!
Char Kuey Tiao
Seafood Fried Rice
Went back to our hotel and watched the show that we bought.
For the rest of the night, we did the same thing. HAHA..
Next day, we explore the outside ourselves.
Took a bus to Gurney Plaza, the shopping mall is quite big there and almost the same as Singapore because the mall is opened by Capitaland.
Lunched at Kim Gary.
After done shopping at Gurney Plaza, we cabbed down to Tesco.
Just a short short trip cost us RM15 which is expensive.
Cheat our feeling. :(
The mall look very big from the outside but there's nothing to see and walk inside.
We only bought some neccesities back to Singapore in the supermarket because its seems cheap there.
Didnt stayed out long and we took a bus back.
Bus Ticket
The next day we got up early in the morning to eat our breakfast at the hotel.
Actually not much varieties but the food still okay.
And then we checked out at around 10am+
Booked a taxi from the reception which cost RM75 and the driver was nice enough to bring us to see some specialities like the white coffee, chocolate and tea bags before heading to the airport.
We bought chocolates and also a box of packet Lemon Tea.
The lemon tea drink is really nice, kind of regretted that we didnt buy more boxes back.
Touched down Singapore in the afternoon and BF dad drive us back home.
About my experience for this trip, I guess its good if there's friends bringing you around the places so that we got to try nice food.
However, my stomach cannot really take the assam and spicy food so during the trip, I had stomach flu. :(
Also, I enjoyed the sightseeing especially at the Penang Hill.
We also didnt dare to go further places so we sort of wasted one day there.
Nonetheless, I guess everything is a good experience. :)
