Showing posts with label Weekend Getaway. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Weekend Getaway. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Foods and Flowers at Cameron Highlands


Our first stop at Cameron Highlands was the Water Cress Valley restaurant at Brinchang.


The moms

Watercress dishes

Assorted fresh mushroom. I love mushrooms!!

Overall, the food was meh, but the view was good!

The view from Water Cress Valley restaurant


 Next is to check in our hotel.

Cozy, clean, strategically-located,
and only about RM80/night.

The view from our hotel, not bad right?

The Brinchang town

This was actually hubby's business trip and we were left on our own after checking in the hotel. So, we spent the rest of the day just walking around Brinchang town.

Here's the Big Red Strawberry Farm, just a short walking distance from our hotel:

We came for the dessert and not so much for the plants. =P
@ The Big Strawberry Farm

Fresh strawberry sundae and pancake @ The Big Strawberry Farm

The cafe seating area @ The Big Strawberry Farm

Besides strawberries and dessert, the Big Strawberry Farm has other plants too.

My mom with the flowers

Christmas flowers @ The Big Strawberry Farm


This is my favourite flowers and it's only RM6 per pot!
I was planning to buy it on the last day of our trip.
However, to my disappointments, I didn't get to buy it from the 3 other farms that I purposely visited on the last day. It was either not available, too expensive or didn't look good. :(

The strawberry women

After the farm visit, we walked back to our hotel for a short rest + nap. Then it's time for dinner again.

 The best herbal pork leg that I have ever tasted.
@ You Hoo restaurant

Is this also called pucuk paku?
The menu described it as "young fruit of chayote with salted egg" - such an impressive name.
@ You Hoo restaurant

Since there were only 3 of us and the pork leg portion is quite huge, we could only ordered two dishes. Would definitely come back again for other dishes the next time. 

So that's conclude Day 1 of our Cameron Highlands trip.

The next morning...

We had breakfast at Uncle Chow kopitiam. It was opened by a retired couples from KL and it's highly popular with the tourists.

 The shop. 
It's quite hidden in the housing areas, but luckily they have good road signs to lead us here. 





After breakfast, it's farm visiting time again. 

Love the view! 
Just outside the entrance of the agro farm that we are visiting

Happy yellow flowers by the roadside


So beautiful and elegant
I've taken at least a few hundreds photos of the flowers so I guess that I will only post the ones that I really like.

That's all for now, I'll post more photos later. :)

Have a beautiful day people!

Love, Rojakgal

Thursday, March 29, 2012

1 Day Trip to Teluk Intan (Diamond Bay)

The reason that we made this trip was because Teluk Intan was both my mom & hubby's hometown but we haven't been back for years.

The drive to Teluk Intan is about 2.5-3 hours from Kuala Lumpur.

Our first stop is at the Jalan Maharani's hawker stalls.

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Lots of stall here @ Jalan Maharani

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Family :)

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Nasi kunyit with char siew. Nice but the char siew is a too fatty.

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a typical Teluk Intan's chili sauce. It's more watery that the ones in KL

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Soy milk stall @ Jalan Maharani
This is supposed to be famous but I found it pretty average.

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Local fruits @ Jalan Maharani
Local fruits are really cheap here. It's about half of the price that we pay in KL.


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Wet market near Jalan Maharani


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Black cat for sale?


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Coffee @ a random coffee shop
My mom says Teluk Intan's coffee is the best. It's thick and has a strong aroma, but it's too sweet for my taste. From my experience, most of the small town's drinks are usually too sweet.

This coffeeshop sells pastries too. 

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The famous Rojak Ah Chai

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All the newspaper cuttings of this little Rojak stall.

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Rojak Ah Chai
The prawn crackers was super crunchy and there are a lot of fruits in this rojak. 
 I would prefer the Penang's rojak over this cause I prefer the sauce with lots of prawn paste.


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The famous Menara Condong of Teluk Intan

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Moms

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Do shop for Teluk Intan's heong pneah

We spent a whole day at Teluk Intan and it's really nothing much to do here so went to Rapid Mall which is the largest mall in Teluk Intan. At Rapid Mall, we shopped at Giant, had foot massage, chill at Sushi King, then Mcdonalds.

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Us having coffee and sundae at Mcdonalds @ Rapid Mall


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The famous Liew Kee's chee cheong fun - opens from evening onwards. 


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My mom @ Liew Kee's shop

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Authentic Teluk's Intan CCF. Delicious!

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We ended our trip with dinner at SP River View Seafood Restaurant.

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View #1 @ SP River View Seafood Restaurant.
Love the view here. It's so peaceful

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View #2 @ SP River View Seafood Restaurant.

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Claypot chicken with taro. Love this!

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Steamed "3 wong" egg. This's my favourite.

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Vege. Just average

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Steamed fish

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Steamed prawn

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SP River View Seafood Restaurant is just opposite Hotel Grand Court.

The end.

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