Family Holidays: A Famosa
Over the years i've come to notice that when people go on vacations or journeys, they put it into 2 classes;
one is with friends
"hey are you free next week?"
"I'm going to Pangkor next week la!"
in this case they don't tell you they're going with friends, its known automatically.... and the other is with families
"hey are you free next week?"
"cannot la, family want to go to Pangkor"
see the diff? when they go with family friends have to SAY it.
anyway my family just had one of its own trips, and this time we were travelling down to Ipoh on Christmas day..with a few stops along the way. All the thanks must go to dad who so generously drove all those tiring kilometres and spent all that money on us.
Ok sothe first stop was A Famosa. not the historical relic, the resort (which is really bad). But due to a quirk of nature our family has about 500 dollars in meal vouchers so we went there for a christmas lunch....which was not good.
the food, i mean. it was ok only.. but for the price it wasn't worth it. we ate with the Richards family who so nicely gave us our very own bottle of African cream liqour as a present. thanks!
Then we were on our was to Ipoh! at ipoh we had dinner at a thai restaurant, which started my love affair with thai food...
The next day we had breakfast at one famous place known for its dim sum.
...on the right is a dish of small fried whole crabs.
later on we visited my uncle's florist and deco shop
and then we were off to Taiping! I reckon this would prob be one of the very few times that i ever visit taiping, but i think everyone should at least once in their lives cos taiping is such a beautiful place. the greenery is amazing as well as the lovely historical buildings. speaking of history my mom comes from there.
thats my moms first house. can you see it? its that tiny one with only one door and one room. i think taipingans should be able to recognise the place.
we also went to the Lake Gardens and went on the usual tourist ride :
at taiping also we tried some special teow chew cha noodles which were supposed to be the best in malaysia
heres a scene from the makan area, which goes to show that malaysians eat no all round the clock (this pic was taken around 3.30 pm)
later we went back to ipoh for dinner , and i bought a new friend! He'll be sitting on my table from now on.
this is Duke of York. or York, for short.
the next day we travelled down to Bandar Utama to stay with my uncle and cousins. that night we had a special roti tisu... its soo bloody long!
but long or not sure we sapu the meal habis...
oh, and i forgot to mention but Aunt Audrey cooks a really good dinner
and lastly, on the way back, we stopped at one really good chinese restaurant for dinner. And that concludes or family trip
domo. (japanese)
