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Day 1

Chinese New Year Eve

The gambling den

Place your bets!!! Place your bets!!

mummy dearest readying the steamed fish

sister the designated rice  distributor 

Main course

Steamed fish

My adorable nieces and nephew

Group family photo

Day 2

Beef rendang

Chicken Satay

Rice Ketupat

The next proceeding was a visit to my uncles home.

Another family photo

Lion dances commences

Haiyak!!!

Spreading wealth and prosperity around the house

Lion dance in need of some tender loving care.

A photo-shoot kind of family group photo at the lawn

Another one to end the day.

skin sting

That is Cameron Pilley from Australia, squash player whacking a squash ball at his younger brother Morgan.

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food review: the big tree asam pedas

If you know Pak Putra in Malacca, than you will not have any trouble finding this shop. Just be hardworking to look around. My aunt and her daughter came down to Malacca to have a detour before heading down to KL.

 the big signage

 the main stars of the night

 this is how an asam pedas dish looks like. Claypot of tamarind juice, curry laden fishy goodness and a plate of white rice with side dishes of stir fried cabbage with carrots and sambal.

it was flavorful, with a good balance of sweet and salty, the only downside for me though is it's spiciness. I love dishes like this spicy, but for this it was mediocre in the level of spiciness.

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CNY 2011 snippets

 the big reunion dinner dishes

 oreo cheesecake

 chocolate cheesecake

 the customary ang pao (red packets)

 oranges

 that is  my dad picking some papayas during a visit to one of my uncle's house

meet baby Faith, my niece

 awesome black pepper bak gua

kolok mee

with my aunts and cousin and nieces and nephew

and not forgetting the awesome class reunion of 2003

http://randomdotfm.blogspot.com/2011/02/class-reunion-2011.html

the big dinner 2011

The Big Chinese New Year Reunion Dinner

 Of leeks and shrimp

 Broccoli and squid

 roasted duck

steamed pond fish

 soup of the day

 The overview of the awesome dishes

and not forgetting, desserts

 oreo cheesecake

and chocolate cheese cake

and the prelude of Chinese New at this was just during the eve, about 11.49pm to  be exact

the two island trip

*EDITED*

Short introduction before I continue this post.

Journey starts from:
Melaka - LCTA(Low cost terminal airport), KL- 9.30pm til 11.30pm
KL to Alor Setar 9 hours- 12.00am til 9.30pm

Langkawi Island

(13th- 16th February 2010)

The hotel we stayed in Langkawi

Boarded a ferry to Langkawi. Wasn't nice at all. A tip for those who get sick sick easily. try standing up instead of seating down when riding the ferry.

ok so we reached the island at about 1pm or 2pm-ish. So the first question on our minds were. Where to go?The answer: Whatever is on the way and interesting to look at we shall go. So the first stop was:

Mahsuri Mausoleum

Dinner was nearing so we manage to find this Chinese restaurant called Lucky Restaurant

LOL..so sorry was so hungry, so didn't manage to get a decent picture of the dishes that we had. the steamed fish was awesome!

Next day:Underwater World Langkawi

went for lunch as you can see the shop is located at a junction


After we went to this looking point overlooking the Langkawi airport...

waiting for the plane?

after that, we headed to this place that was said to be the grounds of the burn rice fields
to the marina we went...

mum and dad

it was nice to see all the boats hanging around at the docking area. It's just to expensive to own one though.

next location: Geopark

the view from the cable car

not really a good outing at by the time we reach the top, the sunset was gone and the skybridge was closed =(

dinner at KFC. Juicier+ bigger portions

Dataran Lang

Boarded a much better ferry back to the Kedah jetty. Next stop.....

Penang
(16th February til 17th February 2010)

The view from Hotel Grand Continental


We tried heading to Penang Hill but the latest tickets that were sold are for the 830pm slot. So the next best thing was Kek Lok Si Temple.

Kuan Yin under a roof

All those smart China engineers

the awesome food for dinner. The shop is next to Tune Hotel.

ayer hitam assam laksa

Only the brave will eat at such a place as this.

Next morning.

Bukit Bendera/Penang Hill

send my parents to the Bayan Lepas airport

after that it was a 6- 8 hours drive back from Penang to Malacca.