End of Year Holiday '07 I

[yeah!!! Finally have time to BLOG... wakaka... so many food photos to show this time... my holiday was sooooo damn awesommmeeeeeeeeeee.... wahahaha... here goes the start! =D ... hui]

9th Dec 2007 marked the first day of a long tedious journey to my first stop, Malaysia. The horrible plane trip on Tiger Airways was interesting, and definitely very uncomfortable. Small seating, little leg room, tiny space between seats, annoying passengers in front who lean back way too much... the combination was not pretty at all. Luckily I'm quite petite in size- I felt so sorry for that really tall, lanky guy who basically looked like a curled up hermit crab just trying to sleep. Man, that trip was seriously a test of perseverance.

However, that was not the worse part of it all. The next day, I was on the train for the whole day (about 8 hours), in order to get from Singapore to Malaysia (around KL). On the train, Mum and I saw some Japanese tourists, and they had the best bento boxes for lunch!!! We were so hungry and jealous it was not pretty either. =P ... Quite funny actually. We thought the train lunch cart would offer some authentic Malaysian cuisine... but it turned out that the chef was not there, and no good food was being made- just cheap bread that had barely any filling. Anyway, when we finally got to Klang, we had to wait another hour at the train station for my Daddy to pick us up. It was raining, there were weird people gazing at us suspiciously, there was a man smoking next to me. Urgh. It was such a relief to finally reach my little woop woop home in Banting after another 40 minutes drive, where Mum and I unloaded our luggage and settled in.

On the bright side, I started my "Malaysian Good Food Episodes" with a Da Bao (Big Bao). Y-U-M. That's all I can say/describe it. It was seriously magical- the authentic taste, the freshness, the hawker atmosphere... man, I was in heaven.

La Legendary Da Bao... SO GOOD!

This first week in Malaysia meant hurried shopping for supplies/things to bring back to Perth. I basically had 10kg worth of flight weight to carry from Malaysia, and another 20kg from Shanghai- my next destination! The trip was planned like this (can refer to previous post):

Perth-Singapore-Malaysia-Shanghai-Malaysia-Singapore-Perth (all because of cheap air tickets... sigh)

So I frantically shopped for about 2 days in KL before departing to Shanghai. Sorry I couldn't meet up with peoples!!! I had to use the little time I had to shop for things I need/want to bring to Shanghai/bring back to Perth. Though rushed, I still had fun. Teehee. Of course, more good food to add to my Episode during these few days before the departure to Shanghai. I also enjoyed the humid but sunny weather in Malaysia, as well as the regular afternoon rainfall. I love that about tropical countries. Not when I was out with Mummy and we only had an umbrella to share though. That was bad. Here are some pictures of the good food:

Tropical fruits!!! Nashi pear, sweeeet bananas and PAPAYA!!! Oh My God!

Bak Kut Teh / Rou Gu Ca ... DELICACY... Mnmnmnmmm...

Ice Kachang... ICE KACHANG! What more can I say?!?!?!

I shall end this post here for now... prepare for Part II tomorrow. Teehee... it has officially taken one whole day to publish this post... sigh. I shall do other posts just on the good food... that would be so awesome. Teehee, I love my food!!! =)


Hui Hui ^^b