Late Chinese New Year blog

It has been 16 days since Chinese New Year is over, was so busy that's y did not blog early. So anyway, this year's CNY theme was Port Dickson, but seriously the best is Malacca and KL, PD sux because there is basically nothing worth mentioning...

The total stay were:

KL - 3 nites

Malacca - 2 nites

PD - 1 days

Our reunion dinner was in KL with satay, rendang, pulut and those miscelleneous (those stuff you can get when traveling northbound - Kajang). Most of the time were went for shopping and playing board games at my cousin's house, a big amount of time were also used to experiment the PSP games between Kevin's and mine, this is also when I discovered the wonder of game sharing feature...

Traveled to PD on 8th Feb and there was a big jam on the way entering PD town, silly people traveling to PD during peak season, stupid fools. Stayed in a christian hostel. Condition is OK and comfy, with air cond and water heater :) But personally there is no point in Port Dickson, the sea sux, the air sux, there is a dark water drainage flowing right into the sea and the worst part is RIGHT at the end of the flow, there are people swimming and playing in the sea... unless earth suffered a worldwide nuclear holocaust, I would not dip any part of my body into that sea. So anyway, PD is a no no (food there is expensive also)

Next is Malacca - the 2nd food heaven on 9th Feb (after Penang of course). The moment we reached there it was mee rebus. It was not as tasty as last time (a year ago), but still acceptable compare to the many ones in Penang.

At night it was satay celup at "Ban Lee Xiang", either alot people were craving for it the other night, or there has been a lack of supply in providing food in Malacca town as there is a huge influx of patrons wanting to eat and waiting outside the restaurant. Food is ok here, the sauce is still thick and crunchy and have alot of substance when biting, the variety is also alot, suppose to be much more than "Capitol" - another famous satay celup store in downtown Malacca

The next day we went to have dim sum somewhere in a place call Gajah Berang, as usual its full house (at this kind of period any decent shop also will be full house), so its expected anyway. For me, the most important characteristic of dim sum is it has to be moderately oily, and this place passed the oil test. Unlike Ipoh dim sum which is focusing more on the packaging and inner stuff, this is more for practicality and easier on the wallet.

The same day we end the food odessey with the standard staple of popiah, fried oyster, fish ball and chilli wan tan mee.

Basically this trip we missed out the cendol, chicken rice, tau gua, mi hun kuey, carrot cake and many more.... maybe next trip :(

After Malacca we went to KL for stay again for another night, then back to Penang on 12th Feb.

Total damage for this reunion - Minimum

Biggest regret for this trip - Did not buy the SONY EX earphone at Mahkota Parade for RM40 (was found at Mid Valley to be RM100), followed by not buying the Senheissen earphone at Mid Valley for RM38 (was found the original price is RM99)

Physical damage - leg pain for prolonged driving in cramp environment (maybe I should put a resolution next year to buy a MPV like the Toyota Cardinal for the family...)