It was rather a boring-busy mixed semester break for me, attending farewells, casual outings, preparing my take offs etc.... Out of a sudden, i had the sudden urge to go on a run-away trip from all these hectic life. Why these two place ? 2 of my buddies here are from Parit Buntar and Taiping; shu en's home town is parit buntar, whilst annie's is taiping. The whole idea was rather a rush one, did some research two day before departure and i had to plan for the itinerary too. Research shows that Taiping has decent Heong Piah. Contacted both of them to arrange the plan. The other gang went to Genting which makes them unavailable for the trip, there were a total 7 of us in this trip, namely shu en, annie, win sam, zhou chen, xiao rong, kin yew and me; with kin yew and me in a car, to meet shu en at parit buntar, win sam with zhou chen, xiao rong to meet annie at taiping. Kin yew and i departed from penang as early as 10am that day.
The trip was pretty smooth, penang was bloody hazy that time, anyway, we've made it to jawi toll, as instructed by shu en successfully. The time estimated was just superb, she was there, waiting for us at the toll as soon as we arrived, following her car back to her home and she hop on my car and off we went for our breakfast. She was so bloody steam that she brought me to eat ROTI BAKAR for breakfast, i thought i've compromised with her jawa mee on the night before the trip. Apparently she had forgotten her promise and took me to this isolated, corner coffee house for roti bakar. It was pretty awkward that we had to walk out without ordering (we have found our seats and sat for few minutes). Drove to the place where the jawa mee located. The noodles were good, i would say above average.
As soon as we finished our lunch, we headed to taiping. We were able to reach taiping lake following the instructions given by shu en. Waited some time for win sam and friends, then we headed to annie's house, which is 3 minutes drive from taiping lake. All i remember was, her house was situated on top of a very very steep road, and has quite a variety of fruits planted beside the house. We parked our cars at the rukun tetangga, which apparently next to her house. Annie's mom was very friendly, she welcomed us by giving us an icy cold sugarcane juice and some of their Teo Chew rice cake. It was okay but too filling unfortunately. I swallowed one and it just stayed in my stomach for the rest of the afternoon. We went lunch short while, i was not able to eat lunch as i was too full from the teo chew cake. Lunch was randomly taken at a food court followed by biscuits (Heong Piah) hunting after that. The place was too isolated and was quite distant from the small pekan/town. Our poor annie does not even the directions and we had to stop and ask a very helpful uncle for the directions. Thank god we were able to locate this place after some time. Its a home-made biscuit place, which sells various kinds of biscuits. The Heong Piah was flavorful and crispy to my liking, the sugar filling just oozes out as soon as i had my bite on it........ Opps, should not have written so much of these since i am not writing on my food blog :P
Au Long Heong Piah
No. 768, Lorong 29, Aulong Baru, Taiping.
605- 868 7608
Opens daily, from 7am.
Taiping zoo is one of the must-go tourist attractions in taiping. One is not counted to be there if one has not visited this place. Led by annie, we were back to the zoo/lake area once again. Annie cleared the payments (apparently Taipingers get discounts for the tickets) and we just off to see all these miserable animals.Weather was so damn hot and it melted some of my body fats (i wish lah of coz). The zoo was pretty small, with some of the areas being unavailable (reptile farm was closed), we walked around the area but we had a lot of fun at the crocodile farm (many stories about the movements of crocodiles, bird shit thingy etc). I believe there will be no objections if i were to declare the scariest moment of the day, was to pass by a line/queue of those wild monkeys due to many attacking cases happened recently. We lined up ourselves, forming a team of 7, everyone was like looking at the ground (forgot whom, but someone screamed to the whole team that if someone were to stare at those monkeys, they will attack you eventually). It took us nearly 2hours to finish touring the zoo. Everyone was melting thanks to the killing weather.
Up next was to take some photos at another famous tourist attractions of taiping- the taiping lake. It was windy, but hot. We parked our car at car park D i think, and took a 5 minutes walk from the car park to this small little red stop to take our group photos. Breath taking scenery was behind us, picture above showing group photo for the 7 of us. The whole gang was too hungry after so much walking, and we've decided to head for some cooling places either. Annie brought us to Taiping Sentral in the end, where we get to see some civilization at last, out of no choice, we had to go for sushi king to ease our hunger. I was too hungry as i've skipped my lunch. Coincidentally, there was this 3-6pm discounts for weekdays too, walloped quite a lot of the sushi. Upon walking out of sushi king, we were stopped by some F&N crew members, they were asking us to help them on doing some weird postures to let them take a few pictures, which to be submitted as event report. We decided to help these poor kids in the end, and we were rewarded a few bottles of F&N orange carbonated drinks. Goodbyes ahead and off we went, back to parit buntar, whilst win sam decided to stay with annie at her house.
Shu en brought us to her house after we've arrived at parit buntar. We greeted her mom whilst she was busy handling her customers. Her mom went in the house and treated us some honeydew sago, really thanks to her for being so kind and had the dessert prepared for us. Short rest followed by dinner at nibong tebal area, where the famous octopus/crab porridge at. Led by shu en, we were able to find the place easily. Dinner was satisfying as the portion was great, price was cheap and most important, quality was impressive. After the dinner, shu en led us until the toll and sent us off.
In conclusion, it was really a tiring yet memorable short trip for this semester break. Probably the last semester break for us as we are graduating very soon (only 1 semester ahead). I think i'll miss a lot of fun for this coming semester as i'll be transferring to perth shortly (10 days left as at the date i wrote this blog post). Hope to go for a short trip with you guys again as soon as i get back from perth. ;)
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