Happy Sweet 16

How time flies…here’s to a great day and many more happy ones to come!! Have a blessed birthday bie!

 

 

Botanical Gardens Penang

  

We got to see this arch before it was torn down recently. Personally i thought it was an eye sore…its like jutting out amidst the greenery…! Another waste of public taxpayers’ money!! One look at this arch and we decided not to go in.

FYI Botanical Gardens is known to many in Penang as  "Waterfall Gardens" because of the cascading waterfall nearby. It is a public park situated on Jalan Air Terjun.

To couples, it was the “in” place to park one’s car there at nite for romancing!!?lol. This was like 20-30 years back of course when it was still foc to just drive in.

(pic taken from Wikipedia)

Step Up 3D

My son is a huge breakdance fan as you can see even when we were sightseeing at Khoo Kongsi in Penang recently, he couldn’t resist doing a breakdance move for the camera! So winning the tickets to watch  the preview screening of Step Up 3D would be so great and what more it also falls on his birthday 25th August!

150tickets are up for grabs so click on this link to view all the terms and conditions.

http://www.advertlets.com/

Public Cafe, Gurney Drive

Our last morning saw us in Gurney Drive again and this is the only place serving breakfast/brunch besides the bakuteh next door and the  mamak further down the Drive.

Last plate of char koay teow till we come back again!!

Lobak of course.

We also had this yam rice with stewed ginger pork leg and pig intestines soup!!

Penang’s version of Cantonese fried noodles in a claypot!

Dinner at Gurney Drive

Every trip back Penang involves at least one dinner outing to Gurney Drive for the nightime hawker fare.   

Penang Rojak with the delicious prawn sauce(he-ko).

 

My boy …having craving for rice so ordered this claypot rice for him.

Sotong Bakar or Grilled Calamari. Fantastic with the sweet spicy peanut sauce.

Fried Oysters(Or-chian)- this stall has the longest queue and you wont miss it. But i dont think its the best.

Almond jelly

Assam Laksa

Little Penang Heritage Tour

A lot of hype has been talked about in the press on Penang being a Unesco World Heritage Site albeit politically. And being a proud Penangnite, I played tourist on a very hot day walking around Georgetown.    Visited some kongsi/associations, mosque, indian temple and just admiring Penang again after a long time. More can be done to restore and beautify Penang as you can see from some of these pics of the colonial shophouses. You dont find this in modern buildings already. I just love the intricate designs on the building’s facade !

         

    

Breakdance at Khoo Kongsi

Last month when we were back in Penang with my boy who was back for hols…and here he is doing a breakdance in front of Khoo Kongsi!!    

Khoo Kongsi is being restored and the row of shophouses in front and at the side were vacated and being renovated. Probably this time next year, they would already be up and running selling Penang food and souveniers.   The RM5 entrance fees were kinda worth it to go in and take some great pics!

Beautiful Wedding

Was admiring MSN pics of Chelsea Clinton’s wedding this past weekend. The bride wore Vera Wang and the venue was at a private 40,000sf estate that overlooks the Hudson River.

Truly a breathtaking moment!!