Chap Goh Meh!

Just came out of the bathroom.... after some deep bowel cleansing and a shower. I wonder if it was the burger or was it the Yee Sang at my mom's place.

Lately there's been so much good food entering my tummy... Ah Yatt Abalone, Marco Polo dimsum, Nikko Hotel Dimsum, Mei Keng Fatt Seafood, Overseas' Char Siew, Ipoh's Assam house, Setiawan's Ah Pek Seafood, homecook goodies, etc etc... Feels so satisfying... Hahaha, everyone knows that I am a little gluttony when it comes to food... I derive a lot of happiness when eating good food... Feels so gratifying as we spend our hard earned money "into" ourselves hahaha...

Have been a little dry on ideas lately due to too much entertaining, angpow exchanging, CNY card playing, and of course CNY gluttony... Thus I will keep this short and simple. Enjoy the pictures though... :P (Special note: will upload pics later coz I need to visit the bathroom again.. *bummer*)

Oh, oh... Incidentally today is the "Valentine's Day" in the lunar calendar... Happy Valentine's day to all the lovers out there... May you find abundance sweetness in your lover year after year ..... (doesn't it sound like some CNY greeting? ahaha.. it's totally intentional AHHAHAA)

CNY Ipoh trip

FEB 10 SAT: It’s Chinese New Year again… time for fun and merriment of sorts, food and drinks galore, gathering and gossiping, and not forgetting lanterns and fireworks in abundance….

This year, without much preparation, we took a trip to Ipoh and Setiawan, just to sample the food there after hearing so much from colleagues…Everything was ad-hoc, where to meet and time was decided last minute, less than 15 hours before the actual trip itself…. Nevertheless it was an exciting experience for us…. And especially for Bryan....It was a great way to get him to see the greeneries and animals in the sub-urbs instead of being glued to the computer all day… He wasn’t too keen to leave his video games at first until I told him that there’s be 3 friends with better computer games, waiting for him in Ipoh…

Bryan has no idea what Ipoh is but it’s some where far…. So he was excited. And when we reached Tesco Extra Ipoh, Bryan saw the word Ipoh next to the Tesco sign board. He immediately associated Ipoh with Tesco. So now he thinks Tesco is Ipoh and Ipoh is Tesco, and keep telling me that he wants to go to Ipoh, thinking it’s a Ipoh is a supermarket where he can buy his Spiderman and Final Battle Gameset toys. OMG Help!!!! How do I explain what’s “Ipoh” to him…???? HAHAHAHAHA

Anyway, we found the Ipoh guy, Kee and proceeded to have lunch at Assam House…. MC was a little disappointed that his "weird taste pork hands" was no longer served in that restaurant as the restaurant has turned Halal. Food was okay only compared to those in KL (only the Sambal Kerabu and the Curry Hawaiian Muscle was worth mentioning).

We proceed to Kees house to rest for a while and complete the Chinese New Year tradition of visiting… Sorry Kee, we’re so embarrassed that we brought only “bananas” as we weren’t prepared for visitations ahahhaah…… Kee and family were nice and welcomed us warmly… Bryan warmed up quickly to his 3 little friends too..

As time didn’t allow us to hang around in Ipoh for too long, we proceed embark on our next destination - Setiawan for dinner. Journey was long with lots of traffic lights… the only highlight was when I showed Bryan a bunch of water buffalos. He’s never seen black cows before, so he asked innocently, “Why are they black? Venom attacked them ah?” AHAHAHAH… I bursts out laughing at his silly yet logical association …. Hahahahah Spiderman became black after being attacked by venom so it’s only logical to think that the cows became black if they were attacked by Venom hahahaha…

Dinner time came and we found LP who kindly brought us to Kampung Koh to sample their seafood. We wanted to Lou Sang but the restaurant doesn’t serve it… *bummer*…. We had a whole table of seafood, Fish, Prawn and Crabs… with oysters, sotong too… quite a sumptious dinner.. but still room for improvement tastewise… Anyhow, it's the company that counts. We had a superb meal because everyone was in such high spirits and joked about anything

Bryan keep asking me to bring him to the beach and thus we adjourned to Lumut beach for some final sightseeing. If you’re expecting sand and beach, then you’re in for some disappointment. (*Special Note: Yesterday I asked Bryan whether he wants to go to the Lumut beach again; the place where he can play with those dolphins statues and run around in the park beside the port. He replied bluntly, “But Mom, I don’t like to play with statues, I want some REAL DOLPHINS.” HAHAHAHAHAHA … and I thought I could trick him into some cheap alternatives ahahah..)

The day ended there for me as a very tired Bryan unwind to sleep in the car after some milo. But I heard Kee, MC and LV were still on the move. They went back to Ipoh hoping to get some more goodies such as “Salted Chicken”, “Ipoh Hor Fun”, “Ipoh White Coffee”, “Ipoh Taugeh Chicken Rice” ..etc…. However, to their disappointment, Ipoh was infested with tourist on that day and everything was sold out!!! They looked everywhere for food until around 1 am and had to settle for some imitation Ho Fun… CMC says the imitation white coffee was still good… Hmmm not sure if he was just saying that to lessen Kee’s guilt on his inability to bring his fellow friends to sample all the infamous food…. Ahhahaha… We can see Kee tries pretty hard to please everyone and was hoping his fellow buddies could stay the night to accompany him longer…. (Kee must have been pretty bored in Ipoh to be so desperate for MC and LV's companionship....)

Time flies when we’re having fun… it was indeed a very fun trip despite us spending most of the quality time in the car. We had joy, we had fun…. And we just cant wait till the next makan trip… :P

Thank you Kee and LP for such a wonderful time. And thank you LV and CMC for such a silly funny good time....