Monday, January 02, 2006

Cameron Highlands

From 26th to 29th, me and my family went to Cameron Highlands together with my grandma, 2 aunties, 2 uncles, and 2 cousins... We stayed in 2 apartments in Equatorial... Bring tonnes of 'ka pou lang chang' wanted to make our own steamboat there, but end up making nothing...

It's fun to getaway from the hectic and polluted city of KL for few days, and 'breath in' the 'clean' air... It's not really fresh air actually, because all the loading lorries and trucks puff out black dirty smoke... *cough cough* Haha, it's quite cooling, seriously wonder if i should move here when i retire... (mimpi-ing)

Didn't do much there actually... But it was really fun because in the morning all of us work together to make breakfast... Then go around strawberry farms, vegetable farms, cactus valleys, go to the daily pasar malam... I bought RM10 worth of those dried flowers, the woman say can last 5 years but now also layu dy =_=", and RM10 worth of key chains (12 nos, those fruits and vege ones), and 4 butterfly bookmark...

As usual, I will talk about ---- FOOD:-
On the first day, we went to a restaurant we always 'bong chan' everytime we go CH, which is the Highlands Restaurant, we met the lady boss at a mamak nearby and she said that they will close down by end of the year, and they only serve steamboat, so we reserved for steamboat that night, don't know why the steamboat there is really nice, maybe because the items are fresh and they still traditionally use charcoal to heat up the pot...



We also visited the BOH Tea Factory in Sungai Palas... They renovated the place, very nice... But the factory still remains the same... We got to visit the factory, but at that time they were already cleaning cuz it was closing time...

I was very surprised to see KLG in Camerons! I thought only Taman Desa has KLG... Rupa-rupanya there are a few... Even in Ipoh also i saw...


On the third day, we went to Tanah Rata for lunch, wanted to try the T Cafe, but ended up in Downtown/Old Town Cafe. Can't remember what 'town' la... Gosh, the food was... erm... OK lah... Very very small portion and not nice. I ordered the Homemade Vegetable Soup, i thought was those Western soup like Borsch, but, *aiyak* it was like Chinese clear soup with jagung and mushroom and cabbage... Yuck!!! I ordered Seafood spaghetti, looks okay but taste sour... and the pasta was soggy... Overall, BAD...

Then on the fourth day, the T Cafe was very tempting, so we went there for lunch before heading back to KL. Gosh, the scones were heaven!!! Lovely!! Nice!!! T Cafe is a restaurant on the first floor, just nexxt to Marry Brown in Tanah Rata. There's a side staircase up to the cafe. You could even smell the scones and apple pie from outside. When we reach, there weren't many people, and we reserved a table already luckily. So we sat down, took our order and the scones came... Slurppp!! I ordered Boneless Chicken with Brown Sauce, and Banana Milkshake... Wooooo, fantastic!!!! Absolutely wonderful!!! We also tried Claypot Chicken Rice, Claypot Yee Mee, Hokkien Mee, Lamb Chop and Claypot Curry Rice, really really nice... The owner Terese got all the recipes from her grandmother and open this small cafe... Very cozy place, with books to read and can online from there (have to pay lar of course), the cafe is separated into 3 small halls, with a small counter to make the drinks and a small kitchen at the back...


After that, we headed off to Ipoh to see the 'Sam Poh Tong', had bean sprout chicken at Ipoh Town then head home to KL... And live happily ever after...

That's all for now... Gonna sleep.. Goodnight!

1 comment:

Shin Sar said...

Not only Tmn Desa and Cameron have KLG. Even my hometown, Taiping also has one!! But haven't try it yet :P