Day 2 - kek lor si temple. Grand but one of the halls is ridiculously commercialised with things sold right in the middle of it. The others have separate shops from the halls. Assam laksa for lunch, really not a fan. Im like eating flowers. The taste of the ginger flower is overpowering. Not sour at all. Different taste liking. Next up the Penang hill by funicular. Other than its cooling temperature at the altitude of above 700m and its panaromic city view, there really isnt any other interesting stuff. To the tropical spice garden. Even with the citronella mozzie repellent, got bites from there. Would have gotten more without the repellent probably. Drank a poorly done concoction of lemon grass, ginger, lime honey. really only got the ginger taste. A day with ginger overdosed. watched marley n me at night. Nt the first time watching it. Still find it super nice, bringing the viewers thru happiness, frustration and sadness. the gals were like passing the tissue box around towards the end of the show. I rmbered i teared the first time too.
Day 3 - the blue cheong fatt tze mansion. The place where they filmed the little nonya sg drama series. Posh olden chinese decor with geomancy features and carvings on concaved porcelain n of cos wood. Top 10 unesco site, one of the best conservation project. Then walking trail around george town. Quiet town. Not many shops open even on a saturday! Hop on the free town shuttle which i am really sceptical of it being operated actually. Waited for abt 20min and luckily it came. To komtar, pranglin and 1st avenue, cluster of shopping centres. Nothing fun. Except that im really amazed at my frens' appetite with 3 scoops of baskin robbins icecream each after kenny rogers for dinner. Unbelievable. While it is pouring outside somemore. Really exhausted at the end of the day. Too much walking in flip flops the whole day makes the feet super sore. kenna symptoms of dehydration. Urgh. Concussed. Dear pals helped me do online chk in.
Day 4 - coming to the end of the trip. Woke up and lay on the bed. Felt much much better. Staring at the ceiling fan rotating in the cooling spacious guestroom for the last time. Amazed by their stomachs again. Ate hotel's bfast, went for dim sum, walk a street then went for chendol. I only managed a spoonful of each, while they can stuff those down their oesophagus.
Went back to the hotel to stone abit before the kind hotel staff drove us to the local 7-street hawker centre before heading to the airport. Tried local food like prawn mee, jawa mee, curry mee, kway tiao soup, popiah and some fish dish in malay which i cant rmb the name. Haha airport is like a fugitive restin stop. They went to hoard the entire airport with dust flying all over instead of phasing it. Sighz.
Really enjoyed the 5-pple grp trip cos can try abit of all the food. n the companionship is everything in this heritage town. Love the architecture but not new, jus few sizes bigger than our katong area and ann siang hill. Cab drivers allow us to board mostly by charging a pax more, so yes the bus is actually more comfy and cheaper. Only thing that im super gao wei is the wet toilets. Uber hot weather with cloudless sky. But this makes me appreciate a good bath with a super big shower head at the end of every day. And getting to slump right into the king sized bed with the soft pillows gives a sense of bliss. Hope i can rmb these senses and create them as and when i need them back home.
End of a eat. roam. sleep trip.
