Taiping Day 2

Basically the next day, we were just searching and eating all the famous food we can find. We again visited the zoo during day-time to see how good it is since everyone recommended it. However, i would too advise first-timer to visit the zoo during day time since it really looks better compared to the night safari. Though the animals displayed will be slightly different.

In the morning, we went to try their so-called mouth-watering "chee cheong fun" advertised in few blogs which to me, wasn't that watering after all. Its just normal sauce and some fried onions on a plain chee cheong fun. I'm not a fussy-food-person to being with, but just curious what are the specialties within it?


Then, we went for the famous popiah which claimed to have been there for almost 30-40 years. This time it tasted quite good. :)

Well done!

The zoo..... again:

How boring. I know.

HUGE!

spot a bird with weird hairstyle!

eeee, i love flamingo! feel like bringing them home :(
Thier PINK beaks are so appealing....

we visited the weird camel again! He appeared to be normal the next day.
eee JINX.

Noooo. orange flamingo.

we spotted the bear's hand.. looked like it were tied up. Wasn't sure but it definitely looks wrong to us! hehehe.

so lazy, so hot.
i felt the same way, rhino. :(

visited the museum nearby:

all the bones.

nothing really amusing too. :(

baby is gonna get me a plane someday and fly me arnd!
dream on!

We traveled quite far just to try one of the malay mee called flooded mee. It was out of the town and we even went to another one super far and only to find out.. the shop was closed.down.
like forever and ever.

it was okay.
vary prices with different size of the bowl.
S- rm6, M- rm8, L- rm12.
The price might looked a bit pricey but the prawns they served were quite a lot.
at least 6 in the size S mee.
Good for prawn lovers like me!

our dinner were rather simple and it was cheap.

Breakfast next day:

Boy's favorite: bak kut teh.

the meter was so old-school that i swear at one point i didn't how to operate it. :/
We have to use it cause... we gotten a saman the day before. (can appeal, only RM10)
AND, we clearedthe saman in the ZOO.
funny eh.

not bad.

but the vegetable was a bit burnt :(

we were using the gps to track where is the famous biscuit they were selling and it attracted the woman who sold bak kut teh. She said she always saw people traveling and pressing this while they were in her shop previously! And we explained to her where we wanted to go.
She was kind enough to explain to us and i remember the look she gave us when we told her where we wanted to go because the place were quite near. And to her, its really unnecessary to use such devices. Hence, the look! she directed and directed again, explained a few times. Yet we still went back to the same biscuit store which she insisted it wasn't that.
at the end...
WE GAVE UP BUYING.

aaah. our syok sendiri time next. :)

What are your expectations?

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.

By just spending quality times or hanging out leisurely...
Was as that just the surface of a friendship,
but beneath everything it was a different story?

Able to be honest and trust each other, no betrayals, quality laughter time, be there for each other.
So, what about you?
What are the expectations that you're imposing on a friend or rather good friend i'd say?

"Friendship isn't about whom you have known the longest.
It's about who came, and never left your side"
I've better understanding on this quote now.
They were once inseparable and now they are complete stranger.
How ironic is that?

Taiping Day 1

Summary:
We needed a break.
We wanted somewhere not too far.
We wanted to go somewhere we both have never been before.
We decided to go Taiping.

Though we had a very very awful experience in Bidor, We stopped by for their famous duck noodle again. :/

Yumm. I love their herbal soup.
(generally i love all kind of soups! ;))

I love petai too but mostly all the people i knew despise it :/

Continue our journey to Taiping:

Taiping is quite a small town but you might still get lost somewhere because the outskirt of Taiping is quite big and there have small villages around the place. We rely a lot on GPS to get to our destination (tourism places), good food and our accommodation. But so far the good food that the GPS brought us haven't been really satisfying thus we went online to check for these "good food". At the end of the day, many food that were recommended by various online websites / GPS didn't exactly made our mouth watered much.

But one thing for sure is, the food prices they charged are really cheap!

Famous chicken rice, not-so-apparently :

i think my mum cooked better!

he's always hungry!

Next, we went to Taiping Equine Park where you can actually ride the horse or feed them:

sze's cousin!

what about english translation?

we didn't want to ride the horses so we chose to feed them. Rm1 for one bucket:

Both of them looked so calm......

I kept hearing voices in my head going round and round telling me that : IT BITES! :( i was super reluctant to feed him :/

super awkward moment with the horse.

Taiping lake is just a stone's throw away:

Best place in Taiping!

The lake is really big and beautiful. Went for a stroll and took a few syok-sendiri pictures. ;)

so calm so peaceful.
But got lots of mosquitoes!

POSER NO.1
(and i'm poser no.1 - 10 -_-)

mmm.
what's better than strolling in a park during sunset? :)
though beach would be more awesome. (i'm going soon yay yay!)

strolling became more like photo-shooting:

picturesque.

spot a cave!

We had a simple dinner and rushed to night safari zoo. Before we made our way there, we had such a hard time deciding if we really want to go for the night safari. It was NOT recommended by a few local people there (including our hotel friendly counter girl and the ticket booth staff herself, can you imagine that! They recommended visiting the zoo day time.). However, because mr.boy hasn't experienced night safari before, we thought we might as well give it a try, it can't be too bad, isn't it?

okay... the night safari indeed wasn't that good. There were trains provided to go around the zoo and they gave a brief, REALLY BRIEF explanation about the animal and didn't really stopped to give us the time to view the animal clearly. So after the train ride, we decided to walk ourselves around the zoo since we paid to have a good look of these animals.

Thank God for baby's iphone who has like the brightest "torchlight" in the world! :P The whole time when we were walking around the zoo, there were hardly street lights at all and the path we were walking were really really dark! You really need a torchlight to guide you around. I got stung by thousand of mosquitoes and was walking in fear because you never know when a human or animal might just popped out, for good or bad cause i don't even know!!

but... surprisingly some of the animals were more active than the daytime. (yes tell me about it, we visited daytime zoo as well, this is how bored taiping is :) )

niki squinting our eyes!

when we visited this horrible camel, it looked really tedious and scary. It was having white bubbles all covering his mouth and acted really strangely. My boy advised me not to go so close because they might spit like how llama or alpaca does. I laughed it off because i hadn't seen a camel spit before! Just went the camel started to act like a freak again (as though being possessed), my boy suggested that we leave. We left and 5 seconds later, we heard a loud sneeze and EWWWW, large amount of white liquid were spit out. Lucky ME! i was standing so close trying to get a good glimpse at the camel! unlucky CAMEL, it might be sick.

spotted a wallaby and hen yabe went to get a close up picture of that small lil creature, it got shocked and stumbled down, as in really literally rolling down :/

cool and calm rabbit.

lalala.