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Yesterday both me and DARL took a day off because his sister was coming to Penang for a day tour with three of her friends – one from Taiwan, one from Ipoh, and another from Malacca. The locals knew each other at work as air stewardess and they somehow knew the lady from Taiwan. :D

Apparently they were having city tour around Malaysia. They will be leaving today and the next stop would be Ipoh. They arrived around noon yesterday and me and DARL went meeting them at Dorsett Hotel. First stop, food of course. So we took them to the famous Sister’s Char Koay Teow. To be honest, it was the first time for me too. :D Well maybe because I’m not really a fan of Char Koay Teow and big prawns. I was too busy eating and was kinda ‘phai seh‘ to shoot photos of the food while our guests were eating. :D

After that, DARL thought of bringing them to the Butterfly Farm. The ladies didn’t have much opinions at first but when we arrived there, they started to say that they actually wanted durians, and we eventually found out that their main purpose was actually food! LOL. So we drove up Balik Pulau and first arrived at the Tropical Food Fruit Farm. I was believing that they had this buffet meals but apparently durians were only offered as a testing and according to them, the durians weren’t so fresh. :/ So we left the place (with the boss cursing us I think :P ) and went to a nearby roadside-stall. This is the only time I got to shoot some photos because… I don’t eat durians!!!

While the ladies were busy checking out the stall, DARL’s sister who was also not into durians saw a unexpected guest…

See the snake? It was sleeping just right on top of the place where you were supposed to wash your hands. LOL.

The durians. There were only four of them eating (including DARL) but they ordered quite a big portion and ended up very full. :D

Since I was never a durian-fan, this was also my first time there. :D Check out the choices of durians available. And btw, they have weird names. :D

And my first encounter with durians – on the tree! See it? Just right above the watermark.

As we all know that drinking salt water using the ‘durian shell’ will help reduce ‘heat’ in one’s body after consuming durians so everyone was busy preparing their share of salty drink. But what we didn’t know was, washing your hands via the water that flow through the outer part of the ‘durian shell’ will help keep your hands almost ‘smell-ess’. That was a tip from the stall owner and according to the durian-eaters, it worked!

After the durian-fest we decided to head towards Kek Lok Si Temple. As they also wanted to try Asam Laksa – I told you, they were here for food! LOL – we stopped at the stall down under Kek Lok Si Temple and ordered one bowl for each. As expected, most of them can’t finish their share because they were too full. :D For me and DARL, we still prefer the one opposite Penang Chinese Girls’ High School better. Personal preference. :)

We went straight up to Kek Lok Si Temple just to find out the place was already closed. @.@ So we just took a few photos and left. At that point DARL’s sister was asking if we were going to pass by any petrol station. We thought they need to go to the ladies or buy something so we just drove them there. And that was where they insisted us to fill up our petrol! Oh my… such nice people!

We dropped them back in the hotel and scheduled to meet them up again for dinner after 2 hours. The dinner was at Bee Won Korean Restaurant and similarly, I was too busy eating and wasn’t sure if it was nice for me to snap the photos of the food there. LOL. Nevertheless, the food there was awesome. I like the beef the most. :D

Well obviously we were not really good one-day-tour guide but we were glad that they did manage to eat some local food – and DARL was happy that he got to eat so much durians at one go! :D

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