My second day at Kota Bharu started at 7 am. Almost everytime I was here we had to do this once. The highlight is to go down to one of Kelantan’s few Chinese wet market in town! The reason why I must go is very simple. I’ll show you in a while. ;)
The Chinese wet market looks just like what we have here in Penang, with stalls selling vege, pork, chicken, seafood and flowers, to name a few. They also have stalls selling food like Chee Cheong Fun, kuih, Char Kuey Teow, and so on. The photo on the bottom left shows the stall with the best Chee Cheong Fun – for darl’s standard of course. :)
And here is the reason I must go at 7 am. Introducing one of my favourite food in Kelantan, Khao-Jam (the photo on top)!
I have actually blogged about it when I was still on my old iWeb platform but let me just repeat here. The rice is cooked in the juice of various types of leaves and herbs, and it’s served with veges, fish crackers, and Budu, a type of fish sauce. Not all stalls are selling nice ones, but this one in the wet market in particular, has something that is just right for my taste buds. Slightly sour, very appetizing! The photo at the bottom is darl’s favourite Chee Cheong Fun.
Later in the afternoon, darl was supposed to bring me to the resort at the beach as promised. But instead of going there, he suggested to bring me to another beach, which according to him, is some places like a haven. Since I haven’t been there before, as long as it has beaches, I’m fine with anything. :)
It took us a while to reach as darl wasn’t very sure of the direction himself. We finally arrived at that place at 2pm+. Not much people there – in fact no one was there, except the stall owners, since it was so early in the afternoon. And I really have to apologise that, I totally forgot the name of the beach, so does darl (blame him! blame him!). We only know that it’s at the town of Tawang. Hmm… I started to wonder if this place is really famous… -.- I tried to locate the place on Google Map with no success. :/
Check out the blue sky…
Another side of the haven.
It’s quite common to see goats and cows along the roadside in Kelantan. There were also a few looking for yummy grass on the beach.
This photo was taken at the beginning of the haven. Yeah it’s so damn long. Half way through it, I started to imagine myself falling off the rocks… @.@
And then this was taken at the end of the haven.
Taken from our side of haven. Someone was fishing on the other side!
And someone please comment that his hair is long and ugly. This guy just doesn’t want to cut or trim his hair!!! ARGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!
Before we went back, we had coconut juice and some lekor on the beach. Nothing much to talk about, didn’t taste up to my standard. :P
We left the place at about 5 pm, heading towards our next food-destination. Again, stay tuned! ;)
