Weekend Away... Taiping

Have Netbook and broadband will blog... LOL! In Taiping now. Since Son is still away.... next week he goes off to Cambodia.... He seems to be enjoying his SUSOM lots. Been sounding more and more cheerful and chatty each time we talk to him... nice! 8)

This weekend we thought we'd give Taiping a try. Have not been here for a long time. Been maybe 7-8 years. I remember my gal was still in the stroller when we last came.

Checked in Flemington Hotel at the Lake Garden... this is the view of the roundabout at night. Place is fully booked this weekend, it seems. It's supposed to be one of the newest hotels. Hotel is okay... but the corridors are kinda stuffy as they switched off the air-con. If I were them, I'd switch them on... give a good impression, fully booked. And their advertisement about wi-fi being available in all rooms; not quite true.

So, we came down and had dinner here. Actually we went to the Larut Matang Hawker Centre first but at that hour, most of the stalls had already 'sau-tong'.

And yup! Taiping hawker food is generally nice. This is the curry mee, with 'lor' egg. Prices are reasonable too. The herbal tea tasted quite original for a change. LOL!

Fried oyster... oyster still too cooked for my liking but it's texture is just nice. Not very sticky and has a nice fragrant smell, appetizing.

My memory of Taiping has always been the chee cheong fun and kuih. I've vague memories of my parents bringing us to Taiping for these. Taiping is one of the places my parents took us when we were kids. They'd pack us all in the car and begin the journey early in the morning. And we'd visit as many places as possible in that one day trip... now as l look back, it must have been tiring for dad to drive us around. And cars were not so comfortable those days... neither were the roads. Trips were always a whole day affair... begin before sun up and reach home near midnight... with all of us asleep in the car while he would drive and mum kept him awake.

I wanted another round of chee cheong fun and we ended up in Restoran Prima Taiping but no luck. Chee cheong fun only sold in the morning there. So we settled for popiah instead. Definitely better than any of the popiah that I've had in Alor Setar... hawker centre fare, I mean. Ah Ho's popiah is still way, way better. Home cooked - no fight! 8)

Saw these parking meters in the lake area. These must be the older type of parking meters. I saw some of the newer 'green' coloured meters in town. Kinda reminded me of Alor Setar, how we've been changing our parking system in the last decade... ticket - meter - coupons - meter.... We fix up the meters, take them down, fix new ones up again, somebody(ies) must be making tonnes of money.... more to come.