2nd Mid Term school break (August) - Trip to Muar
Highlight of our this time was plucking duku langsat at a fruit plantation belongs to my mother-in-law's friend. This season has not been raining, so the duku langsat and duku fruits were small and not worth harvesting to sell. We were like small kids taking as many fruits as we can, plucking them and trying to fill our bags. But the bags were never full. We were bitten by mosquitos, insects and ants. Black ants, red ants and huge mosquitos kept following us. Our efforts really got blood & sweat! Next time go prepared with repellent.
Why bags were not full? Thanks to me. I vomitted. Breakfast & lunch all came out fertilising the plants. So we went back to the friend's house to rest...after a while continue another part of the plantation. Just a short time, plucking from duku trees only. I think altogether we managed to pluck not less than 20kgs of duku langsat and duku.
Our trip to Muar is never complete without visiting the famous Tanjung, where you'll find monkeys living in a mangrove by the Muar River. A bridge was built recently towards the river cutting through the mangrove giving you an inside view. Interesting.
Another school break for Alyssa due to UPSR preparation & exams - Trip to Ipoh
An eating trip. (When is back to Ipoh never an eating trip???)
- Dinner at Lou Wong Chicken
- Breakfast at Foh San Dim Sum (new building - cool)
- Lunch - siew yuk (roasted pork) from a van that sells from 2.30 pm at Taman Ipoh Jaya
I also had mum's roasted pork porridge
- Dinner at Kedai Makan dan Minuman Sri Maju that sells beef noodles & lots of fried and stuffed 'liu' (originated from Buntong)
- Breakfast at Sun Chuen Fong that sells curry noddles
- Lunch - mum's bak chang
- Dinner at home - mum's chicken rice (dishes that nite - chicken, steam fish, fried wantan and mixed vege)
- Breakfast - lo mei kei, egg tart
- Lunch - mum's chicken rice (from previous nite) chicken & roasted pork.
......and lots of in between meals....
Travel back to home.....with egg tarts, char siew pau, bak chang, salted chicken and gui ling gao.
me...lost 1 kg from Muar trip but ganied 2 kgs from ipoh trip.
