Penang day 2 - June 10th

After breakfast, uncle heng and his fren a lady we addressed her as auntie, picked us up and drove us to the thai temple where the 3rd largest "sleeping buddha" is at. Years back, i travelled with my family and aunts, uncles and cousins to penang. I remember this temple. then we headed to the burmese temple opposite. this temple didnt really remember if i did go last time but had 1st dejavu here that i dreamt of coming here with his family. Dejavus...
Then we walked to the next street and he brought us to try penang prawn noodle soup and curry mee. the prawn noodle stall ran out of ingredients but we went ahead to try jus eating soup and mee .... LOVED it! it was YUMMMS! curry mee was ok light soup base not like spore thick gravy, light coconut smell and curry leaf flavoured.

next stop was our request! a super long drive to almost beach area infront of orchid copthorn hotel to TOY MUSEUM! asia largest collection... well not a big place but many toys. Some really nostagic but hoh this guy who collects hoh ... not all can find here like carebears, little ponies and strawberry shortcake all dun have! have smurfs, mask, ninja turtle, he-man, flintstone...etc gerald really took his time to see all the toys.. i was in a hurry cos scared his parents bored... well they really walk a round and sat down... gerald jus went on regardless... quite nice to see the toys somehow...

only a few big toys and of cos they got more newer toy characters.then a long long drive to Kei Lok Si a temple up on a hill. I slept throughout cos i hardly slept thru the 1st nite! i nod of for a long time i tink! been here with my family before. it started raining while we climb the steep slope but it wasnt as bad as we climb there are shops along the slope. we stop to feed a pond filled with turtles? then carry on to climb up. but now they build a new temple for a HUGE guanyin statue on top of a higher hill! look a lift up a slope and they were still in the mids of building the pillars and then shelter. it rained as we walk around her. it was majestic! after which we climb down, stopped to buy some tidbits and head down to eat. FIL chose the less crowded coffeeshop cos it had space, no need to Q, had different food to choose from cos the other one is he famous thus long q and only have the penang laska. the food ok but the worse to happen is that we sat so near a counter with a tv and VCD player... didnt realise when we sat down... then he music came on ... the boss started his CONCERT! errrrr! food was really only ok in fact not as nice as the one we ate in penang loh! oredi ren then he have to sing cos we big group we are his audience. hate it! still can have speech and say thank you when we ignore him! left once finish the only nice thing ... the lime water. pass a shop that sells chinese pastry bot 4 xiu baos and i prefered that anytime to that LATE LUNCH! cos of the horrible loud music. too bad the muah chee nobody when i was there... then tghe auntie arrived but this time she had her niece in the car... she was so shy...at 1st. she loves durian and next day she was gog for an op so her aunt brought her along to join us. long drive to the end and high up of penang! along saw durian trees, nutmeg trees which penang is famous for their nutmeg! arrived at the chinese kampong...the stench was strong! walked into the forest to see durian trees, saw starfruit trees and rambutan trees. ALMOST had to eat in the forest which SIL got bitten by mosqi... when we took out repellent they realise we prefer not there so we proceed to a coffeeshop... once the durian opened u have to be really fast! WHY? cos the flies will land on the durians! not one its the whole swamp K!!! one of the fly still stay on my hand long enough to let me take my camera with one hand and on it and shoot it! pic right at the bottom left! but the durian was good... eerrr not with the flies really gota be FAST!
then we headed down hill, stopped at the little "Ma Ju" temple that was where the water from the tsuinami stopped, the water splashed all the way through the swamp but stop at the temple, the water didnt flow into the village... then we continue and stop at a place for early dinner the fish soup noodle was nice. the noodles in penang all qq one this white noodle is like udon but thinner and nicer. the auntie was nice after dinner she drove is to a sunset viewing point it was beautiful sight... drove us bac to the hotel. the gal had her fun and i managed to get her to nap all the way till we got off. I hope her op went well. she is very pretty and i hope she will be fine. after resting for awhile we headed out by ourselves instead of waiting for the uncle who insist on coming to get us... that is not good news... cos its jus gog be drinking again. we sneaked out to sunway hotel to eat! we ordered alot of food! it was good! my favourite is the chee cheong fun in rojok sauce! really good! then when the uncle called he came looked for us then we went to the club again... but tink we looked exhausted and haha we ate so much we were all sleepy so they let us off early ... so bac to hotel, a quick plan for our F&E day and off i knock off!