Penang all in one : The Summary.

Last Friday the 27th of November, 2pm I left my house for KTM (train station situated at the heart of K.L.) to go Penang with NICE Coach (executive class, haha). RM75 for 1 way. Return ticket = RM75 X 2 = RM150 = AUD50! Expensive! But the quality is alright. My bus leaves at 3pm, and they were very punctual.

We arrived early, so coffee and tea were on the house (meaning free).

mom coffee, me tea.

They even serve a plate of
fried flour balls? with a tinge of ikan bilis flavour? fattening and arteries clotting sial.

But we finished it also, quite addictiveeeeeeeeeeeeeee and oily.

Showing you the executive class bus. Feels like I am boarding an airplane though.

one seater on the left, two seater on the right. That makes 3 people in one row.

very spacious, too!

It took us 4.5 hours to reach Penang. Hate long drives.

When reach Penang, my uncle brought us to this restaurant by the sea. It was very dark and romantic :

I'm still hopeless at taking pictures in the dark.

As it was dark and I am incapable of taking pictures in the dark. I can only explain to you how those scrumptious food taste. One word :FRESH!

That restaurant appeared on television before (my mum repeated it the whole night, saying she saw this restaurant on television, thats why she want to eat here). Their seafood (that we ordered) such as octopus and sand mantis are all boiled only, no special sauce on them. You eat them boiled with chilly sauce served on saucers. Juicy!

I ate damn alot. I put on 2kgs in just 2nights 3days in Penang. You can see from the amount of food that I am going to show you. Anti social now, and no pictures of me. I am fat, I admit ok! :((

The next morning, Saturday, went to eat my mom's favourite :

Koay chap! Pig intestines with rice kinda noodle (like shown on my spoon on the right).

Very rare dish. I had once in 1UTAMA long time ago, and it sucked. This one's the best ! It's a Teowchew dish.

Not forgetting Penang Char Keow Teow.

That's for breakfast. My mom and I usually eat half, and then we exchange plates, cause the duration in Penang is too short to try one full plate per person.

Okay, the main reason I went to Penang was not to eat. But to visit my grandmother who was really ill. She's kinda okay now, just need to go wash her kidneys (dialysis) every alternate days ..e.g. 2 , 4 ,6 (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday) for 3 hours!!!!

I went to the hospital to see it all with my own eyes. I feel the pain. My grandmother and every other patients that was doing the dialysis . Tubes sticking out from your body, the machine sucks your blood out (should be painful) and then pumps them back in (should be painful, too) after the cleansing of the blood by the machine.

Sometimes when your toxic enters your blood stream before you make it to your alternate days...it interferes with your brain cells, and you'll talk nonsense and lose your memory :(. My mom warned me about my grandmother being prone to this, and she'll only remember my auntie (mother's sister). Sadness.

So, take care of your health. Don't eat too much salt or you'll suffer the same fate.

After the hospital visit, we went to Queensbay Mall. The new big mall in Penang...since my aunties and uncles all busy with their children.

Before you go to the carpark or the drop off , they make you drive damn long. Waste petrol only, but
got nice scenery!! Better than Gurney drive. Got island to block potential tsunami, too, unlike Gurney (got hit by the 2006 tsunami)!

Can see the Penang bridge also. <3.>and some rubbish

Walk around with mum, and brought her to fish spa. She pay lah :( . When I print my own money I swear I'll pay all her expenses! :(
My mom being fascinated, checking how long she have left with the fishes. hehe. Love my mom loads!
'Yummy' food for the fish..

After the fish spa, we went for foot reflexlogy.
on her, too :( .

Then my mum got hungry, and we went to eat Dragon-I. Its a nice chinese restaurant, and since she's always busy, this is one of the only times she can over-order.

for 2 people..
my herbal drink. Super sweet. Don't try this.

and this is tea-for-two. Not even lunch..
ouch!! Injuries on my weighing machine.

Deep fried stuffs again. I ordered it cause it is durian flavour. I freaking missed durian season again!

We finished at 4+pm..then at 7-8pm, had dinner at hawker stalls. Don't ask me where, I only sit in the car and follow wherever my aunt and mom goes like a bodyguard. The roads in Penang are confusing!
Ordered HELL ALOT! For 2 and a half people (my mom went around ordering like mad, and my aunt didn't want to eat alot, just help us eat abit, hence the "half")

kangkung and sotong rojak! yumsss my favourite of the night.

Left : asam laksa, Right : Lohbak.

Left : Or Chein (oyster fried with egg) or more like starch chien (starch with egg) Quality deteriorated! very little oysters, and yes, don't be fooled by the two big oysters you see on top, cause thats the only two big oyster there is in the whole plate. Right : Char kueh!

Go back, talk to my grandmother (She kept thinking I am my mom :( cannot recognise me ) and went to sleep.

Wake up on Sunday morning, the day we're leaving Penang, faced with these devils again :

Left : Keow Teow Soup (mine, want to detox from all the fried oily stuffs), Right : Nasi Lemak (Mom's, saying she'll diet after she come back KL).

Left : Curry noodles (MOM'S!!!!!!!!!!!!! But she cheated me into eating some of them, telling me it's delicious and calling me to try it ) Right : when the Curry noodles are mixed.

Then left Penang at 12pm with my Executive Coach (FIRST CLASS!!) bus. muahaha. Very comfortable and spacious.

but the colour combinition is damn ugly.

Oh yeah, shortly after that, they serve some really bad Delifrance buns and pastry. Yucks. Inflation, so they cut down on quality instead of increasing price. The first trip also got serve, but not nice and its the same thing, forgot to take picture.

pastry stale. bun yucky.

Then my mom itchy mouth...go buy corn in a cup. Buy TWO somemore :(
Don't want to travel with my mom already!

The damage of this trip = TWO KILOS.

When I reached home, my dad saw me and said out aloud "My chubby daughter" FML!!!

hate that word!!!

Went to Curve with Eddie, cause we haven't been seeing each other :

Nicely decorated, with fake snow on top.

Watched New Moon already, Jacob's Hot!