Short Trip: Long Drive to Nilai (Day 1)

We decided to try and make our way to Nilai 3 again. This time, not so early. We left house at about 5.30am. It was a long 4 hours drive. We reached there around 10.00am. Most of the shops are still close, though some are in the midst of opening.

We stopped here for breakfast...

Finally, we reached our destination...

Skinned cow!

The stall specialised in mutton soup...

Shopping!

Nilai-3 version of KBox?

The Prince and the King?

Freshmade bahulu... YUM!

Our favourite restaurant in Melaka...

Our Q no...

The great view at the restaurant...

While waiting for the food...

Ikan pari bakar... It's kind of dry.

Chapchai...

Calamaries... The best we've ever tasted!

Steam fish... So hungry that we forgot to take photo until 1/2 way...

Wastage...

Leftovers...

We drove back to Melaka to rest for the night...

The hotel front...

Our room...

Vin playing around with his new bottle holder...

Vin at the hotel entrance...

Sel at the hotel lobby...

It was super hot shopping at Nilai-3. And things are not as cheap as we thought. It's about the same price as anywhere else in Malaysia. Anyway, we mainly spend on the items for the wedding such as bedsheets and curtains.

We head back to Melaka for dinner and rest for the night. Even with the GPS, we actually got loss because the roads in Malaysia had changed. Anyway, it was a good thing we got loss as we managed to get a good view of the "moving" ferris wheel. It is said that the ferris wheel is shifted from state to state over time.

Well, that's it for day 1. Will update on day 2 soon...

Serangoon Sunday

First we went to Meeras Curry Restaurant at Veerasamy Road in Serangoon for lunch. Well, it was a late lunch since it’s already 3pm. As lunch time was long gone, we were ravenous. Which kind of made us greedy and we ordered more than we would have normally.

Ayah chose this restaurant...

Chicken tikka

Black pepper crab?

Garlic naan

Biryani

It was served in a pot...

As usual, Vin finish eating first...

And Sel was last...

Then we head down to Sungei Road which is very close to Serangoon. It was packed! It’s almost like the pasar malam (night market) you find around the HDB neighbourhood; Except that it’s open in the day and that they sell secondhand goods (which is not necessarily cheap either). Walking around the stalls, looking at the old and antic goods automatically made us nostalgic. It was definitely a unique experience.

Believe it or not, we have never been here before...

The sungei road crowd...

Vin at one of the "entrance"...

Sel at the same place...

Sweaty and tired, we had a rest at The Banana Leaf Apolo at Serangoon. It’s an air-conditioned restaurant which is expensive like a restaurant but looks more like a food court to us. Anyway, it was not halal certified, so all we had was drinks and dessert.

It was the nearest air-conditioned place we can find...

Nice glass-waterfall behind Vin that make it looks like it's raining...

Honey sea-coconut

It was so expensive and it comes with a really small slice of lime...

Vin's "pet cat"...

The Serangoon night crowd...

As night time comes, the streets are getting even more crowded so we headed back home.

Yet another weekend had zoomed by. All this weekend/family activities will have to stop soon as both our exams are coming soon. Sigh…

Pig-Out Saturday

First we head down to VivoCity for a late lunch. Since we had stumbled upon The Chicken Rice Shop, Vin had been craving for more.

What we ordered...

Sel had noodles while Vin had the chicken rice set...

Is there any reason why one is longer than the other?

The chicken tile on the wall...

After lunch, we window-shopped till our legs feel like dropping off.

Then we head to Starbucks for tea. We’re both coffee people so of course, we’ll have coffee for a late tea. And neither of us could resist the sinful cakes there. It was Vin’s suggestion anyway and Sel just couldn’t say no.

Dark berry mocha... Tasted like the pink panadol for kids. Bleh!

Warm chocolate cake... YUM!!!

Come dinner time, Vin wanted satay.

The best satay in Singapore according to Vin...

The pakcik is from the famous old Satay Club at the padang...

Waiting patiently for the satays, we decided to pack and have it at home...

Vin is all smiles at the idea of having satay for dinner...

Imagine! All these junk were consumed in 4 hours. No wonder we’re getting fatter!

“At this rate, you won’t be able to squeeze into you wedding clothes.” We’ve been hearing this comment ever so often nowadays. Shouldn’t the clothes be made to fit us rather then we deprived ourselves of the wonderful flavour of delicious, yummy and sinful food to fit the clothes?!

Anyway, we had a great day!

See our funny faces...

See our smiling and content faces...

We just can't help it. Food just makes us happy. If it makes us fat then so be it. At most we'll start working out.