3rd Year Anniversary @ Pangkor Island

Wee~ 3rd Year anniversary..

We celebrated our 4th year anniversary on 14th April 2010.. –.-“

Anyway, Pangkor was major FUN!! Partly because we found the right hotel promotion and the other part was the company.. (ehem.. I meant me)

http://offerstation.com/offers-promotions/25618/pangkor-island-beach-resort-promotion.htm

Sadly, the promotion is not available this year.

The journey:

I would recommend you to drive there. The drive there was very enjoyable. No dangerous winding road uphill and downhill (co..genting..ugh*) and Look at the view!

Do stop for Air Nira on the way there.. The cooling drink is just the right drinks to start a beach holiday. It was one of the most refreshing and cooling drink to replenish yourself during the long drive. It was yumz!!

I’m gonna let Catfish do all the mundane detail work of describing the taste and full history of Air Nira.

Catfish Nibbles: Air Nira is one of the sweetest natural drink I had ever drink plus it does not leave any after taste like those over sweetened drink in restaurants. It was RM2 each pack.

There is many Air Nira stalls along the way.

Shea! The drive cannot be any easier. Catfish will be happy provide the direction if you ask. Bring him some fish food..

Catfish nibbles: The old road is easy to drive, highly recommended. The road were so straight that you could even let go your steering for some part of the trip. <—don’t try this =P. Check out the road map here to see how straight the road is. There are 2 turns you need to make but worry not just follow the sign indicating “Lumut” or “Sitiawan”. Shea, you can get me air nira. heheh…

Wonder if Air Nira causes immediate hair growth. Be forewarn the hair will be bit greenish and spiky. See..

Catfish Nibbles: There is a 3 storey car park available located walking distance to the ferry. RM10 per day.

At the jetty. Must take some tourist shot to set the mood.

In the ferry. Pardon my tired face. Last minute packing the night before.. *Yawn* What’s new??

You get nipple sticker if you behave on the boat. 

Catfish Nibbles: We got on the private shutter to get us to the Pangkor Island Beach Resort Lobby from the jetty.

When we reach the hotel lobby, we had a very welcoming entrance. All of us were given a drink and greeted by 2 very energetic singers. 

Catfish was with his NEW camera in the lobby. Hence the greenish pictures above.. Setting semua salah..

Trying to be artistic. All he manage to take from that angle was my Fat thigh. FML! Picture censored.

Catfish Nibbles: The hotel room were huge but slightly old I would say.

After settling down in our room, we immediately enquire about the transport/tour to the city. We wanted SEAFOOD!!… (Again, mundane details like pricing will be by Catfish)

Catfish Nibbles: The ‘taxi’ in Pangkor are all by one taxi community the pink vans. They basically have fix prices. A round trip tour which includes fish factory, Foo Lin Kong Temple and Dutch fort cost RM40 each person. Bloody expensive! What we did was we negotiated for the tour but leave us at the town, which he charged us RM20 each. 50% because no round trip back to hotel. It was tough work to get the deal!

First stop was the fish packaging tour. Nothing much here though. The Seafood items sold here were not really fresh and cheap. Luckily we bought a little only else we are sure to regret when we get to the town. Don’t spend too much time here!

Foo Lin Kong Temple. If you can’t get to China, this is THE BEST PLACE to actually conquer the China’s Great Wall! It is just so easy to climb!

Next up the Dutch Fortress. Nothing special.

Catfish Nibbles: The city is filled with a lot pink vans, so no worry for transportation. The town is filled with seafood shop. Do scout and try the seafood snacks at diffrent shop before you make your purchase. We found one shop particularly cheap and fresh! There are plenty of banks here so if you need… The hotel have none.

Seafood! but it was so-so only.. The only picture of food here.. Promise!

Catfish Nibbles: This is apparently the only seafood available in town at that time. We ordered 1 salted egg crab, 1 sweet sour crab, 1 claypot seafood vege and a coconut each! It caused us RM54 not so cheap though.

Catfish Nibble: We brought these to celebrate our 3rd year anniversary.

Our strawberry ‘fatt Mo’..

Catfish Nibbles: The fridge is not cold..The only complain I have for the hotel room. The hotel service were good enough to try to change the fridge. Even that did not help but they offer us a fridge to keep our strawberries with the restaurant.

The view from our balcony. It’s got this dreamy effect caused the camera got foggy.

2nd day was dedicated to the hotel, enjoying their private beach and facilities. The promotion package includes all non motorised sports free.

Catfish Nibbles: In case if you are wondering how PIBR’s private beach look like. The sand on the beach is always clean, they have rubbish collecting machine sweeping up rubbish every 3 hours or so.

We went for kayak, the beach waves were a little rough at that time. We wanted to try out the kayak sailing but were not brave enough to do it.

I break my slippers playing ping pong. –.-“ Hence the bare foot.

Next we got a bicycle each.

Manage to stumble upon the humble Pangkor airport.

and also some mamak stalls for makan. Catfish Nibbles: Don’t blame PW for another food picture. =p

OMG! Wat’s that?

I think I’m more qualified to be a National Geographic presenter. Catfish can be the camera man. We were chasing it hoping it will flash his tail.

Catfish Nibbles: We got to play Archery and fishing during the night for free too! There is a list of weekly event timetable.

Lolx.. Catfish Missed!!

A must photo before we leave Pangkor Island Beach Resort.

This year we have celebrated our 4th year anniversary in Krabi, well sort of. We might possibly be posting it up next year… =p

 

Nibbled,

PW

and Catfish

Hai Ung Seafood Restaurant @ Kuala Selangor

The last time that we really hunt and ate some good seafood was during our Pangkor Island trip. The Pangkor Island post was suppose to be our grand post when we started out this blog but because it is quite lengthy so we were too lazy to blog about up till now…

We actually have a lot of backdated post queuing : Pei Pei’s Wedding, Melaka Trip, and lot and lots of food reviews…

Ok, back to the post, I’m starting to be in my long gas mode again…

Kuala Selangor was known for its fresh and cheap seafood. There were a number of seafood restaurant by the riverside that we were so confused as to where to go to.

We follow our instinct and ended up with this:

Hai Ung Seafood Restaurant. We chose this because it was the only that doesn’t look so commercialized.

The waitress or maybe the owner were very nice to us. We are no expert in seafood so we asked her to recommend us the the dishes:

We thought we ordered too little for 2 but when the dish came… No wonder the waitress said it is going to be enough.

1. Butter fried ‘Lai Liu Ha’ (Mantis prawn), I always thought it sounded like a urinating prawn. The taste was just nice and was extremely crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside.

2. Thorn spiky shell (siput duri). I’m not sure if I’ve named it correctly. Adrienne call it helicopter shell seafood. A very simple dish. Just steam it. Maybe I can DIY.. hehe

The special thing here though is the sauce.  Some sour-ish, a lil spicy sauce with some garlic and onion in it.

You don’t see much flesh right… It is all inside.

This is how you dig it up.

You have to eat it with the sauce as it’s bring out the freshness of it. Not too fishy taste even though it was steamed.

3. Last but not least crab is the must have dish for both the crab meat lover!
‘Kam Heong’ Crab (3 crabs here):

We actually asked for only 2 person but it turns out to be more than 3 person share. We were given 3 FAT and HUMONGOUS crab! There were lots of meat and definitely a crab that workout a lot because it have very chewy meat.

It was finger licking good! Haha it ended up quite messy…

It was really very hearty meal and with each a big coconut, yum yum… We spent hours finishing up the dishes but it’s all worth it.

I was actually wondering why the fireflies becoming extinct before this but I think I know why…

I seriously didn’t know where the water will channeled to.

The total bill was summed up to RM70 and the most expensive dish was the crab. The rest of the dishes were like less than RM 10 and the crab was about RM15 with the coconut RM8 each. If I’m not mistaken, the thorny snail was the cheapest dish of all!

On top of the hearty meal, you could also get a very good view and scenery right on top of the riverside. You should go there at 4pm –7pm timing.

Trust me beautiful sunset! We arrived a little late. What do you think?

This was taken using the camera timer. Does this picture look familiar to you?  

It’s our banner!!!! But with a little trick to it. We will reveal it in the next coming post..

The next table noticed us using the camera timer. Well it was quite obvious with a dozen times of timer.

They were kind enough to offer us some help. It did looked nicer right?

It was worth the hunt. We were satisfied with the food plus we got a seat next to the river. Recommended to you all and you might even want to try the restaurant around the area.

How to get there? From KL direction, as soon as you entered Kuala Selangor, look out for a long and big bridge across the Kuala Selangor river. As soon as you travelled across the river, turn left and turn right, it might look like a very small and narrow road with palm tree on both side.

You will soon reach a market. You could use the Restaurant Seafood Kuala Selangor sign from then on. Maybe you will get a better picture with Google Map.

Cheers,

Catfish

Action Pack Day 3: Dealing with Fire.

To finally end our anniversary day, we decided to have something very dangerous.

Deng~ Deng~ Deng~

Something that can burn your pants when you lie (As the saying goes: Liar, Liar pants on fire) or scald your skin till you look like Patrick from Spongebob Square Pants cause you get all pink.

We are having… (cue drum roll)

Steamboat + BBQ … (no roll eye emoticons with yahoo messenger one)

Hehe.. Don’t roll your eyes.. It is very dangerous, we could pour hot boiling water to all patrons if we decided to run amok or potentially burn the place down with our stove.

Oh wait, that can’t happen either cause we are using electronic stove. But never mind, I can go burning things as far as the electrical cord allow.

Ok ok… enough crapping.. Back to official business..

We found ‘Fireman’ in the curve. We actually wanted to try the Ayam Penyet restaurant which is next door but that place is always full.

Then we saw on the chalkboard there:

BBQ + Steamboat promotion for only RM19.90… Wee~ Let’s try.

As you can see from the stove picture above, this is like an alternative to the famous Thai Bar-B-Q Plaza. Here they use the same idea but improvise their concept to a more Malaysian-ize way of eating.

First it is HALAL! wee~ rejoice.

So instead of Pork Lard in BBQ Plaza, they use Chicken skin to oil the grill.

Erm, not effective at all I must say.The purpose to oil the pan is to prevent the food from sticking to the grill but the chicken skin is sticking all over the grill. (no sweat emoticons either.. hmm..)

Then we come to the sauces. Looks similar to BBQ Plaza also. With the brown sauce, garlic, chopped chili and lime. The one in the bowl tasted like peanut sauce. On the saucer is the sweet and chili sauce.

In BBQ plaza, the correct way to eat is to mix up all the ingredient in the brown sauce. But we are confuse as to which sauce we need to add the ingredient since we have 2 brown sauce and both tasted different. So we ask the waiter on what’s the best way to deal with this, they just shrugged and mumbled up to us. (hmm.. does this sound like they are copying just for he sake of copying)

Next up is the menu. Click for closer inspection.

Here the difference is they have marinated meat.

This is our first round. We proceed to order another 3 rounds of black peppered lamb, prawn, Chicken Turmeric and Chicken Nam Yee. Nice~

One tip: Look at the dessert part. CINCAU! The kiam siap part of me is skipping cause we can now even save on drinks. Good thing is free flow.. wuahahahha…

One thing I like about this place is their grill/steamboat pan. The steamboat part is actually wide enough to keep us satisfied with the volume of soup and also most importantly, it can fit a soup spoon for easy scooping.

Oh, they have tom yam soup base as well for an additional of RM5.00. We didn’t take it this time because the chicken soup comes for free.. and it tasted very good actually.

All in all, we enjoyed the experience. Good deal with the promotion.

Fireman BBQ Restaurant 
Location: 131, 6 Jalan PJU 7/3, Mutiara Damansara, 47810 Petaling Jaya.
(http://www.firemanbbq.com.my/)

Food: 4/5 nibbles. (the food in BBQ Plaza is fresher)
Cleanliness: 3.5/5 nibbles (The ventilation is non existent)
Pricing: 4/5 nibbles
Service: 3.5/5 nibbles ( Thye don’t understand English. Most potential customer leave the place when they did not get the information they want)

 

Fired up,

PW.