first stop was City square.. which we decided not to waste time there since things were close to sg prices and was generally crowded.. thank God for the kind souls and helpful locals who provided useful tips and good advices to help us not get 'kar' by the taxi drivers..
went to Holiday Plaza, known for their pirated dvds and it looks like a bigger version of lucky plaza. didnt buy anything and didnt see anything ahemmm 'unpleasant' thankfully. sum got her corouful undies sets... really cheap n good! and we managed to go trim our eyebrows there! RM10 only.. and it turned out quite nice, i like it... =) nearly went to do manicure, but didnt want to bore the boy.
next, we decided to try out Taman Sri tebrau (local hawker centre)- recommended by Ewen. took a cab there n realised it's actually in walking distance. haha. anw it was kinda disapponting cos only a few stalls were open in e afternn. had tze char.. sambal kangkong was nice. then, we decided to walk around that area... we aimed for tall buildings and after a long walk, we noticed that msia doesnt have good landuse planning. car workshops can co-existed alongside with food outlets and bridal shops!
found a pretty decent looking shopping mall called 'Metrojaya'. At that point of time, we already didnt know exactly where we were and how far we are from the customs. oops.
found a boutique selling nice tops! if only the prices were a little lower...
so after spending some time at metrojaya playing archade games, window shopping n comtemplating whether to dye hair, it was already 5pm. we had to settle for a good spot for dinner! so...how about trying 'orang asli'?
went to the cab stand.. tried asking the drivers and negotioting prices.. we got RM35, RM25.. and some didn even know where the place was. all the malay drivers spoke to us in malayu..totally blur.. so we got s.o.s from sum's fren who recommended Eden garden.. but just as we tried to ask for orang asli for one last time, the indian driver offered RM20 which is within our budget.. so we hopped on. (we had good experiences with indian drivers.)
the ride was long and we got further n further from town. but we found our lil paradise.. for me at least, an eye opener...
dinner at the chinese restaurant by the sea where we caught the sun set...
chilli crab with mantou buns and cereal prawn. slurrpp!!! freshness..
i'm sure e meal would cost more than double in sg.
after we got out of the ulu place which we found ourt was called Kampong Senibong, we saw JUSCO. didnt find the dunkin' donuts.. had Baskin' Robbin's Ice Cream instead... for our last stop of the day.
pointers to take note of when u're visting for msia :-
1. indian taxi drivers are friendly.
2. go to msia with someone who can speak malayu.. and not those who think they can speak! LOL!
3. camera whores bring along ur fellow camera whores along.
4. go with frens who crap a lot and poke fun at you all the time cos taxi rides can get long and boring and the sceneries are.. wat sceneries?
Have a gooood weekend dudes! =)
