Vinh Hung Emerald Resort Hotel Street Food Tasting

At the Emerald Resort, Vinh Hung Hotel, there was street food tasting from 4.15 to 5.15 barring any rain,

And it was on daily, FREE!!!

 Come with me, I will show you the venue of the free street food tasting!!!

 There! By the sea, on the lawn, hotel guests are already at it in full swing!!! Free street food sampling!

 whites and asians are all mingling, walking around tasting what the hawkers have in store!

 

 so nice!!! you just sit at one of those low stools with a table and pick any of the sweets you want and taste them under the coconut trees!!!

 see....you can take any amount of tea time treats that you want

 the hawkers will cook them on the spot for you!

 this is our group...always game to try anything, and everything!!!

 I of course, like to pose!!!

 Now he will show you where the Vietnamese tea is kept!!!

 Ta daa!!! Inside the coconut husk!!!!

 you can also have rice wine....

 here ! in a big jug

 he is grimacing while scooping the wine!

Cheong is helping himself to the sweet meats

 you can also sit by the sea

 these white ladies are having a good time taking photos and eating!

 this picture has me inside.....

 Come!!! Have a tiny cup of Vietnamese tea, followed by rice wine!!! Tea time is going to be over soon!!!!

Flirting with Dengue

Our gardens unwittingly become breeding grounds unbeknown to us.... 

 I found myself in the emergency holding room...

 like this, waiting for my proper room

 at last I got a four bedded room...have to share room with others who treat this as a party or family affair to say the least, bringing babies to babysit and hubbies to conduct phone business right next to my curtain partition

 my daughter comforts me...you'll be ok mum! she says

 next morning....I wanted to cry!!!!

 why????

 no appetitie yet had cravings!!!...this is greasy kway teow

 nothing to do but wait for visitors and food

 lunch from Cafe Columbia

 In between meals I ordered Mee Mamak!

 because I had enough dory fish to lash me a lifetime!!

 they had lovely hawker food

 and brought kong fu chow for me to taste

 my breakfast: spicy mee hailam

 lunch...dory again!

 then I moved to a double room

 My roommate was really, really, ill, she had dengue too, and look how her platelets drop!!!

 she soon left for a single room

 I was now upgraded to Bengal Breakfast tea

 I bought murtabak for my own buka puasa

Aunte came to visit me....forgot to take photos of my other visitors!

 hahaha!!!! They are waiting for me to pack and they will help me to carry my stuff to the car

 my rotarians always put service above self!!

this is from Viv, my other friend..........

I had spent RM3,000 for a holiday that wasn't......