Banana Leaf Lunch Before Leaving Cameron Highlands

Before we left Cameron Highlands we had Banana Leaf Rice at a mamak restaurant.

He seemed pleased and amused scrolling through his wedding shots!

the first offering on the leaf: papadum!!

The ritual of putting the whole rigmarole on the LEAF!

With chicken curry

Beryani Rice and mutton

Another rare precious family moment, glad we can gather for lunch!!!

daughter had to have thosai, her comfort food from school days. After a particularly long day at school she would ask me to stop at the mamak for thosai before heading home to nap, dinner, homework and sleep and get up to start another school day.

Walking home, I loved this corner, but since it was Monday, it was empty!

Hmmmm....I was here with the IWAKL International ladies a while back and now I am here again with my family.

Jauntily walking to our car park. a weekend well spent for our son's wedding photo shoot.

But first, must take photos with lovely blooms, we are able to pose any how we please, because there's not a soul around.....except those rich enough not to work.

Like the owner of this car.

So, we left the Highlands and descended back to the hot humid and harried city.

Free and Easy at Cameron Highlands: Tea, Mini Photoshoot, shopping and dining.

The rest of the afternoon after we settled down at Farmer Hut was free and easy and we filled it with activities which are a must-do in Cameron Highlands.

 First we went for tea at Plantation Tea House. 

Hmm yumm...Tea, sardine puff and blueberry cake.

 It was so difficult to get a table as it was full house, and all the seats overlooking the plantation are taken.

Long queue too to get our tea, but it was lovely, sipping cameronian beverage amidst cool surroundings with greenery as far as  eye could see. 

Anytime Tea House.

 After tea was mini photoshoot time....everybody else was also taking photos of the tea plantation.

 So while Dad took the lovebirds, 

 

 we took selfies of the free birds..hehe 

Young Love

Mellow love, hahaha!

 YTL Cameron Hotel has colourful props for them

And us!!

Next it was shopping time.

I wanted to keep these for myself, but in the end I gave them to Felicia who was ecstatic, she is such a cactus lover!

 The mandatory shopping for fruits and vegetables.

Dinner time! Steamboat of course, the long chimney and charcoal type!

 Precious Family Dinner Time

 Supplemented with dishes like salted egg yolk ferns

 tom yam soup for our steamboat

fish balls fucuk and Japanese tofu

 prawns, chicken, fish and mushrooms with vegetables

yee mee and eggs

 meat balls and romaine lettuce

 thinly sliced pork that Ken and Jenn loved

 Restoran Kwan Kee

The bill was RM136 for the 5 of us 

at RM17 each for steamboat (85), RM16 for pork, RM8 for fish balls, RM10 for meatballs, RM15 for salted egg vegetables, RM2 for soup,

and I think she forgot to tally up the RM20 for tea.(Jasmine at 4 each).

Driving to Cameron Highlands for wedding photoshoot

Last weekend, we drove to Cameron Highlands for wedding photoshoot, 

enroute we stopped at SPK Sunway to pick up Angie

 2 and a half storey ultra modern house

 in a very neat and nice neighbourhood

 it was the day after Raya, and the opposite way heading back to KL city

  was jammed up!

Around noon the familiar limestone outcrops greeted us and we felt it was time to stop for lunch in Ipoh.  After all, Ipoh has just made it into the Lonely Planet list as No 6 city to visit after Nagoya.(no 1)

Many shops were sold out so we ended up in Sun Seng Fatt

 the interior of the shop had a good mix of clients and we settled for a quick meal

 Errr.....art of conversation is waning....

 On the wall are the 4 and only 4 choices of noodles: prawn mee, lam mee, shredded chicken hor fan and curry mee.

And all the noodles cost RM6.90 each

 kai see hor fan

lam mee

prawn mee

 curry mee

 she liked her lam mee

 son was satisfied with his hay mee

I liked the mint leaves, but was disappointed there were no cockles in my curry mee

and all the liew for the four types of mee was the same: prawns, and char siew

drinks, but I did not like my "teh tak kacau" because the condensed milk was stirred into my tea.