Annual Taiping Trip with Leos!

Once again, we decided to make another trip up to Kamunting to visit Madam Kang and her dogs. Although this time round, we also planned a visit to a children's home in Taiping as well. :) 

I didn't get a chance to take as many pictures of people as i would have liked and ended up focusing more on food. xD Food or not, pictures do tell a far better story than I can. Especially giving better visuals than i can describe and design a picture in your head. :D

So here are a few: 

l-r: Brian, me and Pei Yee :)

The first stop: Bidor, for brunch!

An overexposure and bad shot of an old bike repair shop

Anytime that you happen to pass by Bidor and crave for a plate of wan tan mee or a bowl of duck meat noodles, here is the place to visit. :)

They sell pretty yummy biscuits/kuih

Green chilli that always goes well with Wan Tan Meeeee :D

The official photographer and his model for their KK trip. xD

The Wan Tan Mee :D

The Wan Tan that comes with The Wan Tan Mee xD

They were comparing whose leg bulu was longer...-.-"

Then they continued to compare whose head hair was longer...-.-"

Then we arrived at Madam Kang's place

These few pictures basically shows the front compound of her place

These are just a few of the 150+ dogs she has

They guard her house pretty fiercely

These are the things we bought for her: Kitchen Rolls, a couple of shovel, a couple of cangkul, boxes of mineral water, somemore boxes of milo packets to last her a good half a year, and lots of packets of garbage bags as well as bread.

She had to cut down some trees to clear the area cuz there were snakes and wild boars

Everyone gathered around her as she told her story to the newcomers

She tries to gather the dry/fallen branches and torches them as her means of getting rid of the rubbish. Notice the metal bars? They are extras from the fences that she built up awhile back (though quite recently) that she could not find a way to dispose of them cuz rubbish trucks don't come by her area that often. She has plans to sell them though.

Alot of them listening attentively.

This is pretty much the condition that she lives in. It can pose as a danger to her health as these are potential breeding grounds for all sorts of beings (ie mosquitoes, rodents, snakes, spiders...etc). Unfortunately, since there is no one helping her on a daily basis, she does not have the energy nor the strength to continuously ensure the upkeep of her housing area. It is actually sad to hear that we are one of the very few who actually visit her and do hands-on help.

This one caught most of everyone's eye. She has a sister too! Just as white and cute! :D Madam Kang found them at some pasar and took them in. :)

We got down to business and did what we could to rake the leaves and clear most of the land.

It did not smell pleasant at ALL. Imagine having to take care of 150+ dogs on your own and on a daily basis, you have to clear all of their faeces. IT. IS. NIGHTMARE.

She usually don't use much gloves. And as you can observe, it is not exactly very clean. It's pretty much like how you see those rubbish collectors not wearing gloves when they pick rubbish. Very very very unhygienic.

They were initially very scared of us and kept barking and staying away. But eventually, they realised we were not threats and became very friendly and verryy cute! :D

The brown one is Leo! :D Some lady apparently came by to Mdm Kang and dropped off this few weeks old puppy. So since Mdm Kang has yet to name him, we decided to name him after our club - LEO! :D

This was just as cute! :D Not sure what her name is though...

After washing up, it was decided that we could have BBQ afterall (it was earlier said that it was cancelled but then it was again approved...not sure why...) and Shu Shan, David and Weng Howe went out to grab the stuff whilst the rest stayed behind to bathe, play cards and bond. :)

And soon, (after 2 hours plus) we finally got the fire started!! :D WOOOOT! Here is some effect that i totally LOVE! :D

The amount of food we had. xD

There are more stuff under these cocktail sausages!

Crabsticks taste veryyy yummy when BBQed! :D SERIOUS!

I can't tell whether this is actually chicken balls or sotong balls. Regardless, they were kinda yummy.

The chicken that David cooked for me was uber yummylicious!! :D

I LOVE CORN! But the one i had was very badly burnt...

THESE BALLS ARE THE BOMB!! My FAV!! :D

Tired out photographer xD

Everyone helping out to get food done and ready for the pit! :D

Potatoes that were left to burn...never got the chance to try it though...

Different angle of the same thing..xD

Then i noticed that Esther and Patrica had some really cool recipe for hotdog bun! xD

Adding honey!! xD Not sure how it tasted though...xD

THe failed attempt of Xiaxue #3 smile...xD

I saw a cat sneak into the house to scavage the garbage for food! It was totally cute! xD

The newfound chef in the making! :D

We then stayed up a little to learn how to fold origami frogs...(yes dear...ORIGAMI...Not real ones) xD

Ta-dah! :D

It can totally leap!! :D

The Kuay Tiew was truly very smooth! Not too bad tasting! :D

This is some really old pasar-like wai sek kai! xD

When you want to order any food, the one way to identify where you are seated is by saying which stall are you seated in front of! :D

This longan drink is by far, the most yummy and most herbal healthy-like that i've ever tasted! :D And it was only RM1.20!

l-r: Patrica, Esther and Chi Ching

And they had my fav!!!! I don't know what is its official name but I LIKE IT!!

Then we headed to the Taiping Children's Home. Adrian was the game master. Very good at it too, i must add. :)

See the boy in the middle? His name is Bala. At least i call him so. He is very quiet at first but totally adorable when you know him!! He kept "bullying" me though...xD

Then we headed to Meridian Hotel (a VERYY old one) to have dinner! :D This fried omelette/ fu yong dan was spicy!! BUT I LIKE! :D

Curry fish. It was only so-so. I don't think the curry was thick enough.

This is a cross between fried tofu and fried fish cake. xD I'm sure we ordered tofu though.

CHICKEN! Duh. Note the head and the butt. Thankfully the dish wasn't placed in front of me. Otherwise, i'll have a hard time getting my appetite. xD

My fav vege! :D

Both the BC's fav dish. xD It was fried, so it was obviously yummy.

And then we were full and decided to play around with the chicken head, butt and wings!. xD

This was in Ipoh. We got up at around 4-5am to get ready and left Taiping at around 7am. Arrived here at around 9:45-10.00am to have late dim sum bfast.

What was the funniest was that opposite this restaurant was the newly renovated Foh San. When they mentioned we were eating dim sum, half of the people went straight to Foh San, thinking that we were eating there! xDD THAT place looked AWESOME though..very grand..

Food here was only so-so. I think we get better dim sum in Subang/KL than in Ipoh. xD

Look how miserable the siew mai looks!

Porridge was not too bad though! :)

See how disgusting looking it is!!

And they served fried food the old school way. xD This one was particularly yummy!

After Dim Sum, we had to rest awhile to let the food digest before we moved on to the next stop. So we walked ourselves to Ipoh Parkson for some "shopping". xD

Not entirely sure of the sequence but we did stop by this place that is supposedly famous for their kaya puff. Dad said it was only so-so. Thankfully i didn't get any! xD

Then David brought us to this small little corner for some soya bean! :D

They even have business cards! And they provide GPS coordinates toooo! LOL!

The models (Chien and Brian) with Soya Bean and "Michael Jackson" (Soya Bean+Cincau)

Then we moved on to this place that is also supposedly famous for their (direct translation) taugeh chicken! XD Again, there are better ones here in Subang/KL.

We were pretty full after the soya bean...so all that we ordered were:

Taugeh

One bowl of rice (of which we didn't finish..:P)

A bowl of kuay tiew noodles

And of course, CHICKEN! xD

After that, we were walking off the restaurant when we came across this road island and saw LOADS of pigeons!

They were not scared of humans at all!! Veryyy veryyy cute! I was actually chasing after this white pigeon that was soo adorable! :D

We went to this restaurant Kong Hing (i think) that are famous for their rojak, satay, chee cheung fun and apparently egg custards too.

I thought the rojak sauce was a tad too sweet for me.

We ordered 10 each of chicken and pork satay. All i can comment is that pork satay was full of fats...the KL one was better.

sauce was ok. :)

And that was pretty much all of what we had throughout the Taiping trip. Of course, there are far more pictures of many things that can be seen on Facebook that are taken by Brian and Adrian. xD Like i mentioned, i happened to focus alot on food. xD 

Prolly cuz i felt a little intimidated by all the fancy cameras shooting everything...xD 

Till some other time, that is all for now! ;)