when Kok Hong and Calvin in Penang

Time to post some photos on Kok Hong's trip to Penang. I've actually blog on it last few weeks back. What I gonna do now is just a short post with photos on his days in Penang. On the 1st Day, I brought him to Bukit Mertajam for a wonderful breakfast and visit St. Ann Church. It was my 1st time driving in BM without contacting my colleagues asking the direction. Of course, I need to thank my GPS.

(Breakfast- Famous BM White Wan Tan Mee, handmade noodles)

(Breakfast- Famous BM Bee Tai Bak aka Loh Su Fun)

(Lunch- Taman Sentosa Yam Rice)

(Clain Jetty- Chew Jetty)

After back from BM, the next stop was Chew Jetty. He liked Chew Jetty the most. I think the main reason is the toilet bowl that they have it there. See his silly face ...hmmm...

(next day breakfast- the famous Koay Tiao Thng @ Jalan Kapitan Keling)

Khoo Kongsi...another place where he interested too. hmm...this time not becuase of the toilet bowl but the real history behind the building. Atteh same time, I learnt a lot about Khoo Kongsi too. So I think there will be not a problem to me if I bring friends from other place to visit here again. but...I still need to pay for the entrance fee.. :(

(sour face of the statue means he had a hard time during his schooling time)

(The old building that attracted KH's attention)

After KH joined his friends , Calvin reached Penang. This guy who came fr Taiping just to suprise KH. Unfortunately, KH did not feel suprise also :) After Leo project and tuition, I went to town pick him up and drove him to siamese temple to pay a visit. Other than this temple, there were no other places to visit.

A pciture of this tall guy. I had dinner with him @ Super tanker after everything and waited KH back fr sunset bistro @ queensbay. I shall put a full stop for these 2 friends' visit. Hope they like Penang and do re-visit Penang at anytime. :)

Penang Leos GO GREEN Together @ ICCP 2009

#1: ahKOK had participated in the recent held International Coastal Clean Up campaign by USM together with his own Penang (City) Leo members and Penang Region 1 Leos and Lions. He was appointed to be the photographer for this campaign but he joined the other Leos to clean the beach instead.

#2: He had collected a lot of unwanted items or what we used to call "RUBBISH" from the Teluk Bahang Beach. Itmes collected include Plactic Bag, Polypropylene Raffia, Polystyrene Boxes, Aluminium Tins, Plactic Bottle etc.

#3- He found a gunny sack as well. It was filled with sand. Luckily he wore glove on his both hands. So no problem to pick up those items.

#4: after pick up the rubbish, Edwin will jot down what we had collected. This is so called DATA COLLECTION. They will compile all the data and summarize how much ribbish we've collected. Whereas, Daniel will be the one who carry the big bag of rubbish. Well done!

#5: When the campaign near to the end, ahKOK found a diaper! Shit... It was so disgusting! He not even give an eye to the diaper and straight away bring to Edwin for recording. They told ahKOK that the diaper contains poop. OMG... Puke~

#6: The diaper smelt so unpleasant till they had to hold their breath.

#7: Finally, It was thrown into the big plastic bag. Hopefully, everyone will be aware of this and start to do something to protect the environment by not throwing any rubbish anywhere.

#8: Everyone was working hard and gave their helping hand to preserve the environment. Thumbs up! Well done to all the participants in this meaningful clean up campaign. You had just saved the sea creature from suffering in contaminated water. District 308 B2 Region 1 Penang Leos, ROAR~~~~ Btw, we had divided into 2 teams ( 2 beaches) and our team had collected 300Kg rubbish in just a few hours!

Leo Club of Penang (City) was one of the participating clubs. The members who present in this clean up project were Edwin tan, Daniel Khor, Tict Chyuan, Victor, Jameson, Stanley, ahKOK, Roxanne, Sammy, Min Xiang, Him Keat and not to forget our member who led this project ....Leo Vincent Khor! Roar~ Penang City supports GO GREEN project!

Cock and Kok @ Ipoh

After having our Bean Sprout Chicken at Onn Kee, it was time for us to go back to Penang. While heading to get our car, we passed by this shop "Ayam Garam S.T.S". This Salted Chicken shop looks nice or may be it was renovated. The colour of the shop is red and yellow. It looks fresh and attractive. At the first place, I felt my t-shirt colour was alike to the shop colour. So I decided to take a picture in front of the shop. This is just a normal pose in front of the shop. Howver, guess and see what did I do next?

Here I show to you! It is not only the shop colour resembles my T-shirt colour but the next pose that I had was totally perfect and matched with the shop logo. Looks alike right? Since I used to be called as Chicken (ahKOK=ahCOCK), may as well I pose like the chicken in the logo and let you guys to comment whether I really looks like a chicken or not...Anyway, I don't think I looks like la... So dont put me together with Chicken next time.......I got no relation with Chicken.

Cari Tauge Ayam @ Onn Kee, Ipoh

Yes I got those pictures from Facebook already so I can blog now. In my previous post, I mentioned that it was my first time seeing so many people waiting to be seated just for the the Ngah Choy Kai. By the way, we dined at Restoran Onn Kee (Tauge Ayam), next to the Restoran Lou Wong.

(Fiona and ahKOK)

From the above 2 photos, I'm sure you understand the "situation". It was crowded with a lot of people. Seriously, I never seen this before in Jalan Yau Tet Sin, Ipoh. In this area, other than Ngah Choy Kai, you still can go for Salted Chicken, Funny Fountain Soya Bean Soya Bean & Tau Fu Fa, Kaya Puff, Pamelo, Hiong Piah etc.. To me this place is very convenience where you may get most of the things that you want in just one place.

(Yucks...my long n thick hair... spoilt the picture... we camwhore in front of the chicken shop)

(Price List)

I was in Ipoh last Monday with Raymond, Fiona and OngLai to attend a meeting with Leos from Ipoh and Selangor. After the meeting, our 1st District 308 B2 Leo President Elect Eliza hosted this early dinner. With us were Weng Siong and Jonathan from Leo PJI, Eliza, Chee Keat, Anna and Geraldine from Ipoh Unity. I think you should know what we had ordered by seeing the above 4 photos.

(RCC Ong, PP Fiona, PP Eliza, PP Anna, PP Raymond)

The famous artists from Taiwan, Hong Kong and even Malaysia also visited Onn Kee before and they were good enough to take a picture with the owner. Picture is like a testimonial. I'm sure you will agree with me too. By seeing these pictures, it tells you how tasty is thier chicken. I mean the bean sprout chicken la which had succesfully attract the attention of the famous artists to have a try on the Ipoh famous Ngah Choy Kai.

(This picture will be shown in Onn Kee's wall very soon......Stay tune and remember to check it out)

How was it? So so nia....May be on the day, thier business was too good which indirectly "affect" the chicken quality (run water). Not really as good as what I think I mean the chicken. The Bean Sprout, Fish Ball, Meat Ball and Hor fun were ok. Sunshine Market Food Court's Bean Sprout Chicken is still better than that. I should revisit this shop during off peak season.

Lou Wong + Aun Keh Tauge Ayam (Ipoh Ngah Choy Kai)

Free Chicken Free Chicken~~~~~ Free Ngah Chopy Kai Free Ngah Choy Kai~~~

At first when I reached this place, I thought there was a promotion for the bean sprout chicken or giving free bean sprout chicken but it was not. Oh my god, I never see so much people waiting for the Ngah Choy Kai before. The restoran was crowded with a lot of customers who came from far and near just for the Ngah Choy Kai and we were one of them too. There were many people waiting outside the restaurant. We waited for half an hour for the Bean Sprout Chicken to be served right in front of us.... Seriously, I was suprised to see so much people came to Ipoh for the Chicken. Along the way we came for the Chicken, the whole road was like... 1 or 2 cars..... like a dead town... but when we reached here...everything change in sudden. Let's see what we ordered for the next post... waiting the photos in OL's camera to be ready for us to grab... :)

Penang Hokkien Lunch Gathering @ Hot Wok Nyonya & Local Cuisine with Miku John

Who is this? Yeah, he is Aloysius, a baby son to ahTox. Then, who is ahTox? A guy who I knew him thru PenangHokkien. What is PenangHokkien then? It is a very first podcast entirely in Penang style Hokkien. Funny and casual chats with no topic restrictions. They talk about things that you will only share with your closest friends. May contain Adult Content and Language.

I know about PenangHokkien a few years back from Nicholas. When I have nothing to do, I will log on to the website and listen to those recordings that they've recorded. The evil laughter of the owner, Miku John will surely brighten your day. Personally, I like those ghost stories. It is the most interesting one. I remember that the 1st ghost story I listened to was Chung Tuuuu High School which I heard about it before actually but...not that fun and scary without the horror sound effect that you may find it in PenangHokkien.

Last Saturday, I was invited by ahTox uncle to a lunch gathering with Miku John at Hot Wok Nyonya and Local Cuisine. It was my very first time meeting up with John. I'm not that famous because I never join any recording. In fact I'm just a listener not contributor. Among them, I know are ahLeng, ahTox, Kevin, TauSarPhneah, and the late HNKP. We met once during last CNY at eGate Noodles Station.

Some of the members were there with their kids and spouse.

This lunch gathering, frankly, I didnt know who is who other than those members that I met before. What I did was, Hi~~ Hi~~I think is time for me to find out who is who with the help from ahLeng or ahTox. Everyone will have thier own "nick" name in PenangHokkien. hmm...Anyway, nice meeting up with eveyone and at least I know some from Facebook after they add me :) Have a great journey to Japan, John.

Chew Jetty + Khoo Kong Si + Poh Hock Seah + Kok Hong

(Picture of the budak when we were at Chew Jetty)

I host this budak for about 2-3 days last weekend when he paid a visit to this so called beautiful Island in Malaysia, an island that full of Chinese Culture- Penang. :) He is a blogger whom I know thru blogging, a person who has is has KOK too in his name and he is the person who taught me Japanese sometimes to communicate with my Japanese Host Family "全部偽物".

(Chew Jetty)

Those photos posted here are small in size and without edit. This is due to I'm kind of Lazy recently to on photoshop, edit and resize it. So I choose to use another easy way to make those photos become small in size and easy to post in blog. As a result, those photos are not in Good Quality! Picture quality and colour might out....

I drove him to not much places in Penang actually. Bukit Mertajam for Makan and St. Ann Church, Chew Jetty, Poh Hock Seah, Khoo Kong Si, Kuan Yin Temple, Makan the best Penang Food, visiting the Getai in conjunction with the Hungry Ghost Festival, etc. Too bad, we dont have time to visit Bukit Bendera, Balik Pulau etc... Luckily he did visit Batu ferringhi Sunset Cafe with his friends on his last evening in Penang. Sunset Cafe is the very best place in Penang where you can see the BEST sunset at 6:45pm. Not much people know where it is actually.

(Poh Hock Seah and Khoo Kongsi)

Let's talk about Khoo Kongsi. I think most of the Penanites do not know that you need to pay RM 5 for the entrance fee to Khoo Kongsi. Upon your payment, you will receive 2 Khoo Kong Si Postcards and a sticker to enter the building. This was my 2nd time paying the entrance fee in order to visit Khoo Kongsi. Hopefully, in the coming month, our Hong Kong Leo pals will not ask me to visit this again. :) Lily, I promise you that I will go to Langkawi with you all provided I'm invited and some other F.O.C. Georgetown herritage sites.

Anyway, it is worthwhile to pay RM 5. Initialy, I was asking mysely why I still need to pay when I'm born in Penang. After entering the building, you will know where your RM 5 contribution goes to. For more pictures, stay tune and wait me to edit before posting (hopefully I will). You will understand more about the history of the buidling and there will be someone will kind to explain and answer your queries. That's what Kok Hong did. He loves Penang as he told me. Penang is just like another country. What makes him said so? It is because Penang has everything, Penang has more Chinese. From food and shopping to historical buidlings, Penang has it all.