Berlin's Bier Houz at Straits Quay, Penang

Since i saw some post about it about a few months ago. We decided to have Wilson's birthday at Berlin Bier Houz at Straits Quay in January 2011...hehe..backdated post as i was kinda busy recently...

So, Here are the meals that we ordered there.

We ordered German Fries...however, the sauce seems to be a little more to Indian style curry aroma..as i guess this somehow need to adapt a bit of Malaysian taste somehow.

The sausage set..look tempting huh..Yes, indeed it's delicious..

The Burger set...you could order this ala carte as snack as this is not a big portion.

Look at the Pork Burger...

Berlin's Specialty Pork- the sauce is a mixture of sweet and sour. The sauce is the specialty for this dish.

Besides dining there, it's quite a cool place for chit chatting & leisure...you can play snooker or play darts there while having some nice beer...:)

A Great Christmas & A Happy New Year 2011@Hatyai

This year i celebrated my Christmas & New Year 2011 with my friends at Hatyai.

There we could see Pink & Red Christmas trees around, but surely no White Christmas trees.

It's quite happening here as we could see lots of the local people dressed up for the celebration especially at the city area. You could see people took photographs with the X'mas trees as to have a vivid memory of the joyful celebration of X'mas.

A never missed thing to do in Hatyai is Shopping!!!

We had a great bargain while shopping & of course the spicy and sour Thai food..

Some nice food we had there...

We have a nice Koay Chiap at the Night Market.

Pork Knuckle, i like it too...this is from a restaurant.

Night time on 30 December 2010, they had special event for New Year 2011.

The road in front of Lee Garden was closed for vehicle.

Could see people partying on the road, having so much fun...

Cool!! Along the way, we were offered to put note on the Welcoming New Year 2011 Board.I put mine there. So does my friend,Meiyi.

Happy New Year 2011...!!

And thanks to Janice & Meiyi for the camera & photos..:)

Thaiglico products,Thailand

Just something to share with you all. My friend recommended me to these snacks whilst shop around Hatyai. There were salty & sweet types. It's nice to eat during our teatime. The salty type sticks biscuits could accompanied with nice beer.

The price range per box is 200-230 Baht.

you could visit the website: www.thaiglico.com

ak-one cafe Kulim

Introducing ak-one cafe at Kulim Hi-Tech. It's just next to the Oldtown Kopitiam Kulim.
You may consider to have a try there. This is a halal cafe.

We were served by a young man with well mannered, i guess he's the boss's son.

The interior of ak-one cafe

The Grilled Chicken Chop - rm9.50

Grilled Dory Fish- RM10.90

ak-one Sizzling Chicken- rm 11.50

Fish and Chips - rm9.50

We had Meiyi’s Birthday at At the Sun Restaurant called Spring Chamber Restaurant on 12 Nov, it’s a Friday night.


To my surprise, the environment is quite cozy and romantic. It serves fine western cuisine. And of course without any delay, we had our dinner ordered as everyone is hungry already. Most of us had the Set Dinner.

First came the Soup of the Day, it was a mushroom soup.

Next is our Appetizer: Salad with salmon. It quite a big portion for a starter.

Chicken with BBQ sauce(below photo)..Acording to my friend, this was good. The chicken meat were tender and it goes well with the BBQ sauce.

Beef Steak(below photo)

I had this one- Salmon with Japanese Soy Sauce..It was a bit salty and the sauce is too much.

The pizza portion was huge for 1 pax. Would recommend 2 person to share the portion.

Baby girl Eva also wanna sing Birthday song for meiyi..:)

The birthday girl..:)

We had an enjoyable dinner there.

Besides Spring Chamber Restaurant, there's a Summer Court for Outdoor Cafe in the courtyard of Sun Yat-Sen Centre. I guess it opens during day time for teatime, a nice location for meet up with friends.

For more information, you may visit the website: http://www.atthesun.com.my/
The Opening hours is from Tuesday till Sunday from 10am. However, it's closed on Monday.

Langkawi Nature Tour

Thanks to Meiyi for introducing this Langkawi Nature Tour organized by Criz Lai. He's our Blogger representative; arranging this trip for us with Mr. Leslie from Penang.cc.
They have a campaign :-Travel with A Green Heart Site.
Thus, here i would like to intro you guys to watch out for updates on their community site at http://greenheart.penang.cc/

My beautiful Saturday started with a fresh morning. Woke up early and getting ready to travel around Langkawi. It’s a Campaign organized and sponsored by the Langkawi Saga Travels & Tours. Once we reached the Swettenhan Pier, we were greeted by Jeff, our friendly tour guide for the day. At 815am, we depart from Penang to Langkawi. There were many foreigners visiting Langkawi with us as well.

Langkawi island is a well known place for a leisure holiday with its treasures of nature like the waterfalls, beautiful beaches, mountains, peaceful mangroves and its unique limestone there. Aside from the nature, its legend are very well known by most of the Malaysians. The story of a Princess Mahsuri who lived in Langkawi during the 14th century and due to the accusation made to her. As a consequences, Mahsuri laid a curse on Langkawi for seven generations.

Langkawi is indeed a popular island among foreigners. Likewise my german friend, he has been travelling to Langkawi twice in six months’ time.
I believe one would never missed the beaches when they step into Langkawi island. Imagine we were sitting by the beach, relaxing while enjoying the breeze of the wind & the serenity of the beaches. Listening to the sound of the waves, forgetting all the hectic time at work.
After a 3 hrs ferry ride, finally we reached Langkawi. We were taken to the Royal Langkawi Yatch Club at Charlie's Place (http://www.langkawiyachtclub.com/dining/charlie-s-place.html )for a nice lunch.

We sat on the platform; admiring the great sight of the marina whilst having our lunch.

After lunch, we headed to our first destination- Langkawi Cable Car.
Unfortunately, when we arrived the cable car had technical problems. Most of the people were seem disappointed. Heard also that most of the time, the cable car has technical problems. We would hope that this will be improved in order to lure more visitors from all over the countries to enjoy the top view from Mat Cincang Mountain(Langkawi second highest peak); overseeing the landscape of the rainforest and beautiful sea.

Our second destination: Underwater World.
First section were those chameleon and other lizards species.

Next are all different kind of fish spesies.

It has FreshWater Fishes there. Saw a unique kind of fish called ‘Tropical Garfish’. The head of it looks like Alligator. It can grow more than 1.6m length. Understood that the distribution are found at mountain area of China, Tibet, Sze Chuan, northern Yunnan and other smaller region of east Asia. See the below photo of it.

Other fishes like Blue Diamond Discus, normally it swims in a group. Same goes to the Midas Cichlid & Red Devil Cichlid fishes.


There are Mantis Prawns, Jelly Fish and Corals also eg. Purple Tube Anemone.

I would that agree that this Underwater World Centre continue to maintains their facilities there, as many creatures from the sea & the ground; birds, animals spesies are conserved there. It encourage people to appreciate nature and promote conservation.

We do had an interesting view of the Spotted Eagle Ray. While it swims around, there were other fishes escorting it around.

For penguin, I learnt that the African Penguins have an average life expectancy of 10-11 years in the wild. They are also known as ackass Penguins due to the ‘donkey-like’ braying sound they make during the courtship.

Next destination is the Mangrove area at Kilim. It took 30mins drive down from the Underwater world. We had the Mongrove Tour to the Bat Cave, Eagle Watching area & Fish Farm.

We stop at the Bat Cave first. Before entering we were warned not to make noise, do not use flash while taking photographs inside the cave and also not to touch the bridges or the stones surrounding. Jeff were explaining regarding the attitude of the bats in the cave. Questions that people normally query,’Why does bat slept upside down?’ It was due to the bat’s wing ,length that varies from 6 inches to 6 feet which cause the bat to have difficulty in standing or walking. Relying on only the strength of its feet is insufficient to bear its body weight for a period of time. Nevertheless, with this body structure, it ease the bats to land or fly whenever needed. For those bats staying in a four season countries, there is fascinating thing about the bats. It manage to stay at the same position for 3 months time while hibernating.
Another advantages of the bat is that we need bats to maintain the chain reaction of the nature.
Besides that,we also observed stalactite and stalagmite in the cave. Jeff explaining to us the formation of the stalactite & stalagmite were from the rich mineral water deposited calcite.

On our path out from the caves, we observed many small roots like the photo shown below.
Questions from many of us, ‘What is that?’ We got the answers from the board which reminds us on the science we have learnt before. There were the respiration roots called Pneumatophores which grow upward. Its tiny pores enable the trees to breath and ensure ample oxygen supply as understood that mangroves is a anaerobic state kind of habitat.
Additional tips given by Jeff was that if we got lost in a jungle, search for those hanging roots, cut off the roots and we shall have water source from there for survival. Interesting!

We hop on the boat & headed to the ‘Eagle Watching’ area. A few boats stop around the area to view the eagles. One of the boat guide throw chicken skins on the lake to feed the eagles. We had vivid view of the eagles flying down to the surface of the lake to take the food. There were different species of eagles such as Brahminy Kite and White Bellied Sea Eagle.

Then, we headed to the Fish Farm.

We were guided by young boy to brief us on the fishes there. First, he showed us the Archer Fish or we call it Water Spitting Fish. The nature of these fish are it will spit water on the food which are unreachable. The young boy placed the breadbits on the nails above the water and this Acrher Fish will spit water as what you see on the below photo (taken from the webpage) for clearer view.

It will spits many times until the breadbits drop. Its so smart.
We saw the Horse Shoe Crabs & Sting Rays.

Backside of the Horse Shoe Crab..

Next is the feeding to the Spotted Eagle Ray. We observed a foreigner feeding it. Quite interesting part is that its mouth are at the bottom side. It seems trying hard to move above the water to reach for the food given to it.

A bit of the time consume there as there were many students and foreigner visiting this Mangrove Kilim.

Final Destination is to ‘Dataran Lang’. That is where the Langkawi signature “Eagle” sculpture where visitors will never missed also.

We took our group photos of the symbolic Eagle there before headed to Ferry station.

Thanks again to Mr Leslie, Criz & our tour leader of the day, Steven Goh & Jeffrey, tour guide represetative from Langkawi Saga Travels & Tours. I did had an enjoyable day at Langkawi.