Showing posts with label Penang. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Penang. Show all posts

Friday, July 31, 2009

What Am I?

Another round of guessing game. What am I? :)






Updated 8th August 2009
Yeah, this is the Cannon Ball Fruit. Photo taken from the Cannon Ball Fruit tree in Penang Botanical Garden. Those who are interested to know more or see more photos about the fruit or the tree, can read my previous post on Cannon Ball Tree.

Friday, June 12, 2009

Oyster Omelette

I love the Oh Chean (蠔煎) or oyster omelette I had tonight. The oyster are so gigantic big and juicy. Tua-tua liap. Think about it also I can salivate.

*Slurp*

Monday, June 01, 2009

Who Am I?

I'm cute, I'm adorable. Who am I? :)

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Fishing Boats @ Gurney Drive

Do you ever wonder how the fishermen reach their boats which are placed quite a distance away from the beach?
This is how they reach their boats.. :)

By using another "mini boat".

Or to be exact, it's more like using a piece of modified floating wood/plastic?

Another fisherman rowing to his boat :)

Both of them have reached their "destination" :)

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Thaipusam 2009

I'm kinda lazy lately, hence the delay in posting. The following are photos taken during the recent Thaipusam Festival (earlier this month, on 8 February 2009) at Waterfall Road, on the way to Botanical Garden in Penang. I have taken a total of 600++ photos but I will only post a few here due to space constraint.

A group of Hindu devotees assemble in front of Waterfall Temple.

Devotee carrying pot filled with milk as offerings.

Devotee receiving blessing as well as a dab of ash onto the forehead, by the Hindu priest.

Milk overflowing..

Small kid drinking milk while the adult devotee carrying pot of milk as offering. :)

Parents carrying a small boy/or girl to the temple using sugar canes.

"People mountain people sea" aka human traffic jam, definitely not for those with crowd phobia.

A young kavadi bearer, I wonder how old is this little boy?

A group of devotee coming out from the Hindu temple. What u notice in this photo? Besides the body piercing and the colourful Hindu God statues on top of the milk pot, the second guy in the picture walked with closed/covered eyes.

Extreme body and face piercing with mini pots hooked to curved needles.

Oucchhhh...

Piercing the cheek with skewer.

Close up shot of the back piercing.

Huge hooks with the gigantic heavy weight pot..

I can feel the pain by just looking at the gigantic hooks piercing the skin and muscle, but it leave no pain to the person in trance.

Chinese devotee. Not for the faint-hearted.

*Gulp* I can't help but to think of... Will it leave behind a big hole on the cheek when the skewer was removed subsequently?

Devotees along Waterfall Road.

Till we meet again next year :)

Monday, February 16, 2009

Pineapple

I saw this Pineapple Ong Lai joss stick or incense last weekend (on Chap Goh Mei/last day of CNY when I strolled along the Pitt Street (aka Jalan Masjid Kapitan Keling). We are so used with the Gigantic Dragon joss stick but pineapple joss stick? Interesting... First time I came across such a scene. Hence I can't resist but to take one snapshot. :)

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Lok Lok @ Padang Brown

Nowadays I seldom take food pictures when dining out at hawker stalls nor restaurants in Penang. But today I decided to bring my camera again. The highlight for the day is none other than my all time favourite, Lok Lok.

Had it together with a colleague of mine at the old hawker stall at Padang Brown, Penang.

The difference of having lok lok here is one can actually sit down and enjoying the lok lok instead of the norm.
A pot of boiling water in the middle of each table, and the boiling water was clear initially...

My all time favourite and something not to be missed out ~ the bloody cockles :)

Next on my list is the sotong + kangkung skewer :)

I don't really fancy the "balls", be it fish balls, meat balls, sotong balls or whatever bola :)

Minum bola, makan bola, tidur bola...

Chili sauce is a MUST :)

Satay sauce ~ Err, not really my cuppa tea sauce

Wantan is available too...

And not forgetting the fried wantan :)

Sotong oh sotong... (no wonder Sotong missing in action for ages...)

And many other varieties which I lazy wanna take photos d, cos I wanna makan :)

And btw, this is not on the menu. The cat was sleeping underneath the table next to the gas tank. I was joking with my colleague, whether the cat is still alive or being "cook" already...

At the end, our pot of clear boiling water changed colour, just like chameleon.. One of the main contributing factor is the bloody cockles :)

And not forgetting, a plate of nyonya beehoon from the nearby stall.

And last but not least, presenting the "backbone" of the dishes, aka the skewers. Nope, that was not the total number of skewers I had. I don't have such a huge stomach :P

Sunday, May 25, 2008

"Black Shop"

The 黑店 or "Black Shop" in Kung Fu Martial Art Chinese Novels (武侠小说) are synonym with shop owners that cheat customer's $$$$ :D

And I came across this "黑店/Black Shop" some time ago. What a name! This photo was sometime back, in December 2006. Somewhere in Georgetown, Penang on Sunday morning (hence the shop was closed). Now I cannot remember the exact location of the shop liao... I wonder what the shop sells... :P

Monday, May 19, 2008

Cannon Ball Tree

Introducing the Cannon Ball Tree (aka Couroupita guianensis), which are widely seen in Penang Botanical Garden. Photos are taken with my Cannon Canon camera on the same day when I took shots of Monkeys eating Ice Cream.

The Budding Flower...

Pinkish flower.. Leng Mou?

This is the final product. The gigantic Cannon Ball. Might be can use it for bowling. If not, u can also use it to throw at those homo sapiens or whatever species whom u dislike. But don't throw it at my dearie Ah Boy.

More Klang-klang ~ Ada besar, ada kecik. Pilih mana yang hang suka...

Further info, only for those who are interested to make cannon balls know more about Cannon Ball Trees..