My old laptop – fried in the heat that has also claimed my lower legs and chest … that’ll teach me to fall asleep under the midday sun at Langkawi Coral – a floating pontoon set above a bed of amazing coral and pretty fishes, off Pulau Payar. The good news is my ruse to blend in with the locals seems to be working as I was offered the local package price (foreigners pay more – can you believe that?!) for the Pulau Payar trip!
Back in Penang again after a whistle stop tour of Genting Highlands – a resort that started off as the gambling capital of Malaysia but now houses several indoor and outdoor theme parks to cater for the indigenous folks whose religion forbids them to enter these dens of inequity. Anyway, if you haven’t yet visited the recent addition – the First World indoor theme park – then do so and marvel at the miniature Statue of Liberty annd Eiffel Tower. However, I’d spent most of our short visit on the new Novotouch roulette table and was lucky enough to come away relatively unscathed 😉
On the way back, we turned off the highway at Ipoh to sample the famous Ipoh Hor Fun, Hong Kong Chee Cheong Fun (its softness is said to be due to the local water) and Rojak at the coffee shop opposite Kamdar on Jln Raja Musa Aziz. Tonight, we will be dining at a seafood restaurant in Tambun, Butterworth where we hope to try the local delicacy – the char-grilled roe of a Horseshoe crab (see pic, added later).