It was a late evening, but my body made a normal morning, so I had time for typing, reading, uploading, business as usual. At least my blog post will be up to date soon.
We made a first stop for breakfast, eating toast, Lip and Lulu with liquid egg and I with Kaya, a sweet spread made of eggs, (palm)sugar, coconut milk and flavoured by pandane leaves (German Schraubenbaum, “screw tree”).
The picture doesn’t show “Schraubenbaums”, but “Trompetenbaums” (“trumpet trees”), that seem to grow here easily and need special attention in Austria.
We had tasted the beautiful strawberries from Kea farm market and they had little taste, even a bit sour. So, we hoped to get better ones at a second try and on the way back to Ipoh made another stop there.
But even the farmers themselves said, they wouldn’t have sweeter ones. At a place nearby, they were more persuaded by their fruits but they sweetness of the fruits still was not convincing. So, I only bought one box for Faye, instead of 3-4 (for Lulu’s and Lip’s parents and for us).
I just wonder why people grow strawberries at every free space if the result is not worth it.
At the chocolate factory, the strawberries didn’t even look nice and the price was double or more, so I took only lavender cookies for Lulu’s mum’s birthday.
I had been fallen asleep a bit when we made a stop to visit Gua (=cave) Tempurung. So I forgot my camera for this excursion and maybe this was good, because Lulu’s photos with her phone were really good! This cave was at least the longest of those three I head seen in Malaysia so far and without religious design, so nature alone made it impressive. There were 5 platforms to climb, each with a special name related to what you saw (golden flowstone) or heard (Echo) or felt (Wind) except the last, called “top of the world”. From there, you could look down to foggy and dark depths…
so, here come some of Lulu’s photos, maybe a third of what she sent to me 🙂
i say “Gua”
for sure there is an explanation why this photo is turned like that. But I haven’t got it
We went home and said good bye to Lip.
Lulu’s mum had birthday and so we had dinner outside with some special food, called Nga choi gai. It had two components that you would get everywhere in similar quality (noodles and chicken) but the soja sprouts. Have special quality in Ipoh and so this dish is a must-have for people coming here.
The birthday cake had to wait at home for a while, because everyone had eaten enough or too much.
