Penang Hawker Food in Singapore

The Penang Hawker Food Stall is located at KIM TAT SENG Eating House in Marine Parade Central.


The Stall is called "PENANG DELIGHTS".

They sell Penang Char Koay Teow, Penang Laksa, Penang Hokkien (Prawn) Mee, Koay Teow T'ng (Duck) and many others.

All items are sold at S$3.00 which is reasonable.

Penang Laksa

The Penang Laksa is authentic and good. It is chilli hot as it uses chilli padi.


Penang Hokkien (Prawn) Mee


The Penang Hokkien (Prawn) Mee is as authentic as it can be. The soup is good but abit sour. Normally, there is no egg as ingredient in Penang.

Overall, they are good and highly recommended for those who are looking for Penang hawker food in Singapore.

Dragon Fruits

We all know that dragon fruits are products of Vietnam.

Do you know how the tree of a Dragon Fruit looks like? Well, on a trip to Ayer Tawar, Perak, Malaysia, I was introduced to the Dragon Fruit Tree.

It turns out to be from a cactus family as you can see from the photo above.

You can see the dragon fruits hanging on the cactus branches.

The flesh of the dragon fruits is white in color with many small black seeds. They are high nutrition fruits and rich in Vitamin C.

A better view of the dragon fruits. Photo taken in the garden of a friend in Ayer Tawar, Perak, Malaysia.

The dragon fruits on sale in the Ben Thanh market in Ho Chi Minh City. The photo was taken on a trip to Ho Chi Minh City recently.


These are the dragon fruits on sale in the Pulau Tikus market, Penang, Malaysia.
Photo was taken during a recent trip to Penang.

Padang Brown Hawker Centre in Penang, Malaysia

The Padang Brown Hawker Centre is located at the junction of Perak Road and Anson Road.

The Hawker Centre opens late from 2.30 pm. There are many hawker food available in this centre.

Lok lok


Preparation of Pasembur.

Pasembur

Poh Piah

Flowers in a garden & Arts in a shop on way back to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam

Along the National Highway, we took a afternoon restroom break on the way back to Ho Chi Minh City. We found Vietnamese gardeners in their well-known hats doing weeding under the hot sun. What a fantastic shot? Don't you think so?

Flower

Orchid


Orchid


Colourful flowers

Flower

A beautiful art piece for sale in the shop


Vases for sale

A hand-made vase for sale in the shop

We have half-an-hour to explore the restaurant cum shop and its surrounding garden. More on the garden coming in the next posting.

Where to find a US$9 One-day Mekong Delta Tour including lunch in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

You can find a US$9 Mekong Delta Tour including lunch fully-conducted by a English -speaking tour leader in Ho Chi Minh City. Look for TNK Travel.

TNK Travel has 3 locations, all around each other. See map above for the locations.

216, De Tham St, Pham Ngu Lao Ward, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City
161, Pham Ngu Lao St, Pham Ngu Lao Ward, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City
40 Bui Vien St, Pham Ngu Lao Ward, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City


The area where you can find many of travel companies catering for tours. TNK Travel is one of them which offers cheap tours to CU CHI Tunnels and Mekong Delta (1,2,3 days package). Go to the area and look around for the best and cheapest tours.


One of the TNK Travel shop front.


They offer One-Day Mekong Trip ( My Tho- Ben Tre (The Upper Mekong River),
Two-Day Mekong Trip ( My Yho - Ben Tre - Can Tho - Cai Rang - Phong Dien)
Three-Day Mekong Trip (My Tho -Ben Tre -Chau Doc -Can Tho -Phnom Penh)

We took the One-Day Mekong Trip which takes us to My-Tho -Ben Tre .

The price is only US$9 per person.

Leaving Ho Chi Minh City, we enjoy the scenic journey along the National Highway.

This is the introduction of the One-Day Trip which will takes us to the following places of interest :VABE Handicapped Handicrafts, Coconut Candy factory, Longan Orchards, Boating along Mekong River, Horse ride and Honey Bee cottage industry.

Motor-cycles are King of Ho Chi Minh City's Traffic

Motor-cycles everywhere. They are the King of the traffic in Ho Chi Minh City.

The motor-cycles occupy at least one lane of a two-lane street. Although there are so many motor-cycles, pedestrians can cross the road without any problems. They know how to avoid the pedestrians safely.


Even though there are so many motor-cycles everywhere, I have not witnessed any accidents involving them during my one-week stay in the City. It is a miracle that they can co-exist with the pedestrians, taxis and cars without any problem.


There must be millions of motor-cycles in the city.


There are even more motor-cycles on Saturday & Sunday nights when most teenagers come to the city with their girlfriends for a night out in their motor-cycles.


A car-park full of motor cycles in a company's compound.




See the masks on the motor-cyclists.


Motor-cycles everywhere.





They even take the footpaths.



Motor-cycles co-exit with cars at intersections of the roads.


All types of Motor-cycles on the road


The Ho Chi Minh City has a population of 8 million people and there must be at least 3 million motor-cycles around. This must be a cheap way of transport for the people.

It is interesting to watch the skill of all these motor-cyclists (young & old, men & ladies, boys & girls) riding through intersections and junctions of roads, avoiding each other, cars and pedestrians walking across the road.

As pedestrians, you can cross the road safely if you walk slowly (do not run), the motor-cyclists will know how to avoid you.