Every time when I visit Taiping and come back with stories about the many interesting things you can do there, my friends ask me, when will you organise a trip for us.
Finally a plan became reality and on Thursday 26-8, a group of nine left PJ for a 3D2N visit of Taiping. My friend George is a member of the New Club and had booked accommodation there in nice, old-fashioned rooms.
In the preparation for the trip it had become clear soon that the interest was not so much in culture as in food, so that was what it became, a makan trip.
Glorious food!
In between our meals we managed to visit the Matang mangrove forest, a charcoal factory, and the Kek Look Tong temple. And there was karaoke in the evening.
Here is a pictorial report
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Kwai Loh wrote on Aug 28, 2010:
Thanks George, for supplying the extra information. |
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geetee wrote on Aug 28, 2010:
This is a pose with the 2007 Astro Singing Contest Champion, Chai Chee Wen (or Hor Chiew Boon, in Hokkien) at his noodles stall in a restaurant on the Tupai/Pokok Assam Road (opposite the Gymnasium Centre field). |
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wrote on Aug 29, 2010:
Wow, you were pretty fast off the block, Jan. My pictures are still in the camera. /stephen |
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wrote on Aug 29, 2010:
Hey, guys, you are standing on historical ground. That is one end of the first railway line in the then Malaya. The other end is, needless to say, Taiping. /stephen |
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wrote on Aug 29, 2010:
... next to a newly built swift hotel. It wasn't there the last time I was at the restaurant. /stephen |
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wrote on Aug 29, 2010:
And double parking too (see bottom right). /stephen |
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wrote on Aug 29, 2010:
It's St George's, named by the La Salle Brothers -- who started the school -- after St George. Used to be called St George's Institution, until the government took over and renamed it SMJK St George. /stephen |
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wrote on Aug 29, 2010:
This is not the real thing. The other shop a street away was closed so we had to make do with this one. /stephen |
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wrote on Aug 29, 2010:
It's not only a shop, but a biscuit factory as well. They make the delicacies there. That's why it's my favourite shop in Taiping. They'll be moving out to a new shoplot (a bungalow) on the Kg Boyan loop road nearer to the railway station. The reason they gave is that they had lost many customers since the closure of the junction to Kg Boyan from the Kota West end because of the ongoing double-tracking works. It will remain closed for 14 months to facilitate building of a flyover for vehicular traffic and laying of the rail tracks at that point. /stephen |
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wrote on Aug 30, 2010:
ha, you guys always start the trip with eating and end with eating also. :) |
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wrote on Aug 30, 2010:
Who would like to be staying close to a champion? yeah, I have distanced myself from Champions. |
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wrote on Aug 31, 2010:
nice |
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wrote on Sep 9, 2010:
Jan, you have a good eye for nice compositions. |
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wrote on Sep 9, 2010:
From the grins I would have thought they got it f.o.c |
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wrote on Sep 9, 2010:
So nice - the after- glow after the sun has set |
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wrote on Sep 9, 2010:
We are in Ipoh now |
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wrote on Sep 9, 2010:
They look lost |
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wrote on Sep 9, 2010:
Highly recommended !! |
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