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Time does flies and very soon its already day 4 of our trip, after a good rest at our nice and cozy chalets, we spent the morning dining in the resort to have some laid back time of water polo, swimming and simply just dipping ourselves in the sea. After a relaxing morning, we took our last group photograph as usual before departing to Kuantan for lunch.

Johnson took us to Medan Selera Teluk Sisek (N3 49.029 E103 20.321) in Kuantan town where we ordered some dishes from this place called Hor Chiak and sampling some good bak kut teh from Kim Loong. Dishes at Hor Chiak is reasonable, we had assam steam fishes, some vegetables, eggs and tofu. At the same time we ordered some bak kut teh to share with some yau char guai we bought there too. The dishes are alright but I must say the bak kut teh is very tasty, worth trying.

After lunch, we stopped near Gambang to stocked up on keropok, sea produces like salted fish, etc. as souvenirs before heading home. Before reaching KL, we also made a stop in Karak, recommended by Ah Fei, we went to Yik Kee (N3 24.830 E102 02.080) for their famous durian bomb and kaya swiss roll. The durian is quite a bomb at RM1.60 for a small piece but the filling are rich and very durianish. The swiss roll is fresh and long filled with a generous amount of kaya at RM8.00 each.

Before letting everyone home, we just had to do our final dinner in KL and since our GM, Jason took us on weird roads to shops that closed, we had decided to go for crabs at Tak Fook (N3 12.697 E101 36.927) in Desa Aman, Kepong. Its the usual fare, crabs, noodles, etc.

We officially ended the trip at 8.22:58pm, recording about 1,286 kilometers (for my car) of distance. Each of us spend less than RM340.00 each for the entire trip including our nice blue jersey, all the makan, accommodation plus transports. I really enjoyed myself and I hope the rest had as well, like most of you, I am already looking forward to the Peninsula Malaysia Makan Trip part 3 ;).

Photos compliments of Law Tien Soon

Peninsula Makan Trip Part 2 Intro

Peninsula Malaysia Makan Trip Part 2 - Day 1, Update 1, Kuala Lipis

Peninsula Malaysia Makan Trip Part 2 - Day 1, Update 2, Gua Musang

Peninsula Malaysia Makan Trip Part 2 - Day 1, Update 3, Kota Bharu

Peninsula Malaysia Makan Trip Part 2 - Day 2, Update 1, Kota Bharu

Peninsula Malaysia Makan Trip Part 2 - Day 2, Update 2, Merang, Terengganu

Peninsula Malaysia Makan Trip Part 2 - Day 3, Update 1, Kuala Terengganu

Peninsula Malaysia Makan Trip Part 2 - Day 3, Update 2, Chukai, Terengganu

Peninsula Malaysia Makan Trip Part 2 - Day 4, Last Day, Kuantan, Pahang

We stopped by Maran for lunch after our camping trip to Hutan Lipur Jerangkang nearby, this is a busy restaurant serving reasonably good and priced Chinese dishes. The pillow pau seems to be very popular in this shop too and you have to order it in advance.

Anyhow, another popular thing here is their egg tarts which comes in many flavors. Other than the regular, you have a choice of pandan, dragon fruit, carrot, etc. Its quite unique and the good thing is the fruits flavor does not overwhelm the egg tarts. I find the regular and pandan one really good especially eating it when its hot!

RM1 per tart and you will need to wait for quite a while, because they will only start making the tarts once you have order them and the queue can get quite long ;).

Makan first, think later

All makan and no adventure makes George a dull city slicker
So the above says it all, hehehe… one fine crazy holiday, I dragged Cicak and Daniel to join me on a trip to Jerangkang, Pahang. This place is basically a forest reserve in Pahang after Maran (heading to Kuantan). From the old road of Maran-Gambang, there’s a turning on the left into Hutan Lipur Jerangkang. It turns into a small road of kampung houses around it just before rubber estates where the road starts to get muddy and rough. This is a 16km trail into the Jerangkang waterfall. After the rubber estates it just pure wilderness and jungle, but the trail is quite ok till you went through the underpass of the new Karak-Kuantan highway. Rough muddy, uneven and a river crossing awaits you, but work is in progress and there is already a bridge to cross the river. However for now, its still recommend to at least have a lorry or 4WD to get in especially if its raining. The trek is light so good for urban trucks like mine.

After about 45 mins of slow drive (taking it easy on my truck’s suspension), we reached the waterfall. There is a big camp site, but the toilet facility isn’t well maintain and the water source for the camp site don’t seems to be working. But anyway, its the wilderness! What you expect? :P. The stream from the falls is just next to the camp site and when we were there its just a bunch of 4WD expidition campers whom are moving out. After they left, there is virtually only the 3 of us there, quite scary as the mobile phone signal is also weak!

We didn’t trek up the to the waterfall and just swim around the stream at the bottom of the falls. I read from some blogs that the falls is awesome, Daniel is complaining a lot like usual but didn’t want to trek :P. Anyway, the water is superbly cold, clear and sweet. I am sure the falls will be great :). Maybe next time and the spot looks good for bbq.

After the falls, we head out back towards Maran and had lunch at Pekan Sri Jaya. I remembered this used to be the stop our bus to Endau Rompin the last time. We went to Futian Xiang, which is a small restaurant. Quite a number of locals eating there, but the scary thing is the flies are flying freely here and non of the eating locals seems to mind :o.

Anyway, we ordered a cantonese style fried noodles, yee mee, lum yee pai kuat (pork ribs) and a veg. The noodles are good especially the cantonese fried. The ribs is rather funny, usually in KL the will just fried it but they seems to like to add a layer of sauce here. All together with tea for 3 pax is only RM35!!! Good value!

Makan first, think later