Peninsula Malaysia Makan Trip - Update 3 - Taiping Lake Garden

I was suprised that the next morning everyone managed to get up much earlier than I expected. We headed to Pokok Assam for some breakfast at the wet market, I always think, the best food in each town can probably be found at the wet market! Here, the lai fun soup are really nice, not to mentioned the coffee too. The lai fun stalls cannot be missed as it was only like 8am plus then and you can see a big crowd surrounding the stall.

The lai fun comes in soup but the spoon are filled with their special chili paste. Most of the gang prefer it as cheng tong but I prefer to mix the chili into the lai fun itself. The lai fun comes with simple side dish which are just slices of fish cakes. Besides that, the wantan mee is also good here as we ordered 2 plates to share which have wantan, kai si as well as char siew! I also went next door to buy some roast pork (siew yok) from the uncle in the middle stall whom just keep chopping as the customers come and go. We saw some interesting small packets of nasi lemak that comes in assam, prawn or anchovies. I took the assam and prawn to try, assam is really weird, its juice tamarind with a little sauce topped on the coconut milky rice. The other one are prawns chilies topped on the rice. The good thing about the trip is that we have 11 ppl, and we only order a few plates of each so that everyone get to try everything! Oh ya, not forgetting, some of the kueh some of us bought from the market is really good too, especially the mini pandan flavour loh mai chee (peanuts and sugar wrapped with rice dough)!

We took a nice walk around the wet market that morning just to see and feel how the local market are, as all nice food do comes from the market after all. We keeping seeing stalls selling tang yuen and we reminded ourselves that the next day is Koh Tung which is one of the significant chinese festive day which marks the begining of winter and family gathers for dinner and everyone will share tang yuen as a mark that you have grown a year older ;). so I guess this year, all of us manage to stay 1 year younger?

To move on, we went biscuits hunting in Aulong searching for this house which bakes excellent chinese biscuits such as xiang bin. The have a such varieties here and a lot of cookies and biscuits that we used to eat as a kid can be found here too!

Before checking out from the hotel, we did a last stop at Lake Garden in Taiping next to our hotel where the gang turned from makan trip kaki-s to photography kaki-s as the shuttlebugs and models just can't resist snapping all sorts of funny pose in the park, even a tree next to the playground could attract them for 10 mins r so :s. BUt to the credit of the park, its really a beautiful place, having maxwell hill as the background with lots of greens and water everywhere.

GPS - Taiping Pokok Assam Wet Market (food court) - N4 49.878 E100 44.324
GPS - Taiping Aulong, Home Made Biscuits - N4 51.132 E100 42.604