Peninsula Malaysia Makan Trip - Update 7 - Gua Musang>Cameron Highlands

We are way behind schedule because of the road detours, but finally we are here in Gua Musang at 6pm, hungry and tired... determined to find the fish head that Micol talked about, we search around Gua Musang town. As we approach the old parts of the town, we found it, but its closed! Gahhh... what luck, first landslide now shop is close!

Luckily, the restaurant a few shops away is opened, so without much hesitant, we got ourselves sat down at Restoran 166 for dinner. Maybe we are early but we are the only customers there! The famous thing to try here is "Nim" fish head or according to my dad, known as Ikan Tapah. Unfortunately don't know what went wrong, we got the a big cut of the fish instead of the head steamed for us, but being as hungry as we are, not time to question!

Since we will be heading to vegetables land soon, we ordered a Tung Poh Yok (a kind of braise pork) to help Calvin beef up on his protein level, hehehe... its tasty and nice but as usual, a little fatty and unhealthy! We then goes for some lighter dishes like mix vege tofu, some vege and soup.

The dinner is a bit costly because of the fish, about RM60 for the fish alone but if you have it in KL, its a lot more than that! Fish head would be cheaper but its still cheaper to eat it here. In face, in Gerik, we should have seek for Pak Soh Kung fish to eat as a lot of them comes from Temenggor lake.

The break was good to refresh everyone and we then head on to Cameron Highlands. The highway to Cameron Highlands from Gua Musang was just fantastic, nice view and a very pleasant drive. It took almost 2 hours to reach our hotel in Brinchang.

As we reach Brichang, the pasar malam outside the police station is filled with hustle and bustle of tourists finding for food and bargains. We hurried to our hotel, the Country Lodge to check in and unload our stuff. Being as kiasu as we are, we quickly got ourselves to the pasar malam for some local snacks, mainly fried mushrooms, sweet potato, sweet corns, etc.

The vegetables here are, well, of course fresh and big, but price wise, not everything is cheap, in fact, some are about the same as KL, just that its fresh and being tourist, we like to shop! We got ourselves a whole lot of vegetables for our steamboat the next morning!

The night ended with us doing crazy things like small kids again in the apartment. Not letting others sleep, running around, carrying people around... hehehe... its really like everyone is back to their childhood. So its not just about makan or travel but also a great time for all of us to really forgot our work and reality for that moment and really let choose, burn bright and live the few days like a small kid, what an experience ;).

GPS - Gua Musang Restoran 166 - N4 53.015 E101 57.932