While I busy shooting, the girls they order our lunch.

This my dear friends, our starter.

Nothing fancy, just simple local food which is really expensive.

The girls, salivaing my food. Ewwww, tsk… and I had to finish them all. Sigh. What a torture.

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It’s the time to celebrate after a job! It feels great when all the tension building up to a wedding came to an end. That was exactly how light hearted I felt when we pack our bags and check out from the apartment we stayed in during my last Penang shoot. We were then scouting for food. Penang is food heaven. Plenty of local food. Let me rephrase that. Plenty of good local food. It boils down to the diversify culture back in the history days, when McDonalds and KFC weren’t food of choice.

Ayer Itam’s Assam Laksa is huge. Myself and Devin took an adventurous drive from Penang Town over to Ayer Item from a trusty map we bought from SHELL station. Not the best map in the world, but we didn’t really get lost.

  

I’ve got Devin helping me to direct the traffic for me even. On the other note, it was election fever. Hence the banners.

When I say huge, I meant well known. - not really the place being big and comfy. Sights like this are very normal in Malaysia. Hawkers dining is quite a culture if you ask me. Kinda gives me the home feeling.

 
 It’s a small stall with some small aluminum top with metal legs table. You know you are in the north when you are sitting on these kind of table. I don’t remember KL having such setups. In Taiping, Ipoh…. yes.

  
 Two bowl of assam laksa! I’ll leave wikipedia to explain what it is for those who haven’t tasted such wonderful threat.  Assam Laksa is available everywhere in Malaysia, but not all of them are great. Heck, not all of them are served in these kind of china. The cockheaded bowl gives original feel to what assam laksa should be.  

 
 It wasn’t expensive comes KL standard. I think we paid RM 2.50 per bowl. Considering we paid like RM 8.00 for Char Kuey Teow earlier that day.  

  
No, I don’t usually eat like that. That photo was for the camera.  

 
 Not many streets are like this in KL anymore. Once upon a time, maybe. This is Penang. A panoramic photograph of Penang’s Ayer Itam. A photograph which was taken just right outside our assam laksa shop. 

And this is our assam laksa story… :) 

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I’ve got to know the place from stalking malaysia blogs. Apparently after our little snack, we weren’t far away from the Coconut King.

The whole place is stacked with coconut. So much that if it ever falls on you at the same time, you’ll die. We ordered a couple. We had a brief chat with the person who ran the place - all gear up for the liverpool chelsea match that week.

We were so friendly, they decided to give us their Parang (Knife), to demostrate some leet coconut opening skills.

I must say that the parang was very very sharp.

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This my friend, you can get it from 33, Jalan Nagor. Somewhere in Penang. I am not a big fan of cinnamon stuff. But my mates were excited enough to buy 2 loafs of these to be taken to the apartment.

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Road trips are fun. Especially with the nice group of people. Despite the heartache felt from the lost of my 4 tires,we headed to Penang nevertheless.

There were 6 of us in the this car, while another 4 more in the tailing Volvo right behind us.

Penang was our destination simply because of 1 reason. 1 reason that rules it all.

Local Penang Food.

Yum yum.

The left KL at about 9ish, before reaching Penang slightly off noon.

That’s us crossing the Penang Bridge.

We were greeted by the Penangites a with a Saturday jam. How welcoming…..

And so, the journey continues………

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