Crystal 's Diary ♥: Penang Trip

Today, gonna blog about my 3D2N Penang trip!! As every food lover should know, Penang, the food paradise and this time we gonna try out as much food as we can!! Especially Asam Laksa!! This time, with my coursemates also, a group of 9. And we decided to accommodate at Sri Sayang Apartment, Batu Feringghi, as we have 9 person n it's more convenient to stay in an apartment rather than hotel.

Day 1 - 14.2.2013

In the early morning of 6:30am, we gather n we started our journey to Penang! Damn tired!! :/ After taking a 5-hours journey <-- Suppose to be 4 hours, but we lost in between like usual.. Sigh.. , we finally reached the apartment, we checked-in. When we went into the apartment, the first reaction, *OMG!* the living room is full with dust n hair, also we can smell some weird smell <-- I think is caused by the dust.. we quickly run into the room n see, *pass by the toilet* the toilet ceiling is going to fall down!!, the room was just..... unsatisfied.. the only word I can say! Same goes to the room toilet, the toilet bowl was stuck n the water level in the toilet bowl is higher than normal water level... Suddenly all of us had has no mood. I have to admit that the rental is really cheap, (RM366 for 2N -- 3 room apartment, which cost us only RM42 for each person for 2 night since we have 9 of us), and we don't expect that we can enjoy a five-star hotel facilities, but what we want is at least the room, floor n toilet are CLEAN! We were so disappointing, but what we can do? Will b explained later on in this blog post..

Despite of all those sad moment, we decided to leave the room asap after leaving our luggage and we heading to the town to have our lunch, feel uncomfortable to stay thr anymore, zhe ming's friend, Eugene brought us to a hawker stall do not know where it's, and here are some food we ordered.

Food Rating: Over 5★

Char Kuey Teow -- Not as delicious as what I expected, I think it's will be better if it's more dry. ★

Don't know what this call, lol - Taste sour n little bit spicy, not bad! ★★★

Fried prawn, tradition cake.. Taste normal ★★

Yam Cake.. ★

Luo Han Guo - Good! ★★★

After these, it's dessert time!! Yay! We went to try the Penang Road Famous Teochew Chendol!

Delicious! ★★★★

It's around 5pm in the evening, we went to Weld Quay, all of us rent a bicycle and cycle around the town to find the signature #STREETPAINTING of penang. It only cost us RM10 for each bicycle from 6pm (if not mistaken) until the night.

Group Photo! ♥

Actually it's quite hard and dangerous to cycle around the town although the bicycle lane is provided, but there are many cars there especially in the peak hours! Anyway, this is an interesting activity n you should try to add this activity if you're coming to penang next time!

Dinner time! We had our dinner at the famous hawker center, Gurney Drive!

Assam Laksaaa!! ♥♥♥ ★★★★

Grilled Sotong ★★★

Fried Oyster ★

Fruit Rojak ★★★

Satay - the meat texture is soft n juicy!! ★★★★★

Sotong & Kangkung ★★★★

Muachi ★★

Prawn noodles ★★★★

Char Kuey Teow again! - This is better than the morning one. ★★★★

Grilled Stingray/ Ikan Bakar - Too spicy for me n expensive too. ★★

Lastly, we went to Gurney Plaza to buy some snack n drinks! N back to apartment. *Continue* We requested to cancel the room so that we can find another better hotel or apartment n refund the rental except the deposit, but they not allow us to do that, anyway they allowed us to change to another room. The receptionist gave us another apartment room at level 6, and asked us to have a look first, we went there, surprisingly, it was alooooot more better than the first room they give us! The floor is clean, toilet is okay, living room sofa is clean n tv is functioning. In short, as a personal suggestion, if you don't have any restriction in your budget n transport problem, there are alot more better hotel or apartment can be found anywhere in Penang. This apartment, would be the second choice, for me. Also, it's very inconvenient to stay there (if you wanna travel to the town) because you need to drive like 30 minutes to the town. But it's only 5 minutes journey to the Batu Ferringhi beach!

Some tips: Don't make last-minute decision, book the hotel as earlier as you can, you can get a better offer. Always read the review of the hotel or apartment.

Stay tuned for Penang Trip - Day 2! THE BEACH WAR!!

Thanks for reading!