The anniversary 2022 #2

Kuantan, the heart of Pahang

Pahang was the largest state of peninsular Malaysia. The east coast made the widest border of the South China sea facing west of Borneo.

Distance between Kuala Lumpur east to Pahang border is only 20 minutes drive. However, from Pahang west going to the east will take another 2.5 hours drive depending on the traffic.

Our first stop being in Bentong, one of the nearest town to Kuala Lumpur. After we have settled with the kids so they're taken care by the grandparents, we drove leisurely to the state of Pahang and found ourself in a nice and cozy local restaurant in Bentong town.

I ordered myself a bowl of pork noodle, and it came no surprise with a big portion of food. I'm not saying how crazy it taste, but it does give the "home" feeling. Taste a lot like my home town.

Home minister got herself a pot of clay pot noodles. According to her, it's safer to order something we're "familiar" when coming to new place to explore. The idea is simple, these kind of common recipe shouldn't have too crazy of taste deviation.

Both of us ordered different drink. I got myself iced coffee, and she ordered a mixed(we called it charm, short form of Bahasa, the word campur literally means mixture) of coffee and tea. Funny how they prepare drinks in takeaway bags, and it was really a big portion to flush down with our noodles.


First dinner at Korea Kuantan

By the time we arrived in Kuantan town, it was already evening. Apologize that I haven't been able to make hotel review this time as I was totally bogged down by work. The first thing we checked in to do is not what you think, it's me sitting down connect to the VPN and start working 😅 what more excuse do we have after the bloody lockdown happened 2 years ago?

By the time I managed to sort out some of the worst thing happened during the couple of hours travelling time, sun has gone down and it was too late to checkout the local restaurant. The next best thing we could think of is, heading to the nearest mall and landed ourselves in Nanda Chicken, an international chain restaurant from South Korea.

Note that there's a digital wall clock on the right showing date time of Korea, so to make it more "officially international". The sweet sauce chicken is universally good, just like what I've tasted in Busan years ago. Only different is, Malaysian version tasted more sweet, more spicier than ever.

Can't remember what they called this spicy sauce rice cake noodle dish. The smell and taste is quite authentic, except this one less spicy compare to the one we had in Busan street hawker. I kinda prefer the local version with less spicy.

Last but not least, the set menu came with a bowl of salad. I really don't mind the fusionism of Malaysian style international restaurant operator. I guess this is the only way we can survive the multiracial society, with every little bit of this and that from one restaurant outlet, so everybody get to eat what they like.


Blue Mosque of Kuantan

After dinner, we proceed to take a slow drive to downtown and found ourself at the middle of the state mosque. I didn't study much about the history or any significant within this town, but the view is enough to pull me over and start taking pictures.

We took a slow drive surrounding the mosque vicinity and also the clock tower to take more photos and trying to grab the best angle, proved to be harder than last time... Wait... This is my first time hanging out at Kuantan town. The Kuantan broadcasting tower is very near too, so we managed to take some photos of it.

There's a small part of the evening not documented here, as that was related to the next day morning. So I decided it will be better to compile those into 1 giant post on the next follow up post of a Catholic church.



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Happy Anniversary my man. I love the experience of trying a new restaurant out, especially small locally owned places. I have never heard of mixing coffee and tea together, now I am very curious to try this.

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In Malaysia, if you order coffee, you'll get sweetened milk coffee. If you order tea, you will get sweetened milk tea. Our local standard is, everything came with sweetened milk. So, to avoid milk, you literally need to add O at the back.

To order black coffee, you need to shout "Copy 'O". Then the restaurant operator will understand you're ordering black coffee. "O" is referring to a Chinese dialect, black.

However, that doesn't stop them to making your black coffee sweet. In order to taste a good cup of Malaycano(I know it's not funny by super rhyme the Malaysian Americano), you literally need to order as "Copy 'O Cosong". Kosong is in Bahasa, meaning empty.

Charm, also have different "stage" 🤣 the northern peninsular fella prefer 1 part tea with 2 part coffee. The central region prefer half tea and half coffee. The southern though, go with 2 part tea with 1 part coffee. However, the taste being mixed nowadays. People tend to request southern taste up north, and the younger generation seems prefer tea more than coffee.

And charm is not immune to the localized standard. Avoid milk, need to order as Charm 'O. To avoid both milk and sugar, gotta go with Charm 'O Cosong.

Don't learn this until you have a chance to visit. I'm just writing it up to fill up the comment section 🤣

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This comment is better than many posts I read, no worries at all, fill it up.

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