Here we (Yanting,Honghoon,Kartini) go to Balai. Took the Falcon Indo ferry and paid for SGD25 for 1 way ticket.
We then took a selfie and slept throughout the 2hrs.
Once we reach Balai,we queued for nearly an hour to pass the custom.After clearing the custom, Kar's brother welcome us and his dad drove us back to their house.The photos shows how the streets and the surrounding of Balai looks like. Balai is a very small "town" btw.
We were brought to a 4 storey shophouses in yellow (kar house) and we left our luggage there.Took Selfie again...
Kar's family business is selling ice-cream and also the distributor for WALLS ice-cream. So, Kar let us tried the ice cream that her family made. The flavours of the ice-cream is something similar to potong and its nice~
Kar's parents and sis brought us to have Bak Kut Teh for lunch. We ordered the Buk Kut Teh and dried bak kut the to share. One thing special about their bak kut teh is that the soup consists of additional intestines.And the dried bak kut teh,instead of soup,its filled with gravy,something different from what we had in singapore. The food taste great too!
Bak Kut Teh with soup
Dried Bak Kut Teh
After the scrumptious lunch, we head back to Kar's house to rest and then head back out to Kar's old kampung house to pluck rambutans.
Unfortunately, when we reach the destination. Mosquitoes welcome us first. We had many bites on our hands and legs,felt so bloody itchy and irritated. Her Dad was very nice help us to get rid of the mosquitoes by consecutively picking up leaves and branches to light it up under the blazing sun and facing the double heat-sun and fire. I find it amusing about this place because the area is surrounded by all her relatives' kampung, its something like one whole clan.
Picking rambutan time!
The rambutans filled up one sack and few boxes.It's that much.
Had a jump shot!
We hid in the kampung to avoid the mosquitoes.
Placed the rambutans in the car and head to our next destination:SPA
Passed by a food stall and bought gorang pisang.
The Gorang Pisang is damn good.The shiok feeling when you bite and then it's crispy on the outside and soft and sweet in the inside.Love it a lot~~!!Yummy.
Reached the SPA place, but end up i could not do spa because of menses.SIGH! so Kartini and i went to walk around while HH and YT went SPA. Shopped at one of the shop and bought a dress for like sgd8 plus,considered cheap right?Then head to a 3 story departmental store to see see look look.But there's nothing much though.
We slacked at one of the fast food restaurant and ordered snacks and drinks. Erm i forgot what's the name of the food and drinks but i can remember that my drink which is the red and white one-consist of fanta strawberry and condensed milk is damn sweet.Plus the bread which has condensed milk,chocolate and cheese is making it even more sweeeetttt.
We took a "cab" back to her house.The "cab" is like a small van but they drive many customers at one go and bring them to the destination. Kar's bro then drove us(Kar's sis,Kar, Me) to fetch yt and hh and brought us to a beautiful place for photo shoot. So let the photos do the talking.
Did you see what i just saw? The cloud look like a unicorn/horse.Which one does it look like?
After lots of scenery shoots, we went to eat zichar.Did not manage to take photos of the food because we were so hungry. We ordered stingray,fish,kangkong,gong gong,cereal prawn, fried squid and drinks(i ordered the soursop) and it cost us less than $60 for 6 person.Cheap or what..LOL!We head over to another departmental stall to buy tibits and 1 box of maggie mee(share by me n yt).Each person paid sgd4 for 20 packs of mee.
Went to sing K till 2am, brought my slpy voice to sing lol.And then we ate maggie mee gorang for supper.The Maggie mee goring is damn good. Dont know why..and the food look like this...
We went to the lousy hotel to see see look look..It's really damn lok kok ,worse than hotel 81.So we went back to sleep in Kartini house.
The next morning,we went to pack our luggage and wash up. Kar's dad brought us to eat breakfast. We ordered the lontong, bread(with chic and cheese) and satay and i ordered coffee.The coffee has condense milk in it and is super sweet,Gahh. I think i cannot take those super sweet stuff i will feel weird. The satay and lontong is damn delicious.The rice is bite-able,soft and sweet and has papaya in it; for the lontong. Kar's dad's friend treat us breakfast. OMG!
And then soon after breakfast we head to zichar "restaurant" to eat again.This time with her parents and her relatives.They ordered crab,herbal chicken, vegetables,cereal prawn,steam fish,many more.Could not remember,but her parents treat the meal.So Full!!! My tummy gonna burst.
And then we head back to custom,preparing to go back SG.We KO-ed in the ferry for 2hrs,thats how tired we are.Bf came to fetch me,hehe so glad to see him.We cab back to my house to place my luggage and for me to bathe after a stinky day. We went to downtown to have our dinner.and walked me home afterwards.
For more photos: Balai Trip 2014
