My Spring Break Adventures
During the spring break, my family (Not Exactly because my dad was still in working) had a awesome trip to Penang for 4 days. We stayed at Sunway hotel. Although 4 hours of car trip from KL to Penang was quiet long, but at the end, I thought this trip was a perfect and awesome adventure.
Penang is famous of many kinds of delicious snacks, my favorite is "cendol" which is a kind of ice drinking. It's the most popular and common dessert. It is usually made of ice shave, red beans, green tube-like jelly (pandan leaves + rice flour) and palm sugar sauce. I love this dessert because it's so tasty! The palm sugar and the red beans were so sweet, the pandan jelly were smooth and perfume, plus the cold ice shave, it was awesome! I even couldn't stop eating the cendol! I could tell, this is the best dessert ever.
Malaysia is in the torrid zone which makes Malaysia full of tropical products like fruits, vegetables and also including spices. Yes! There is a famous tropical spice garden in Penang which has over 500 different kinds of spices, and I had just visited it. Just passed the gate, you can smell the perfume that from the plants. Before my mom and I could officially visit the spice garden, the ticket-guy told us to cover our skin with a special mosquito repellent, it actually smells good, like lemon or something. After that, the ticket-guy told us to follow a tour guide, Now, our spice trip had finally started. We were not the only followers of the guide, there were several foreigners, too. The guide first taught us about the lemongrass and led us smell it, and the perfume is the same as the mosquito repellent, maybe the repellent is made of lemongrass. Then, we stopped at the "Spices Globe", but frankly speaking, my mind wasn't on the globe, but the spice plate right below the globe. There were cinnamon, pepper (First time I knew pepper is a kind of spice) , aniseed, clove and 5 types of gingers. These spices are very common in China, even today the Chinese are still using it, but when I ask mom, mom said that she didn't know any plants that in the plate except the most general ginger... Another interesting fact that I learned from the guide is when the mosquito bites you, if you have no any reactions, that means you are unhealthy because your defense system is not working. Well, if this theory is correct, that means I seemed pretty healthy now because after a mosquito bites me, my skin will stick up a bit... To make long story short, the adventure of the tropical spice garden was really great!!!
Penang Hill, one of the famous places in Penang. The mountain is 830m high, not very high, but it's much cooler than on the ground. Mom and I planned to visit it at the first day of trip, both of us were very exciting and we hoped a lot, especially the cable car through from the bottom of the mountain to the top. But, we were wrong! The funicular train hasn't fixed yet. The ticket-guy said that the train will be fixed at May, if you are unable to take the train, the only way you can get to the top is walking on your foot for 5km, and even not straight road but twisted mountain path. We decided we were not gonna walking 5km, so at last, we left the Penang Hill sadly, and I really hope the funicular train will be fixed before next time we come to Penang Hill.
The trip was finally over even though this trip and Penang was really fantastic. But, I took lots of photos during the trip, I hope I can remember the whole trip while I watching these pictures. Good-bye, Penang!
During the spring break, my family (Not Exactly because my dad was still in working) had a awesome trip to Penang for 4 days. We stayed at Sunway hotel. Although 4 hours of car trip from KL to Penang was quiet long, but at the end, I thought this trip was a perfect and awesome adventure.
Penang is famous of many kinds of delicious snacks, my favorite is "cendol" which is a kind of ice drinking. It's the most popular and common dessert. It is usually made of ice shave, red beans, green tube-like jelly (pandan leaves + rice flour) and palm sugar sauce. I love this dessert because it's so tasty! The palm sugar and the red beans were so sweet, the pandan jelly were smooth and perfume, plus the cold ice shave, it was awesome! I even couldn't stop eating the cendol! I could tell, this is the best dessert ever.
Malaysia is in the torrid zone which makes Malaysia full of tropical products like fruits, vegetables and also including spices. Yes! There is a famous tropical spice garden in Penang which has over 500 different kinds of spices, and I had just visited it. Just passed the gate, you can smell the perfume that from the plants. Before my mom and I could officially visit the spice garden, the ticket-guy told us to cover our skin with a special mosquito repellent, it actually smells good, like lemon or something. After that, the ticket-guy told us to follow a tour guide, Now, our spice trip had finally started. We were not the only followers of the guide, there were several foreigners, too. The guide first taught us about the lemongrass and led us smell it, and the perfume is the same as the mosquito repellent, maybe the repellent is made of lemongrass. Then, we stopped at the "Spices Globe", but frankly speaking, my mind wasn't on the globe, but the spice plate right below the globe. There were cinnamon, pepper (First time I knew pepper is a kind of spice) , aniseed, clove and 5 types of gingers. These spices are very common in China, even today the Chinese are still using it, but when I ask mom, mom said that she didn't know any plants that in the plate except the most general ginger... Another interesting fact that I learned from the guide is when the mosquito bites you, if you have no any reactions, that means you are unhealthy because your defense system is not working. Well, if this theory is correct, that means I seemed pretty healthy now because after a mosquito bites me, my skin will stick up a bit... To make long story short, the adventure of the tropical spice garden was really great!!! 
Penang Hill, one of the famous places in Penang. The mountain is 830m high, not very high, but it's much cooler than on the ground. Mom and I planned to visit it at the first day of trip, both of us were very exciting and we hoped a lot, especially the cable car through from the bottom of the mountain to the top. But, we were wrong! The funicular train hasn't fixed yet. The ticket-guy said that the train will be fixed at May, if you are unable to take the train, the only way you can get to the top is walking on your foot for 5km, and even not straight road but twisted mountain path. We decided we were not gonna walking 5km, so at last, we left the Penang Hill sadly, and I really hope the funicular train will be fixed before next time we come to Penang Hill.
The trip was finally over even though this trip and Penang was really fantastic. But, I took lots of photos during the trip, I hope I can remember the whole trip while I watching these pictures. Good-bye, Penang!
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