Chapman's Bar, Pangkor Laut Resort

When the resort van transports us to the other side of the island after our Spa treatment, my jaw dropped off cuz, I’ve not seen such a beautiful bay before, at least in Malaysia. The colors of the water are clear and clean, it’s like an emerald jade.
Can’t blame me for falling in love with this island… indeed is a paradise island to me. I know there are many more of such islands in the world, but at least for one island in Malaysia that made us proud. Don’t you think so?? Even the late Luciano Pavarotti also fell in love with this island.

After Spa, both of us were equally hungry, and I was told Chapman’s Bar is one of the better places for lunch in this island. This place only opens for lunch from 12pm to 5pm. You will see lots of people lying down on the beach chair and rest either read books or for a swim.
I actually got to know from the internet that this bar is named after the famous British Colonel, Freddy Spencer Chapman who spent 36 hours on Pangkor Laut during his escape from Emerald bay in 1945, during the World War II.
When we were there, the place is like another heaven, I see lots of coconut trees, green grass, white sands; I was having my lunch in Chapman’s Bar, and my background is another beautiful natural reserved.Ok, back to food. It was pretty late when we were there. So, the waitress told us they have sold out the Fisherman’s Catch for the day, however, they suggested Hainanese Chicken Rice. Hubby was too hungry and didn’t want to think too much, so he opted for this, where as I go for Penang Char Koay Teow.

When they serve the food, I could see hubby will enjoy his lunch, cuz; it was nicely presented and taste wise also pretty good.
As for my Penang CKT, to my surprise it was so good. Servings are big for my consumption. Well, I still finish it… [LOL]

No wonder there are many reviews that given this place a thumbs up, they say Chapman’s Bar offers excellent light lunches each day consisting of sandwiches, salads, traditional satay and tasty seafood dishes. A variety of beverages are also served throughout the day.

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If you were me, will you re-visit this island??

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Feast Village, Pangkor Laut Resort

It was a good night sleep after a day of traveling from north to south and walking around on the Paradize island.

You see I can tell I am pretty enjoyed this holiday, I ain’t a morning person, and it takes time for me to get up early. To get up early is like killing me. But, to my surprise, I woke up early these couple of days ...maybe due to the wonderful island. It was unbelievable to me.

The hotel personnel briefed us upon our arrival yesterday, where should we have our breakfast and what do they serve for breakfast. When we walked in to Feast Village, staff in the Feast Village, will greet their guests. I feel delighted and honoured to their warm greetings, and touched by their hospitality.

First, they will briefly guide us thru the kitchen what they have, for example if you want to go for Japanese breakfast, there’s a special kitchen only for Japanese breakfast, follow by Chinese, Local breakfast like our Nasi Lemak, Indian breakfast consists of North India, South India, English breakfast which you can’t miss out cornflakes, milk, bread and butter, omelet egg, sunny side up egg, sausages, and so on.

I got myself a bread and ostrich sausage for a start, follow by a glass of fruit juice that hubby got it for me.
Then after, I went for Japanese fried rice which was that morning breakfast.

When I was having my Japanese fried rice, saw hubby went to the Chinese kitchen and got himself a steam lotus leaf rice and a deep fried bean curd skin. The steam lotus leaf rice was nice, tiny and delicate. Not for the deep fried bean curd skin, it was too oily for me.

Didn’t really eat a lot, cuz, we both were looking for our spa session which has been scheduled at 9am that morning . The last from the counter was this small little bottle that full of berries, which I don’t know what berries are those. It was too sweet for my liking.

Before we end our breakfast, a cup of espresso and a cup of cappuccino that give us the boost of energy for the day. Hmmm......off we go for our SPA session located at the SPA village, walking down the wooden planks errected along the Sea Villa.

Feast Village, Pangkor Laut Resort

After a short rest in our Hill Villa, we walked down to Feast Village for our dinner. The package that we purchased from Citibank is inclusive of 3 meals a day, which I mentioned earlier. And only a few outlets participating this promotion, one of them is Feast Village, where you could have your daily breakfast down here, starting from 7.30am to 10.30am, and as well as set dinner. Apart from here, Royal Bay Beach Club is another place for lunch which we had our lunch after checked in.

The resort would encourage their guests to have a reservation before you dine. So, they will have a desk at the reception where they arrange and accept your reservation for your dinner.

We decided to go to Feast Village cuz it’s nearer to our villa and we need not to walk for a distance.

The moment we sat down at our table, the waitress gave us the menu for the night. That night they served Western Set, Malay Set and Japanese Set. I chose Japanese Set without 2nd thought, and hubby went for Western Set.

The waitress was courtesy enough to explain to us that Western set will serve dish by dish where as, Japanese set will serve all at one time.

I was delighted someone was so courtesy and understand the Customer Satisfaction kind of philosophy.

Anyway, dinner is so much better than the lunch earlier. At least everything is well cooked. Hahahahaha….
My Japanese set was something that consists of raw tuna, some unagi, deep fried vegetables, a dessert.
Hubby's Western set was a soup and bake bread for a starter, follow by a nutmeg sorbet. I wonder why sorbet did not serve after all meals.

Main course was given 3 choices to pick, among that was BBQ Chicken, Beef and Grill Fish. Hubby chose Grill Fish, cuz, that's his liking.

After the main course, the final one of course is the dessert. When they sent the dessert over, I still do not have any idea what kind of dessert is this. When I show the picture to my sister, guess what she told me, it was a peacock. They made the ice cream into a peacock shape. Isn't that marvelous??

After the dinner.... it's another slow walk back to our villa...

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Royal Bay Beach Club, Pangkor Laut Resort, Day 1

I guess no one would find this place a stranger, everyone in the world is aware of this island. Even the late Luciano Pavarotti is in love with this paradise island. Well … so do I.

Hubby planned this vacation in conjunction with the Citibank Holiday Promotion. And, he thought it would be a good deal for a stress free break for me, especially lately I’ve been under tremendous working stress.

I have actually took lots of pictures on this island, whether is on the beach, on the villa, at the Spa Village, during meal time, swimming pools, coconut trees, and so on.

The package is actually a 3 days 2 nights package that costs RM799 nett per person and it’s inclusive of 3 meals. 1st meal is started from the lunch and it ends on the breakfast on the 3rd day.

When we arrived on the island, it’s already 3pm, after sending us to our Hill Villa, it was pretty late to have our lunch. And, with that reason, nothing much we can choose from the menu. The waitresses kept telling this is sold out or that is sold out.

Well, at least we could choose 1 appetizer, 1 main course and the dessert, though the choices were limited.
I ordered a Caesar Salad for myself, a spaghetti with tomato sauce for the main course and a Tiramisu for the dessert. Honestly, there’s nothing to shout about for the main course, but for the appetizer it wasn’t tasted that bad. As for the dessert, I guess I prefer Bakerzin’s Tiramisu.
While waiting for food to be served, I saw a peacock sauntering around with nobody’s business at Royal Bay Beach Club; the venue where I took my lunch on my arrival day. I have never have such experience that I can see a peacock sauntering around like that while you’re having your meal.
Hubby actually ordered this Asparagus Salad with Fig and Goat Cheese for appetizer. A smoked salmon pizza for the main course and last, the only Tiramisu for dessert. I could see he wasn’t enjoy the appetizer, cuz, he can’t figure out something sweet for a starter. In fact, neither do I. [LOL]
The pizza dough was like uncooked, and it was tasteless as well. Hubby didn’t even finish the plate of pizza.

So, wanna know what we had for dinner…??? Was it good compare to the lunch?? Well, stay tune …

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Can you guess where is this place?

Hi everyone,
After a short vacation, I feel recharge now, yet, I have not settle the pictures that I've taken during this period.

Well, can you guys tell me where is this place?? This is like a fantasy island, a paradise to many people.

It was my first time to this place, and immediately I fell in love with it.... :)

Am sure you will love the environment, the surrounding of this place.... I bet you do .... !!!

Vacation

Dear readers,

I'll be away for vacation for these couple of days, thus, I will not be able to post any posts for the mean time.

But, I would wish you will visit this small little corner of mine after my vacation.

So, please stay tune for more updates after this break. :D

Siam Express, Queensbay Mall

Do you notice one thing here? I have been blogging about Chinese food, hawker delight, western food, Nyonya food, but nothing like neither Thai food nor Indian food. Well, this will be my first post on Thai food.

Honestly I am not a Thai food fan; neither do I fancy anything Thai, apart from Tom Yam, Belacan Fried Rice, and Pineapple Fried Rice.

So, this will be my first Thai food post. [grin]

Actually, this is one of the week days that we don’t know what to have for dinner, and have no idea where to go for dinner. Thus, we decided to go for a walk in Queensbay Mall and see what we will pick up from there.

Hubby wanted to try this outlet for quite some time, and with that in mind, so I decided to give it a try.
First hubby ordered this seafood tom yam flat noodle and I ordered this thai style fried pad thai (ผัดไทย).
After that, hubby said that doesn’t fill up his hunger, so he ordered another plate of Belacan Fried Rice & some snacks.
And this MONEY BAG caught his attention, so here it is how it looks like. Though this money bag is kind of small, but taste wise, not too bad.

For the Belacan Fried Rice, it wasn’t anything special or highly recommended. To me it’s kind of normal. Secondly, I am not use to the raw stuff that Thai cuisine serves. For example, long bean serves with this fried rice without stir fry. And stir fry pad thai, they serve raw bean sprouts. I just don’t know why, compared to Japanese cuisine, I could take those raw stuff.

Oh yes, one thing good about this place, is their speed of serving. It was extremely fast and I was very impressed of it’s ‘express’ service. It took only less than 10 to 15 minutes to serve. Isn’t this fast?

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