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We missed our flight! A mere 15 minutes later than check-in time! What a way to start our trip. This was the second time in my life experiencing hiccups with travel arrangements. Stress. It was cheaper to buy new one-way tickets than to pay the admin fee to change our tickets (weird right?) so we got new tickets and caught up with the rest of the cell group in Penang, determined not to let this ruin our trip.

The rest had Char Kway Teow at Lorong Burma first while waiting for us to arrive. Once we checked in to Cititel at Jalan Penang, we left for the famous Chendol! We were chauffuered around in this nice big Hyundai. It takes all 11 adults, 3 kids and a baby!

Our Faithful Transport

Load Up People!...Erm...Prams First

Supermom and Kids

Boy, did the Chendol taste good and refreshing! – fresh ingredients with palm sugar that’s not too sweet. Yum! Right after that, some of the gang even tried Assam Laksa! For some Singaporeans, the highlight was the Ambra (not Umbrella) juice because we have not tasted it before nor seen the Ambra fruit back home.

Find Yourself A Seat Before The Chendol Comes

Chendol Smiles

Assam Laksa Right After Chendol...Main Course After Dessert

Tourists need to buy local produce. What is Penang famous for? Tau Sar Pia =) We went to Ghee Hiang. Leon and I felt that Him Hiang’s Tau Sar Pia was more fragrant and tasty.

Ghee Hiang Tau Sar Pia

Who's Cuter?

A&W Fix

What else do Singaporeans do besides eating? Right! Shopping! We we driven to Plaza Gurny to go crazy but most of us did not buy much. Hehe. Some of us focussed people went straight for our A&W fix. Haha. How can we ever touch Malaysian grounds without having our Rootbeer Float and Waffle?! Yum!

After about an hour of shopping time, we went out to walk along the waterfront. Unfortunately for us, the skyline wasn’t that clear so the picture didn’t come out that clear too. One interesting thing though was that our camerman (probably a tourist or student from China) counted from 3 to 1 instead of 1 to 3 before snapping That kind of tickled me. Hehe.

Actually, most of us were too tired to walk along the waterfront so we just sat down and rested. We were waiting for the night hawker there to open so we can go for dinner - kway teow mee, rojak, char kway teow wanton mee, fried chicken skin, popiah and claypot rice were some of the food we had. Interestingly, the hawker is a little like Chomp Chomp in terms of ambience. There wasn’t a lot of variety of food there and the variety was repeated about 3 times in that place. This summed up Day 1.