making caesar salad dressing from scratch in friend’s place: using extra virgin olive oil, dijon mustard, anchovies, worcestershire sauce, garlic etc.

ingredients used to make caesar salad dressing

too huge of a spread for 3 person… hahaha… sausage, caesar salad topped with smoke salmon, cheese shavings and optional ebiko(fish roe), tuna fettucine, egg salad, marinated cherry tomatoes, grapes, boiled sweet potatoes, sweet corn, cheesecake and bottled ice lemon tea.

Malay tea house inside FRIM which is closed for the festive season.

FRIM full of trees.

back entrance to this chinese restaurant in Tapah, Perak (near Ipoh, Perak)

fried wild boar (taste like beef) only RM12

fried brinjal/egg plant, only RM8, very yummy

sizzling taufu, only RM10, nice

fried “paku-pakis”/fern, RM6

steamed fish (fresh out of tank), RM30 

they also have a stall front of restaurant selling chicken rice 😛

Very nice and economical place to eat in Tapah

starting on a trail, look at the patch of tea tree on the hill

hills in cameron highlands, Pahang

want to climb up?

another look at the beautiful rolling hills, trekking toward MNS (Malaysian Nature Society) which is situated on the hills of tea tree, beautiful serene hills

on top of the world

reaching MNS after trekking down steep slope, BOH-MNS Field Study Centre

Fully paid up MNS members can book a dorm looking room in MNS which accomodates 30 bunks, or 4-person chalet(with attached bath and kitchen), for more details, refer to MNS site.

on the way up to cameron, stop by Blue Valley farm, aloe vera abound

vegetables

cactus for cheap

fresh vege for sale

reach Cameron… there is even a Starbucks there.

first meal in Cameron: Restoran Sri Brinchang mamak restaurant

the restaurant is just past Equitorial hotel, across from a parking lot.

tosai

first stop: Boh Tea Plantation. There have a tea house for you to enjoy english tea or milk tea alongside some yummy looking pastries including butter shortbread, muffin, scones(butter and jam), pizza, chocolate cake, strawberry pie, apple pie, coconut tart etc

more pastries

refill of hot water, big pot(RM2), small pot(RM1)

eating in cold weather… nice

another look at the cafe

warm scones with SCS butter and strawberry jam, nice buttery taste

pizza, RM15

Boh Tea leave rolling room just nearby the teahouse

inside the rolling room

some meals to recharge before cycling up Cameron, in S A Bamboo Curry house along Jalan Ipoh. Above is rice with fried chicken, baby squids and fried gourd(i think)

potato and tofu maybe

chicken curry and fried gourd

2 bicycles racked to the car, looks odd don’t you think

is this how it suppose to look like, dangling out from the car.

ummm… nice ass… haha

2 cyclists 🙂 posing at 5am, ready to cycle up Cameron from Simpang Pulai rest stop, approximate time to reach destination 4 to 5 hours.

set to zero

bicycle 2: set to zero

dangling again

looks odd, but we made it safely home 🙂