After last May Sekinchan trip, this would be our family weekend getaway during this pandemic time. We were planning for this trip for quite sometime as celebrate Alvin’s birthday at the same time as well.
We were out from home quite early and we headed to Kuantan straight. It was about 2 hours drive from Kuala Lumpur. It was around 9.00am we reached Kuantan town.
We had our breakfast at Yi Soon Restaurant. Although it can’t be called authentic specialites, but there is no doubt that the taste is really good.
This bowl of pork bone and peanut porridge did not disappoint at all. The soft and dense pork bone porridge, with its natural sweetness, is very good. Moreover, it comes togehter with two side dishes marinated by the owner himself.
Issac ordered the a bowl of tomato mushroom noodles. The first taste of soup was enough to surprise me. It was so sweet and not sour at all. There are also refreshing mushrooms that are not soft, and the simple noodle soup, but it warms the stomach and heart.
We like it very much. We were sharing our portion of food with each other. Other than that we ordered some Chinese dumplings with dry mee. We were so hungry and I had forgotten to take some of the food pictures.
After our breakfast, we drove to the famous beach in Kuantan – Teluk Cempedak. It is supposed to be a pretty "happening" beach. You would see huge crowd especially during this long weekend holiday, but due to the pandamic, the beach did not feel crowded at all.
Most interesting part of the beach: A wooden bridge/walkway that connected the main beach to another smaller beach which was less crowded. It was a long walk but it was most scenic.
The walkway passed the beach side and giant-sized rocks. People actually climbed over the bridge to sit on the rocks! And there are a lot of monkeys were wondering around and trying to snatch pedestrians’ food.
It is so co-incidentally I was carrying some snacks and wet wipes and unfortunately all were snatched by the monkeys!
We had been here in the year of 2008 when Annabelle was 1 year old. We were celebrating her birthday at Kuantan. Issac was almost 2 years old at that time. Alvin got this funny idea of wants to take the photos exactly 12 years ago, we will see how it is looks like! It was so funny!
There are a lot of changes at Teluk Cempedak during this 12 years of time. There are a lot of stalls and buildings were erected to cater for the ever increase of retail space at the area.
We had a break at the Starbuck Coffee and around 12 noon we left for our nect destination – Muhibbah Seafood Restuarant. It is a very famous and recommended seafood restaurant in Kuantan. The seafood here is very fresh and sheap. You can never get this kind of price in the city or even town. Secondly, the food here is very different, as they provide dishes that you hardly find in some of the seafood restaurant, like shark meat.
This is their famous shark meat. We ordered 2 types of different flavour of shark meet – one is Kunf Pao style and the other one is curry style. It's very fresh and the sauce is very nice. Other than that, we ordered deep fried sotong, steamed egg and stir fried vegetables too.
After the lunch, we drove to check in to the hotel. We stayed a night at Kuantan before we headed to Sungai Lembing the next day.
We had our dinner at Alor Akar Seafood Restaurant. Their signature dish is the herbal chicken or Chinese said ‘Begger Chicken’. The portion is huge and is very tasty as well.
We also order the butter-fried mantis prawns and salted egg yolk squid.
And homemade tofu with minced pork and salted fish. The cooking here is very homely and portions are generous at a very resonable price.
After the dinner, we called off the day and back to hotel to take a rest. In the evening both Alvin and I were out and walked at the side of the river just next to the hotel we stayed.
There were a few guys fishing on the platform along Sungai Kuantan. May be it is due to the Covid-19 pandemic. There were less people along the road and eateries at the Medan Selera which we saw along the road.
It is a great day for all of us and we had our stomach filled up with good and yummy food!
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