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Barrels of fermented yellow beans for the making of soya sauce. Seen here is Szers’ cousin and the factory’s lady boss

Thats where they will bottle the sauce.

The boss explained to us how the processes to make the soya sauce that we all take for granted. He is a friend of szer’s mom and we got a few bottles of soya sauce for free and also ang pau.

Lawatan sambil belajar.

Just in you don’t know, in Penang, it is known as ma thai sou. Ok, I’ve been eating heong peng ever since I know how to eat coz my grandparents love it. Maybe Perak people just love it.

But I never seen how it was made and my recent trip to Ipoh was a very educational trip as I visited an old skool heong peng backyard factory. Went there with my szer’s mom, cousin and herself of course.

The 2 oven in the background where the biscuits are baked. The oven is something like those of the mamak’s tandoori oven. They will stick all the dough on the wall and let it burn… bake.

Testing the fresh-from-oven heong peng is not what you’ll get everyday.

The lady boss said their production cannot be compared with other commercialised brands as they are still using only the 2 old skool oven. Their production capacity is just a fraction of the commercialised player. But is does not necessarily lose out in the taste. One thing you should know, the crispiness of heong peng wont deteriorate even if you don’t put it in air tight container. Thats the beauty of heong peng.

The hot syrup oozing out of the crust burned my left hand. It was so hot I jumped around looking for water tap. Those we eat normally are already semi hardened.

Went to the hot spring while on the way to Ipoh the other day. Its a nice place. They have chalets there and run by Federal Hotel Group. Landscape in clean. There’s even a giant octopus at the resort. The place is quite a nice place for a weekend trip but to go out to the nearest town is quite far away. But if you plan to spend the whole weekend in one place, this should be a nice place. You can picnic, play water and go for massage. I love putting my feet into hot water. It kills all the germs that linger between your toes.

I’m standing on water.

How to get there? You take the PLUS highway and exit at Sungkai interchange. You will see signboards leading you to Sungai Klah Hot Spring. You’ll pass by a lot of Felda oil palm plantations before you reach the place.

I have more pictures in my Gimping Photos under the CNY2008 directory.

Anyone still remember the scouts oath? Man, I miss the days. Lets go do some lashings and knots.

Ok…. a real post now. Just had the exam today and I’m a lil bit free now to sit down and blog. Went to Ipoh last week for the Sky God Day at my dearest’ place, just like last year. And of course eating will be part of the Ipoh trip. The salted chicken was GREAT. Ayam garam.

I was lucky enough to be able to visit some place that otherwise I won’t be able to visit… in KL. Alright, I went to this “roast pig house” to collect 2 roast pigs with my dearest’s mom. I was able to see how roast pig was roasted. There were 15-20 slaughtered pigs hanging upside down, waiting in line to go into the old skool oven. Too bad, I didn’t have any picture of it.

Then, we all went to this heong peng shop… err.. I mean house. Yeah… these people manufacture stuffs in the backyard. Roast pigs and heong peng. I will post some of the heong peng experience in the next post hopefully.

We also went to this soy sauce factory. Pak yau chong. And I was amazed by the processes undertaken to make the pak yau… I mean soy sauce that we all take for granted. Again, this I will blog about it further in the next post as I need to process the pictures first.

Oh yeah, my Szer and I also went to Sungkai hot spring while on the way to Ipoh. It was a nice place. But I can also get hot spring in my hometown, Selayang which is just 20 minutes drive from here. You can swim, take a dip, boil eggs etc there too. Selayang Hot Spring is just 30 minutes drive from the heart of KL.

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The new CD official release in Vienna.

Date: 7th  March 2008

Venue : Porgy & Bess, Vienna