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Ikan bilis is the specialty of Pangkor island. Many local travelers come to Pangkor and will. not leave without the ikan bilis. What is it? How is it caught?
Here you find out all your answers:
Altough Pangkor is a small island, you will want to have some ideas about getting around. You want a taxi, motorbike or even bicycle, possible, so where do you get them? What’s the challenge etc.
Yangshuo China is one of those really beautiful areas in China you can come back and back again, like I do now for more then 10 years (my first visit was in 1997, I think). Today Yangshuo looks different from 1997. The commercial industry has found its way to Yangshuo, even MacDonalds is available.
That said, nothing is better then homemaden Chinese food. And how to make it? You can follow a cooking class in Yangshuo. Or you can follow our Cloud 9 recipes/dish of the month as it is Cloud 9 where the cooking class in Yangshuo takes place. And trust me, it’s good fun!
Tropical Spice Garden Penang is an 8 acres garden park dedicated to spices and herbs of the tropical world. It’s a little paradise inside a paradise (Penang. Have look yoiurself:
There was until very recent not a cooking class available in Penang. Unthinkable? That’s what I thought. Penang, the number 1 and formost food heaven in Malaysia had no option to learn cooking. Fortunately, Nazlina Hussin in cooperation with the Tropical Spice Garden have changed history.There was until very recent not a cooking class available in Penang. Unthinkable? That’s what I thought. Penang, the number 1 and formost food heaven in Malaysia had no option to learn cooking. Fortunately, Nazlina Hussin in cooperation with the Tropical Spice Garden have changed history.
In the Spice Garden is now 3 times a week from 9.30 to 12.30 a cooking class based traditonal cooking available:
While last month I was in Hong Kong, I visited, as I do the last few years one specific toilet! Yes, I am not joking. I know, it’s a bit weird, but I do know, or I should say, knew, the cleaner. He had a story to tell. Here it is:
While being in Yangshuo, Luo Mei Juan told me in between lines she won 2 more gold medals in an international high standard tai chi contest. Impressive, even more impressive if you know she already collected 10 or so gold medals. Here is the story:
