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AirAsia Bloggers: Adventure of Chiang Mai (Part 1)

August 16, 2012 – 9:56 am

Warning: Heavy images! Long Post! Many Food Photos including non halal food!!

Some photos are in different format as they are taken by different people and different devices.

The following trip is sponsored by Air Asia.

LOL seems like the rest also didn’t sleep or sleep a little like me. XD

Everyone is super excited and can see this sparkling smile under the eye bags.

except our nanny from Air Asia..

A shot of some of the bloggers coz I’m not in it. XD

Well, you didn’t see any cat, then there’s no me.

A cup of warm Milo to keep myself awake and energized before boarding the plane.

Oh, Air Asia has direct flight from KL LCCT to Chiang Mai daily, you might wanna check it out.

later that

hehehe.. Forgot there’s a time difference. We’re 1 hour faster than Thailand.

Anyway, it was a good timing for our breakfast. It was already arranged by Air Asia.

So we just sit back and enjoy. XD

First time having Air Asia Nasi Lemak, usually I order Briyani but I must say the Nasi Lemak is awesome! No wonder, my friend orders that every time =.= and never tells.

Anyway, it wasn’t long and we arrived at the Chiang Mai airport. Sometimes I find Malaysian very funny, we seldom listen to laws when we’re in Malaysia but when we’re at oversea, we all become very obedient people. XD

You know when you at the immigration check point, there’s a line where u need to stand behind so you won’t be too close to the counter. Well…

that happens. XD

I guessed sometimes we just afraid we might done something wrong and denied entry or have this weird guilty feeling and afraid of get caught. hahaha.. Then again, we have anything to hide.

okay, i admit I smuggled a angel hamster and a devil hamster.

Our awesome tour guide, later will let you know why.

First thing to do when in a foreign country!

Get a Sim card!! Get connected!

Before we checked in to our hotels, our tour guide decided to bring us to the Arts and Cultural Centre which located right in the middle of the city centre. The centre features the history, cultures and all backgrounds of Chiang Mai City.

Upon entry the centre, you will saw these three statues in front of the centre. They are the three Kings that founded Chiang Mai in the old days. I heard actually there’s 4 kings, the last one was kinda short, fat and orange in colour, so they didn’t feature him.

oh, hail to me. XD I iz king

Everyone still trying to connect to the internet. XD

The centre is very big and very detail covering a wide range of topics on Chiang Mai.

They used a lot of these miniature replicas to tell the history and stories.

There’s real life size replicas too.

I suspect the aircon broke down or something as it was kinda hot at the Centre and couldn’t really concentrate reading and stay at a spot too long. I think will spend more than an hour just to read all the stuffs, the place is huge.

Another thing is we still can’t connect to the internet. T__T The Thai language messages are not helping at all. =.= Then a good Samaritan in our group decided to share his roaming broadband.

hahhah I’m going to hell for this. (joking bout his head)

The moment he share his line, everyone started surrounding him. XD

It’s a very funny scene where everyone just follows him around.

We all followed him back when he noticed he left his hat in the Cultural Centre’s cafeteria. XD

Everyone piled together just to have the awesomeness of internet. XD

Our nanny couldn’t stand looking at our sufferings and went to a nearby shop to get us new Sim Cards. So a tip here for those who wanna visit Thai, either you get a Thai friend to help you or you have the Thai seller get you online at the spot.

While waiting for our phone getting setup, we chilled out at the coffee shop next door and turned out they serve awesome Beef Noodle, Pork Noodle and also Fish Ball Noodle. If not mistaken each bowl is only 20 or 30 baths.

Beef Noodle

Fish Ball Noodle.

If you happen to be at the Art and Cultural Center, do check out this coffee shop at the right side of the centre. You can notice the cook wears a white chef hat and it’s beside an ice cream cafe.

Our tour guide was awesome, he said he will bring us to “non-tourist place” to have our meals and a famous one among locals. It was only 10 minutes walk away from where we were and so we walked.

The great thing about a “non tourist eatery” is that the food is cheaper and more original. Only problems are only locals know the place and usually the people at those places do not speak English. Luckily, we had our tour guide to order for us.

We’re the only non Thais at that shop. XD

Our main dishes, Spciy Noodle and Curry Chicken Noodle are good and the Chicken Soup was a surprise to our taste bud, it’s sooo good. I can finish a few bowl of rice with this chicken soup.

Then again, I can’t since there’s other dishes waiting for my tummy. XD

Not sure it’s otak otak or not but looks like one and I prefer our Malaysia otak otak more. Next, deep fried pork and pork sausage. Both are awesome. We even ordered another plate for both dishes.

Sorry, Pork again. ^^” All three are awesome and goes very well with rice. I like the pork with Thai spices, I like the taste of the spices.

Do you know they called pork as moo in Thai? It’s rather confusing as moo is the sound made by a cow. =.= So be careful when you ask someone “What meat is that?” and the person answer you “Moo”.

Another must try is this mango juice. It’s awesome. At first, I thought it was just normal mango juice. I took a sip and it is really good, very fresh and smoothing. Someone should either import or make something awesome like this. And yes, the two bottles in the picture are mine. XD Bwahahah

You should check out this shop when you’re in Chiang Mai. It’s called Huen Penh and located at 112, Ratchamanka Road. Unfortunately, it appears to be non halal eatery but do not worry as Chiang Mai has a lot of halal eateries. Just ask your tour guide to bring to good, very local, no tourist place to eat.

After the meal, we head to check in our hotel, the Imperial Hotel.

I shall see you all in my next post.

This post took me many many hours to complete. T3T

So please do click like, comment or read again and again, if you can.

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We Iz Over Excited to Visit Chiang Mai

August 10, 2012 – 2:05 am

Peninsular Malaysia on the left, Borneo on the right.

I always get over excited the day before my trip

and always ended up couldn’t sleep well. =.=

Half of the reason was I was over excited and another half was afraid I might over slept and missed out my flight. @@ I ended up having 2 hours sleep only. =.= Feel like I might collapse on the roadside of Chiang Mai. lol

Oh, unless you don’t know AirAsia Airlines had sponsored me to go check out Chiang Mai!!! I was so excited!! Thailand always been on the top of my travel list especially Bangkok XD. It seems like I have fate with Thailand! The last time, I was sponsored by AirAsia to Hatyai and this time to Chiang Mai!! Hopefully one day to Bangkok.

At first, I thought no people would approach me anymore since I am based in Kuching now which is far from KL but seems like there are people/companies who appreciate my blog and didn’t mind the distance. T3T

Well, it’s not that far anyway, just 1 and 45 minutes, nearer than Melaka which takes 2 hours to arrive if there’s no jam.

So, for this trip, I flew all the way from Borneo Kuching to Kuala Lumpur the night before as the meetup and the flight was 7 morning 8 morning the next day.

Anyway, first thing first, Chatime on the plane!! Not that I’m a fan of Chatime but I just wanna try it out. XD

Well, it tasted like Chatime. XD Still very fresh.

Tada!! This is my room for the night. My first time staying in Tune Hotel.

*koff koff*

no.. i’m not surfing sexy sites.

Not bad I must say. For those who has small house or apartments, you can try learn from Tune Hotel as they really good at fully utilized the space within the room. Everything is well arranged.

The bed was very comfortable. A moment there, I doesn’t feel like move my fat ass off the bed but I can’t as Chiang Mai is waiting!!! Wakakaka… *do the over-excited-dance*

Can’t wait to meet the rest of the members too as I have no idea who were going with me at that time. XD

Who knows, it might be a trap and I might ended up kidnapped and turned into a girl cat??? O_O

Miao in Singapore !!

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Good Bye! Guang Zhou!!

July 21, 2012 – 10:24 am

Part 1 and part 2 here.

Last post for Guang Zhou yo! Sorry, there’s little pictures to share as my camera battery went die and all these photos are taken with my phone.

Whenever I travel to another country, there’s two things I must do. First is to check out their McDonald and KFC. Each country tends to have their own special version burgers. In Guang Zhou McD, they have Smoked Bacon Cheese Chicken Deluxe burger and Portuguese styled Pudding Mc Flurry.

The burger was awesome, just 2 additional add ons to the existing Mc Chicken Deluxe gives another degree of awesomeness to it.

So gonna go buy a normal McDeluxe and add cheese and bacon to it. XD

The Pudding McFlurry, is just Mc Flurry with caramel and Oreo bits.

Then, the second thing I must do is to visit the supermarket/mart or 7-11 of the country and check out their potato chips. Same like McD and KFC, every countries will have their snacks customized to fit the taste of their people.

And here I present you Lemon Flavor Potato Chips, now I shall eat like a sir. XD

I found out is a paradise for business people. If you have a shop, then you must visit Guang Zhou. The whole city is a trading hub. There are many buildings with wholesale suppliers. For example, this Nan Fang Building is a 9 floors building with mobile phone accessories, you can get lots of stuffs here at very low price.

Not suitable for tourist like us, so we got bored…

Walking aimlessly..

If you look carefully, you will noticed all the sky in the pictures are cloudy and looks like it gonna rain. But in truth, it is so badly polluted and hazy that the sun is blocked. :/ There’s no sign of blue color in the sky.

Got bored and decided to go the nearest mall..

while we’re in the train…

You know sometimes people go up to you and ask you to donate some money for them in exchange of toys or something. Well, people here do it differently, they will secretly put the stuffs on you first and have you pay (donate) for it. =.= Crazy.

What’s more crazy is that when Chicken Jack shook her hand off, the Fox still persists to “hand cuff” him until Chicken Jack have to raise both hands in the air to stop her.

Even in Malaysia, we don’t donate when sometimes they appears to be a scam with the fake Id and stuffs. Here in Guang Zhou, it is obviously a scam lor!!

It was such an awful experience, we felt so disgusted and wanted to leave this place as soon as possible but unfortunately the flight is on the next day. =.=

=.=

At that moment, I felt like to take a rocket and leave that place immediately.

Wasn’t in a mood to visit the store after that. We went for a lunch and some desserts..

These are from a franchise dessert shop from Hong Kong and famous for the mangoes which explains all these mangoes. For me, it tasted like any other mangoes XD No different.

Just right after the dessert, I noticed something…

Yea, that’s what I heard before I visit China. I was told that it is a norm to just spit on the floor in China.

but…

=.= seriously..i cannot brain this..

Couldn’t take it longer and didn’t know where to go. We went for a karaoke session to kill our time.

The Karaoke here is damn cheap, less than RM10 for a single room only for an hour. No extra charge if you’re not ordering anything. And the songs are very up to date but only Chinese songs available.

After the karaoke session, we went for our dinner. Actually, we’re not really hungry but just to kill time.

After the shocking scene where one guy scooped stuffs from the drain, we had all our meals in the malls and restaurant. And some how we ended up in this restaurant serving Chinese Tea in a wine glass.

You know you’re in deep shit when the restaurant serve the most cheapskate tea in a classy tall stand glass.

After seeing the tea, we did not dare to order anything that might be expensive like fish etc.

I’m not really fancy of the food since I have been eating Chinese food quite often in Malaysia.

So it’sjust a better version ones.

After the meal, we lurk around the mall before I insisted to go back to Bei Jing Street for another round of MOS before we leave Guang Zhou.

and the fox strikes again…

and this time cutting my queue!!!

and pretended nothing happens!!!! RAWRRRR!!!!

GARGH!!! As a gentleman, we didn’t pick a fight with him but instead verbally assault him in English. XD

I not sure whether he understands or not as most of the people here does not understand English much unless they are highly educated. If he does, he must be ashamed for what he had done as high education is nothing with such low morality.

Sometimes I think it’s an advantage to be a Malaysians as we know at least 2-3 languages.

Thanks to MOS. The awesomeness of the burger took our anger away.

Suddenly, I feel like taking a plane and fly to Singapore right now just for MOS Burger. XD

We headed back to the Inn.

Bought another potato chip, this chip is good. It’s Cucumber flavor.

It might sounds weird but the chips is very light and refreshing. ^^

A must try flavor.

The next day, we visited the one and only tourist spot over the few days..

The Chen Clan Ancestral Temple. Actually, I have prepared and made a list of tourist spot to visit but our leader for the trip is not interested in all these historical stuffs which is why we keep visiting the malls. Le sad case.