It was Deepavali on last Saturday. Me, my boyfriend, and 2 of our friends had planned a Muar trip, where my hometown is. (Muar is a small town located at Johor, Malaysia)

Friday

We returned on Friday night. It tooks about 2 hours to reach Muar from Kuala Lumpur. We reached there around 12 a.m. . The first place we went was not the motel, but the Ah Peng wantan mee stall! Ha-ha! Really cannot resist! But, the auntie said sold out already, left some wantan. Whatever, wantan then wantan! We ordered 10 wantan and shared among us! So happy~I also make reservation with the auntie for Saturday night, to avoid sold out again!

After wantan, we went to check-in. Thought we were going to sleep? NO, we went and searched for more foods! Ha-ha! But the Chinese stalls all closed already, so we simply chose a Malay stall, and settled down.

~My tom yam bihun. I think this was under average, tasted not that good. The soup was not enough spices and tasted quite plain.

~My boyfriend’s Hailam mee. This was better than mine, a lots. But still is not really above average.

After supper, we went back to motel and had a good night sleep.

Saturday

For your information, Muar is famous with a lots of delicious and authentic dishes, such as otak-otak, wantan mee, fried prawn mee, oyster egg, to be name a few. Due to the huge varieties and high demand of food from 4 of us, (actually mostly me & my boyfriend!) we had to woke up earlier to start our food journey, to avoid same situation of sold out happen again.

~My morning attire… This singlet was gifted by my elder sister, for no reason. Hehe…

~These were our breakfast…

After filled up our stomach, as a tour guide, i must bring them to Muar’s biggest shopping mall, yet smaller than Ampang Point in Kuala Lumpur…

Due to Deepavali, there was this decoration on the floor. I do not really understand the meaning and purpose of putting this; however, i knew this is Indian’s culture.

The mall was really too small, so we finished loitering very soon. We headed to Shop-in, another shopping mall, Muar’s only cinema are in there; some more, the cinema are mini type. There is a boutique, Levin’s where they got the latest fashion apparels almost the same as Vivi, a Japanese magazine. The price are so cheap that you can eventually grab many clothes. A tee may cost RM15, RM19, or RM28. For shorts and skirts, most of the times are RM28. It is affordable for students to get their daily attires. I got myself a high-waisted floral skirt and a white long Hello Kitty tee! Love it!

Soon after shopping, we digested our breakfast. We bought sushi as snacks.

At the same time, we drove to Tanjung, a park that couples will go for dating, families go for picnic, and friends go for gathering. There is an area where monkeys gathered, and visitors are allowed to buy snacks to feed them.

It was exciting to fed the monkeys. All of us were so scared that the monkeys will run towards us and jump in the car, as we scrolled down the windows to fed them. So we constantly scroll down, throw the peanuts, scroll up the windows. Ha-ha!

It was quite energy taker. Therefore, we went to a cafe to have our tea time.

~It was quite expensive in this cafe. The waiters are not helpful enough. I felt so weird when i asked him one of the dishes that i do not know what is that, the way he explained sounded this: “It is a basket, place with 5 things in it.” Excuse me, does he solve my puzzle on what food is that? =.=”"

The other one thing i must do when go back to Muar, is hair wash!

 ~after the hair wash and hair blow, felt so good!

4 of us took a short nap before continue our food journey in the evening.

~My night attire! This floral skirt was bought in Levin’s in that afternoon. Ha-ha! I know i very efficient!

We decided to go to Bentayan and have our dinner. Bentayan is an outdoor food court with varieties of food stalls. I’ve been there since i was young. Memories…. We had ordered Oyster egg, duck noodle, otak-otak and yong tau fu.

~I only took the picture of this as we were too rushed to finished up the other dishes! Ha-ha! The fish cake looks so cute!

We need to digest ourselves for later wantan mee that we reserved on Friday night. So we went to Tanjung again, but not for monkeys, just to go for a stroll around there.

After the strolling, i called my hometown friend, Nicole to have a tea with us at Light House cafe.

We went back to motel soon after the tea gathering. Bibi had his sleep at almost 1 a.m. while i watched the Gandhi’s life movie until 2.30 a.m. only i went to sleep.

Sunday

We were supposed to check-out at 12 p.m. So we awake from our dreams even though i really felt so sleepy.

After breakfast, we went to feed monkey for the last time before we left Muar.

The monkey should be very full at that moment. Ha-ha! Kindness of us to fed him so many packets of peanuts.

We went to take on a boat, which will round the Muar river about 40 minutes. Adults’ fare is RM10 while children’s fare is RM5.

~Got some food before got up to the boat. We just cannot live without food all the times!

~It was a windy trip. We enjoyed the breeze that came across our face and hair, fresh yet feeling of dozziness under the big sun.

It’s time to return after boat trip.

My car so dirty! The monkeys’ footprint everywhere! Yucks!

~while waiting for my car to has its showering!

In the evening, i brought my Grandma along with us to have dinner at Star Restaurant. It can be considered as the most famous and reputable restaurant in Muar, delicious, fresh and not pricey.

We had 2 vegetables, 1 tofu, 1 pork, 1 fish, 1 prawns and buns, and three RM 10 sharkfins for the 3 guys and one RM35 sharkfin for my Bibi. Yeah, my Bibi had two! (they were indeed enjoyed!) We also had desserts of longans and pudding. What a contentful dinner for all of us! It only costs RM117 for all! 

Finally, we returned to Kuala Lumpur at 8.30 p.m. Glad to had a short break!  

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