Bentong

Last weekend was a long weekend.  It was also the beginning of a two weeks school semester break.  Many took the opportunity to get out of town for a short break. It was nice to see so many holiday postings in Facebook.


I went to Bentong with some friends, just for a day.

Main objective was to eat, eat and eat.

First stop was at the morning market, come to think of it, isn't it strange that we don't visit our own local market but chose to visit a market first when we travel.

Anyway, we skipped going into the wet market area :P

We walked about the outer area, searching the famous kaya puff stall.  There were also many other stalls that sells different kinds of food from nasi lemak, to roti canai, fried noodles, yam cakes..etc.

I wished I had many stomachs.

One particular stall has these that caught our eyes.

We stopped to buy some snacks.


I couldn't resist the yam cake.  When he asked, how many pieces? I said Two.

We took these and made our way to the upper floor to look for the dim sum shop.  We were referring to a blog write up as our so called 'travel guide' :P

Found our dim sum shop, and your's truly here over ordered, not knowing that two pieces of yam cake is this MUCH:

Sigh.I think age has caught up.  I couldn't eat much for the rest of the trip after having the above :(


Oh..this is one of the many old time tailor shops that operates on the upper floor of the market.  Don't see these anymore in bigger towns.

We were too full to eat anything else after that meal.  So we took an aimless stroll around town, hoping that the food will digest quickly.  We still had wan ton mee, yong tau foo, home made ice cream, fish head curry in our itenary!

Since, we were waiting for another gal to arrive, so we decided to do a little walkabout looking for a nice place to have tea/coffee may be.

FYI, unlike Melaka or Penang, there're no malls here.

Referring to the blog again, I wanted to locate this place called Raub Kari Kepala Ikan, that apparently serves good teh tarik and vade.

After a long walk, we found the street but didn't see the shop, but found it later when we decided to get back into the car for a drive about.

This is special tea with fresh cow's milk.  It's strong and nice.  The vade's good too.  The shop is supposedly famous for it's fish head curry, unfortunately we're too full to eat any.


It was then about 1 ish, we were ready to attempt our wan ton mee and yong tau foo.


Unfortunately it was sold out when we arrived, so we ventured into a roadside stall to have something equivalent.

Curry Mee & Yong Tau Foo

The yong tau foo tasted quite different.  Nice! Curryy mee broth is quite different from what we usually have in KL.  We like the crunchy stuff, tasted like strips of fried bean curd sheet.  We ordered wan ton mee too.  Overall, quite good. Not spectacular, may be I was still too full to enjoy the meal.

In fact, we were so full after this meal that we sat there for another hour or so.  There were only one or two other walk in customers, so we could sit for as long as we needed to :P

Well, so much about being too full, guess where we went after an hour :D

Kow Po Homemade Ice Cream 

And yours truly here was so excited seeing other customers having a cone, I ordered another one on a cone, just for the fun of it. Haha.

Enough of eating. Although we spotted many other roadside stalls, we were too full to indulge.

Fortunately, I managed to persuade the driver to make a stop at the Chamang Waterfall.

 So refreshing right?
The drive was quite winding, but it was worthwhile.  There were proper car park, and there's no need to hike nor walk, the water fall was right in front of the car park.

Did I say no more eating?

Haha, early dinner stop around 5ish or 6, at Kampung Bukit Tinggi, about 45 mins from Bentong.

Fish paste & Mihun in Minced Ginger and wine soup

We also ordered three other dishes, crispy stir fried pork belly, a vege dish and some tou foo pok in soup.]

And I had rice -.=