Redwood Regional Park – Oakland CA

We already over one an half month we are in San Francisco. We are settling well and unpacking is moving on a slow pace. I am taking my own sweet time doing it so whoever visiting us please don’t be alarmed seeing some boxes here and there. Diana came to visit us last month and we went to a few tourist attraction places. One of them was this park. It is about 20 minutes drive from where we live. This park has great trails and you get to see so many large redwood trees. The light that comes through the trees can be really dramatic. We came here during the end of winter so we don’t get to see a lot of things. Hopefully we will come here again during the summer and get to see some ladybugs. We took so many pictures and here is some of it. You can read more about the park here .

Coming up next will be the Golden Gate.

A day at Tanjung Sepat

Without realizing it I was back from Malaysia for a week already. I tried to extend my stay there but I can't get a seat on the airline for the date I wanted. So I came back as scheduled. I have tons of pictures I took during my trip but have yet to find the time to sort it out. Here is the first batch that I managed to upload to share it with you. It was a trip to Tanjung Sepat with my family on one weekend

Tanjung Sepat, a small fish village located at southwest part of Selangor. Tanjung Sepat becoming a tourist attraction after commercializes seafood restaurants open in this area. Nowadays, people came here for fresh seafood, visiting various orchards farms like Dragon Fruits Longan, mushroom and Ganoderma (Chinese Ling Zhi) farm and not forgetting the famous paus (steamed buns)

We start our journey early at 9.00am. First stop at for a quick dim sum breakfast at Seri Petaling. This was the first time I tried out the famous Phoenix baos. It was a unique shape pau with meat and glutinous rice in it. Taste wise it was ok.

The famous Phoenix bao.

After our breakfast we proceed to Tanjung Sepat and we drop by the Buddhist Temple. Jenjarom, Selangor

2nd stop was the famous Hai Yew Hin to collect the steamed buns (Bao) that we ordered a few days earlier. They were famous for their steamed buns and if you just drop by to buy it you might be dissapointed as their buns were always sold out. You have to order them in advance. You can see many people carrying bags and hags of buns in their hand. Tourists come in bus loads just for this. I tried the famous ‘mui choi’ and vegetables bao and they were pretty good. Our local Astro TV station even features them and I understand it boost up their business tremendously.

Astro featured them recently.

Next we proceed to the Mushroom Farm. Not much mushroom there as the farm were under renovations.

We wanted to visit the Dragon amd Longan Fruits farm but our visit falls on the 15th day of CNY so many of farms were closed. We managed to find a dragon fruit opened but not much fruits there as it was off season. Even the dragon fruits were pretty small. We managed to buy some though.

Sepang Gold Coast! Wow.. I didn't know that Malaysia had a 'Gold coast' but now I do..


Chalet on the beach, still under construction and will be officially open in April 2010.

The next stop was the Cassava/Tapioca Chips factory. When we arrived the chips were not in productions but the supervisor was kind enough to show us around their factory.

Start with the ubi. This will be peel.

Peeling the cassava/ubi kayu.

The cutter

Freshly sliced cassava/ubi kayu.

All fried up and ready to be pack.

The end product

We had our dinner here.

Nasi Lemak, grilled sotong and fish and stewed duck.

Stewed duck all ready to be serve to customers.

Grilled sotong

Grilled fish
Stewed duck.

The famous longan plant here at Tanjung Sepat. Too bad we didn't get to go to the farm. Maybe some other time.

It has been a while.

It is over a month since I last update this neglected blog of mine. As some of you might know I am in Malaysia now and having a great time with my family. Before you know it I will be flying back to US soon. I am hoping that I can extend my flight ticket for a another 2 weeks but when I called Cathay this morning they told me that all their flights are full all the way until end of April. Man, they must be the only airline who is doing well in this bad economy. So now I am on their waiting list and if it goes well I will be flying out of here on the 22nd and if not I will be flying out of KLIA on the 8th as schedule. The reason I am extending my stay is my mom will be having cataract surgery on her eye and I like to be around during that time to take care of her for a few days before flying home. So keep my fingers cross that I will get to stay.

In the meantime I’ve taken tons of pictures in Malaysia to share with you but have yet to find the time to sit down and do it. Maybe when I am back to the US soil. Take care everyone and will keep you posted on the latest on my flight.

Shopping, Shopping, Shopping

My two sisters are here on vacation for 3 weeks. So, where have I taken them so far…no where except for shopping? Well, that is what they wanted to do. Actually this is the 3rd time they visit us here in PA so there is not too many places to take them. All they want to do is shopping. So far I took them to the factory outlet twice and also Marshall and HomeGoods. Just look at the things they bought. As usual both of them need to buy extra suitcases to lug all their loots home. Are they done with their shopping yet…..NO…………. more shopping next week ;)

Just look at all the stuffs they bought!



mmmmm I think I spent too much money ;)