Penang Day 2 (Post-Trip): Lunch & Tropical Fruit farm

Overlooking the mosque. At this point, the sunlight was glaring into my eyes. I just pointed my phone at that direction and snapped.

The reason why it’s called “floating mosque” is because it’s built above the sea. At high tide, it would look as though the mosque is floating on the sea. Malaysia has a few of these mosques, one of which is the Crystal Mosque at Terengganu (http://www.visit-terengganu.net/masjid-kristal/) which seems to be better maintained, at least when I visited it back in 2009.

Lunch

Lunch was at a small (nasi padang) shop overlooking the Floating Mosque at Tanjung Bungah.

It was quite cheap (comparative to Singapore). While a plate with 1 meat and 1 vege might cost SG$4.50, it costs only 4RM here.

Can you guess which dish cost how much? Hover over to see!

1 Veg + 1 Meat – 4RM

2 Veg + 1 egg – 4RM

1 Veg – 1.50RM

This is probably useless information, but what I noticed about the rice from the rice stalls so far is that bits of the rice still had husks on. I guess…that would probably be somewhat mixed brown rice?

Spice Garden

We actually passed by this place, but the line seemed long and the sun was just burning burning our skins. So we gave it a miss.

Tropical Fruit Farm

We drove past Telok Bahang, where the driver briefly introduced it to us as Penang’s dam. The road was a zig-zag up the hill, past durian plantations and road-side stalls that would only be busy during the season (June-Augish). I was really working my core.

15-20 min later, we finally pulled into the tropical fruit farm.

The management runs a tour of the farm at 40RM/pax, which we gave a miss, cos the weather and time issues.

Instead, we bought passionfruit, and coconut to eat while we enjoyed the torturous road and the beautiful view below us.

At the point of time, the variety of fruits were not much. I recommend giving this place a miss unless you really want to eat passionfruit (coconuts and bananas seem to be available all the time, and everywhere so you need not suffer the zig-zag just to have them).

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