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WE stopped at Air Hitam market for some DURIANS!

Its durian season now and Penang is very famous for their durians. Their most famous (and thus tastiest) durian plantation is located at Balik Pulau, and their plantations offer those all u can eat durian eating. But we have no time for those and besides how much durian can we eat after eating all the yummy Penang food.

The durians sold in Penang are usually from Balik Pulau, but the ones in Air Hitam is definitely from Balik Pulau, the Penang ppl said so, the durian sellers also display signs that said so, and of course Balik Pulau is just a few km away from Air Hitam.

only 1 shot of durians cos hands were dirty afterwards

we then continue on to search for our dinner this time round, near KOMTAR, where many famous food outlets are located.

First, since Penang is located close to Thailand, we need to eat at some Thai joint.

this one is particularly full of people despite just serving simple dishes like fried rice and tom yam

we ordered their Pattaya fried rice (rice wrapped in omelette).

She cooked with passion, really very loud and with large movement of the pan and you can see rice being tossed about metres away

Our food is finally here, MrK is starving so he said no need pics just eat

Next we have Tang Yuen for dessert, this tang yuen stall is located right opposite Traders Hotel (next to Komtar) really very nice “soup”

its made of young ginger (very fragrant and warm taste) not old one cos the warmth of young ginger is a lot more compared to the old one. and this one is mixed in with Gula Melaka.

The best Tang Yuen I have eaten in life easily

Next to it sell some kueh, but we need to save stomach for other things

So we walked further, and checked out Sunway Hotel, some of our competitors are staying here and of course we need to stake them out rite? haha JK!

anyway there is a mini hawker centre just below the hotel, so we eat some char kway tiao (prev day at Gurney the queue was horrendous) and some satay.

not bad the food.

we are full now and thus we head towards the bus stop, but before that, the GPS told us that Sun Yat Sen Memorial is nearby

so we visited it

I am also a PATRIOT. (statue of the 3 patriots, Dr Sun Yat Sen is the one in the middle)

then we took the bus home 101, right to our doorstep, oh well need to walk a bit actually

our early morning flight worries us, cos we are afraid of the rush hour traffic. BUT let me tell u, when they say there is traffic, it just means there is lots of cars on the road, but u can still move along quite comfortably, unlike Singapore, when u said traffic jam, u r moving at snail speed or not moving at all.

so the concept of traffic is different.

well we reached the airport on time of course

and us having breakfast at the hotel,

the plane that brings us here, will now bring us back

and me with the memorable JETSTAR plane

we took a group pic, but my camera died, I will “steal” one of the pic from the other blogs

well onto Part 7, whats next?? of course our star jump!!