A trip to Malaysia is never ever complete unless we stop by to my mum's home town - Sitiawan. This time round it was a fun family trip down with my mum, brother, aunty and 2 cousins. After a 3 hour bumpy ride down to Sitiawan (thanking Lei Lei & Xien for driving us down), we managed to catch my uncle for a short 5 minutes!! Last time I saw him was 6 years and after saying Hello he disappeared to go to work when he had 2 sisters,1 nephew, 1 niece, 1 son and 1 daughter visiting. I guess we weren't so lucky with timing, but it was still good to catch him for that brief moment.
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| Driving down to country-side Malaysia |
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| Typical scene - quite a contrast to the hustle and bustle of KL |
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| Welcome to Sitiawan! |
Like all my Sitiawan visits, it consists of mainly eating and relaxing in this little kampung. Small town life is bliss. My favourite food is the RM0.60 Roti Canai + malaysian milk tea. It's great to start a day by indulging in this way :) (Not the healthiest, but my visits are always too short to consider health!) Next favourite is devouring the seriously good, fresh seafood and excellent Foo Chow (hok-chew/fuzhou) dishes 福州菜. As one can tell from the next few pics, we ate a lot!
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Noodles 乾拌麵! A daily order! |
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Foochow cuisine is known for its soupy-ness! |
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| A soup I can only have in Sitiawan |
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| Most of our dinners were spent eating at an outdoor coconut planatation restaurant |
This time round we stayed at my grand aunt's place; which I have to say was one of my most comfortable Sitiawan stay in a long time! It was also lovely to be in a chatty household with the aunties and uncles. My grand aunt, age 91 this year, is still a busy woman making patch quilts! Amazing.
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| I only caught up her on camera as she was about to pack up the sewing machine |
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| I love how she uses an antique sewing machine! |
We also did some shopping too - but of a completely different kind. See us hard at work at my mum's uncles old shop in search of some buttons. My mum had all of us working hard!
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| Working hard - like a sweatshop! |
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After button sorting, we went next door to shop a bit more.
I love the old-school display style of this shop.
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| I just thought it was fascinating how toys are hung up! |
And one of the best parts of the visit, was seeing my 5 year old cousin for the first time! Very cheeky boy. He looks exactly like my uncle too. |
Sitiawan will never really be a town a non-Malaysians will visit, but it certainly has its character and charm. I hope my next visit to Sitiawan/KL/Malaysia will not be another 6 years. Quick, someone organise a wedding again soon! I need to book time in for another visit!
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| Until next time Malaysia & all the coconut trees! |
could have written more,..too brief, where are the other pics? mum
ReplyDeleteGreat pics, agreed... need more comments and pics.... should have added some wedding pics too, I love those nyonya clothing. love the trip. Auntie Helen
ReplyDeleteThanks for feedback. I might update the post and give it more detail. It was brief compared to my old posts. I didn't realise people liked reading the long ones!
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