Taiping revisited
It's all coming back to me now ... clearly ...
I love taking walks down memory lane … just to wrap myself in nostalgia & draw upon the good old times I’ve had … things always seem so vivid and almost recent, that the experience is ironically at the tip of the mind, yet separated so far in time & space.
That’s what my trip to Taiping was all about … memories of my travels during university … visiting the many places, chanced upon by my constant forays through the then magical network of AIESEC friends. Glancing back, the trip to Taiping was full of great memories and yet, it was never planned … more of an accident & addition to the road trip I took.
So anyway, I wanted to drop by Taiping for a long time … and it was in my road trip … so yesterday, me dad, mum & myself chugged off Penang after breakfast … heading south for the famed town of tranquility …
It’s been a while since I went to a zoo, and one with my parents, so it was great to look out for the animals under scorching rays of an unusually hot December day, too bad it wasn’t cloudy, which would have been perfect. It is fun to leave behind the adult thinking & for once just whisk around gazing at animals like kids once again.
Coming to my favourite topic … food … and it was good to hunt for the famed Yat Sun restaurant on Jalan Pasar (Market Road), which housed the famed Roti Sayur (toasted bread, garnished with vegetable & gravy) and the flooded chicken chop under the ceilings of post colonial shop-houses, it’s really something I immensely looked forward to.
Now, the dampener was not being able to take upon the Maxwell Hill (known now as Larut Hill) … and since it was too early (& hot) to stroll along the paths of the lake gardens, we just took breathtaking photos there. Check them out over here!
The conclusion of our short excursion was sweetly capped with the quenching & refreshing red-bean drink to wash down the preceding lok-lok at Toh Kay Beng Road … simple & yet, something I don’t find in everyday city life … again nestled under the roofs of buildings from a bygone era.
Leaving Taiping, it certainly refreshed old memories & installed new ones … until, as they say … the next time.
I love taking walks down memory lane … just to wrap myself in nostalgia & draw upon the good old times I’ve had … things always seem so vivid and almost recent, that the experience is ironically at the tip of the mind, yet separated so far in time & space.
That’s what my trip to Taiping was all about … memories of my travels during university … visiting the many places, chanced upon by my constant forays through the then magical network of AIESEC friends. Glancing back, the trip to Taiping was full of great memories and yet, it was never planned … more of an accident & addition to the road trip I took.
So anyway, I wanted to drop by Taiping for a long time … and it was in my road trip … so yesterday, me dad, mum & myself chugged off Penang after breakfast … heading south for the famed town of tranquility …
It’s been a while since I went to a zoo, and one with my parents, so it was great to look out for the animals under scorching rays of an unusually hot December day, too bad it wasn’t cloudy, which would have been perfect. It is fun to leave behind the adult thinking & for once just whisk around gazing at animals like kids once again.
Coming to my favourite topic … food … and it was good to hunt for the famed Yat Sun restaurant on Jalan Pasar (Market Road), which housed the famed Roti Sayur (toasted bread, garnished with vegetable & gravy) and the flooded chicken chop under the ceilings of post colonial shop-houses, it’s really something I immensely looked forward to.
Now, the dampener was not being able to take upon the Maxwell Hill (known now as Larut Hill) … and since it was too early (& hot) to stroll along the paths of the lake gardens, we just took breathtaking photos there. Check them out over here!
The conclusion of our short excursion was sweetly capped with the quenching & refreshing red-bean drink to wash down the preceding lok-lok at Toh Kay Beng Road … simple & yet, something I don’t find in everyday city life … again nestled under the roofs of buildings from a bygone era.
Leaving Taiping, it certainly refreshed old memories & installed new ones … until, as they say … the next time.
posted by Jay @ 28.12.05
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