Black Tower Coffee @ Cheras

Who said we will need to travel to Paris for Eiffel Tower? Malaysia has one in Cheras area named Black Tower. Located in C180, Black Tower can be seen easily from the main highway.

The tower had attracted a lot of visitors to take photos and at the same time try the food and drinks in the cafe.

The cafe is very spacious. It have indoor session for those scared of hot weather and outdoor session for those enjoy the wind especially during night time. 

Back Tower Coffee is a half self-service cafe where customers are required to make the orders at the counter and pay once ordered. However, the foods and drinks will be served to customers once it's ready by the staffs. 

The portion is a little more than I thought. It will be nice if can ordered a few different dishes and shared among the customers.   

They did served waffles, cakes and also ice cream as dessert. I had tried the fruits waffle and it was very good. 

There are several choices of all day breakfast for the customers to choose from. The portion is big as you can act it as a lunch or even dinner. 

Address:

Black Tower Coffee

Lot 3140, Jalan C180/1,

Dataran C180,

43200 Cheras.

Operating Hour:

Mon - Fri: 11 am - 11 pm

Sat - Sun: 9.30am - 11pm

Flavoured Hagfish(eel) 양념꼼장어 @ Haeundae Market

 Went to Haeundae beach, one of the famous beach especially during summer. Took Subway Line 1, to Haeundae station exit No.5, the beach is just about 10 minutes walk away.

 The view of Haeundae beach was not clear as it was drizzly with strong wind that day. I was freezing as the temperature only at 18c with strong wind. 

With that, we decided to go Haeundae Traditional Market for our early dinner. 

There were lots of restaurants and food stalls on the both side of the alley. Most of them are 

selling seafood as seafood are famous in Busan. After go and forth, we decided to go in one 

of the restaurants that selling hagfish.

There are 2 methods of cooking the hagfish, hot spicy pepper or salted. We decided to go for hot spicy pepper just in case we can't accept the taste of hagfish. Strong flavoured will always help in this kind of situation. The ahjumma served us with the side dishes once we place the order. The newly killed hagfish was still moving when it served.

This is the medium portion for 2 to 3 people and we did order fried rice as well.  

Hagfish is ready to eat

 The nice ahjumma even showed us on how we suppose to eat in the local way. Wrap the meat 

with side dishes and vegetables then it can be eaten. The hagfish are very chewy and taste 

good with the sauce. 

The ahjumma bring plain rice and some other ingredients to us when we ate half of the meal. 

She added in the rice, seaweed and some cheese then fried together with the hagfish. The fried rice is awesome with the cheese with it. 

This is the restaurant I went. The friendly ahjumma was even posed when I take photo.

Uncommon menu with price on the wall.

Where is this place?

22-1, Gunam-ro 41beon-gil, Haeundae-gu, Busan

부산광역시 해운대구 구남로41번길 22-1 (중동)

Seogwipo Maeil Olle Market (서귀포매일 올레시장) @ Jeju-do

Travellers to Jeju Island will definitely know about Dongmun Market Place, one of the 

well-known traditional market in Jeju Downtown. However, in Seogwipo, another part of 

Jeju Island, Seogwipo Maeil Olle Market is really some place that worth to recommend.

I was amazed by the clean and nice market's condition. Seogwipo Maeil Olle Market have different stalls that sell a variety of things, include foods, fruits, clothes, and so on. Some stalls are also selling local products such as Jeju chocolate and snacks.

There is ahjumma that selling the famous Jeju Mandarin Orange, Hallabong. 

1 basket is selling at 10,000₩, normally 5 to 6 oranges depend on the sizes.

I was attracted by one of the stalls which full with people busy to line up. It is a food stall selling black pork skewer. Decided to give it a try due to the crowd and ordered 2 skewers without understand the menu.  

The skewers are mix with black pork, some bell pepper and Korean Rice Cake (Teok). I tried 

both mild and slight spicy but still prefer mild flavor as i cant really take spicy. 

The sauce is an add point for it.

After the black pork skewer, another stall that draw my attention is this, the one having long queue.

After having a close look, this stall is selling Hallabong juice and Orange Hareubang (cake with orange paste).

The cute Orange Hareubang 

2 type of packaging with different price. 

Even the children in KBS variety show, "The return of Superman" tried this before. 

The stalls in Seogwipo Maeil Olle Market are individual so the working hours are different based on their own preference. My first visit to this market was my first day at 9pm but all of the stalls had closed by that hour.  

Proboscis Monkey & Fireflies River Cruise @ Kota Belud

Always headache when thinking of how am i travel around alone. And my colleague had recommended me to join the day tours by travels agency to observe Proboscis Monkey and Fireflies near to Kota Belud. The day tour only cost RM170 per person.

Together with another 5 tourists, we had started our journey heading to Kota Belud at 2.45pm 

after picked up by the travels agency at our own hotel. The journey took 1 and half hours from KK downtown to the river port. 

Nice scenery along the way to our destination

We been served with local delight as snack before on board to the boat for Proboscis Monkey.

Our little port to rest before going out with boat.

Local delight as tea snack.

Here we go to look for Proboscis Monkey. We are very lucky that we found a group of them on the tree within 5 minutes. We only allow to observed from the boat to ensure we did not disturb their natural habitat.

Ready to depart

Proboscis Monkey

Proboscis Monkey

We did a river cruise along the river while looking for other animals. Nice view along the journey. 

We decide to end our river cruise as we cant find any of them and decide to rush for the 

sunset at a beach nearby after our dinner. Local dinner buffet was served when we back to 

the port. The taste is quite good.  

Right after the quick dinner, we rushed to a beach nearby for the sunset. This was not part of the itinerary for the day tour but it was an adhoc activity that suggested by our tour guide.

Grandparents with their grandson

After the sunset, we continue our journey heading to another port for fireflies observation. Due to the darkness and the fireflies are too small, i didnt able to snap any photo of it. However, the tree filled with fireflies look exactly like a christmas tree with the deco light. 

After 20 minutes of fireflies observation, we back to port and travel for 1 and half hour to 

go back to downtown area..