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Toh Soon Café located at Lebuh Campbell has become one of the must-visit place when you are in Penang. I visited them in year 2014 and 2 years later I am back again with my friends. The shop is located in a narrow alley (lorong in Malay language) and is a walking distance to Penang street art mural. As compared with my visit 2 years back, Toh Soon has become more popular and securing the seat is getting harder too. Read More

Holiday Villa Johor Bahru is the latest hotel in Johor Bahru City Centre which welcomes guests from early March 2016. The 4-star hotel comprises Superior, Deluxe and Premium Suite rooms. I did a booking through Agoda for a weekend staycation because there is having opening special promotion! And guess how much I paid for the Premium Suites? It was S$137.38 (~RM409.39) per night. The initial price was S$188.20 (~RM560.84) for their opening promotion special. I managed to use my Agoda points to deduct. So, yeah! More Savings for us! Read More

As the exchange rate getting attractive (SGD 1 : RM3) , more and more people starting to cross the causeway especially over the weekend to spend. And the custom immigration is getting crowded with Malaysian working in Singapore and people going to Singapore to splurge. The traffic is horrible especially on Friday evening onwards and towards the Sunday. If you ever travel across the causeway using public transport, here are 8 types of people you encounter throughout the journey. Read More

Penang is widely recognized with its street food scene and many will travel to Penang for the food. The street food still ranks the highest among the other states of Malaysia. I was there over the weekend at Georgetown, capital city of Penang for a short gateway. Thus, I took the opportunity to check out the 90 years of establishment roti canai at Jalan Transfer. The stall has been running for 3 generations and often crowded especially on weekends and public holidays. Read More

So, I went Penang again over the weekend with another group of friends. This time round, I stayed in Airbnb and we explore Georgetown attraction places. One of them is Wonderfood Museum. Penang has quite a number of different museums around the island and Wonderfood Museum was established 21 November 2015. The Penangites are quite smart I would say attracting tourists by all kinds of museums. Read More

During my visit to Penang few weeks ago, my friend bought me to this famous shop serves Koay Teow Soup that uses local eels to make the fishball. As we parked the car at the opposite direction, I looked up at the shop signage. It was faded and not clear at all but tourists and customers seem to find their way here to try the food. This shop was initially only a stall at Pitt Street until they moved to a shop at Carnavon Street. Read More

Legoland Malaysia has launched their yearly Halloween Brick-or-Treat themed activities from now till 29 October 2016. My little angel, Olivia and her parents headed to Legoland last week to attend their spooktacular Brick-or-Treat Party Nights courtesy of Legoland Malaysia. She was so happy to be there to explore the activities. Read More

Few weeks ago I was in Penang for Golden Sands Resort staycation. My bff and I took the opportunity to check out One Garage Slappy Cakes located at M Mall, Times Square on one of the afternoon. Slappy Cakes is actually one of the dining concepts under One Garage restaurant where next to it is the One Steamboat, another dining concept under one roof. Read More

I have been to Penang quite a number of times and usually spent my time in Georgetown or Bayan Lepas instead of Batu Ferringhi. So thanks to Golden Sands Resort by Shangri-La, my bff and I ventured to Batu Ferringhi, north shore of the tropical island of Penang during our recent trip.Apart from Shangri-La group, Eastern and Oriental (E&O) hotel is the only luxury hotels in Penang. Read More

The Replacement Lodge & Kitchen café is well-known in Johor Bahru café scene as well as one of the favourite cafe lists for Singaporeans. Within a walking distance from JB checkpoint City Square mall, the café serves all-day brunch starting from 10:00am. The spacious café is highly regarded as instagram-worthy spot due to the kinfolk alike theme and rustic wooden furniture. They have recently added marble round table just outside the corridor of the café. Read More