Walk With Nature

The morning in Miri was brighther than West Malaysia. At 6am, the sky has already bright whereas in West Malaysia, the sky still dark. I would say 6am here in Miri is the same as 7am in West Malaysia, got it ?

Go back to the history, East Malaysia time was original faster by 30 minutes than West Malaysia. However, in 1981, West Malaysia had adjusted 30 minutes ahead to match it with East Malaysia. Feel strange about the change ? Sorry, I can’t answer that

We decided to have our morning walk to look around this small city.

We were informed that this building belongs to Tycoon Tan Sri Ting Pek Khiing
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Coffee shop already opened at 6.40am.
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Beautiful Jade Centre is the name for this place.
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Walk further inside, we saw this. There were few coffee shops and many elder uncles were there in few groups to start their day with black coffee.
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Anyone wants some porks ?
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We found chicken rice shop also selling grilled and BBQ pork. This was where we bought our lunch to Mulu.
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Miri gives me the impression of having a very clean street and less cars on the road as well.
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Another 1Malaysia concept…..oppss should be 1Miri. Even the local council is having the Chinese characters on its car park building. Can’t see it ? Click the picture for a bigger view
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This is the hotel where we stayed. For those who want a budget and comfortable place to stay, you can consider this. The rate is RM107 per night. Not sure whether the rate has changed or not at the time I am writing
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Bintang Plaza, floor area of about 400,000 square feet, more than 100 shops. Here you can find StarBucks Coffee, Toy R Us, Parkson, Marrybrown, Giant, Food Court, Book Stores and many more.
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Jessica brought us to a local famous coffee shop for a wonderful breakfast. We ordered many different type of food, including this Dried Noodles.
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Variety of choices for you to choose. Of course this is only one of the stalls in this kopi tiam here.
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Water Chestnut Dumpling, mmmm…..I don’t think I can find it in West Malaysia.
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This is really special and definitely can’t find it in West Malaysia. The local people call in 鼎边胡 or shall I translate it as “paste ting edge” . This is Fuzhou people common breakfast. Normally, they put clams, mushroom, dried shrimps, onions, and other ingredients, boil them with broth. When the edge of the wok becomes hot, peanut oil will then applies on the edge of the wok. A pre-prepared concentrated rice milk will be poured evenly around the wok.  When the milk dries, it then transfer into a bowl of soup, boil them for a while and it is ready to eat.  The taste was good. Don’t miss this when you visit to Miri. 
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This is the rice noodles cooked with pickled mustard. If you do not have appetite to eat, try this.
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Mixed Pork Soup. Not bad either.
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We called it 3 color tea as you can see from the picture why we name it.
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Next —> Mount Mulu – We Are Coming
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After a long period of waiting and training, the day has finally arrived. I felt excited but not like those old days when I was a kid. During those days, whenever there were any outdoor activities, especially to travel far, I could not sleep for the whole night. But as age is cathing up, such a feeling had disappeared. I felt exited this time because it was me and my friends first time to explore this Mount Mulu.

I was trying to search more information about the trail to Mulu Summit but found very limited resources that I wanted. If based on the information that we gathered, it seemed that the trail to Mulu Summit was a very tough challenge as we needed to walk averagely about 8 hours a day in order to reach to the Summit. That was our mission to confirm the findings from other hikkers who were there before.

On 16 Sept evening, we were at the KLIA waiting for our 8:40pm flight to Miri.

Guess how much for this one glass of Teh Tarik (Pulled Tea) ? RM6.00 !!!
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Where can we have such a luxury tea ? You can find it somewhere in KLIA
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We arrived Miri about 11pm and Chee’s friend, Jessica was waiting us. She drove us to a nearby hotel and later we went for our supper in Miri town.

At 11.46pm, we were having our Miri Teh Tarik, better than the one we have in KLIA huh !
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Suasage.
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We have our Dosai made in Miri
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I wonder whether this can only be seen in Miri or Penang, how about Kuala Lumpur ? After all, we are 1Malaysia right ?
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The next – A Great Morning in Miri
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