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| Kimdo BBQ @ City Square |
Went to JB with 2 of my friends from 16th to 17th March 2013 for a yum yum tour. We met up at 11am at Kranji MRT station. Then we queued up for bus 170, it was a super super long queue...we waited for at least half an hour before we can board the bus. Crowded bus..we finally arrived at Woodlands Custom..past through Customs, it was long long queue again for the buses to cross over to JB customs. Can't even see which queue is for which bus, everyone was just queuing in all the lines and it was super hot too. Finally we got to board the bus and travel over to JB customs...At JB customs, everyone was rushing to queue at the counters....After we cleared the customs, we were free to find nice and yummy food around JB. First, i brought my 2 friends to a BBQ stall in City Square, called Kimdo BBQ as starter snacks. It sells nice and good BBQ food, like bbq chicken wings, bbq sotong, mushrooms and many others. After that, they bought some cooling tea from Share Tea. Then we walked around in City Square as we were not hungry yet for lunch.
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| One of our dishes @ Teck Sing Restaurant |
After walking around in City Square, we took a cab down to our destination for lunch - Teck Sing Restaurant at Taman Sentosa, where we had a nice herbal paper baked chicken (whole), a whole fish and a plate of vegetables and each of us had a lime plum drink. The meal only cost us RM$77.30...and the food was nice...the chicken was very tender and the herbal taste was not so good, which i like it..kekeke...After the meal, we walked down to find a cab to go to our hotel for a night's stay - KSL Resort. It was the same hotel we stayed previously, when we came over with a Legoland trip. When we got the hotel lobby, it was packed with people. There was a long queue waiting to check in for individuals and a separate queue for tour group check-in. It was horrible, we noticed that there was some notice at the counters, saying that they were doing some system upgrade and there may be some delay. Ya, some delay...it wasn't a 15 mins delay...it was 2 hours' delay!! We just stood there and waited to check-in..the queue wasn't even moving at all....so I went off to KSL shopping centre to get our movie tixs for the night while my friends waited at the queue. When i came back, they were still queuing...-_-"...And as the check-in queue got longer, people started to get frustrated..people were started to complain...even when they got the turn to check-in, people were shouting angrily...due to the long wait...and some guests who had checked-in came down and scolded the staff, that there were already people checked-in the same room..Finally it's our turn, the staff who attended us took our booking paper and disappeared for at least 10 or 15 mins...the lady beside us was also complaining to us, saying that the staff had told her that there wasn't any room available for her now and will call her once they have the available room for her...She was so angry...after the long wait, the staff still can tell her no room and she had also booked a triple room. (which was same with us)...She told the staff off angrily and asked them to get her a room now.
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| Our super yummy dinner @ Chez Papa |
Finally, the staff who attended us came back..my friend asked him whether he went up the levels to check whether there is available rooms...That guy was still joking with us, saying that there were no rooms for us. I think my friends were going to throw tables at him already...all of us were already tired of standing there...for 2 hours..and he still had the mood to joke with us...Finally we done with our check-in and went up to our room. It was located at the last room of the level, and when we entered, there was no ac...it was like not even on...so we tried to set to the lowest level...but after some time, we still found the ac wasn't strong enough. Anyway, we were all too tired and hot to do anything. We just found ourselves a place to sit and rest, watched tv...kekeke...We sat until it was time for dinner...ohh!!Creme Brulee!!...We took a cab from the hotel down to the resturant - Chez Papa. It was located at Taman Maju Jaya and it was a french restaurant with a nice homely feel. We ordered 2 a dozen escargot, 1 bowl of mushroom soup, Lamb Shank, Chez Papa Sampler, Foie Gras and of course, creme brulee (1 for us each..kekee)...and their baguette which was complimentary was also yummy too!! I had a super nice dinner there, the staffs were also friendly..they had their special dishes written on a white board and they will show it to every table during order taking...So happy to have my dinner there... :P
After the fantastic dinner, we went back to our hotel to rest and shower before our late night movie. When we came back to the hotel, the ac was still not cold enough...so we called up the housekeeping to come help us check..Anyway it doesn't help much...haiz...we just took turns to shower....When it's time for the movie, we made our way down to the cinema in KSL shopping centre...The movie we were going to watch is "Princess and the 7 Kungfu Masters (笑功震武林)"..it was a hongkong movie, released recently. One thing good to watch Hongkong movies in Malaysia (other than is cheap) is the movies are shown in canto, instead of Madarian. We had a super great laugh from the movie...It was a funny show and everyone was laughing so hard while watching it. After a good laugh, we walked back to the hotel and we saw there were people still queuing up to check-in...and it was already like 11 plus...Back to our room, we watched tv and one of my friends entered sleeping first...so mi and another friend continued watching...Later in the night, i heard there was sound coming from my left side and my right side (as i was sleeping in between the 2 of them)...hahahaa...the one sleeping on the same side as mi complained my hands were like ice...hahahaa...Anyway, i didn't sleep much, as usual....and we just slept and nua till 11am plus.....
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| Shoon Huat Bak Kut Teh |
We got up and got ready to go buy some snacks home. We went to walk around in KSL shopping centre and bought alot of snacks back..kekeke...By the time we done our shopping, it was already 1 plus. So we went back to the hotel to do our last packing and checked out the hotel..Again, it was a long wait to do check-out..-_-"....we waited at least half an hour or more, just to get to our turn..During our wait, we saw a lady having conflicts with the manager (looks like)...think there was some dispute on the amount needed to pay...not sure of the whole contents...but the lady got the manager to print at least 3 times on the receipt....luckily it was quite fast for us to do clearance..except for the long wait in queuing...Then we got on a cab to Taman Sentosa again, but this time it was for the famous bak kut teh - Shoon Huat Bak Kut Teh. It was like a 5 mins ride from the hotel to the place, except there was a traffic light which felt like super long. Once reached there, we saw there was a queue that was like out of the place and the staff doesn't even attend to you. Anyhow, i walked in to see whether there was any empty table where we can sit. Luckily we got a empty table after some time. We ordered a 2-pax bak kut teh, 1 salted vegetable, 1 you tiao and a ma you ji...The ma you ji was nice, it would be better with frog's legs...kekeke...Like the sauce too...Don't really find the bak kut teh nice...it was herbal style...but doesn't taste nice (to me lah)....the salted vegetable was nice too...My friends like the ma you chi sauce so much they just put the you tiao in it....hahahaa......
After the meal, we made our way down to City Square to cross over back to Singapore. We took AC-7 bus which ended the ride at Yishun Interchange from Woodlands Checkpoint for a flat ride of RM$2. After we reached Yishun, we went separately back home which ended our JB trip.....Kekeke.....
Places went:
City Square
KSL Shopping Centre
Teck Sing Restaurant
Chez Papa
Shoon Huat Bak Kut Teh
Hotel Stayed:
KSL Resort
