"Pekan Rabu" or Wednesday Market @ Alor Setar, Kedah

Every time I went back to my hometown at Perlis, I must visit this place, Pekan Rabu. This is one of the popular places in Kedah. Pekan Rabu is located at the centre of Alor Setar town. The place is well known for their traditional items such as foods, clothes, etc. and is very popular among both local people and also tourists from all over the countries.

Traditional foods (Kuih tradisional) such as dodol, kuih karas, peneram, bahulu, etc. are among the hot items sold here. With the new business complexes built surrounding the Pekan Rabu, the variety of items sold increased. Now, there are plenty of shops selling different kind of textiles, tudung, songkok, traditional clothes such as baju kurung and baju melayu. It’s more or less like Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman, Kuala Lumpur, which is also known as the Heaven of Textiles.

So, now, people who live nearby, for example, Perlis and Penang, they may choose to go to Kuala Lumpur or just shop at Alor Setar, which is nearer to their places.

Pekan Rabu will become more busy during public holidays, festive seasons such Hari Raya Puasa and Hari Raya, and weekends. You can see that many outsiders, from other states went back to their hometown, and shop their things at Pekan Rabu. This is the place where they come to get their materials for the preparation for Hari Raya.

Trishaw Ride Around the City of Malacca

Trishaw Ride? I love it so much!

Suddenly, I feel like I wanna have a ride on a trishaw. So, my husband took me to the City of Malacca on the Chinese New Year Holiday. Wow, there were so many people in town. Most of them are tourists. Our first destination was the Maritim Museum, which I had written about it before. Then, we had a tour on a trishaw. Tour around the City of Malacca. What is so special about the trishaw ride at Malacca? Here, you can see many beautifully decorated trishaw with different theme. Just choose which one you like the most. The tour become more meaningful when the trishaw ride includes a tour guide given by the trishaw’s owner. They were all well-trained by a tourism body to deliver the tour guide to the tourists.

We were brought to the Ethnics Museum, Dataran Pahlawan, Kota A Famosa, etc. What a wonderful moment I had on that day. With the beautiful decorated trishaw, riding with your loved one…you’ll feel really great! I wish I can be there again in the future.

Of course there are many other places of attraction around Malacca, but we straight away go to the city because we want to have our lunch at Umbai after that. As usual, love the “Ikan Bakar @ Umbai” grilled fish together with other seafood such as prawns, crabs and cuttlefish. The sea foods here are fresh…and delicious…and one more thing, the price is also reasonable as compared to seafood in KL.

Due to heavy traffic on that day, we didn’t have enough time to go to Mini Asian, Malacca Zoo, Crocodile Park, etc. Even though I had already been there a few years back, still wanna see if there is a change or new attraction available at those places. Hope we’ll find some other time to go there.

Malaysian International Batik Festival

I brought my family to Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC) last weekend for sight-seeing, shopping and lunch. They just came from Kangar, Perlis last week. And KLCC is always be one of the must visit places for my niece and nephews. They really enjoy sight-seeing and playing at the KLCC park. For the adults like my MIL and FIL, I think they just need some relaxing moments spent in KL, other than Kangar, Perlis. And not to forget my SIL, she’s busy with her shopping…My husband and I have to become the driver of the day…Heheh…

When we reach KLCC at about 11 am on Saturday, we straight away go to the KLCC park. On the way there, we saw a stage with a backdrop written “Malaysian International Batik Festival”. There you go…My niece and nephew were so excited to watch the demonstration held at several booth at the festival.

What make they became more excited is where they’ve got the opportunity to try themselves producing their own batik print. After received the batik chop from the first booth, they went to the second booth to color the batik design. Once completed, they can kept their works. Maybe it’s good to frame the batik design and hang them on the wall…

At the festival, there have been many interesting activities held, which much of the focus has been given to promote Malaysian batik to international level. I can see many tourists and foreigners experienced themselves on batik-making process. Detail explanation has been given by the demonstrators on the step-by-step process of making batik. It was really fun, yet informational.

I’m sure there will be more activities coming up in conjunction with the Malaysian International Batik Festival.Don’t forget to watch for more events. My family cannot really visit every booth on that day, as we had spent too much time waiting for the kids coloring their batik. After finished with the coloring, we had our lunch at Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC). Need to go earlier, otherwise it will become fullhouse. Really enjoyed ourselves at the festival.