Fort and food

Looks like our Wednesday was really jam-packed; this is the fifth post about it!

There is only one location left though…Fort Margherita. We drove there because my mother and I were saying we didn’t dare to take the sampan across the river. The nearest bridge was the Darul Hana bridge which we might not dare to cross even in the daytime, and any other bridge that we could drive across was some distance away. So the best option was to drive there on a day when we had a car!

It was rather disappointing though.

we reached from the back

the front

See the girl with the Pikachu? We also saw her friend with the Squirtle, so this was definitely the same group as the one we saw at the Waterfront the night before.

Inside the fort, they had this cannon. To go in further, we would have had to pay, and it was only an exhibition that we weren't interested in, so we definitely were not going in. Also, it was just past 4:30 and they weren't allowing any more visitors in.

There was an orchid garden nearby, but it was somewhere in a large botanical garden, it was rather late, and we were tired after such a hot day…so we decided to skip it.

From the fort, we walked down to the riverfront where there were two famous layer cake shops. We didn’t find them that good though… (We had already tasted some other shops the day before, and in the end bought our layer cakes from a simple stall that was just a table on a corridor. Somehow that tasted the best!)

Taking the sampan across the river costs only RM1, and after crossing the river it was just a short walk to our hotel. So my father decided to experience taking the sampan, while my mother and I took the car back. (He reached the other side of the river even before we had walked back to the car!) 

To end this post, I shall post about our lunch and dinner...which I had skipped in the previous posts.

For lunch, we found somewhere nearby that had decent ratings on Google, called Good Luck Cafe.

they had this painting on a wall

curry chicken noodles

the noodles are below

crispy tomato noodles

fried noodles with cangkuk manis

In general the food there was good but not exceptional...except for the fried noodles with cangkuk manis which we really liked. So much that we ordered it again at a food court before we went to the airport...

That night, we had dinner at Topspot Food Court, quite near our hotel. It basically has stalls selling seafood. The famous stall there was no. 25, called Bukit Mata Seafood. But there were so many people there, even on a weeknight!

So packed!

So we ate at a nearby stall instead. The menu was basically the same...every stall had this crispy oyster pancake. (and every table ordered one!)

midin belacan, our favourite

steamed golden pomfret

Looking at the famous stall, we felt that their crispy oyster pancake was probably crispier, because it looked thinner and more transparent.

But ours were still crispy...and light enough to fly...see for yourself!