We didnt know where to have breakfast. I remembered my friend told me she had hers along Gurney Drive & so we went over.
Not knowing which ones were good; we based the level of popularity on the crowd shown. This is located at the corner of Jalan Birch but I am not sure the name of the restaurant. Judging from the waiting crowd, the food must be good.
Lots of people ordered noodles but Daddy wanted to try the Bak Kut Teh instead. We ordered a set & another plate of fried bee hoon. And yes, we waited quite some time for our food to come. Boy! Were we hungry.
Our 1st POI for the day: Penang Butterfly Farm. RM27/adt & RM15/chd.
There were many variety of butterflies; colourful ones too. They were everywhere. We joined a guided tour & marvelled at the different types of species. The guide taught us how to spot the camouflage ones, how to peek at those mating (LOL), showed us the actual life cycle of a butterfly; from a caterpillar to a cocoon & then emerge as a butterfly. Lionel told me he learned abt this in class too. Its good to have the kids see the real thing as they learned along :)
One butterfly chose to land on Rachel's nose & stayed there. It got transferred from one child to another. We even got a chance to release butterflies. See below video.
The Escape Adventureplay was just next doors but as we were not in appropriate wear ( sports wear, socks & sports shoes required), we did not enter the grounds.
We passed by the factory outlet & did a little window shopping. Factory outlet but not factory prices...
Passed 2pm, we were again in for a late lunch. We had ours at Magic 1 Restaurant.
We purchased tickets for the Tropical Spice Gardens. While inside the garden, I was casually asking Daddy how is that with so many cars parked outside, it seems very quiet inside here. Daddy can only shrugged.
We ended up in this Tree Monkey cafe & ordered mango with sticky rice, banana splilt & Sunrise Paradise (drink). We enjoyed the atmosphere, the breeze, the view (facing the beach). But the weather is threatening to rain.
While waiting for Daddy to drive over the car; we parked quite a distance away from the Spice Garden, i can now answer my own question I post to Daddy earlier on. Yes, there were many cars but the people were all on the beach. Gosh! There were people on the sands, in the waters, up in the air (parasailing)...
We made our way to Butterworth on the mainland & it was raining heavily along the way. One of Daddy's clients' Dad own a restaurant here - Zi Wei Yuan Steamboat. This is also a heavily recommended place for dinner which opens from 6pm - 11pm only.
But alas, we did not know the restaurant was closed from the 09 Feb ~ 15 Feb so there goes our hope of trying the steamboat. Even the restaurant next to it, Tian Tian Lai was packed as well. The service staff told us due to the number of customers, we have to wait at least 1.5 hrs if we wanna have our food.
Okay, that was not what we expected. We drove on the road again & settled our dinner at the food court again. The same concept as yesterday's dinner place. Notice 2 little pigs? Cute, isnt it? I had to snap a pic of it quickly before they were pinched by two little monkeys. Not the real ones; I mean the 2 kids, Lionel & Rachel. Haha.
Daddy bought dessert @ Tang Bo Fu ( aka Tang Bo Hu). Tasty & cooling.
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