It was a Monday and our day started early as usual with our morning walk.
Morning sky at 7:05am
After I have swept my porch area and watered my plants, we got ready and waited for our friends. We were to gather at my house at about 10am.
We stopped at Pusing town to buy these pillow shaped bak chang or glutinous rice dumplings. It was RM7 and now selling at RM8 and the dumplings were not as tasty as before.
We reached Tg Tualang at about 11:40am. This is part of the small town.
Friends at the fruit stall.
This is Pisang Tanduk or Banana Horn. The hand is to show the size of the bananas. Pisang Tanduk is usually used for cooking e.g. making banana chips.
Opposite the fruit stall is the market.
A few restaurants were closed on Monday so we came to Restoran Thong Lok for lunch.
A worker plucking the paku pakis (wild ferns) in front of the restaurant.
Live fresh water prawns swimming in the aquarium.
Tourists come to Tg Tualang for its fresh water prawns, reared in fresh water ponds or rivers.
A friend ordering the dishes and we had the following dishes for 7 people.
Paku pakis salad with tiny dried shrimps topping.
Fried tofu.
Fried fresh water prawns.
Steamed fresh water prawns.
Fried clams or lala.
Steamed fish (from the cat fish family).
Steamed free range chicken with blended ginger sauce.
Total cost of lunch for 7 people = RM272
(incl. 4 small portion rice and Chinese tea)
Pink/Purple Spider Lilies.
Saw this at the Prawn Village when we visited after lunch at Restoran Thong Lok to snap some photos. Initially, we wanted to have lunch here since we haven't been here before but was told they only open at 3pm on weekdays.
The colour of the lilies looks like purplish pink
Linking to Friday Bliss & Skywatch Friday.
Look at the lilies! They don't toil and spin,
and yet Solomon in all his glory was not robed as well as they are.
And if God provides clothing for the flowers that are here today
and gone tomorrow, don't you suppose that he will
provide clothing for you, you doubters?
(Luke 12:27-28, The Living Bible-TLB)
That's a great dinner! The prawns, clams, cat fish...all my favourites! The dramatic morning sky looks simply beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Angie.
DeleteNow that is a whole lot of paku pakis! And people keep telling me they can't get them there. Obviously they have not looked hard enough! No midin there, of course. We can't get lala here - I do enjoy eating those.
ReplyDeleteNot all restaurants serve paku pakis. We love lala but try not to eat it too often.
DeleteThank you! It´s always so interesting to see your places (and food, of course)! So different from here and.... always gives me a feeling of going on holiday for a couple of minutes! :-)
ReplyDeleteThank you, Iris.
DeleteHi Nancy. You had a grat time with your friends and your food looked fabulos. I have never seen such huge prawns! Thanks for sharing, hugs, Valerie
ReplyDeleteThank you, Valerie. These are considered small to medium size prawns.
DeleteNice Street- and -food-photography.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Einari.
DeleteRM8 for chongs this size is very good value. Too bad not as tasty as you remembered.
ReplyDeleteOh I happen to have been to this restaurant before. Can't remember the food though.
I can say that all the restaurants will serve you very fresh quality prawns.
Delete...I love the spider lilies.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Tom.
DeleteI learn some new words like 'paku paki'. Your food photograhy ,as usual, is amazing!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Duta.
DeleteMarvellous.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Jim.
DeleteSticky rice dumplings are among my favourite foods in the whole world. It is always so much fun to get to the inside. Soooo good!
ReplyDeleteYes, love the treasures inside the dumplings.
DeletePrawns are good to eat but I like them peeled for me. The lilies are pretty. Gigi hawaii
ReplyDeleteThank you, Gigi.
DeleteFirst off, the verse you picked today is one of my favorites.
ReplyDeleteThe sky that morning was wonderful.
And the food, what great food!!
Thank you, Yogi.
DeleteThank you Nancy for showing us the delicious seafood Lunch At Restoran Thong Lok, Tanjung Tualang. So mouth watering. Did you all use hands directly to peel those prawns? Or eat the shell and spit them out later? Love the pink flowers. The pink is so sweet. Couldn't see that it is purplish through the photos.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Mun. No worry, I am good at removing the shells from the prawns with my fork and spoon.
DeleteI have never seen or heard of these Spider Liles. They are kind of creepy!
ReplyDeleteMy first time seeing lilies of this colour.
DeleteWonderful dinner!!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Rose.
DeleteThose lilies are so pretty! You always have such good food, too.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Mimi.
DeleteRicos langostinos, te mando un beso.
ReplyDeleteThank you, JP.
DeleteTus fotografías me encantan. Besos.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Teresa.
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