Dinner At Restoran J.J. Fatt, Lawan Kuda, Gopeng

This was 2 Saturdays ago. It was grey and gloomy. We were at a coffee shop waiting to be seated. While our hubbies waited, my friend and I decided to take a short walk through this gate that was opened.

This is a walkway to the Palo 101 where some eateries are located.

As we walked through the gate we saw banana trees on both sides of the gate. We saw this pretty flower that looks like a banana flower. 

Banana flowers usually hang downwards but these flowers point upwards. The leaves looks like banana leaves.

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Thank evening, we drove to Gopeng for dinner at Restoran J.J. Fatt, Lawan Kuda.

Deep fried pork belly slices with deep fried garlic. Very tasty.

We ordered 1 snakehead fish.

The bony parts of the fish for cooking soup with wine and Chinese herbs.

The meaty part of the fish for cooking with ginger slices and spring onion.

Baby tender Chinese kai lan with garlic and salted fish.

The restaurant grow their own vegetables.

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The photos of the following murals were taken in Batu Gajah.

Drawn on brickwall.

Tin mining dredge.

Saw this on the side wall of a hotel,

The ruins of the unfinished castle, Batu Gajah.

It is a parking lot and I have to find a suitable angle to take this photo. 

Clock tower in Batu Gajah town.

Linking to Monday Mural.

For whenever I am,

though far away at the ends of the earth,

I will cry to you for help.

When my heart is faint and overwhelmed,

lead me to the mighty, towering Rock of safety.

(Psalm 61:2, The Living Bible-TLB)

Ban Mee For Lunch With Friends In Pusing Town

My sister invited me to accompany her to Batu Gajah as she had an appointment to meet someone and after that, to visit a friend and her daughter in Batu Gajah. We drove our own car and met up in Batu Gajah.

9.30 am

It was a cool morning with the mist covering part of the mountains.

 Once our mission is accomplished, we drove to the friend's house.

 Our friend cut a fruit which she brought back from Cameron Highland for us to taste. This fruit is totally new to us or could it be a vegetable. Could this be an eggplant?

 It doesn't taste sweet no juicy. The design on the skin is nice and this is how it looks like on the inside.

When it was time for lunch, our friend and her daughter took us in their car to Pusing for Ban Mee at Kedai Kopi Tong Fong, opposite the Police Station.

I ordered the longan with white fungus sweet drink.

I ordered this pinched Ban Mee (wheat flour noodle). It is a simple and tasty home made type of noodles. After lunch, we went back to our friend's house to get our cars. But first, I have something to collect.

I stayed behind to collect some plant cuttings.

 So nice of my friend to give me cuttings of these multi coloured Japanese roses. 

  Besides these, I also received many other cuttings.

 I asked for an orchid cutting but she blessed me with the whole bunch.

 Happy with all the plant cuttings, orchids and cactus, I drove home.

 3.15 pm
It must have been raining while I was in Batu Gajah.

I reached home just after the rain stopped.

Linking to Skywatch Friday.

When they walk through the Valley of Weeping,

it will become a place of springs where pools of blessing

and refreshment collect after rains!

(Psalm 84:6, The Living Bible-TLB)

Witnesses At Land Office Batu Gajah.

I received a phone call last Sunday night requesting my hubby and I to stand as witnesses for a friend. We agreed to help her and we needed to present ourselves at the Batu Gajah Land Office last Monday morning at 10.15 am.

 Since our Penang trip, I was still tired and didn't go for the morning exercise.

 We decided to sleep in and woke up late on Monday morning.

 After watering my garden, we went for a quick breakfast.

Passed by here on our way to Batu Gajah. We used the Ipoh-Lumut highway.

A short excerpt from Wikipedia on Batu Gajah:

"The name Batu Gajah ('batu' is stone and 'gajah' is elephant in the Malay language), is presumably derived from two large boulders that resembled elephants found along the Kinta River. Folklore claims that hugh elephants figures were made of stones to scare away the elephants that destroyed the villages' sugar cane crops."

This is Batu Gajah courthouse.

 My first time stepping into the compound of the courthouse.

 The land office is in the same compound as the court house.

We were on time but our friends were late. While waiting for them, I occupied myself looking for things to photograph.

Found these giant tin bars (imitations???) 

 A dredge bucket next to the shady tree where we waited for our friends.

 Side view....

 An anchor.....

\It was a hot, humid morning and I was sweating profusely. 

 My friends were more than half an hour late. After 2 phone calls, they were still no where to be seen. Surprisingly, as I grow older my patience also seems to grow. It was not so when I was younger.

"May God who gives patience, steadiness, and encouragement
help you to live in complete harmony with each other -
each with the attitude of Christ toward the other.
And then all of us can praise the Lord together with one voice,
giving glory to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ."
(Romans 15:5-6, TLB)

 As it was our first time here, I looked around and found the waiting room on the 1st floor where we can sit under the fan. 

 Those that came earlier or were on time have submitted their forms to the clerk at the counter. Our friends were late in submitting their forms and they got a bigger number. For being late, we all have to wait for almost 4 hours in the warm waiting room before we can go home.

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The below flower pics from my garden are for joining Today's Flowers.

White Fairy Lily or Rain Lily flowers.

Flower from my papaya tree.

Dwarf  Purple Mexican Petunia Flower.

Orangey Red Bauhinia Flowers.

Linking to Skywatch Friday & Today's Flowers.

Seeking Traditional Herbal Treatment

On Monday morning, it was time again to accompany one of our foodie friend to Batu Gajah to seek traditional herbal treatment to hasten healing for her ankle bone. She had a fall and her ankle was in plaster cast, Now the plaster cast has been removed.

She was encouraged by some to seek traditional herbal treatment from the Chinese Sinseh in Batu Gajah. Thinking that it wouldn't harm just to apply herbal medication onto her ankle, she agreed to try it out.

We started from our house at 7.30 am. The clinic opens at 8.30 am.

When we reached the clinic, our queue number was 21.

Treatment first or breakfast first. We chose treatment first!

The signboard in front of the house.

While my friends were waiting at the clinic, I took leave to take a short walk.

After a few minutes of walking, I came to this part of Batu Gajah.

Batu Gajah (Malay) translated means Elephant Stone.

Clock tower in front of the Post Office.

I used to visit Batu Gajah quite frequently few years back.

It was a bright, sunny morning.

Telekom Malaysia on the left, school on the right.
I am quite familiar with this part of Batu Gajah.

Palm trees on both sides of the road.
Batu Gajah is a quiet and a peaceful town.

I could have walked to my friend's house but I knew they were still in bed.

A beautiful bunch of ripen palm fruits.

A fruitful coconut tree on my walk back to where my friends were.

Here we were....my short walk with my camera had only been 10 minutes.

It took about 2 hours of waiting to get the treatment done.

We have to call up to get an earlier appointment but on that day we didn't.

We found a coffee shop along Jalan Pasar in Batu Gajah for a simple breakfast.

Name of coffee shop. The outer signboard has faded.

I didn't take any pictures of our breakfast.

These stalls are just beside the coffee shop.

I took this picture on our way back to Ipoh.
Not to worry, I was not the one driving the car.

It was an uneventful morning, even the sky looked gloomy and gray.

Since my youth, God, You have taught me,

and to this day I declare Your marvelous deeds.

Even when I am old and gray,

do not forsake me, my God,

till I declare Your power to the next generation,

your mighty acts to all who are to come.

(Psalms 71:17-18, NIV)