Beautiful Critters At Gopeng AgroTech Farm

After we have finished touring the outdoor farm in the hot sun, we returned to the main building to cool down.

Facing the pond in front of the main building.

Chicken pens beside the main building.

2 peacocks.

I was hoping that it will show off its beautiful feathers to me.

Coconut trees line the side of the pond.

3 white geese swimming in the pond.

Aren't they beautiful?

Low coconut tree laden with coconuts.

Fishes in aquarium.

Yellow parakeet in a cage.

A colourful parakeet.

There 2 are the star attraction.

The owners took the birds out from their cage and placed them on the stands.

Visitors were taking snapshots of these birds.

These 2 are very friendly and they make loud squawking sound.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

Any story sounds true until someone tells the other side

and sets the record straight.

(Proverbs 18:17, The Living Bible-TLB)

Driving Up The Hill To Gopeng AgroTech Farm

Monday, 28th November was declared a public holiday by our new Prime Minister as he had promised. We thought it will be good to visit Gopeng AgroTech Farm and check out the place since we haven't been there. We started our journey at about 10:30am from Ipoh. We took a few wrong turns when going up the hill because there was no signboard to lead the way. We had to stop to ask a few passersby and finally found the place at about 11:40am.

Here we were outside Gopeng AgroTech Farm.

Entrance fee is RM3 for both adults and children. Entrance fee will be exempted for those staying in or having lunch here. Lunch needs to be pre-order a day ahead.

Young asparagus plants.

Young dragon fruit plants.

Dragon fruit flower.

These yellow dragon fruits have thin thorns on the skin of the fruits unlike the normal red skin dragon fruits.

I have not tasted this yellow dragon fruit. I don't know if the taste is same as the red dragon fruit. I don't remember seeing these being sold outside.

Triplets yellow dragon fruits. On the ground are the Chinese chives.

Cekur manis or Sayur manis (Malay) or mani cai (Chinese) or sweet vegetables.

Periwinkles

Seedless Jambu batu or guava seedlings.

Amaranth veggie seedlings.

Hydroponic farming.

Chinese mustard green or kai choy seedling.

Chinese mustard greens or kai choy.

Choy sum with flowers.

Very healthy and tender.

We were tempted to buy the vegetables but didn't.

Kangkong or water spinach.

Chili plants.

Wash basin in front of the wash rooms.

This is part 1, do come back tomorrow for part 2 of our visit.

Linking to Skywatch Friday.

Sprinkle me with the cleansing blood and I shall be clean again.

Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

And after you have punished me, give me back my joy again.

Don't keep looking at my sins - erase them from your sight.

Create in me a new, clean heart.

O God, filled with clean thoughts and right desires.

(Psalm 51:7-10, The Living Bible-TLB)

Kopisan Lai Fun In Gopeng

We woke up early on a Tuesday morning. We started our morning walk early and finished early.

It was a nice day and since we didn't have much to do, hubby decided to drive to Gopeng (hubby's hometown) for breakfast. We haven't been to Gopeng for a long time. When in Gopeng, we usually go for "lai fun" for breakfast in Kopisan village. "Kopisan" in Cantonese means coffee hill.

Wall mural: I LOVE YOU U KOPISAN (Kopisan written in Chinese character).

Kopi = coffee, san = hill or mountain.

Part of the mural was shaded by shadow, part with the sunlight on it.

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The noodle shop is opposite this wall mural.

Here, customers have to pick whatever ingredients we want and then queue to pay at the payment counter. I did the ordering and paying, and hubby went to get a table and order drink. Surprisingly, at 8:30am, there weren't many customers.

Lai fun (rice noodle) with fish paste and pig's head skin for hubby. (Sorry, Pig's head skin may sound gross to some of you.)

Plain "lai fun" (rice noodle) in clear soup with fish paste for me.

I picked some fried stuff consisting of fried meatballs, fried stuffed bean curd skin and 3 pieces of special fried items which is hubby's favourite.

I was told that the ingredients in these special fried item consist of fried anchovies, crispy fried lard, and etc. etc.

No wonder there weren't many customers eating there. We understand the increase in price but we realized that the quality of the soup has dropped. After breakfast, we drove around to see if there is any new changes.

Some of the older village houses have been torn down and rebuilt like this one here. More of these new houses are replacing the older houses.

Next, we drove to Gopeng town to look see, look see.

Then we saw this stall here.

Oh! It is a durian stall.

Most of Gopeng's durians are from the nearby hills. I love hill durians especially those brought down by the natives. Even though we just had breakfast, we stopped to buy one durian and ate it there and then. It was selling at RM10 per kilo and the durian we bought was RM15. Feeling satisfied, we drove back to Ipoh.

Linking to Monday Mural.

Just as Death and Destruction are never satisfied,

so human desire is never satisfied.

(Proverbs 27:20, New Living Translation-NLT)

Light Dinner At Heritage Town Cafe Gopeng

The last stop for our 1 day trip was Gopeng. We wanted to try the cuttlefish with paku pakis (wild fern shoots) 

at the Heritage Town Cafe Gopeng.

This is the stall selling the cuttlefish with paku pakis and it also sells blanched cockles.

We were not in a hurry to find a place to sit but were busy checking out the place.

They use old fashioned furniture from yesteryears.

Nope, we didn't sit here.

Not sure whether this jukebox is still in working condition.

Wooden staircase.

Some of us tried out this hopscotch game.

Nope, not me.

A place to have your pictures taken.

3 types of different cold drinks.

2 plates of cuttlefish with paku pakis with generous portion of crushed peanuts and sesame seeds.

Have to move the topping aside to see the pieces of cuttlefish and paku pakis underneath.

Love the blanched fresh and tender paku pakis.

We also want to try the above deep fried sweet potato balls.

Nice paper cup for holding the sweet potato balls.

Time to make our move. Looking forward to a return visit in the near future.

We reached our friend's house at 7:10pm.

Driving home.

Evening sky at 7:15pm.

Our 1 day trip took us more than 12 hours.

It was a tiring yet enjoyable trip. Back to home, sweet home.

Linking to Friday Bliss & Skywatch Friday.

I will try to walk a blameless path, but how I need your help,

especially in my own home, where I long to act as I should.

(Psalm 101:2, The Living Bible-TLB)