Cherating Trip - Part 2

Back to my Cherating Trip. This post will be on the last day of the trip. Spent most of the second day attending one of my ex-colleague's wedding and shooting there. Will post up the pics later.

So, this is the view outside our room's window. There have a small sofa there that you can sit and enjoy the view outside. Beyond the palms is the ocean - just a short hop from the room. In Impiana Cherating, all the rooms faces the sea!

After breakfast and a bit of lazing around, we checked out and headed back to KL. We had wanted to buy some fruits and saw quite a lot of pineapples being sold by the roadside. We stopped and bought some and so happen the next stall was selling fresh young coconuts. We headed there and bought one each. The seller hacked open the coconuts right there and you can then drink the juice straight from the fruit.

The taste was refreshing and not like the ones we get in KL where the juice is sweetened by some unknown substance. Here's as pic of the one I had.

After the 'air kelapa muda' treat we headed down to Kuantan town. It was lunchtime and we hunted around for a place to eat and settled for this shop called 'Kemaman Kopitiam'.

It's a quaint little place that lookk like a cross between the modern cafes and the old style kopitiam. Here's how it looked like from where I sat.

The layout is like the old style kopitiam but the tables are small and ornate. Not like those plasticky types you find often in normal kopitiams. The floor is clean unlike those greasy floor that kopitiams have. It's not crowded despite it being a Monday and lunchtime. Probably because the price of the food is not that economical for everyday consumption.

What di we have for lunch? Well, since my wifey is a coffee lover and this place is called Kemaman Kopitiam and serves the famous coffee from Kemaman, she ordered a cup. To go with it she ordered the nasi dagang. I had a taste of the nasi and it was good. Here's the pic:

I had the nasi lemak ayam rendang and it wasn't half bad. Surprisingly, the iced lemon tea came in a sealed plastic cup. Pic like below:

Apart from the 'main course' we ordered some side dishes. Like the pulut ayam below,

and some keropok lekor. The keropok were good and freshly fried.

Apart from the food, the shop was also decorated in an unconventional way. It had an old record player and I mean old! It was on display along with a record by it's side. I don't know if it still works but it's not everyday you get to see something like this:

Just beside this diaplay was an old, old poster of 2 Chinese girls. The colours were all faded and when I got closer, I realised that it was an advertisement poster for cigarrettes!

Noticed the ciggy dangling from one of the girl's hand? The was a box pictured on the bottom right corner of the poster. I did not catch what brand it was but it quite a surprise. Tobacco manufacturers had targeted women smokers even from way back then when smoking and women were not things that you would link together. Back then, only 'bad' girls smoked. You get my drift?

The shop also had quite a few coffee cups on display on the various shelves in the shop. I don't know if they are for sale or not. The above pic is one example.

After lunch, the trip was officially over and it was a long drive back to KL.