Let’s travel back in time again to 2 months ago lol. It was Chinese New Year and these are some photos I would just like to share.
On that day, all the clan houses were having an open house. The clans are of course the 5 big clans: Khoo, Tan, Lim, Cheah and Yeoh Kongsi. Shown here is Kew Leong Tong, the principal association of Lim Kongsi. I suppose Kew Leong Tong is in Cantonese and it means Hall of Nine Dragons. To read more about this clan house, I recommend AsiaExplorers.
I did went to all clan houses for a visit and the most majestic being the Khoo Kongsi.
Hotels in Penang were participating for the best Chinese New Year stand. This was Evergreen Laurel’s creation. Didn’t know who came out as the winner but I remembered Sheraton Hotel’s was creative. They had a big boat with their staff in it singing and promoting mandarin orange flavored cheesecakes.. Talk about being creative lol.
The Dragon Dance performers doing a rehearsal. Although it was a rehearsal it managed to draw a big crowd especially the foreigners. From their facial expressions I can tell they were very amazed. And they couldn’t stop taking photos too.
Beautiful paper lanterns hung up for visitors to ‘cai teng mi’ (some sort of Chinese quiz)
This was called the Scholar Bridge. So I think those who were still studying would find it useful..Walk through it and become a scholar 
Array of lion costumes being displayed on the ground before the performance begun..
More lion costumes.. I noticed the performers were all quite young, impressive.
Ahh.. Hakka Village, my village. Funny thing was I didn’t see anyone speaking Hakka at all..
Lastly, one of the main attractions in the street festival, the one thing that Penangites cannot live without.. hawker food ~
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last year I went to KL to celebrate 2007’s New Year celebration. On the countdown day itself, Siang Leng and I had lunch in 1-Utama’s Wong Kok Char Chan Teng. Wow how time flies, it’s been so long already and April is only around the corner.
Their Hong Kong Iced Milk Tea is really nice. Unlike our teh-ais, it is not overly sweet and more fragrant. Bring a birthday boy/girl here and they will serve a gigantic glass of iced milk tea for free. But there’s a condition to it, you must have at least 6 people in a group.
The variety of food to order from Wong Kok is so wide that it can be intimidating lol. And they are all so nicely portrayed in the menu, making it even harder to make up your mind. I can’t remember exactly the name of this, but it should be Cheese Baked Spagetthi.
Let’s take a peek at what’s underneath that layer of cheese.. :drool:
And my order, some sort of pork chop and sausage on a sizzling pan. I made a mistake by asking for red sauce.. It didn’t go really well with the meat. I’ve always reminded myself not to take red sauce but in the end I still went for it, lol.
The food is not great but Wong Kok Char Chan Teng is a nice place to hang out for its Hong Kong style food and environment. It does make you feel like you are dining in Hong Kong in some ways lol. A nice break from our usual mamak and coffee shop.
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