Penang Trip 2018: Day 2

We had a late start to the day. We lazed around in our room until 230pm before heading out to Entopia by Butterfly Farm. 

Breakfast fruits and juice

Egg Florentine and Classic Breakfast with tea

Our driver guide brought us to one of the Batu Ferringhi beaches where we took an extermely short walk as we were both not interested but were too polite to decline the driver. 

We went to Tree Monkey at Tropical Spice Garden for the sunset and Thai dinner. However, there was not much of a sunset as it was raining before that. 

Appetizer: Mussel Salsa

Sizzling Bean Curd,  Blue Rice (butterfly pea flower) and Tomyum noodle soup (not in pic)

Thai Coconut ice cream

We were supposed to go to the Batu Ferringhi Night Market but decided to skip it. We arrived back at the hotel just before the thunderstorm started. Phew. 

More local Penang delights

Souvenirs from Entopia by Butterfly Farm

Brunch@Beach Culture, Pasir Ris Park

It has been a while since we had brunch. Since the girls' tutor is away on hols, we went to Beach Culture, Pasir Ris Park for brunch. 
Beach Culture is an unpretentious beach dining. When we arrived, a ROM event + wedding lunch was set up. Later heard that the restaurant specialises in ROM events. 

For brunch, Marieann ordered Morning Pancakes ($9.80), both Juliane and her father had Beach Culture Breakfast ($12.80) and I tried the Salmon Fillet ($18.80). We also ordered Culture Wings as appetiser, Chocolate Lava Cake ($8.80) and Apple Crumble with ice cream ($7.80) to share. It was a satisfying brunch for all. :)

Morning Pancakes

Beach Culture Breakfast

Salmon Fillet: it was cooked just right

Culture Wings: Crispy and delicious

Pasir Ris Park is a pleasant surprise: peaceful and quiet. Although it is the weekend, the park was not overly crowded and noisy. There were some people kayaking in a special cordoned off area, less than a handful of families at the beach, and a couple of runners. I only realised much later that there is a mangrove forest nearby. We shall certainly visit the mangrove forest the next time we are there. :)

Gold Coast Fun (Shopping) Day 2

Two words to describe the sunrise as seen from the living room balcony - Beautiful! Breath-taking!
I woke up at 4am, patiently took photos of the sunrise, standing at the balcony in the cold, windy Gold Coast morning until 5am. After which, I went back to sleep until 9-ish am lol. :)

Voyager Resort's swimming pool and jacuzzi

We headed out to Habour Town Outlet Shopping via bus and arrived just 12pm. I immediately launched in "SHOP" mode and hit the very first shop I saw which happened to be one of my favourite fashion brands in Australia. :P After one and a half hours of non-stop shopping, we finally break for lunch.

Our bus to Habour Town Outlet Shopping Centre (Gold Caost Highway under upgrading)

Finally, a photo with Santa Claus!

Candy Land - we went back to it twice!

At the first restaurant we saw, Nonna's, we went for it lol. Well, we did ask Azlina first if she could eat at Nonna's. :) Nonna's is actually made up of three restaurants - Nonna's Italian, Nonna's Seafood and Nonna's Steakhouse side by side each other and you can order from any of the three menus. Both Juliane and I ordered half-portion of our Italian dishes - Carbonara Pasta for Juliane and Seafood Risotto for me. Azlina had a Vegetarian Pizza. Food arrived within 10 minutes of our ordering, very efficient and fast service!. When our dishes arrived, our jaws dropped. The half-portion was huge, like an adult portion in Singapore! We both had to pack home half of our half-portions, even Azlina too lol. :P I don't mind eating here again if I come back to Habour Town. The waitresses are all very friendly, the service is efficient and fast and they accede to your requests most readily. :) 

Seafood Risotto - very generous serving and plenty of seafood

After lunch, we shopped for another hour and a half before heading back to Broadbeach, just after 4pm.

We went to the beach once we arrived back at Broadbeach close to 5pm. It was really fun to walk on the beach. It was windy and cool. Juliane was tickled to stand on the beach with the waves rushing in onto the beach. We saw some crustaceans with barnacles growing on them. We also saw seagulls who were really bold and walking quite close to us lol.

Juliane loves the wind blowing at her

Love this photo of us! :)

Juliane tickled by the waves coming in

Ah, the sea water is so cold!

Juliane pretending to command the waves lol

Wildlife on the beach

By 6pm, we were back at our apartment because I wanted to take photos of the sunset. Alas, the sunset was behind us and our view of the sunset was blocked by the other apartment buildings. :( 

For dinner, we had our left-overs from lunch which was more than keep us full. :) We wanted to take The Oasis Monorail from Oasis Shopping Centre which is next block to us, to go to Jupiters for a look see. But the monorail was closed so we ended up shopping at Woolworths instead and buying more stuff to bring back to Singapore lol. :P

Nice and warm fire. The Gold Coast nights are quite cold.

Jupiters Hotel & Casion, seen from our street

Chocolate goodies bought from Woolworths