Roadtrip Down Kuantan - Where To Eat, Shop and Go

Kuantan is like the most happening east coast town nearest to Kuala Terengganu.

It is about 3-4 hours drive away (depending on your speed and time of travel like if you travel early in the mng, then less cars so cut short the time too). Imagine just 3-4 hours away and you get to watch movie in a cinema (yup, not downloaded or dvd version from ur laptop or projector), decent karaoke, shopping and food! Franchise food, local food whatever. There's so much more choice and variety. It's like Kuantan is so much better and more happening than KT that i wont complain if i get posted there for my housemanship. :p

Anyway to avoid traffic, we started traveling at 6.30 am and reached Kuantan about 10 am. Siew was craving for dim sum so we went to a dim sum restaurant that was recommended by S's friend but the restaurant is not open cz it opens only at 11am. We were too hungry to wait so we went to searched for the best curry noodle in Kuantan.

Actually, i think anyone who had been to Kuantan must had tried this curry noodle before cz any forum or blog that you stumbled across will have a recommendation about this restaurant. And it's not tourist only recommending this shop, but local ppl too. Since so many ppl recommended and give the curry noodle so high rating, how can we not go try for ourselves right? After all tasting is believing. As expected, cz it's a public holi and a Sat, the place was packed like sardine and we had to wait for a table. Fortunately the wait was not that long despite the crowd.

The aunties responsible for the oh-so-famous curry noodles with their humble stall. These aunties must be very used to ppl taking their pictures already.

The whole pot of curry that everyone talks about.

Berbanyak ppl inside the shop we had to sit outside.

Yes yes, this is it. The restaurant is in Teluk Cempedak so all you have to do is follow the Teluk Cempedak road sign and drive all the way to the end and you won't miss the shop.

Further down the street is the beach already.

Since had to wait for the noodles, i took some candid shot of my roadtrip buddies.

Sarah enjoying the surroundings.

Lou muka so masam.

Siew bergaya posing.

And finally, the much talk about curry noodle came! You can almost see a halo surrounding the noodle. It smelled good and it look good. The curry noodle came with tau pok (dried fried taufu), chicken, fishballs, bean sprouts and cockles.

But the verdict? - honestly after so much of recommendation and talk about it, you will kinda expect something that literally sweep you to heaven the min you put it into your mouth but sadly, that did not happen. I think the curry noodles are overrated. In fact, i think it's only average. I find the curry not thick enough (yea.. i like curry gao/thick), in fact it is the pretty diluted kind of curry and not spicy enough. And it has a tinge of asam sourish taste to it too which i guess perhaps what makes them unique. I dno it mite be the best in Kuantan already but i don't think it's worth driving all the way to Kuantan just for it. But if you happen to drop by Kuantan, then i think you can go try it cz it's different and the portion is generous for the price.

You can also have ur curry with dried noodle, what the aunties call mee kicap or hv mee kicap with fishballs. Siew had this and i stole a bite and the noodles were practically tasteless. It's better to have the original curry noodle and shd highly avoid the dried ones.

After breakfast, we head down to Teluk Cempedak beach cz it's just a few mins walk away. The KFC there has the nicest and most sophitiscated name any KFC in Msia has - it's called KFC Palm Resort. Does Teluk Cempedak translates into Palm Resort? I expect smt like Jackfruit Bay instead. haha.

With my other 2 crazy lovely funny hosemates.

The wind was quite strong so our hair kept flying and we were standing against the wind so our hair kept covering our face.

A better group pic :)

Lets do the jump! We attempted to do the jump a few times but always failed. See this one almost succeed but DD was too slow.

This one everybody jumped but look at my hair!! alamak like Zhen Zi!!

Teluk Cempedak beach is famous for all these rocks. Don't worry mum, i only look from far, i did not go into the water.. hehehe

Now we are standing in the direction of the wind. So see our hair dont cover our faces anymore.

Blueekkk :P

There were many ppl at the beach that day. Couples, family, friends.

Then as the sun climbs higher, we head to East Coast Mall. There are mainly 2 huge malls in Kuantan, one is Berjaya Megamall and the other is East Coast Mall. Berjaya has a very huge and attractive exterior but then again dont be fool by their looks. The cinema in Berjaya is like crap and they dont have many shops. It's much quieter in Berjaya. But if you wna play bowling then you shd go to Berjaya. East Coast Mall is much better with more shops, restaurants and of course a better cinema. GSC just opened there and it's 100 times better than the cinema at Berjaya. I really do like East Coast Mall much much better.

You will too after you read what i have to say next (for all you girls who loves MNG!!)

Now get ready not to faint from excitement after you read this ok. There is a MNG Outlet store at East Coast Mall. If you dont understand why im so happy and excited over this, then lemme elaborate further. It means that you get to buy MNG stuff at super discounted price. Like super super low price. You can get a very nice cocktail dress that usually goes for RM 200 for like only RM 80. A studded clutch for like only RM 33. Winter coat for less than RM 100. It's true that those are past season stuff. And there are stuff that are not so nice, u noe the leftovers. But if you want a good bargain, you'll have to be a hardworking shopper. You have to search for your good stuff. Even some of the past season leftovers are very nice and they are still quite in now. And some of them are classic evergreens that will nv go out of date. And they definitely have nicer and better leftovers than the outlet shop at Jln Peel in KL. Of course you don't expect the latest stuff to be going for such low prices right.

Oh and the best part about this outlet store is, they have sizes from XS to L. Unlike the Jln Peel one. All their leftovers are mainly L or XL and u shd count yourself fortunate if you can find a M and thank your lucky stars if there's S. But here, you can even find XS.

How come i never saw or heard of this from all the Kuantan blogs or forum? haha. But see, i so good. Share this piece of good news with all of you just cz u all are my loyal cute dearest readers. Faster say thank you. :p. Cz next time if i cannot find any more XS, i will know it's you guys. haha.

What else can you do at East Coast Mall?

Movies of course! There's Twilight, the latest craze but nope, we did not watched that. We opt to watch a movie that has not much promotion on it, a movie that very few ppl watch, a movie maybe you still goes 'What?' after hearing the title.

But this movie is so funny and punny that we laughed throughout the movie, probably annoying other ppl with our loud laughter. This funny and punny movie is call Planet 51. I don't know why there's not much promotion about this movie, but this movie has some big stars in it mainly like Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel and Justin Long. It's a cartoon actually and it's about an astronout lost in a friendly alien planet. The story plot is simple but it is so funny and light-heartening.

Those of you who had watched Twilight and cursed it, now you know you shd had watched Planet 51 instead right? haha

After movie, it's time for more chillaxing in the mall.

@ Black Canyon Coffee

Talk to my hand :p

@ Starbucks. My face without make up (only lipstick tho). Cz it's like one whole long day and i woke up like 5.30 am so lazy wna make up. Natural is the look now k. :p.

This is the restaurant we had dinner (non-halal so not for dearest Muslim readers.) It's somewhere off Jln Berserah. In fact, there's the phone number of the restaurant in the pic for you to call and make reservations or enquiries. There were freaking a lot of ppl that night. We had to wait an hour for our food to come. Well so u know why u shd call for reservations dy right? But dont call and ask for hot chicks.

Cz the closest hot chick you can get is this. :p (lame i know) . Everything is written in Chinese so i will try my best to translate the name of the dishes here. This is herbal wrapped chicken which is the chef recommendation. Basically its similar to the paper baked chicken in JB. Lots of herbs. The whole chicken was soaked in herbs and the soup has 100% herbal taste only. But, when you eat the chicken on its own, it's quite tasteless. The herbs don't seem to manage to be absorbed by the chicken. Maybe there were just too many ppl that night, so they din hv time to baked the chicken properly or long enough for the herbs to fully seeped into the chicken.

Hot plate homemade tofu with salted fish and minced pork. The homemade tofu is actually very good. Very smooth and soft and has an eggy smell that i like. But i think they overdosed the tofu with salted fish so it became like eating salted fish only.

Hot plate dried curry with prawn. This is good. I like the curry, i like the prawns. And price reasonable too. RM 20 for this plate.

Yam basket with pork. OMG. This is so die die must try. The yam basket is like freaking good. The yam is crispy on the outside, melts straight on the inside that type. The glistening pork has honey over and it's so so so yummy.

Sambal sweet potato leaves (fan shu miu) - this one also good.

See how clean our plates are. We only used 20 mins to finished up our whole meal. We had to wait very long but it's worth the wait. The food is really good. And price wise, it's reasonable too.

We started heading back to KT at about 9pm. It was definitely a long day and was tiring but i had lotsa fun with my company who kept me entertained.

And also because i found out a hidden 'gem' at East Coast Mall. hahaha. :p

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