This is our yearly birthday event… find a new place, do a day trip, jalan-jalan, cari makan……
Today, we plan for Kuala Sepetang (十八丁) and Kuala Gula….
Kuala Sepetang, famous of it Charchol Factory, we always wanted to go.. finally we got there.
I start my journey from my house at 5am, and finish back home at 9.30pm, a very very long day trip.. total 14.5 hours….. super sleepy and tired…. Haha…. Crazy us~
From my house, reach Suzanne’s house at 5.30am, and get something to eat at Kepong Maluri’s pasar.. then start our journey.
If as our plan, we should be looking for Mak Teh Mee Udang Banjir…. Before we reach charchol factory… but somehow, we cant locate it…. Then…. We just go straight to the factory.
We have called Mr Chuah before hand, we can relax and slowly walk around the charchol factory, thanks to Mr Chuah (You may contact him at 012-573 9563. When you take exit Taiping, follow the Kuala Sepetang signboard, you can easily located the road sign on your left hand side…
When we first step down from the car, wao~~ charcoals smell everywhere….kind of natural and nice tho…. :-p
Then we just walk around as we wish….. If u going, please remember to bring mosqitor repellent…. Don’t ever think like me…. Charchol place, no mosgitor….NO NO NO ~~~ many of them….. cos its mangrove area….unmoved water surround it… phhewww~ I basically being chase by mossy all the time there….. heheheh~
This round, due to only 2 of us, we didn’t get any tour guide or anyone telling us the process of the making, we just go around, talk to some worker.. roughly know some how…. If u wanna know, goggle it. So many story has been posted online… I save some of my saliva here la… hehehe~ but definitely is hard work, not easy. This factory is beautiful, we got a nice blue sky background, make the photo looking quite good. thanks for good weather.
We have spend 2.5 hours walking around, taking photo.. until the worker warn us: if u still continue walking around, u will become black as charchol… hahahahah! Funny plp they have there…. Nice and friendly too. Thanks to them.
After finish visiting the factory, we continue our journey to Mangrove Reserve Forest…. But.. hehehe.. nothing much there.. I think mainly u need to get a rental boat to go around the river.. to see the mangrove tree… we didn’t do that.. we just walk walk … and that it. Next stop…. SEAFOOD LUNCH at Kuala Sepetang.
We reach RESTAURANT TEPI SUNGAI around 11.30am, just nice, no one there yet…. They just open. We pick a good table, have a great view of riverside….. so many fishing boat in and out.. really busy river.
We ordered a black pepper crab, steam mantis, noodle, deep fried mini squids.. everything turn out very tasty and yummy, except we don’t really like the noodle. I will definitely eat here again…..
Next, our plan is to visit the Kuala Gula Bird Sanctury, and some other attraction place there…… is a total disappointment….. nothing much is there… we didn’t spend much time there.. been there, done that…. That’s all.
We leave Kuala Gula at 3+pm, and drive back home lo… stop by at R&R Sungai Perak, had a durian, buy some fruits… and drive back to KL… all the way, got bad traffic, raining… we got back and just had a simple dinner… and go home to rest…..
I have a good time today….. good seafood, good company…. Thanks for your company my dear Suzanne… muakz~
