Strawberries and such...

Cameron Highlands is raining with strawberries. Strawberries are not only edible but can also be taken to sleep as pillows. Hahaha.

You can find strawberry key chains, strawberry pillows, strawberry pencil cases, strawberry magnets, strawberry slippers and countless other strawberry designed products. One my first day in CH, I found myself surrounded by strawberry products to be rather fun, but come the 2nd day, I got tired of this. Everywhere in the nook there are strawberries. Most shops sell the same things. Even the night markets are filled with the same souvenirs. 

Living in NZ and Canada exposed me to strawberry picking (the real thing~fruit grown in soil), but the strawberries here were grown in a slightly different way. We didn't get to strawberry pick in CH, but what I enjoyed most was the food made out strawberries. Here are some pics I took while we were strawberrying in CH.

Waffles with strawberry jam (okay la...so so...not so yumm)

Strawberry and cream & Strawberry sundae

Enjoying myself....

Strawberry jam, strawberry tea, strawberry preserves and strawberry fridge magnet which I took home

...of tea and scones

While vacationing in Cameron Highlands, I decided to take everyone up to Bala's Chalet and Restaurant for some tea and scones. The atmosphere around Bala was rather relaxing. 

Bala's Chalet & Restaurant

The scones were excellent, served with imported butter and strawberry jam.  The cream they serve with the jam was unusual: pure white in colour and very dense. I thought it could be the whipping cream, but whipping cream is usually lighter. A mouthwatering combination with the delicious scones was the tea. My hubby thought that the tea was perfect.

Beautiful scones

This combination of 2 pieces of scones and a teapot of tea costs RM22.50. I think it's a little pricey. But with the ambiance and great scones, no price is comparable to the experience.

The scones and tea are just to our liking

Hb & I posed while waiting for our order

Patiently waiting

Exotic lomak cili api

This is our 2nd trip to Restoran Nelayan on Jalan Zaaba, Seremban. To those who never ever had  any taste of masak lomak negeri style, have a visit here. You will find a variety of masak lemak cili api and a wide range of ulam-ulaman and sambal belacan, tempoyak and cencalok. Yummm.......

A range of ulams

All the sambal belacans and cencaloks and tempoyaks

My kids love the 'siput' and 'otak' is my hb's favourite

See the 'landak' meat???

                                      

Tembusu is the inner perut...(I dont know which part of perut actually, but my hb loves this)

This is really expensive....cendawan kukur (1kg costs rm100)

Anga & Ain settled for this

That's hb's choice

That's mine

This restaurant is unique as this is the one that serves EXOTIC masak lomak cili api dishes ranging from porcupine meat (landak), venison meat (rusa) and other exotic dishes. I am not brave enough to try these exotics, so I only settled for Grilled beef masak lomak (daging salai). Hubby paid RM80 for a lunch for 6 adults.

An unexpected turn of event

My ODC which we just overhauled its engine went overheated in Bandar Seri Putra in Bangi. We were on our way to a short trip to Cameron and all our plans went haywire. Because it was my sister's first trip to Cameron Highland, I decided to proceed with this holiday. Well, didn't want to ruin her excitement. Zahidee, my nephew came to our rescue. He helped us out with our ODC and let us used his Wish. We were on our way up when we received a BBM message saying that the ODC has been towed by Evo's sister company in Gemas.

My ODC being towed from Bukit Mahkota to EVO in Gemas

                                              
Road trip to CH was fine. It was almost 12 midnight when we finally reached Greenhill Apartments.

2 days in Cameron Highland, time to head home. But then again, our ODC was still at Evo Gemas. 

After sending Nasri off in UIA, we had a good ride via Plusliner coach. When was the last time I took a ride on a bus??? Hmmm...let's see, can't remember. It must have been years....

Dad is one happy man...he didn't have to
drive this time