Kukup, Malaysia - June 2014

Back during the June school holidays, we went on a 2D1N short vacation to Kukup (Johor Bahru, Malaysia) with our University hall friends whom we have known each other for more than 15 years already. It was a boisterous trip for 8 families of 16 adults and 13 kiddos and we had great fun eating and playing non-stop.

We booked our chalet through this website which offers several choices; we selected the Luxury Suite Resort that has 7 bedrooms, enough to house all of us. For those who have not been to Kukup, it's used to be a fishing village with a dominant chinese community and now sort of a getaway destination popular among locals and Singaporeans. There are bungalows, chalets and dormitories specially built for short-stays and usually packages including transport, lodging, 6 meals and visit to kelong are offered. We opted to drive in and there's a large car park for us to park safely (chargeable).

Inside the chalets, there are usually communal space for chatting, karaoke room, mahjong and game sets. And the highlight for many visitors is setting off your very own fireworks and kong ming lanterns (extra charges applicable). I believe Kukup is the only place in JB that allows fireworks (or rather the authorities chose to close an eye, thank goodness!).

Forgot to take a photo of our resort, this is the upper deck which has 7 bedrooms. Below the deck is where the owner stays, along with the kitchen and more bedrooms. Since our group was big, we had the luxury of owning the entire upper deck.

Seating area for us to hang around.

Area where we had our meals, 5 of the meals were served here and the last meal (lunch) was served at a nearby seafood restaurant.

Open space at the back of our resort. This is where we played with fireworks and set off the kong ming lanterns.

View from our resort.

View from our resort.

The living cum karaoke room. It's been a long time since we sang karaoke and everyone had a hilarious time crooning to the favourite melodies of our time.

7 bedroom of different sizes. Some rooms can sleep 3.

Some can sleep 4.

This is the biggest, which can sleep 7. It became the kids' playroom.

Rooms are furnished simply but very clean.

Toilets/shower rooms are very clean as well.

And so, there's this list that states the additional things that we can order and buy :)

Food is definitely in abundance here, literally non-stop and our tummies were filled to the brim all the time!

Day 1 Lunch - curry chicken and potato.

Day 1 Lunch - fried prawns.

Day 1 Lunch - fried otah spring roll.

Day 1 Lunch - sweet and sour fish.

Day 1 lunch - stir fried la-la (clams).

Day 1 lunch - fried egg with prawns. Not in picture - stir fried kailan.

Day 1 lunch - pineapple.

Our ammunition! Haha.

And barely 2hrs after lunch, we were served our tea-break. Although we were still quite full, totally couldn't resist them!

Day 1 tea-break - deep-fried prawn cake/cracker. I loved this so much! It's crispy and fragrant and tasted so good with the homemade chilli sauce. Really want to try making this at home, but forgot to ask for recipe :(

Day 1 tea-break - deep fried tau kwa.

Day 1 tea-break - green bean soup with sweet potato. Very yummy!

After tea, we headed for a short kelong excursion.

At the kelong. The kelong operators showed us a few species of fish. Nothing much, but at least it's an eye-opener for urban kids.

After that we went back to resort for more karaoke till dinner time. Dinner was BBQ food like fish, chicken wings, satay etc. Didn't take any photos.

After dinner was the highlight of the trip. We set off our ammunition with the help of the resort operators.

I guess this was the closest we could get to experience fireworks right in front of us. A rare experience for the kids as well. In fact, so many people were setting off fireworks that it was non-stop show for 2-3 hours in the night. We also set off kong ming lanterns.

Couldn't remember what was for supper, I think was fried beehoon :p

Day 2 breakfast - curry puff.

 

Day 2 breakfast - nasi lemak with chicken wings.

Day 2 breakfast - banana cake.

Day 2 breakfast - soon kueh.

Day 2 breakfast - fried noodles.

After breakfast, we just chill-out and relaxed till check-out time.

For lunch, we were brought to a seafood restaurant nearby.

Day 2 lunch - stir fried sambal kangkong.

Day 2 lunch - thai-style fried chicken.

Day 2 lunch - deep fried fish.

Day 2 lunch - egg tofu

Day 2 lunch - cereal prawn.

Day 2 lunch - fried butter and cream crab

We ordered an extra dish of deep fried baby squid (extra charge) coz I was craving for it :p

All in all, it was a fun and enjoyable getaway with lots of food and activities; great bonding time for friends and families!

Meg's Pastry Studio - 3rd Q orders

Wow, I can't believe we are now into the 4th quarter of 2014 already! And as usual I think the last 3 months of the year would fly past so quickly that I wouldn't even have time to realise it.

For the months of July, August and September, once again I am blessed to take orders from friends, referrals and those who chanced upon my blog :) And I had a great time creating each and every of their cakes.

This is a 4" cake, the smallest cake that I sell, but with 5 layers it's relatively tall. Serves about 4-5 slices of cake. Made a cake bunting upon request from customer too.

 Another petite cake order, this time 4" with 4 layers.

 

Order from a Uni friend for her daughter who likes Doc McStuffin. Proposed this rainbow cake for her that's "un-frosted" at the sides because her daughter doesn't like cream frosting and got the topper separately. I love how the cake turned out, colourful and sweet.

Rainbow cake in vanilla flavour for a joint birthday. Left an empty space for a cake topper.

Very excited to create this cake because it's the first time I made a heart-shape cake. Glad that the cake turned out well. Made a double-layer cake bunting as well.

Order from a friend for his company/colleagues' birthday celebration. This is the largest dimension that I can make (number of layers can be up to 7 layers) suitable for large group servings, up to 40 pax depending on size of the cake slice.

Upcoming this month, I have 3 orders, 2 of which are chocolate cakes which I seldom do. So, pretty excited about what's lined-up for me :) If you are interested to order any pastries, feel free to drop me an email at megtan@singnet.com.sg.


For the month of December, I'll be travelling quite a lot so probably the window for order is only a week or 2. For enquiry, please drop me an email as well :)