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Kampung! (Part 2)

After being satisfied with walking around Teluk Batik beach, we went for dinner. Headed back to Sitiawan and went to Ludo Restaurant and had our dinner =)

Every year during Qing Ming my dad's side of the family will come to this restaurant for dinner and every single time we'll order these dishes: Red Wine Vermicelli (红酒面线), Ou Jian (Oyster omelette?) and Go Ru (Sweet and Sour Fish Stomach?- In chinese it is 酸辣鱼漂).

Love love love these dishes =) This year I didn't manage to go back for Qing Ming due to exams and I asked my dad to tapao it for me and delivered it to my hostel. But eating it freshly made at the restaurant is always better than eating it after it's tapao-ed.

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Red wine vermicelli. My mom can make this dish as well eventhough she is not Foochow ;) Influenced from my dad's childhood food. By the way, my dad is not Foochow but Hokkien. His family are the odd ones out at the village.

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Yum-meh =) I wanted to eat more but there are more dishes going to be served so I settled with a tiny bowl of this =(

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Sweet and sour fish belly (stomach?) I absolutely looove this. Always ask my mom to cook this at home but good quality fish belly is not readily available and my mom doesn't like using lesser quality fish belly because they have a very strong oil smell.

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The best oyster omelette I've ever tasted anywhere =) The oyster is rightly sized. Some oyster omelette have oversized oyster (Just like the ones I tasted in Taiwan) and to me it's disgusting =S You can feel the inerts spilling into your mouth while you chew on it.

There are other dishes too but... I was too busy eating to really take more photos. Hehe.

Then we head back to my mom's kampung. My sister don't really like going back to my mom's hometown but personally, I love that place. It's quiet and secluded and far away from the city... I'm so not a city girl, and will probably never be one =3 And most importantly, it's dark. Not light pollution to block my view from the Milky Way =)

My cousins have a dog named Brown and she just gave birth to puppies... Which they gave away =( Not that I want the puppies but I love to play with baby animals.

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Dog's teeth! Haha it's intersting to note the difference between their teeth and human teeth.

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Bark bark!

That night I spent 1 hour lying on my uncle's Proton just looking at the stars =) Talked to my cousin and we tried to look for the Big Dipper. I think we found it but we are not really sure. But still, it's pure bliss just lying there enjoying the view.

The only thing there to ruin it was the mosquitoes. Sad.

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