Assam Laksa
Assam Laksa is food should not miss at Penang. Thick rice noodles served in fish flakes soup and garnish with fresh mint, onions, shredded pineapple, cucumber, lettuce, fresh chillies, ginger flowers and spoonful of black shrimp paste(hae ko).

Penang Hokkien Mee
Penang Hokkien Mee is also called Har Meen . It made boiling shrimp and dried prawns with a touch of lard, noodles are then poured in and garnished with prawns, hard boiled egg, vegetable, beans sprout and sprinkling of deep fried shallots. The dish is served with sliced red chili, light soy sauce and sambal.

Penang Char Koay Teow
Penang Char Koay Teow is a fried flat rice noodles, tossed with bean sprouts, egg, prawns, chinese sausage, cockles and chilli. Some people have added duck eggs rather than chicken eggs to give the dish more aroma.

Koay Teow Th’ng

Koay Teow Th’ng is served with flat rice noodles in the bowl clear chicken soup with slices of chicken meat, pork meat and fish balls and garnish with chopped spring onions.

Penang Nasi Kandar
The original of Nasi Kandar can be traced back to Penang where it was peddled by Indian Muslims. The meal is a big plate of steamed rice which can be plain or mildly flavored, and served with a variety of curries and side dishes which are fried chicken, fried fish, prawns, squid, hardboiled eggs, various vegetables, and a curry.

Penang lobak
Penang lobak is a mix of deep fried stuffs which are preserved century eggs, prawn fritters, lobak fish fritters, and fried beancurd served with two types of dipping sauce that are sweet sauce (black) and spicy sauce.

Cendol
Cendol is a favorite dessert at Penang. It is a mixture of blended ice with coconut milk cooked with brown sugar, and topped with red beans and green colored jelly cendol.

Penang Travel Guide

Hainanese chicken rice balls

Hainanese chicken rice balls are most popular food in Malacca. It served with fragrant rice rolled into balls and eats with boiled chicken drenched in sesame oil, garnish with cucumber and chilli sauce.

Satay celup

Satay celup is one of Malacca’s most popular foods. It served by different raw food skewers are dunked into boiling port of specially source that is spicy peanut sauce. It is sold in a self-service and freedom chooses you like food and just pay for what you eat.

Fried Oyster Omelette

It is served by small oysters mixed in starch and egg batter with its special chili sauce which tasted spicy and a bit sour.

Cockles and shellfish stall

The stall serves cockles, snail, kepah, and mussels in a small plate with a little plate of special sauces with crushed nuts. It also serves another food includes century egg, tofu skin, fish ball, and sotong kangkung.

Popiah

Popiah is also one of Malacca’s most popular snack. It use popiah skin made from rice flour stuffed with cooked yambean (jicama), bean sprouts, egg, and some slathered with chili and sweet sauces.

Nyonya Chendol

Nyonya Chendol also called Baba Chendol. It is sweet dessert and served red beans, green colored jelly chendol with shaved ice and lashings of coconut cream and brown sticky sweet palm sugar syrup.

Nyonya Pineapple tart

A pineapple tart is popularly known in Malacca. The tasty can use one words that best to describe the deliciously of the small, easy melts-in-your-mouth with pineapple jam.

Malacca Travel Guide

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Nasi Gudeg
Nasi Gudeg is a plate of warm rice served with young jackfruit cut in small pieces and a variety of dishes including chicken, boiled egg, tofu, and tempe cooked in thick, slightly spicy coconut sauce, very sweet and slightly spicy.. For added flavour, try having it with Sambel Goreng Krecek (buffalo skin). for add on spicy flavour. Ask any local and they will proclaim proudly that Nasi Gudeg is originated originally from Yogyakarta,. aAnd, they’re probably correctit’s probably true! Some of the most popular Gudeg restaurants are:

Nasi Langgi
Another unique food wrapped in banana leaves, consisting of warm rice with Empal (Fried Beef), Abon (preserved and sweetened beef), Perkedel (potato cake), rolled omelette and Sambal.

Mee Goreng Jawa (Javanese fried noodles)
Tired of the usual fish and pork flavour ofin Chinese style fFried nNoodles or Thai padthai? Give Javanese fried noodles a try! Spicy with a tint of sweetness, don’t be surprised if you consider going back for ait sets you for a second serving.

Ayam Goreng Mbok Berek (Mbok Berek’s Fried Chicken)
A must tryaste! The fried chicken is flavoured with garlic and coriander.

Soto
Commonly ate for breakfast. Soto is a light and appetising soup served with tempe, Perkedel and Liver Satay.

Kipo Kotagede
Kipo Kotagede is a famous bite size snack only to be found in Kota Gede. It made of green coloured tapioca dough filled with sweetened grated coconut.

Bakpia Pathuk
Bakpia Pathuk is another popular snack made from baked green beans wrapped with thin dough pastry.

Wedang Ronde
Often served at night but push-cart vendor. This is a warm ginger flavoured desert served with peanuts and tapioca cake.

Pecel
Green beans, spinach, sprouts etc. It served with spicy peanut sauce.

Yogyakarta Travel Guide

Samlor Kako
A Khmer soup that uses Prahok or fermented fish as one of the main
ingredients. Its complex, flavorsome and one of Cambodia’s favorite
national dishes.

Amok
A traditional Khmer dish with chicken, fish or shrimp and vegetables
cooked in coconut milk curry. It is usually served in a hollowed-out
coconut with rice on the side.

Kuyteav
A famous Cambodian noodle soup usually consisting of rice noodle
and beef or chicken broth. Kuyteav is usually served as breakfast with
lime juice, chili powder, sugar or fish sauce flavorings.

Loc Lac
A stir fry of cube sized beefsteak with red onion, served on top of
lettuce, cucumber and tomato. Lime juice or pepper is provided for dipping.
It’s best served with your favorite red wine.

Num Ta Leng sap – Khmer vegetarian pancake
Khmer vegetarian pancake stuffed with tofu, jicima, mung beans and
bean sprouts. Absolutely delicious!e

Siem Reap Travel Guide

Phnom Penh Travel Guide

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Chicken Rice

One of Singapore’s favourite national dishes, this dish of fragrant rice and either steamed or roasted chicken is a must try. It comes with a piquant chilli dip.

Satay

Chunks of chicken, beef, mutton or pork on skewers and grilled over charcoal, satay comes with a rich peanut gravy, ketupat rice cakes and a side salad of cucumbers and onions.

Char Kway Teow

A famous noodle dish made with flat rice noodles, Chinese sausage, cockles, eggs and beansprouts. All fried up in a thick black sweet soya sauce.

Roti Prata

A flat bread, pan fried on a griddle. You can either have the squareish flaky bread plain or with an egg in it.

Chilli Crab

Spicy and sweet, this national dish is a must-try. Succulent mud crabs tossed in a piquant chilli and egg sauce. Mop up the sauce with roti (bread).

Laksa
Rice noodles in a thick coconut and shrimp gravy. The definitive one is Katong laksa.

Singapore Travel Guide

Beef Noodles
Hanoi is famous with its beef noodles. Tourist can see a lot of stalls selling beef noodles along the streets. Vietnamese will use yellow beef and quality rice to make the beef noodles. Hence, Beef noodles is a must try in Hanoi.

Chicken Noodles
Chicken noodles are famous as beef noodles. Tourist can find lots of stalls selling chicken noodle in Hanoi, too. A bowl of chicken noodles not only contains chicken and noodle but also eggs, meat and vegetables. The stall owner will put some fresh lemons on the table. It’s totally your choice, to add or not to add the lemon into your chicken noodles.

Prawn Cookies
Famous food in Hanoi. Restaurants located in West Lake sells very nice prawn cookies.

Fried Spring Roll
Vietnamese favorite food. Outer part of the spring roll is made by glutinous rice.

Green Bean Cakes
Green Bean Cakes are Vietnamese traditional cakes. The most famous shops which sell these cakes are golden dragon brand.

Baked Squids
Baked Squids is also a well-known snacks in Hanoi. It can buy in Hanoi’s old street night market.

Hanoi Travel Guide

1. Forbidden City ( the Imperial Palace )
The Forbidden City was the place where the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties lived and ruled. Now it is open to the public as a museum where people can see the great traditional architecture, enjoy the treasures kept in the palace, and learn legends and anecdotes about the imperial families and their court.

2. Tiananmen Square
The Tian’anmen Square is the center of Beijing and the largest and most famous square in the world.

3. Great Wall
The Great Wall is famous for its length and the difficulties of its construction. It stretches about 5,000 kilometers from Shanhaiguan in the east to the Jiayuguan in the west. Used for defense in ancient times, it is now one of the few objects on earth visible from space. Some sections that have been renovated and are opened to public in north Beijing are Badaling, Mutianyu, Jinshanling and Simatai.

4. Summer Palace ( Yiheyuan )
This man-made park, with its large lake and high hills, was built in the 1700’s.

5. Temple of Heaven ( Tiantan )
The Temple of Heaven Park is a large park in southeast of Beijing. It was once an imperial place of worship.Emperors worshipped at this Temple.

6. Ming Tombs ( 13 tombs in Ming Dynasty )
Most emperors in Imperial China spent exorbitant sums on the construction of their tombs. The Ming dynasty tombs are to the northwest of Beijing and the Qing tombs to the east and southwest of Beijing. They are a considerable distance from the city. Most tourists find it better to join a tour. Usually, people visit the Ming Tombs and the Badaling Great Wall on the same day because they are close to each other.

7. Hutong Pedicab Tour ( Shichahai Area )
Shichahai is one of the best places to view well-preserved hutong and siheyuan. Visiting hutong by pedicab is a popular activity for visitors from China and abroad.

8. Lama Temple ( Yonghegong )
Yonghegong was originally the residence of Qing Emperor Yongzheng before he ascended the throne. After he entered the Forbidden City to be the emperor, he converted it to a lamasery. A lamasery is a temple for lamas and is similar in style and decoration to the Buddist temples of Tibet.

9. Beihai Park ( Winter Palace )
Beihai, once an Imperial Palace, is now a public park that attracts many visitors. Try boating in the North Sea or make reservations for a meal at FangShan, a popular restaurant located right in the park.

10. Beijing Capital Museum
The Temple of Confucius was initially built in 1302 and additions were made during the Ming and Qing dynasties. It has a total area of 22,000 square meters (5.4 acres). It is the second largest temple constructed for Confucius, the greatest thinker and educationalist in ancient China, ranking only behind the Temple of Confucius in Qufu, Shandong Province.

Beijing Travel Guide

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So, guidebooks that are currently ready and on sale are:

Cambodia – Siem Reap English Travel Guide

Cambodia – Pnom Penh English Travel Guide

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Indonesia – Yogyakarta English Travel Guide

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Cambodia – Siem Reap French Travel Guide (Draft Version)

China – Beijing English Travel Guide (Draft Version)

China – Beijing Chinese Travel Guide (Draft Version)

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Cambodia – Siem Reap Japanese Travel Guide
Vietnam – Hanoi English Travel Guide

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According to a Chinese saying, no visit to Beijing is complete if you miss seeing the Great Wall or dining on Beijing (or Peking) Roast Duck. The best seasons to eat it are spring, autumn and winter. The hot roast duck will be brought to the dining table by the chef where he will slice it into more than 100 thin flakes, each having its piece of crispy skin.

Instant-boiled mutton, in Chinese called “suan yang rou”, also called the Mongolian Fire Pot, was created in the Yuan Dynasty. The chosen mutton ususally come from the back, rear legs or tail of a killed sheep. It will then be cut into slices. The boiled mutton is fresh and tender, not greasy.

Rice Balls with Sweet Fillings, in Chinese called “Aiwowo”, is first appeared in the Yuan Dynasty. It is a small round pastry made from steamed glutinous rice, with different stuffing, such as hawthorn cake, rock sugar powder, sesame, green plum fruit, or mashed Chinese jujube. It were then well received by the imperial families in the Ming Dynasty. Now it is one of Beijing’s popular snacks.

Pea flour cake, in Chinese called “Wan Dou Huang” was originally a kind of dim sun made of pea flour and later became a favorite in the imperial kitchen. It was said that Dowager Empress Ci Xi liked it for its soft taste. The smashed pea pastes are added to sugar and sweet-scented osmanthus and to be served when cooled. The finished cake is cut into two-inch cubic pieces and served with red sweet dates. It has a pleasing appearance and good taste.

This rice-flour cake with yellow appearance in Chinese is called “ludagun”, if direct translated into English, called Rolling Donkey. The name is quite interesting, it describes the way the dumplings rolling in, while the fried soybean flour resembles a donkey rolling about in dust. It is a traditional Beijing snack. First the steamed glutinous millet or sticky rice dumplings are put into fried soybean flour and then added to the sweetened bean paste. Good ones should taste sweet and sticky.

Beijing Travel Guide

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In the far northwestern coast of Peninsular Malaysia, lies an archipelago of 99 peaceful islands called Langkawi. This gem of Kedah is mysteriously hidden with a fascinating heritage of legends and myths, which depicts giants and gigantic birds, warriors and maidens, wars and battles.

As a natural paradise, Langkawi is gifted with beaches, waterfalls, mangroves, caves, rainforests, hills and mountains. Thanks to the power of nature, Langkawi has been given the Geopark status by UNESCO, for its geoheritage features and outstanding geological landscape. Thus, making Langkawi Southeast Asia’s the first geopark and Malaysia’s pride.

Langkawi islands are laced with fine white sandy beaches, and surrounded by clear emerald water. Langkawi is a perfect place for doing everything or nothing at all. You can either enjoy nature-based activities such as watersports, scuba diving, caves exploring and jungle trekking, or laze by the seashore and watch the world go by.

Wait! There’s more! There are also other tourist attractions that are worth visiting and sight-seeing. Leave your worries and doubts behind, and make your way to Langkawi. Treat yourself a relaxing holiday and explore this mysterious island. A host of adventures await you…

Langkawi Cable Car, at Oriental Village. Taken this view at 708m above sea-level. The top station provides a spectacular 360 degree panoramic views of the Langkawi islands, Kedah, and Southern Thailand.

Pulau Payar. About 45 minutes by ferry from the main Langkawi Island. The marine park teems with a fascinating diversity of marine life and vegetation.

Tanjung Rhu. Another beach which is located in the northern tip of the island.

Pantai Cenang (Cenang Beach). The most famous and most happening place in Langkawi, where you can enjoy all sorts of activities at the beach, like watersports, BBQ-ing, drinking beer, sun-bathing, taking a stroll along the shore or just watch the sun slowly set behind the horizon.

Langkawi Travel Guide

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Over the past few years, the waves of cheap airline have been growing and aimed at conquering the traditional airlines market. Cheap flights such as Air Asia, Jetstar, etc are getting popular. Everyone can enjoy the convenience of booking the airline tickets online.

Air Asia from Malaysia is the pioneer of low cost traveling in Asia. It has recently launched a ZOOM promotion. What’s so special about this promotion is that it offered fares that are as low as RM9* one-way from Kuala Lumpur hub to exciting domestic destinations. According to AirAsia’s Regional Head of Commercial, Kathleen Tan, the launch of the ZOOM promotion was a mark of support to the Tourism Ministry’s effort to promote domestic tourism. The booking period for this promotion begins on 28 July – 5 August 2008 for the travel period of 1 September – 13 November 2008. Find out more of the promotion. Also, the AirAsia X’s network focus cover destinations which are more than 4 hours in flight duration from Kuala Lumpur.

FireFlyz is Malaysia’s first community airline and is wholly owned subsidiary of Malaysian Airline System Berhad. It currently offer extra flights for Subang – Kota Bharu from 29 & 30 september to 3,4,5 &6 of Otober. One could save more if purchase the airline ticket together with the package of the destinations.

Tiger Airways is based in Singapore, with its primary hub at Singapore Changi Airport. It offers a series of real cost savings Tiger Add-On products such as Luggage Upsize, Sports Equipment Check-in and Seat Selector. These Tiger Add-Ons are designed to ensure passengers can enjoy more convenience, assurance and comfort.

Jetstar Asia is based in Singapore. Jetstar Asia Airways and Valuair merged on 25th July 2005. Both airlines operate out of Singapore and fly to most major cities in South-east Asia. Valuair is now having a promotion from Singapore to Medan, Indonesia from S$128. The newly launched ‘Booklovers on Board’ programme provide a selection of short story books that are recommended by the Singaporean National Library Board as part of its nationwide READ! Singapore campaign. Books will remain on board till the end of August 2008.

Lion Air had the largest market share in Indonesia and was once the official airlines for Miss Asean in 2005. It served various domestic destinations and international destination including Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, and Ho Chi Minh City. Besides, Adam Air is a privately owned airline based in Jakarta, Indonesia. It marketed itself as an airline that is in-between low-cost and traditional carriers by offering onboard service with meal at competitive price. This is an advantage that make it outstand from others. Citilink is another airline company based in Indonesia. You could booking the tickets online for domestic destinations – Balikpapan, Bandung, Batam, Jakarta, Medan, Pekanbaru and Surabaya.

Cebu Pacific Air is based in Manila, Philippine. It is the nationl flag carriers. It scheduled flights to both domestic and international destinations in clude Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, etc. Air Philippines transfers to terminal 3 starting 24th of July 2008. All arrival and departure of Air Philippines and Pal Express will be at the NAIA Terminal 3. It served for domestic destination in Philippine.

Bangkok Airways is a regional airline based in Bangkok, Thailand. It scheduled services to 20 destinations include Thailand, Cambodia, China, Japan, Laos, Maldives, Myanmar, Singapore and Vietnam. Apart from that, there are Nok Air and One Two Go airline served for domestic destinations in Thailand.

Siem Reap Airways is based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia with hubs at Bangkok International Airport and Angkor International Airport, Siem Reap. It operates services at both domestic and international destinations including China, Laos and Thailand.

Tips when booking cheap airline tickets
Book early
Book as earlier as you can. Some budget airlines only allow booking the next three-month, so you should book within the limitation. Besides, some airline companies also used tiered pricing strategy where a small number of airline tickets are sold at a cheap price while the rest will be charged at a higher price.

Fly during the week
During the weekends or the school holidays period, the price of the flight tickets will increase considerably. There is bound to be crowded too. So try to depart and return during the week. It can save you lots of money.

Get to the airport on time
Most budget airline companies will try to reduce number of employees in order to save costs and provide cheap flight tickets to customers. This means that check-in staffs do double-checking as gate staffs. So be sure to get you more time to get to the airport.

Try the conventional airlines
Many conventional airlines sometimes offer cheaper flight tickets than the low cost carrier.

Baggage allowances
Additional fees will be charge on you if your bag has exceeded certain kilograms.

Be sure to check where you are going
Some low cost flights will be landed in the airport that is far away from your final destination.

Sources: asiaforvisitors, Budget airline tips from the BBC in Shropshire

Kota Kinabalu (KK) is the state capitol of Sabah. Supposedly area around KK is full of exciting outdoor activity destinations. These included white water rafting, mountain climbing, biking, etc. KK is sandwiched between Crystal Clear Blue Ocean and the tallest mountain in Southeast Asia – Mount Kinabalu. The mountain is the third tallest in Southeast Asia behind Hkakabo Razi of Myanmar (Burma) and Puncak Jaya of New Guinea (Indonesia). In other words, Mount Kinabalu also the tallest in Malaysia and on the island of Borneo.

The best time to come to Mount Kinabalu is during the dry season from February to April. Dryer periods of several days also often occur in the inter-monsoon season, between August and September. Kinabalu Park HQ is the good place for you to start and enjoy climbing moment. To gain access to the park you need to get a permit. However, this is not available at the park entrance, you only can be get it in KK.

Refer to Ruhaizad Daud, there are two most important things that you have to do before you go to Kinabalu Park HQ are accommodation and fees and equipment preparation. It is important to book well ahead of time. The distance from Kota Kinabalu to Kinabalu Park HQ is about 90 kilometers. For a proper appreciation of your climb, it is essential for you to spend 3 days and 2 nights at the mountain. So, the first thing you have to do now is try to make reservations for your stay on the first night at Kinabalu Park HQ with Sutera Sanctuary Lodges. They have various types of accommodations from a 28-bedded hostel to an exclusive lodge for you to choose. Most of the climber chooses the hostel because it is cheap and usually they will only stay there for only one night. You will start your climb on the next morning.

The next thing that you have to do is to book a place in Laban Rata, a place for you to stay on the second night. There are also various types of accommodations in Panar Laban for you to choose. Because of the limited availability, heated rooms are only available at Laban Rata Resthouse. You will start the next continuation of your climb (Summit Trail (night climb)) to the summit early on the next morning. You will not be allowed to climb if you do not have a place to stay in Laban Rata. You are not allowed to camp there.

Last of all, enjoy the journey of attempting conquer Mount Kinabalu. I believed that it might be the best trip and memorable experience that you ever been.

Kota Kinabalu Travel Guide