This will be the last part for my short trip to Perak over the long weekends holidays.

Day 3: Senkinchan – Johor – Singapore

In the morning we had a wonderful home cooked styled breakfast at Restaurant Cha Po Tion. Consisting of fishball beehoon soup, sliced fish porridge, stir fried vegetables, omelette and my favorite fish – Tuak Seh in Hokkien Dialect. Not sure what it’s called in English and I know I always have it while I am in Penang. The fish was so good that we ordered a second helping.

After breaky we made our way to the Pantai Rendang to visit the wishing tree and a Chinese temple. It was low tide and we saw a group of volunteers helping to clean up the beach.

While I was looking around at the shop, I couldn’t help trying this expensive Mao Shan Wang Ice-cream. The shop owner was raving how good it was and I am curious about the taste. Taste wise ~ Nah nothing fabulous (in my opinion) I better off eating the real fruit where there isn’t any add sugar or nasty stuff.

Thereafter, we made our way to see the paddy field. Sadly, the timing of our visit was wrong! No lush green paddy fields greeted us. Instead all I see was barren landscape. The farmers has already harvested the rice and they are preparing the land for the next planting season. Though I didn’t get to see the lush greenery, to be honest it was still very beautiful. The charred ground, brown soil and bits of greenery appeals to me.

At the rice factory, they also have a small plot of land with paddy. Not much but one gets the idea of how it’s like to walk through the soil path to snap quick photos of the paddy field. After the visit at the rice factory, each of us was gifted with a small packet of rice.

As we head back on board the coach for lunch, we drop by Ah Ma House. A small house busting with tourists grabbing whatever they could as last minute gifts before leaving Senkinchan. Our guide told us to try their traditional love letters that were baked over charcoal. To him, while it’s good but nothing beats his own mother’s version. We were told to give it a try with an open mind. After taste test, we felt it was definitely way better than the other brands we tried before but not as awesome as my own grandmother’s version.

Lunch at Jie Mei Seafood Restaurant was really really good! Their sweet sour seafood broth was really flavourful – I would say this is the star dish and the pig throttle one of the better tasting one throughout the trip. Truly a very satisfying lunch!

For the next several hours we were stuck on the coach heading back to Johor – every now and then there would be traffic jam at the highway. We also managed to visit a local produce shop at JB and collected our pre-ordered otah (grilled fish paste with spices patty) from Xiao Mei before having our dinner.

After dinner we made our way back to Singapore and I am not looking forward to it as the jam was massive! Literally, we were stuck at the causeway for almost 5 hours! And by the time I reached home it’s already 3ish in the morning! Thanks goodness I get to work from home the next day otherwise I would be a grumpy zombie!

My conclusion for my stay at Bagan Datuk Fishing Village. It is an ordinary Chinese Fishing Village with nothing much to offer. Yet they are able to create a business and transform it to a tourist attraction. To visit such attraction I strongly recommend visiting with family / friends and not joining a tour group. Too much waiting time when the group is big everyone look like a minion in the photos 🤭. Lol as long as there are puddles of water, with a bit of creativity one can create their very own sky mirror. There is no need to take a long trip out to this specific spot for photos.

Then again I must say it was a good break away from my busy work schedule, just chilling, eating and doing nothing for the past few days. Would I make the journey there again – maybe in the near future I would consider or maybe just to Senkinchan during the paddy season when the lush greenery is in season. Should the trip materialise definitely it will just be family or smaller group of friends.

XOXO