A half day trip to Bentong 文冬半日游

We just came back from a half day trip from Bentong, since this will be a short post, I decided to immediate post it after the trip. The journey from my place to Bentong is less than 1 & 1/2 hrs..

Before we reached to Bentong, we stopped by Janda Baik , a small Malay kampong with natural tropical rain forest, as to enjoy some fresh air.

 

While on the way to Bentong, we saw this small waterfall..

 

Our first stop of course go to Pasar Besar Bentong (market) as I wanted to buy some Bentong's good tofu puff..This is the Sunday morning market..

 

And good Bentong ginger, price range from RM 14 to RM 18 per kg..

 

But I only managed to get two pieces of Bentong's soft tofu, with stamp only original tofu from Bentong. No more tofu puff left since I was late (we reached around 11am)..

 

After shopping, we went to visit a waterfall nearby, The Chamang Fall.

 

This was my first time seeing a waterfall with rushing water makes the scene equally dramatic. 

Many peoples enjoying the cool water or having picnic at the river side.

 



 

Enjoying nasi lemak in this cool river water, sound real cool !!

 

There is a hanging bridge but too bad it was broken, and no sign of repair?

 

Time for lunch, we went to this restaurant for GuangXi(Kwang Sai) 广西 dishes which is famous here..

 

a crowded restaurant with many locals..

 

We had the famous GuangXi stuffed tofu puff 酿豆腐卜

 

If they can add more Chinese chives, it will taste better..

 

Braised yam and belly pork 芋头扣肉 , this was good, nice flavouring.

 

And we also had a nice plate of Bentong's crunchy stir fried kangkung (water spinach) 蕹菜

 

Last we had GuangXi style of steamed chicken 味琳鸡 , the topping (GuangXi called as nam ) with a lot of Chinese chives and Bentong ginger, it was very flavourful, especially the taste of ginger. 

This meal we had only cost us RM 71, rather reasonable. This restaurant is located at:-

双喜楼酒家  Restaurant SHL

Address：71,Jln Chui Yin,Bentong,Pahang.
Tel：09-2222879
Operating hours：6am-10pm

 

Before we go back, we also stopped by a dessert shop (Kow Po Ice Cream shop 球宝ABC, just located opposite the bus station) for their famous homemade ice-cream and ABC (mixed ices dessert) 

 

Wow, it was full house, I have never seen a dessert shop in Klang valley has such huge crowd before..

The ABC is come with a scoop of ice cream. We tasted the peanut ice-cream, surprised that it was nice blended with ABC ..RM4 per bowl, definitely not cheap in this small town..

 

The cendol also come with a scoop of ice-cream. I saw they also have pandan ice-cream, maybe I can make this pandan ice-cream to participate LTU pandan event , hopefully I have time to make this ice-cream..

Ok, these are what I brought back from this trip, a big piece of Bentong ginger, two Bentong soft tofu and a packet of kaya puff ( I heard this is also famous, I got it at the pasar), less than RM 12, LOL..