Motormouth From Ipoh – Asian Food & Travel Blog

continuation from Motormouth in Betong ….

If you’ve absolutely NO idea where Lenggong or Gerik is, then I highly doubt you’re familiar with the town named Sauk in the district of Kuala Kangsar, Perak.

On the way back from Betong, we stopped over in Gerik for a fruit feast, walloping durians, rambutans, pulasan, and longans. All thanks to mboy’s landlord, who was being more than generous and enthusiastic in sharing his treasure stash of tropical fruits in his house, mostly given by friends/relatives and those who own farms around Hulu Perak.

Talk about some guys have all the luck. Here in Ipoh, to be given a ‘Mau San Wong’ (a rather highly-prized species of the durian) for FOC sounds like a typical scratch-n-win contest. You know there’s a catch somewhere. Read the rest of this entry »

For the sake of first-timers, or the newly-poisoned (followers) of this blog, Betong is a quiet (depending on how you look at it, really) town in southern Thailand, that shares its border with the even smaller and serene town of Pengkalan Hulu in northern Perak.

WHERE again you ask?!!! Just refer to my old posts (Betong – The Town Over the Border). Still reeling from the day’s stretched-out meeting. And the after-effect of Monday blues.