Thursday, November 25, 2010

JB Crown Crystal Hotel 24 to 25 Nov 2010

Reserved a room at Crystal Crown hotel via email @RM155 nett per night. Quite a breeze getting through the custom today. Our driver, William, brought us around JB after checking into the hotel at a rate of RM15 per hour -paid him RM75 for his 5 hour service. Of course that was on top of the S$50 getting us from Singapore to JB. We went to this wanton mee stall (Uncle koh) recommended by William for lunch. On our way there we stopped at a stall and bought my favourite goreng pisang. After that he brought us to Sutera Mall - nothing much there - bought the prepaid broadband card there and then went to Merlin tower to buy my medicine. After that went to taman pelangi area- a shop called "bao zi lin" for the massage and then the nearby hawker centre for dinner - the claypot rice and penang kway tiao were fantastic! Went to the hawker centre 大马花园 near to the hotel - many stalls are still closed so we took a cab to Jusco Tebrau. I bought my daily disposable contact lens - the moist type which cost $60 in Singapore but only RM90 a box over there. After that, we went to "Tang Shifu" for lunch and love it. The coffee contains ginseng and the mee sua we ordered have some sort of herbs in it. I ordered the one with scallop and abalone. Lee ordered the one with wine herbal soup. The price aren't too high either - paid less than RM50 for the 2 of us. I also bought some of the TVB series on promotion over there. Imagine buy one get one free - I paid RM39.90 for 2 TV series which is like a quarter of the price I pay in Singapore - and they are original discs! After that we took a cab to merlin tower as I need to change some more ringgit. I must say the rate there is the best so far - $100 to RM239.2. I bought some titbits from the Indian stall as well as the deparmental store. After that we went to the restaurant outside Merlin tower.. I love the "chee cheong fun" and the steam fish (thai) style. I realised that this time round -traffic was pretty bad - quite jammed along the roads. Went to Fizzio massage centre which is located opposite taman seri tebrau (大马花园) for a second round of massage. I must say the massage here is much better. After that we went to 大马花园 for dinner. Not really impressed with the food there though it seemed to receive high recommendations on the net - maybe I will try other stalls tomorrow.'