Banting-- up to Jugra Hill, down to Gold Coast

     Banting is a principle town in the district of Kuala Langat, Selangor in Malaysia. It is a beautiful place where it consists of beaches, hills, forests and farms. We could concludes that Banting is an agricultural hub. Its main agricultural resources include oil palm plantation, poultry farms, battle leaves and it has a number of industrial areas.

      Let us look around where can you go and what can you eat in Banting.

Jugra Hill

Breathtaking scenery halfway up to the hill.

Behind the lighthouse, there is a secret place waiting for you.

Glory path to the top of the hill.

     Jugra hill is a good place to have ultimate cardio experience. At evening, you will see folk jog all their way up the winding road. Besides, you will cross with the cyclists who have big muscle bulks at their legs. For lazy people like me, I chose to drive and stopped at the lighthouse. From there, I walked up hill. Along the way, you can't miss the spectacular landscape such as various type of trees ; monkeys jump from one tree to another; birds and crickets compose a symphony, Langat River that cleaves the lowlands, winding and curling as it meanders sinuously to converge with the river mouth. 

Restaurant Bukit Jugra 丐帮名菜叫化餐厅

     After you finish the jog, there is a famous dining place waiting for you at the foothill. But I think you need to run few more rounds to burn the calories before you decide to walk in < Restaurant Bukit Jugra 丐帮名菜叫化餐厅>. This restaurant was famous of its "Beggar's chicken" (叫化鸡). There is story for this dish origin. Once upon a time a beggar led a wandering life in poverty. One day, he was very hungry. He lucked into a chicken, but had neither tools nor condiments. He came to the foot of Yu Mountain and roasted it without plucking it. When it was finished, the smell spread over a long distance.There is a special room designed to roast the chicken. Few bricks built up a piles of clays cover the chicken. 

     

Chickens were buried in the clay.

Beggar's chicken (RM48)

     Beggar's chicken wrapped by a paper. When we opened the paper, the aroma of the chicken lingered in the air and the chicken looked tasty. The chicken was stuffed by various Chinese herb and it gave strong herbal taste and smell. The meat was soft and the herbal gravy was so match with the chicken.

     Apart from that, there are other "Beggar's series". "Beggar's Pig leg". I was astonished when I opened the wrapping paper. The pig leg was so enormous! It was definitely 5 people serving! Although the pig leg was oily and sinful, it still taste good as the meat was so teeth bouncing. I don't really dare to try the skin or scientific term 'adipose tissue'. It looked shining but challenging for me.

Beggar's pig leg (RM 58)

      Traditional rice is dish which consist of rice, mushroom, meat and others wrapped in a leaf which provided a natural,green leaf aroma. It was glutinous and easily get full compared to normal rice. So you can order this rice instead of normal plain rice. Personally I felt this rice was normal only.

     Another dish we ordered was traditional fish. The fish was make into paste and remould it into fish shape again. It gained extra marks for its appearance but the plain taste drew it back. Maybe the chef was holding healthy cooking principle: less salt and less oil. I think this dish is not recommended.

     The so called "longevity soup" is merely chicken tonic soup. Despite the soup won't provide you extra lifetime, it provides you extra stimuli for your taste buds. It is good when hot. Other Beggar's series are beggar's duck, beggar's pig's stomach and beggar's mutton. But this restaurant only entertain reservation. You have to call to reserve and order the dish, preferably 2 days before you come. Perhaps, they need time to prepare the beggar's chicken. This restaurant has no luxury design and is an old, wooden house. In addition, it was quite expensive to having meal here.

longevity soup (RM28)

Traditional rice (RM38)

traditional fish (RM 35)

Restaurant Bukit Jugra 丐帮名菜叫化餐厅

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Address: Bukit Jugra (Permatang Pasir), 42700 Banting, Selangor.

BEACHES

Gold Coast Morib

      Gold Coast Morib is am place to relax, rejuvenate and away from hustle and bustle city. It is free to enjoy the natural embrace. There is a resort nearby and you can stay here. Besides, there is a bar 'floating' on the surface of ocean. During day time, you can walk on the seabed when the tide ebbs. We walked for a distance and reach the sea finally. As the sun goes down, the tide will start to raise and encroaching the beach. The photo was taken during evening time, around 5 or 6pm. At night, we were amazed that the ground that we stood just now was sink under water now! And the bar was on the water! Moreover, the beach has awe-inspiring views. The beautiful, big ocean waves are pounding the shore; the golden sun is sinking at the edge of sky and emitting its golden, warm sun rays. The never ending golden sand stretches out as far as you can see, waiting patiently for people to leave them marks. However, the cruel ocean waves roar and engulf my footprints. A gentle sea breeze rustles through the leaves of nearby coconut trees waking small birds from their slumber.

The floating bar is lively at night.

Enjoy the blue sky while standing on the sea bed.

A heart-stirring sunset scene.

 Sepang Gold Coast

          Sepang Gold Coast is less attractive compared to Morib Gold Coast. The sand here is darker and you could see trash at the beach. However, here has less people and still can see beautiful sunset. A lot of Malay came here to fly kites and picnic. Undoubtedly, it is free for entrance. The only upsides for this beach is there are few Malay seafood restaurants opposite it. It is different taste if comparing Malay seafood with Chinese seafood. We will talk about this later.

Sunset in Sepang Gold Coast.

Pantai Morib ( Morib Beach)

     Another Morib beach which just nearby Morib Gold Coast is another totally different place. It is the least attractive beach compared to the previous examples. Here has cement  pathway and some statues. When talk about the beach, it is really not as clean as the morib gold coast. However, there are still couples enjoy the leisurely stroll at evening. Besides, there are few food stalls selling burger and other food. Interestingly, I saw a man stood at the centre of sea where was far from me. This was amazing! I wonder there was still a land to let him to stand on it which made this scene looks magically. Perhaps, he was collecting cockles or crabs.

The shadow of sky falls on the water surface.

Seagull statues but hard to find a real seagull there.

Crabby family.

SEAFOOD

Restaurant Batu Laut （亚三岜都港海鲜饭店）

     This restaurant located not far from Tanjung Sepat. You will noticed its signboard at the road side and then you have to turn in. When you park the car, opposite you will be a lot of fishing boats anchor at the estuary. The restaurant has been divided into 2 parts which are indoor and outdoor. There is seldom people choose to sit indoor because most of the people enjoying sea breeze at the outdoor. Try to come at the evening as you can witness the sunset while having meal.

     When come to the seafood, it is really delicious and fresh. Recommend the asam fish and it is fresh, the asam gravy is a kind of sourish, sweet and fragrant. The baby octopus also very crispy and sweet, really thumb up! The steam clams was nice too.

     Beside seafood, you can order the bean curd. I am not very fond of bean curd but the Minced Meat Bean Curd that we ordered was really change my mind. It tasted like Japanese egg bean curd, smooth and match with its gravy. It was suitable to eat with seafood. Another vegetable that we ordered was  mixed vegetable and it was normal only.

Estuarine view

Asam fish

Steam clams

Baby octopus

Mixed vegetable

Bean curd with minched meat

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Address: Sungai Mosok, Batu Laut, Kuala Langat, 42800 Tanjung Sepat, Selangor.


Ocean Seafood Restaurant 海洋海鲜餐馆

     There is a lover's bridge beside this restaurant. But you can't go beyond its warning line because the bridge will collapse! I was warned by the local people when I ready to walk on the bridge. So there was only a little distance you can walk on the bridge. I also don't know why it called lover's bridge as I couldn't see any special of it. Just a normal old jetty port...

   

The legendary lover's bridge..

          We ordered the steam fish and it was normal but the fish flesh was tender and fresh. The fried octopus smell good and crispy. You may want to try it as well. The Kangkung (vegetable) was cooked in suitable degree but was little bit plain.

     The star of this meal was Sweet and Sour Crabs. It was delicious but the gravy was not enough. However, the cheap price gave its extra mark.

Fried octopus

Steam fish

Kang Kung

Sweet & Sour Crabs

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Address: @101.50434 , 2.67944, Sepang, Selangor


 

Restaurant Sepang Gold Coast

     Now let us see what is Malay's seafood. Usually, their way of cooking is different with the previous two Chinese seafood. This restaurant is just opposite the Sepang Gold Coast. You can go to choose the seafood by yourself as they display it at a corner. 

     The Malay is famous of using spice and most of them like to fry instead of steam when they cook. They like spicy flavour so you must have a try. Let me introduce what you can order here.

     Firstly, choose a fish that you like and ask them to fry it and put a sour and spicy chili gravy. The prawns also suitable to cook in spicy and sweet sauce. And you must order the grill fish! They will stuff the fish with its special spice and wrap the fish with certain leave and then grill on charcoal. It is really saliva drooling. Fried octopus also not bad as well as the fried prawns. There was many type of mussels. But I don't recommend the BBQ cockles.. When you open the cockles, the flesh was shrink and dry. But you can dip it into the sauce they provided.

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Address: opposite Sepang Gold Coast.

Lan Jie Steam Fish (兰姐蒸鱼）

Wanna enjoy a full and rich dinner without too much of oily and deep fried food? Here is the place where you need to visit. In Kuala Lumpur, there is a lot of good food where you can serve as dinner. But , if you wanna have a great taste of dinner without causing too much burden to your body, this is definitely a good choice. For me, this is definitely a good choice where you can even bring along your family who has elderly in home, as this definitely suit their taste.

Lan Jie Steam Fish Restaurant (Branch)

The signature dish served by this restaurant is their steam fish, and the culture of this restaurant is they will serve the fish each for a person. But believe me that the portion is just right and nice for you with order for 2 to 3 more side dishes.

Fried egg with fresh bitter gourd

Steam Fish for 2 person with 2 side dish

I did try this out , together with 2 more side dish. I recommend that if 2 person, 1 side dish is preferred. The steam fish is really fresh and you can taste the tenderness and sweetness of the fish meat. There is also only one kind of fish available, so please do not order and ask for what kind of fish is available... (only africa freshwater fish is available - 非洲鱼)

Steam fish

The price is also consider cheap where the meal for 2 person is only cost for RM30-40 . So it is definitely a good choice for everyone, where you can have such a great dinner, and at the same time bring less the burden to your body.

Address : 1, Jalan USJ 1/1C (Regalia Business Centre) Subang Jaya, Selangor 47620
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Curry Wanton Mee - 咖哩云吞面 @ SS2

Trouble with what to have during your breakfast? Curry noodle? Or wanton noodles? why  not try the combination of both of them-curry wanton noodle. This stall has been a mysteries , since it always open in such an early time, none of us will woke up in such foggy period. Fortunately for writer who is me got such opportunity to enjoy this. 

As what I know, this stall start this business around 4am in the morning. When you are thinking that you are having your breakfast, the rest might be still having their midnight supper and will have a great sleep after a grab of this noodles. 

The speciality of this noodle is they are combining the yellow thin size noodle which frequently used for making of dry-stir noodles with soy and black sauce, and combined this into the curry soup base, which result in " curry wanton noodle". The great taste from the smoothness of the noodles and the well-cooked curry match both these together and formed another greater level of tastiness. The size served by the boss is definitely generous as this will allowed you to have a full and great feeling during the beginning of the day. It also served with a gigantic amount of side dish like fish ball, " tau pok" , which is the deep fried tofu skin, minced meat and also with the deep fried items.

What you need to pay attention is that when you are order and wanna have your noodle there, please do share the table together with other as there are only 2 table with severals of chairs is prepared. Well  this also is kinda good way for human to sit down and chat with each other while enjoying your meal.

Lastly, the price of this noodle. If my memory is still clear, this bowl of delicious noodle was own by me with just using RM4-4.5. This is definitely cheap and low price.

Curry Wanton Noodles

The stall, which located just besides the market

Grazia Cafe @ Sutera, JB

     Where is a nice place to have high tea with your buddy? Today, let's introduce a nice coffee house to you. Grazia cafe located at the taman sutera, which is nearby the Sutera Shopping Mall. This is a small but nice ambiance cafe. 

Knowledge of coffee

Decoration of the cafe

     The interior design was great. Wall decorated with several painting and there was a book shelf which provide you a reading material while you are enjoying your coffee. Besides, there was a corner which displayed the type of coffee beans, books about the coffee and accessory to sell. You can having your meal at the dining table, sofa or bar table as long as you are comfort with. By the way, if you wanna to have a long section here, please don't choose the low sofa without back seat, you really will torture your backbone.

Left top: Flatwhite, Right top: Caramel Machiatto,
Left below: Cafe latte,  Right below: Double Ristretto Cappucino

Left top to right down: Smoked duck aglio olio, Chicken chop, Cheese cake, Tomato Sauce Pasta

     The latte art here was quite nice as well as the taste of coffee. The carameal machiatto was strongly recommend for the sweet lover. Double ristretto cappucino smells good! Overall, all the coffee here really achieve a standard level. But they can't do a latte art on flat white ;(

     For the spaghetti, smoked duck aglio olio was delicious. It has little bit spicy but the taste will lingering in your mouth for long time. The chicken chop also recommended as the chicken was grill with nice, tender and juicy. However, the pasta with tomato sauce was too simple and lose to the aglio olio. Other than that, here also has pizza, sandwich and cakes.

     The cheese cake was really a suitable dessert. Really delicious and won't feel bored with the cheese.

     Overall, this is a nice shop with friendly screws, nice ambiance, nice food and cheaper price. You may make a visit here.

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Adress: 80, Jalan Sutera Tanjung 8/3, Taman Sutera Utama, 81300 Skudai, Johor, Malaysia