Dinner at La Maison 1888

During our stay at Intercontinental Danang, for those who missed our post, please refer here for details of our trip! We manage to try their famous French restaurant La Maison 1888. During our stay of 4 days 3 night here, we were fortunate to try it during our last night as both the nights before were fully booked. We were so tempted to try lunch instead if we can't get the final night booking too.

For those who doesn't know much about this restaurant, La Maison 1888 features a Michelin Star Chef Michel Roux. Currently, it is home to the world renowned three Michelin Star Chef Pierre Gagnaire. This restaurant were crowned as "World's Leading Fine Dining Hotel Restaurant 2017" by World Travel Awards.

With these status and award, the restaurant has some ground rules in regards to dress code.
Dress Code: Smart Elegant
"Gentlemen are required to wear long pants and collared shirt and should not wear open-toed shoes. Although advised, jacket is not compulsory. Dresses, skirts or trousers are recommended for ladies. Please be advised that tank tops, shorts, jeans, slippers and hats/caps are not permitted in the restaurant."

Operating Hours:
Lunch - 12:00pm to 2:00pm (Friday and Saturday only)
Dinner - 6:30pm to 10:00pm (Everyday)

You can also refer here for their Lunch Menu and Dinner Menu.

Dinner always starts with fresh bread which the waiter will come to you with variety of bread.

I decided to go for fish as my wife would go for steak.

The Salmon is really fresh and it comes with mash potato and some fresh vegetables. I would say it's a good choice! Part it with a cup of champagne and it's just perfect.

The restaurant were so kind that they gave us a free dessert for our stay.

Lovely cake just nice to close for the meal of the night. Was so full that we went to the beach to have a walk. Looking at the stars in the sky and and breezy wind blows through my hair. This is indeed paradise.

I WILL BE BACK!

Da Nang 4 days 3 nights trip!

We did a very impulse decision to head to Da Nang for a short vacation during our 3 weeks long break. For those who doesn't know where is Da Nang, i have included a short description of the place I copied from Lonely Planet:

"Known during French colonial rule as Tourane, Danang succeeded Hoi An as the most important port in central Vietnam during the 19th century, and it remains the principal one for central Vietnam.

In March 1975 Danang, the second-largest city in South Vietnam, was the scene of utter chaos. Saigon government forces were ordered to abandon Hué, while Quang Ngai had fallen to the communists, cutting South Vietnam in two. Desperate civilians tried to flee the city, as some soldiers of the South Vietnamese army engaged in looting, pillage and rape. On 29 March 1975, two truckloads of communist guerrillas, more than half of them women, drove into what had been the most heavily defended city in South Vietnam and, without firing a shot, declared Danang liberated."

Place: Da Nang
Country: Vietnam
Currency: VND (Dong)
Distance: 2.5 hours from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Since the location is by the coast, you know most of the activity are related to water activities. We decided to book our accommodation at Intercontinental Danang. There are a couple of beautiful resort in Da Nang namely: Four Seasons Danang, Hyatt Danang and etc. Of course there are also some small hotels there.

A summary of what we did / eat during our 4 days in Da Nang.

	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4
Where	Da Nang	Da Nang / Hoi An	Da Nang	Da Nang
Morning	Touched down in Da Nang	Da Nang City	Long Bar	Fly out of Da Nang
Afternoon	Resort	Hoi An	Barefoot
Evening	Vietnamese dinner	Barefoot	La Maison 1888
Stay	Intercontinental Da Nang	Intercontinental Da Nang	Intercontinental Da Nang	Intercontinental Da Nang

There are only very limited direct flight into Da Nang. If you are from Kuala Lumpur, only AirAsia flying directly into Da Nang with 1 or 2 times per day. If you are from Singapore, only SilkAir flies into Da Nang with 1 or 2 times per day.

There are 3 restaurant within the hotel compound and we have tried all 3 of them. With Vietnamese (Citron), Italian / Western (Barefoot) and French (La Maison 1888) restaurant, there is something for everyone!

Once we touched down Da Nang, we have arranged an airport pick up which bring us directly to the resort. A guy with our name on it was waiting for us at the baggage area. He waited for us to get our local sim cause we like to stay connect during our stay in Da Nang. The local sim card will cost about USD 7 or less. Just keep looking around and you will find the plan suit your needs!

Traveling around Da Nang is easy with hotel limo, local taxi or Grab app. The app will connect you with local driver which will show exactly where they are and how long it take to arrive. You will also pre agreed the amount of the ride before the accepting each other. It works just like Uber but the South East Asia version. You can click on this link Grab Download to install the app and get going!

We did a city tour during the second day and I will blog separately relating to that day.

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Japan 11 days 10 nights trip!

Kon'nichiwa,

For those who are new to my blog, welcome to dontworryjustgoyangkaki blog. If you don't understand, it's actually don't worry just goyang kaki (shake legs in Bahasa Melayu). I am glad that you stumbled on my blog to look for information to plan your trip to Japan.

Like what I mentioned in my Korea blog, every year I will make an effort to visit a new country / new place. Please check out my Korea blog post for those who hasn't done so. For 2016, I have decided to visit Japan (Nippon). For this trip, only me and my girlfriend went for the trip. We decided to stay for 11 days in order to cover most part of Japan. Early April is also the Sakura period! Mi Ni Ko I Sakura An E Oh Come and Dance with Me. Our Japan trip includes Osaka, Nara, Kyoto, Hakone and Tokyo.

This is my trip in Japan, we flew into Osaka by Malaysia Airlines and flew out from Tokyo. Thanks to the enrich miles I had accumulated during my times in audit and we only need to pay the taxes which cost about RM200 each person. That's a really good deal for a peak timing by Malaysia Airlines. For those who doesn't know about enrich miles, please check out their website.

A summary of what we did during our 11 days in Japan.

	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5	Day 6	Day 7	Day 8	Day 9
Where	Osaka	Osaka	Osaka	Osaka / Kyoto	Kyoto	Kyoto / Hakone	Hakone / Tokyo	Tokyo	Tokyo
Morning	Touched down in Osaka	Osaka Castle	Endo Sushi	Travel to Kyoto	Kimono rental	Travel to Hakone
Afternoon	Namba	Osaka Aquarium	Nara	Kin-kakuji / Bamboo Grove		Hot spring
Evening	Pokemon Center Osaka	Umeda Sky Building	Namba	Fushimi Inari		Hot spring
Stay

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2 days 1 night trip to Batam

Hey guys,

It has been some time since the last time i wrote in this blog. Just wanted to wish everybody Happy New Year. It was a rough year in 2015 as I have changed 2 jobs and moved to a new country. Currently I am in a small island just beside Malaysia, know where is it? :)

During Christmas, my girlfriend came over to visit me in the small island. Therefore, out of bored we decided to pay our nearby place BATAM a visit. all this was planned in a very short time as it is a last min decision. we are going for a 2 days 1 night trip to BATAM.

first step is our accommodation, we search for a good accommodation and goes down to 2. Harris Hotel Batam or Turi Beach Resort. The difference between this 2 place is 1 is near the town, another is near the beach. At last we decided to go with the beach.

GROUPON is our next best friend cause most of the hotel in Batam you can have a great deal from Groupon. I picked up the deal for Turi Beach Resort together with return ferry ticket from Tanah Merah Terminal to Nongsapura Terminal. Please take note there are 2 terminal who goes to Batam in Singapore; HarbourFront and Tanah Merah. It all depends where you want to reach in Batam; Batam Centre or Nongsapura.

Everything was booked by communicating with the hotel representative together with our ferry ticket. We are good to go. Please refer to the ferry schedule and plan your trip properly. Remember you can only check in your hotel at 3pm and Batam is on GMT +7 (which is 1 hour slower).
A quick snapshot of what we did during our stay in Batam.

	Day 1	Day 2
Morning	Arrived Batam	Return back to Singapore
Afternoon	Massage and Supermarket
Night	Pedicure and BBQ dinner
Where we stayed	Turi Beach Resort

we booked a driver through the hotel to take us around in Batam. it cost us 400,000 rupiah (approx. S$40) and it is mainly only for half day. If you have 4 people I think it is very reasonable. Since we have very limited time, we decided to go Nagoya hill and do shopping together with massage there. But if you have more time, you can always opt to go to cultural tour, mosque and temple visit and sports activity at Turi Beach.

Sorry didn't have much photo in Batam but hopefully this would give you a good idea of what to do in Batam. According to some people, there are only 4 things to do in Batam.

1) Massage (300,000 rupiah each)
2) Medi/Pedicure (150,000 rupiah)
3) Supermarket (??? rupiah) specially indomee
4) A&W rootbeer (less than 50,000 rupiah)

After you have done all those you are good to go or just find a cafe and chill. Just a word of advise, if you wanted to buy branded stuff in Batam, think before you do. Sometimes when it is too good to be true, it is really too good to be true.

If you want to know more please leave a comment. Till next time~

If you missed my Korea itinerary, please refer to 7 days 6 night Korea trip
If you missed my Hong Kong itinerary, please refer to 5 days 4 night Hong Kong trip

Hong Kong for 5 days 4 nights

"Lei Dei Hou" (how do you do in Cantonese)

Just came back from an island we call Hong Kong during the long weekend here in Malaysia. In case you were wondering, it is actually the May 1st (Labour day) to May 4th (replacement of Wesak day) holiday together with one day of annual leave. 

Really sorry cause was busy with my new job so didn't really update much for my blog. However I am back for more! 

	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5
Morning		Australis Dairy Company	Tim Hou Wan	Disneyland	Crystal Jade
Afternoon	Flew into Hong Kong	Central	Citygate	Disneyland	Flew back to Malaysia
Night	Walked around causeway bay	Avenue of Star	The peak	Dim Dim Sum
Where we stayed	Mira Moon Hotel	Mira Moon Hotel	Mira Moon Hotel	Mira Moon Hotel

Unlike Korea, we did not switch too many hotel this time. Just stayed at Mira Moon Hotel @ Causeway Bay for the whole trip. Was actually wondering should we stay at Disneyland hotel for the last night but at last was too lazy to shift around and pack together with unpack.

This view would be very familiar to you if you would have stayed in Mira Moon. If you are wondering, this is Causeway Bay. 

The hotel is about 10-15 min walk from Causeway Bay station exit C. It is a tall building but don't expect to see a huge building as there are only 4 rooms in every room. So you can imagine how the building would looks like. Once you get into the building you will see these red beautiful chairs welcoming you. There is also a usher opening the door for you and lead you to level 5 for the lobby.

The room that i opt for is New Moon Studio as the other rooms are actually out of my budget. However this is how your room would looks like with your bed, bathroom, toilet. You will also have a TV, a working table and a chair.

One this that impressed me is that they will refill your complementary drinks everyday. This means that water together with other soda drinks will be refilled everyday. For people that don't drink much water, this means that you don't really need to buy water from 7-11!

They even have coffee capsule for coffee lovers and chinese tea for tea lovers. Do take note that only non-alcohol drinks are complementary; however there are charges for alcohol drinks such as beers and whiskey that you saw in the pictures above.

Over all, our stay at Mira Moon Hotel is good as the service is really good. They provide different type of pillows if the one you having don't suit your sleeping style. *like for that*

Follow my blog for details of what have we done in Hong Kong!

If you missed my Korea itinerary, please refer to 7 days 6 night Korea trip

Driving around in Jeju Island - Day 2

After a great night sleep in December Hotel (please do take a look on the post on my accommodations during my stay in Korea), we started our day with a great breakfast from Paris Baguette bakery Cafe. There are no direction there cause it is actually everywhere in Jeju island just have a walk around your resting area and you might find one! 

We continue on with our second day in Jeju island with visiting waterfall. There are a couple of waterfall in Jeju island namely Cheonjiyeon Waterfall (near Seogwipo), Jeongbang Waterfall and Cheonjiyeon Waterfall (at Jungmun resort). 

We then proceed to the so call "MUST-GO" places in Jeju island which are Teddy Bear Museum, Alive Museum, Chocolate Museum, Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum and etc. We did not manage to visit all of them due to time constraint. Therefore, we only went to Teddy Bear Museum and Alive Museum. 

We had so much fun specially in Alive Museum, we had thousand and one photos and we over spent our time there. Therefore, for those who really have a tight schedule please do set timer or something cause you will easily overrun your time there.

During our stay in Korea or Jeju Island, we did not really research much on food however some of the famous ones were mentioned during our research of places. Most of the time we will just pick whatever we think should taste good. Just go with the flow. 

Looks good? This was found near Teddy Bear Museum but I am really sorry cause we were so hungry and rush of time I forgot to jot down the name of the shop. If you did come across this shop please do leave me a comment as then I could amend the post. Thanks in advance!

Night time in Jeju was mainly shopping and very limited famous locations that are still open. As for us, we went to Loveland and Mysterious road. Loveland mainly for sexual education (it's website state that it is a sexual theme park) and because it closes at midnight, therefore we went there just to have a look. If it is your first time going to Jeju and would like to just kill some time during the night, do check out this place and let me know what do you think. 

For those who are wondering what is mysterious road, It has earned its name, as objects and liquid appear to roll and flow up the hill instead of down, when, in fact, such image of gravity defiance is an optical illusion rendered by the seemingly high surroundings. However, by the time we reach the place it was late and pitch black. Therefore, we did not manage to witness any of the mysterious things as claimed. Do let me know if you manage to witness them.

This ends our trip in Jeju island as we would be taking the morning flight back to Seoul the next day. Do check our my post on our arrangement for car rental including most of the famous destination phone number for GPS location in Jeju island.

~ciao~

Teddy Bear Museum - Adults 8,000 won / Teens 7,000 won /  Children 6,000 won
Alive Museum - Adults 9,000 won / Teens 8,000 won / Children 7,000 won
Loveland - Adults 9,000 won