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We cheerfully went to Pangkor Island the next day for a one day trip despite the heavy rain in the morning. The ticket price for 2 way ferry to Pangkor Island from Lumut Port cost for RM10. The journey took around 40 minutes to reach Pangkor jetty at 1.20pm. It was Sunday and the jetty was so crowded with people waiting to go back to main land. I heard some had already waited for 2 hours queuing up for ferry. According to the locals, the jetty will become less crowded on the evening after 4pm.

We managed to rent a car the moment we step out from the jetty. Cost for RM50 for 1 whole day without the hassle of registration or filling up forms or showing your id. It’s a new model of Proton Iswara which is in very good condition. The car owner also provided us a map of Pangkor Island marked with places of interest.

From Pangkor jetty, we turn right to the main road towards town area. Our first stop is the Chinese temple called Fu Ling Gong situated on the hill side of town. The temple is neat and well decorated with colourful sculpture. On the front side there is a fish pond, resting area and play ground for children. For those with lots of energy, you can also climb stairs up the hill behind the temple and enjoy the scenery above. None of us climb the stairs as we are not filled with lunch yet. We bought 2 big portion of sweet and cool herbal drinks called Liu Wei in Chinese (6 flavours) and the taste was magnificent! 5 grown up people drinking from 2 plastic bowls right in front of the temples without realizing we are actually blocking other visitors from taking group photo in front of the temple. No wonder so many people standing there with us without doing anything…

The next stop, food of course! This is when we apply the basic rule of looking for food in a foreign place. As simple as ABC, just join the crowd and avoid empty restaurant. In that case, the chances to get good food will be very high (Note: Rule does not apply during public holiday as basically every restaurant will be full). We ended up in a modest looking restaurant in town selling sour soup noodle. It is a simple food, noodles in clear soup with 5 extremely fresh cockles and some meat added with red sour spicy paste on top. But the taste is really marvelous! Sweet tasty soup with QQ white thick noodle, the sour spicy paste added extra tang to the soup and of course the almost raw cockles! At that time I really wanted to order another bowl to satisfy my taste bud again but since the guys are enough with just one bowl, I’m quite embarrass to voice out my thought… I would definitely miss this noodle in Pangkor very much and it only cost for RM2.20 per bowl.