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    Ooh, Shiny! – Weekly Photo Challenge

    I am fascinated by food that has ice on it. It always perks me up and makes me forgetting about the hot and humid country that I stay in. No one can separate the icy food and me. The photos below show the “chendol”, a dessert that is very popular in Malaysia. WordPress weekly photo challenge! Ooh, Shiny! Goldilocks Lifestyle Travel - Blog

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    One Day Itinerary In Penang

    I have not been to Penang for more than 20 years. During the December holiday, I decided to go to Penang as a short getaway trip with my family. So this itinerary is family friendly and have been tested. To get to Penang island, you can either drive, take a coach or take the plane. For us, we drove into Penang from the North-South Expressway via the Penang Bridge. This is the first bridge built into Penang island, which resembles the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge with cable-stayed concrete girder. It used to be the longest bridge in Malaysia until it was overtaken by its sister, the Penang Second Bridge…

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    Hong Kong – Food and Shopping 

    Some cities you will visit more than once in your lifetime because every time you go, the cities change and they reinvent themselves into something different. Just like Hong Kong, where I have visited a few times. But this time, I went to Hong Kong with my girlfriends, it was sort of a getaway trip for us who have became mothers and wanted to experience to be single ladies again. We chose Hong Kong because this is a place that is easy for us to travel from different locations, it is relatively safe and it is a haven for shopping and food. When we arrived in Hong Kong, we took…

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    What food to eat in Barcelona

    Barcelona is a vibrant city with colourful mosaic and interesting architecture. However, there are also part of Barcelona that we should go on to discover, like food and culture. Many people who want to visit Barcelona, will think about going to taste the local food. The first thing that comes to mind is Paella. However, Paella is actually from Valencia. The traditional Paella is made of rice, rabbit, chicken, snail, green beans and some seasoning. Not the seafood Paella we eat in our countries. So when I was in Barcelona, I would inevitably ordered seafood Paella, thinking I had to try the Spanish most famous dish. However, to my surprise,…