Simple breakfast @ Cozy corner

Tokyo @ Toyocho -  I had breakfast @ cozy corner cafe just across the Toyo station.

Set breakfast

 Breakfast set was cheese and ham sandwiches, with a bowl of salad and hotel lemon tea.

Tea timer

This cafe had sand dial for the tea to be ready to be poured out.  

Ichozaka

Tokyo @ Shinagawa - Dinner was at 1st floor of the hotel's latest restaurant Ichozaka.

Caesar salad

The Caesar salad came with lots of cheese and it tasted really good and it was well tossed.

5 types of shashimi

Tofu

mushrooms in hot Olive oil

Ichozaka special Pork ribs

The pork was tender and well marinated, and tasted so delicious.

Shinagawa Prince Hotel

Tokyo @ Shinagawa - Arrive @ 7.30pm after a long flight and airport coach @ Shinagawa Prince Hotel and there was already a long check-in queue.   It was the longest check-in reception with 9 check-in staff attending.   I stayed in this hotel more than 10 years ago and vaguely remembered that the rooms were very small.

comfortable queen size bed

Not sure why the TV is on a side as it makes viewing a bit difficult from the bed.   I think the rooms have been renovated or this is a new wing as it's sizeable for a Japanese hotel.   Unfortunately, they charged Y2000 for the gym.

Uniquely Penang Street Art

Penang - The street art scene around Georgetown has evolved to a uniquely tourist attraction.

Children on a bike

Boy taking a peak

Donny taking a peak too

Penang Chew Jetty - UNESCO Heritage Site

Penang - This Chew Jetty is an UNESCO Heritage site with its habitat of traditional Penang Chinese family living above the waters for centuries.   It's one of the best well kept and structurally safe jetty to visit.   This is a must sit for many tourist which always cause big headache and noise to residents living there.

Entrance to Chew Jetty

homes on stilts

It is amazing with all the rickety and movement of the waves, the planks and houses are still holding up.  This Jetty started once as a wooden passageway and slowly evolved into a cluster of houses perch above the sea shores by stilts.  This UNESCO site is uniquely frozen in a time zone with no regard to the urban development that is taking place around Penang.

Beautiful scenery

Chocolate & Coffee Museum

Penang - The conference incentive tour guide brought us to Penang's Chocolate & Coffee Museum located @ 22 Leith Street.   The brief tour was informative but hardly anything worth the purchase.

Original Conching Machine

A conche is a surface scraping mixer and agitator that evenly distributes cocoa butter within chocolate, and may act as a 'polisher' of the particles. It also promotes flavor development through frictional heat, release of volatiles and acids, and oxidation.

Pinang Peranakan Mansion

Penang - The visit to the Pinang (Malay word for Penang) Peranakan Mansion brings back fond memories of old as both sides of my family are Peranakan - 3 generations on both sides.   My mum and aunties still has their sarong kabaya, the beaded shoes, the most importantly the Peranakan cuisine.

This is the home of a rich Baba built about a 100 years ago with his opulent lifestyle evident at every corner of this house.

Entrance to the Peranakan Mansion

Rich Peranakan dinning table

Expensive Peranakan porcelain

Traditional child seat