Sekinchan

We tried to explore the new highway to Sekinchan instead of using the Sungai Buloh road to Kuala Selangor.  Unfortunately we still need to use Sungai Buloh and exit to Ijok. Sigh!! 

We only found the highway after we returned from Sekinchan which is exit from Rawang and there is a turning to left to Kuala Selangor. To reached Kuala Selangor only half an hour.

Sekinchan is famous for padi fields.

We had lunch at a Chinese restaurant, we waited for more than one and half hour due to one of the chef had a minor accident.  Sorry can’t recall the name. It was a famous restaurant for locals.

Mostly home cooked food. We ordered shark meat soup, fried shrimps, fried brinjal, stewed cat fish, fried stingray and their famous deep fried squid  (apparently this squid is with hard bone and no cholesterol according to the chef)  It was worth waiting for the food.  

Fried Shrimps

 

Stewed cat fish

 

Stir fried stingray

 

 

Boiled shark meat and fish ball soup

Deep fried brinjal

 

"Similar to Squid" but with hard bone

 

 The end result from the squid - "deep fried squid"

After lunch, we visited the beach front. We bought a kite at RM15 and the wind was so strong that the kite can easily fly.   There is an old tree house where you can seat at the hammock to relax.

 

On our way back, we stopped by the Cendol Bakar near Ijok.   We always passed by and were curious what is this cendol bakar.  There is a drive thru lane for you to take-away the cendol.  We tried the normal cendol bakar and durian cendol. The durian cendol is a lot better.

What do you mean by cendol bakar? It is the gula Melaka@sugar which was roasted to give better aroma and taste.

 

 

Feel free to explore Sekinchan. Day trip should be sufficient.

 

Nature Park at Kuala Selangor and Padi field at Sekinchan

We visited the Nature Park at Kuala Selangor on 21st May 2011.  We arrive at the nature park around 8.45am. The first thing we noticed is that the nature's park is lack of maintenance. The signage’s to the park was broken and even the wooden bridge can't be use anymore. We had picnic at one of the booth. We packed nasi lemak, eggs, steamed cocktails and fruits.  Luckily the monjkeTook us two and half hours to complete entire walk. We saw wild monkeys along the way. Visited the mangroves area and saw the male and female crabs and mudskipper.  I don't recommend to visit the nature's park as nothing much to see and a lot of mosquitoes even we use the insect repellent is useless.  

Female Crab which is red in color.

Male crab which is blue in color.

Watch tower.

They don't even have notice to inform the maximum number of people that are allowed to go up.

View from the watch tower.

We saw wild monkeys everywhere. They would not snatch your things or disturb you. Therefore there is no need to be scared.

We completed entire walk at 11.30am and then we head to Kuala Selangor Fishing Village for lunch. We ate at Restaurant Jeti. Eight of us ate and the bill came up to RM192. We had 2 kgs of crabs which cost us RM45 per kg. We had steam crabs and another is salty egg fried crabs. We had salt and pepper deep fried squid, two vegetables, fried kam heong mantis prawn, lala fried mee hoon and lala soup.   The lala soup was disappointing.  Overall the food was not great.   Overall the rating is 2/5. Considering 5 is best.

After lunch, we head up to Sekinchan which is 45 minutes away from Kuala Selangor to visit the padi fields. A lot of couples come here to take their wedding pictures. The scenery was beautiful.

We drove around Sekinchan Fishing Village.

We head to Ijok for beggar chicken at New Beggar's Delicious Restaurant.  You got to order the beggar chicken in advanced.  We had beggar chicken which cost RM42, one plate of vegetable at RM10, sweet and sour crab at RM36 per kg( cheaper than Kuala Selangor and a lot nicer), Fish soup at RM32, Steam Telapia with Thai Style at RM20. Total bill came up to RM155. Overall this place is a lot better than Kuala Selangor.

Beggar Chicken - overall rating 3/5

Sweet and Sour Crab

Fish Soup - overall rating 2/5(too much starch on the fish)

New Beggar's Delicious Restaurant
Ijok, Selangor Darul Ehsan
Tel: 03-3279 1936 or 019 317 3687

Overall we had a great time and visited three fishing village at Kuala Selangor, Sekinchan and Sg Besar near Sabak Bernam.

Unforgettable trip to Kuala Selangor

This happen few years ago where we went to Kuala Selangor for a day trip. We visited Bukit Melawati where those days you can drive your car all the way up to see the light house. We had our dinner at Assam Jawa Restaurant ( according to my friend already closed down). They serve the best coconut prawns.

Kuala Selangor is the place where you can witness the sights of millions of fireflies. You need to take a boat ride along Selangor River there the fireflies inhibit around the branches of berembang trees along the riverbank.


We went to Bukit Belimbing (http://www.fireflypark.com/home.htm) to see the fireflies instead of Kampung Kuantan. Of cos Kampung Kuantan is more adventure and romantic cos is a sampan ride. The sampan can only take 4 pax. Since i got 10 person with me so decided to take them to Bukit Belimbing where they ride on a proper boat which can accomodate max 12 pax and better safety.

The fireflies is like flashing christmas lights. Is really beautiful and you cannot imagine such a small insect can do wonders. Everyone was amazed with the flashing fireflies and you can hear " look at right, more fireflies there", wow so beautiful and etc.......very noisy group.

After 20 mins journey of enjoying the fireflies, suddenly we saw something flooding on the river and we thought was some woods or rubbish. My mom kept insist the boat man to turn back to the jetty. My mom and my aunt sat in front of the boat and kept asking what is the "thing" floating. We said nothing la, just some plank woods floating. We are seating at the back therefore we could see something submerge but can't really see what is it. We know the river got crocodile but never strike our mind.We decided to ask the boat man what is that. He said, please keep quiet, this is our member. Then we realized the thing we are talking about is CROCODILE. We quietly wear our life jacket and start holding each other hand. Suddenly everyone was quiet, TOTAL SILENCE compared 20 mins ago. Praying hard that my aunt would not shout else everyone will get hurt cos the crocodile is just next to our boat. I can see the head submerge to the water. Normally the journey is about 30-45 mins but we took more than an hour to go upstream so that we would not meet the crocodile when we are back.

We finally reach the jetty and everyone was asking each other, what did you see.... you can see that they just want to go home and want to leave this place ASAP. No one ever dare to mention what they saw. My friend face was pale and not even a word from her. She is really scared. Anyway we really thank GOD that we are safe and alive. Crocodile is just the beginning.

Is time to go home, my sister lead the way and we kept driving and suddenly we realised we are LOST. We can't see any signboards. And is around midnight, left and right is jungle,total darkness and misty. Handphone got no signal and we dunno where we are. This is the first time we get lost after so many times to Kuala Selangor. Both car stop side by side to discuss what shall we do, should we just go straight or turn back. So we decided to turn back. We saw a mamak store and everyone came down to the car to relax, change driver and then ask the owner for direction. The owner said just follow the road, turning back is too far. So we got no choice but to just take the same road, after half an hour journey, we saw one car coming towards us and everyone was so happy. We saw lights and we are on the right track. Everyone in the car was praying to GOD for safety and direction. We took the wrong turn and ended up to Rawang. We reached home at 1am, everyone was tired and scared after all the incidents. 1st we saw crocodile next to our boat, 2nd we get lost middle of no way.
Only next day we decided to speak out...is that CROCODILE that we saw and the answer is YES.

An unforgettable trip for my family, cousins and friends. None of us visited Kuala Selangor after the incident. We did not even mention Kuala Selangor in any of our day trip now. It use to be my favourite spot. Well, i heard from my friend that now you can take the mini train up to Bukit Melawati, Pasir Penambang is very clean now. I used to buy fish paste and seafood there. Guess is time to pay a visit after so many years.