Lover's Bridge.. not only for lovers ;)

18 June 2011

My bro and I have been talking about visiting Tg Sepat for quite some time. Since it’ll be Father’s Day, we have decided to go there to some sort like.. celebrate the occasion. We stuffed our Livina again with Mom and Dad, myself, Nel, Bro with HL and Chloe :p and started the journey at around 11.30am.

And why Tg Sepat? Well, other than going there for sightseeing and food, our parents have actually stayed at Tg Sepat during the late 60’s. As for how long, well, my mom said it was for less than 2 years while my dad said it’s for a few years. So.. God knows :p Dad was working at that area then, and the employer provided accommodation for him and family too. Mom said the house was a bungalow near the beach and even with a maid too. Both my sisters were there too when they were just a few years old.

So, the trip is like a trip down memory lane for them as they have never been to Tg Sepat for a very long time.

Noticed the name? :p

During the journey, Mom recalled how difficult it was to travel around by public transport, especially when they need to get back to Pusing (our hometown in Perak). She said they need to get a bus from Tg Sepat to the town, and from the town to KL and from KL to Ipoh and Ipoh to Pusing @_@ I can imagine how many hours that would take and imagine buses during that time has go no air cond! And not forgetting with 2 young kids (and pregnant with my bro then) and it gets worse when the kids got motion sickness throughout the journey :s

Turned into the wrong road and passed by this place

Anyways, along the way to Tg Sepat, both Mom and Dad kept telling us their stories when they used to stay at Tg Sepat and wondering if certain shops are still around etc (I doubt so.. since it’s like..more than 40 years ago?!).

Though Tg Sepat is within the state of Selangor, somehow we felt that it’s as far as going back to Ipoh :p We stopped for toilet break (thank God for the clean toilets at the petrol station) and we reached the Lover’s Bridge at around 2pm.

Finally found it!

There are quite a number of stalls selling local products (fish paste, ikan bilis, dried shrimps, keropok etc..)

We are to have our lunch at the Lover’s Bridge Restaurant.

While the rest went to the restaurant, Mom, Nel and I went to the bridge first. Just couldn’t help it as it was so nice and windy there. Nel took the opportunity to snap some photos, which he needs them for work purpose.

Those are small lil' crabs... marching around

When we joined the rest at the restaurant, Bro has already ordered all the food and arrived shortly after we sat down. It is then I realised that I've actually been to this place before with Nel.. about 15 years ago. We used to work together in this company and we went for a company trip to Morib, and we had dinner at this same restaurant. The view during dinner was awesome, during sunset.

While we were having our lunch, a lady approached my mom with all the products she was selling. My mom bought stuff from her - sweet potatoes, ikan bilis and ‘ngan yue jai’ (whitebait fish?).

Food that bro has ordered – steamed fish, tofu in claypot, fried mee hoon with lala, fried oyster and crabs – steamed + kum heong.

Claypot tofu

Fried mee hoon with lala

Steamed fish

Streamed crabs

'Kam Heong' crabs

Fried oyster/egg 

Somehow, after we were almost done with all the food, we also wanted to add on fried rice. Nel wanted ‘fried rice with lala and ngan yue jai’.. but the lady at the restaurant said they don’t have ‘ngan yue jai’. Since my mom bought some just now, my bro actually told the lady that we have our own supply :p The lady actually said ok to our ‘customed’ dish :p We gave her a small bowl of ‘ngan yue jai’ to add into the fried rice. The fried rice turned out to be so nice!

*Burp!

After a satisfying lunch, we went for a walk at the bridge again, enjoying the view and wind.

What's a lover's bridge without the lovers right? :p

View of the restaurants from the bridge

The are on the left, is the toilet.... :p

Very nice soft sand

After that, we just relax on the benches under the big tree near the bridge. As Chloe puts it ‘I can sit here forever’ :) We also enjoy some coconut juice… ah…. Bliss…….

Even got TV there

We spent quite a long time to lepak there alone. We thought of catching sunset as well but it was only about 5pm. We have decided to go to the Morib beach and then will come back here for the sunset.

As Dad said, Morib beach is so different now. They’ve built the area like a water front place, with food stalls. There was a carnival going on at that time, so it was quite crowded.

We didn’t stay on for long here and went back to the Lover’s Bridge by 7pm to catch sunset.

It was a beautiful sight… :)

We finally 'seh tak' to leave the place at about 8pm. The journey back home didn’t feel that long though.

We went to pick-up Hayley and went for dinner at City Star. We had our dinner at almost 10pm :p

I hope Mom & Dad enjoyed the trip as much as we did :)