Tanjung Tuan and the Lighthouse Part 1

                              Dinner at an authentic Chinese restaurant is getting the front-page limelight in my blog. It was worth the 45-minute wait with the waiter visibly stressed by the unexpected crowd of hungry folks in Lukut that Sunday night. We could hear her yelling every 10 minutes from the kitchen although it was not clear what she was upset about. Note to self - BOOK a table in advance and order dishes beforehand should I bring my family and friends here for the next trip:) It was going to be Hari Raya Aidiladha the following day which is a public holiday throughout Malaysia (and Singapore) so that could have contributed to the larger turnout that night. Almost 8 out of the 12 tables were occupied by Indian families. Good to know they too enjoyed the local Malaysian Chinese cuisines:) Malaysia is a multi-racial country although my nation has been in the front pages of many international newspapers and featured in many news portals, for all the wrong reasons. We need to leverage on diversity and appreciate the uniqueness of our natural heritage. The covid-19 pandemic wreaked havoc throughout the entire world. A comedian joked that we were grounded by God for two years. 

I ordered seafood taufoo but what was served looked like Japanese beancurds with minced pork. The piece de resistance that night for me was the prawns in salted egg sauce (as pictured at the top of my blog). If I had a piece of mantou bun, I would have wiped that plate of prawns clean off with the last bit of bun - it was very tasty. Kudos to this restaurant in Lukut, Port Dickson, named Mei Jing! They officially opened on 21 June 2020 according to their Facebook page. Find out more about this restaurant HERE. This was a brief escapade from KL. I had just completed the second semester of my MBA online distance learning course and needed a short break to remember what it was like to travel again.      

    Seeing this Cape Rachado lighthouse again post-pandemic lockdown was pure joy! 

Tanjung Tuan (Cape Rachado) - view from the lighthouse

  

On my way back to the beach after a good view of the coast from around the lighthouse area. There was a fruiting tree, nearby the lighthouse which was visited by the Red-eyed bulbul, Pink-neck Green Pigeon, Olive-winged bulbul, Asian Glossy Starling, of which I have noted down via Checklist at Ebird Malaysia HERE. The historical background of the Lighthouse (built by Dutch in 1817 who succeeded the Portuguese conquerors, before the British colonial masters took over subsequently from the Dutch) is provided in the Port Dickson Municipal council website HERE . The invisible lines of the borders between Malacca and Negeri Sembilan were well-marked by notice boards, at the entrance to the road leading up to the lighthouse, at the stairs toward the lighthouse and the entrance gate of the lighthouse perimeter. Bukit Batu Putih (Hill of White Rocks - will come up with a more colourful name for this site when I get there!) is the next place for me to explore and hopefully I’ll be physically fit with proper trekking shoes to walk on rocky terrain soon.

High tide at the beach on foothills of Tanjung Tuan Recreational Forest.