Flower Arrangements & Gardens of Everland Resort

One thing that you shouldn't miss when visiting Everland Resort is the beautiful gardens and gorgeous flower arrangements within the park which have been year-round fixtures since 1985 for the Rose Festival.

The Halloween Garden 

The Four Seasons Garden of Everland is decorated and arranged with beautiful flowers based on European French garden style. Surrounded by Holland-style architecture, the gardens are the stage for four different kind of seasonal flower festivals; Tulip Festivals from March to April, Rose Festival from May to June, Lilies Festival from July to August and Chrysanthemums from September to October.

So, by the time we visited Everland in September, we were being indulged with allure of colourful chrysanthemums. Besides that, it is also celebration of spooking and horror celebration of Halloween in Everland if visit around September to end of October. Therefore, no surprise to see that the garden is filled with mixtures thousand of pumpkins.

Not big fan of flower but this reminds me of my experience in Taiwan for Flora Expo. It's definitely one place deserve for a visit.

A good spot for taking nice photo with a beautiful background. 

Holland Village - A place that offers more than 30 European dishes and several types of beer with an amazing and almost look alike decorated Holland style restaurant such as Restaurant Amsterdam.

Before we bid goodbye to Everland, we managed to witness Halloween Party parade for the second time. It's quite hard for us to know what time will the parade being performed cause not being stated in the pamphlet given. Guess we're lucky that not only one but two times of the parade show that we managed to enjoy before leaving this marvellous and pretty awesome amusement theme park. The first time we watched was on the ride of Skyway to another kind of theme area (click here). 

Parade with Halloween theme that attracts everyone who visit the park. 

All of this happens in the European Adventure theme area which I blogged before (click here for more). So, this post marked the final and last episode that I ranted about Everland Resort. Now say goodbye to Everland and let's move on to the other destinations of Seoul. Annyeonghi gaseyo!

My previous posts which related to Everland Resort:

• How To Get To Everland Resort 
• 1st Theme Area: Global Fair
• 2nd Theme Area: Zoo-Topia
• 3rd Theme Area: European Adventure
• 4th Theme Area: American Adventure
• 5th Theme Area: Magic Land

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Foodie Friday: Sushi Tei, Suria Sabah

Blog about Sushi Tei before this (click here) but I would like to post again with more food photos. It's Friday by the way and it's time for Foodie Friday post in Travel & Living Journal of DT.

Well, there are quite number or Japanese restaurants around Kota Kinabalu but many of them either not up to the standard by providing a low quality of sushi or quite pricey. My family and I and even my boyfie are big fans of sushi and almost once every week will ended up eating at Japanese restaurant. The most frequent Japanese restaurants that we visited are either Wojamama (Sabah local Japanese cuisine) or Sushi Tei, an international Japanese Restaurant chain originated from Singapore.

Sushi Tei is one of the Japanese restaurant that I realised providing an assortment of scrumptious of Japanese cuisine with an affordable price. Even sometimes, I had my late lunch at there with my family. My favourites of all time from Sushi Tei was different varieties of Inari sushi and also they do serve sushi with mentai - which is hardly to find in any other Japanese eateries around KK.

So, basically this post is compilation of my few visits to Sushi Tei within these few months. Be prepared with yourself with all the wide spray of delightful and delicious of Japanese cuisines' photos my family, boyfie and I had. Itadakimasu!

Dinner with boyfie & lil bro when parents went Chiangmai. Almost the whole plate are fulled with mentai sushi. Told you I am big fan of mentai sushi.

My dad's all time favourite - Salmon and sashimi. I have a weak stomach, so never got the chance to try.

Dai Dai Roll 

Assorted of sushi with maki, Tosa. 

Tempura - Fried veggies 

This whole plate of sushi was ordered by me and belongs to mine. 

Sashimi Salad

Tamago roll with unagi. The tamago is too soft, which is not my taste.

Again my favourite sushi - Inari with assortment of choices, Inari Kani Mayo, Inari Tuna.

My mom's favourite - Temaki

Chuka Idako (Marinated baby octopus), Chuka Wakame (Seasoned seaweed), Chuka Kurage (Seasoned jellyfish).

With a decent prices and deliver such fresh and good quality of sushi and other Japanese cuisines, it is impossible for me to restrict myself for another revisit again to this fine Japanese restaurant located in Suria Sabah. So, there's no surprise if you see this Sushi Tei is full with crowd almost every night.

Location:
Suria Sabah Shopping Mall 
Lot G-68, Ground Floor,
1, Jalan Tun Fuad Stephens
88000 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.

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Everland Resort - 5th Theme Area: Magic Land

Finally, this is the last theme area that we visited in Everland Resort, Magic Land. Yes, we did managed to stroll around all the five theme area of Everland Resort. Many people said that it's quite hard and insufficient time to visit all the theme area in a day but I guess my friends are and I are lucky enough on that day. Mainly because it was weekday and not many people as what we were expecting. One of tips to visit theme park is avoid going on weekends (if possible).

If you miss out the other four theme areas of Everland Resort, you can check out here:

• 1st Theme Area: Global Fair
• 2nd Theme Area: Zoo-Topia
• 3rd Theme Area: European Adventure
• 4th Theme Area: American Adventure 

Magic Land is a mysterious land of magical fairy tales. Each and every architecture of the buildings look like those fairy tales in the happily-ever-after story books we used to read during our childhood time. Not only the building, even the pond, the tree are really unique and beautifully designed.

 

Just like every other theme areas, Magic Land consists of three restaurants to fulfill the empty stomach and two souvenir shops to find some cute and pretty gift for families and friends.

There are even quite number of attractions and rides at Magic Land but we didn't gave a try. Mainly because most of the attractions are only suitable for children and seems like quite childish. The other reason was because we're very tired and seems lazy to queue up for a ride after wandered around Everland Resort for more than five hours.

Too bad that the Ferris wheel that provide a spectacular view of the whole park was closed to allow for more rides. And from here, it leads us to one of the most favourite attractions and myself personally like this place - a beautiful garden with gorgeous flowers arrangement. Most of this will be revealed in my next post.

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Amazing Journeys with MAS!

Today is the last day of Malaysia Airlines having great deals to destinations such as Phuket, Beijing, Hanoi, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Sydney, Maldives and more with the Amazing Journey's Campaign.  #MASAmazingJourneys

Besides the amazing deals above, you also got the chance to win a flight ticket from Malaysia Airlines flying to any destinations listed. How to win?

1. Like Malaysia Airlines Facebook Fans and once you're done, click on the MAS Amazing Journeys

2. All you need to do is enter with a slogan in 10 words or less and tag 50 of your friends. 

Hurry participate if you want to win yourself a fly ticket with Malaysia Airlines as it ends tonight. Even myself are participating this and who knows I might win? Try out your luck and I wish good luck if you choose to participate in this contest.

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Hiatus Mode Again!

Sady to declare that I need to set my blog for another hiatus mode again (on hiatus more before this) for a week in order to prepare myself for another war, I means for my external accounting paper. Initially I plan to do this earlier, at least early of this month but seems like blogging has dominating my current daily life.

So, please forgive me if you can't see me doing any blogwalking and even leave comment on your blog due to the limited time given for my revision. Exam will ends on next week Monday, 18th June 2012 and my blog will resume as usual after that. Can't wait to be free as a bird and so many things on the list wish to be done after exam, especially on planning for my upcoming trips. Seriously can't wait for another trips and vacation again. 

More of these in Travel & Living Journal of DT once the active mode is back:

Try to finish my Seoul & Jeju Island trips as soon as possible

 DT's 2011 Trip around Singapore and Indonesia (Jakarta & Bandung)

DT's 2012 Trips (Phuket, Philippines, Vietnam & Brunei)

And more to come...

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Foodie Friday: Equatorial Restaurant, Tanjung Aru Plaza

NOTE: Non-Halal Food Post

I seldom have my meals at this fine dining Chinese cuisine restaurant cause most of the meals ordered are too heavy and I was on a diet plan. But because both of my uncle and aunty and also including my cousin came from Brunei, so I have no other choices but to join them. 

Most of people especially KKians recommended this restaurant if you are looking for nice and delicious Chinese foods serving in KK town. So when everytime if there any relatives or my dad's friends came by KK for visit, this is one of the place that my dad won't hesitate to bring them for dinner. 

Since there are 8 of us, my dad has ordered 7 different dishes including their signature dishes.

Fried Mango Roll (RM13.00)

Basically it is fried crab meat together with mango. My first attempt to try this special dish but surprisingly it taste good, crunchy and delicious.

Yong Chow Fried Rice (RM12.00)

It's my family favourite fried rice and my dad sure will order it when everytime visit this restaurant.

Sweet and sour chicken with marinated jellyfish (RM33.00)

Love the combination of the sauce together with the chicken but I dislike eating the jellyfish.

Scallop with mix veggie (RM100.00)

Beancurd with oyster sauce

 

One of their signature dishes - Crispy Pork Leg (RM40.00)

This is highly recommended by their chef and I can see that almost all table ordered this.

Fried Big Prawn (RM105.00)

You may think Equatorial may seems to serve ordinary Chinese dishes but they do serve a real great fresh and big prawn.

Besides the above dishes that my dad ordered, Equaotorial is popular for cooking crocodile meat. Frankly speaking, none of my family have the guts to try this unusual meat and we worry we might not use to the taste of the crocodile meat. But you can check out MeiTzeu's blog where she and family did tried that - Equatorial Restaurant（贵都海鲜楼）, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah

Overall, this is one and recommended Chinese cuisine restaurant if you are looking for in KK town with a friendly service too. Even their food serving time consider to be quite fast and efficient.

Equatorial Restaurant KK
Lot C-G8, C-G7, C-G6,
Ground Floor, Block C,
Plaza Tanjung Aru, Jalan Mat Saleh,
Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.

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Everland Resort - 4th Theme Area: American Adventure

Continue again with the 4th theme area of Everland Resort.

• 1st Theme Area: Global Fair
• 2nd Theme Area: Zoo-Topia
• 3rd Theme Area: European Adventure

The shortcut ride of Skyway took us from European Adventure theme area to another portion of the park, the American Adventure.

The themes of this area are most basically presented based on American history. The building, the restaurant, the streets, the songs and even the ride are all in the oldies of American style.

Somebody wanna pump gasoline?

Drive-In Restaurant

Besides the prominent T-Express ride in the European Adventure area, here could be consider the most favourite place for those who love to challenge themselves in the thrill ride of "scream machine". There are more than 5 extreme rides which can been seen in this park area.

Let's twist and turn

 

Since we were reluctant to join for the ride of T-Express ride, finally some of us decided to join her for another ride after being persuaded by her for few times. She did also mentioned that it is quite waste if we didn't try any ride since we were here in Everland Resort.

So here we are embrace ourself to this exhilarating thrills.

See! It's up side down ride! I was screaming like hell and my friend who sat next to me keep shouting "When will this ride end?", "Please don't spin, please don't spin!". Although it was damn scary but I was laughing at the same time cause of my friend stupidly reaction. 

Double Rock Sping - A powerful spinning and rhythm ride. Loves to try this too but cause we were too tired of screaming, hence we decided to watch only.

Billboards during the oldies time.

Columbus Adventures - A dizzying viking ship. My friend said this ride is not suitable for those who has big tummy.

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