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IKEA Damansara is the largest IKEA store in Asia. What is IKEA? IKEA is a Scandinavian home furniture store. Most of the furnitures at IKEA are required buyers to Do it Yourself(DIY). There come the next question. Is it cheap? In my opinion, it is you pay what you get. While, for Mr. Ang, IKEA DIY items are “LEGO” for him. He just enjoys doing all the furniture building and home layout planning. (PS: that is why I married an engineer).

My family members were quite shock that Mr. Ang and I were going to spend our golden weekend at IKEA Damansara. We spent 2 days at IKEA Damansara just to do home furnishing shopping. It was great fun for us. We got to try out some good food around Damansara and Petaling Jaya. I listed the itinerary and the spending as below.

#ikea shopping trip on #labourday #lertravel

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1 May 2016, Sunday

08:30am Depart to Damansara, Selangor
01:00pm Lunch at Homemade Fish Head Noodle Noodle, 美味园鱼头米粉
02:00pm Check in 9Square Hotel (Book through ShopBackMY and Agoda).
02:30pm Have an afternoon nap
04:30pm Depart to Petaling Jaya.
05:10pm Dinner at My Burger Lab @ Sea Park
06:30pm Reach IKEA Damansara
06:45pm Find parking lot at e-Curve
07:30pm Enjoy IKEA ice cream
07:45pm Shopping at IKEA
09:30pm Pay bill and go back hotel
10:30pm Sleep

#throwback shopping at IKEA. #lertravel

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2 May 2016, Monday

07:30am Wake up and packing
08:00am Breakfast at nearby hawker centre
09:30am Reach IKEA and finding parking lot
09:50am Want to go for second breakfast but the IKEA restaurant is full house
10:00am Shopping at IKEA
11:45am Pay bill and enjoy IKEA frozen yogurt ice cream
12:00pm Depart to Johor Bahru
04:30pm Reach Johor Bahru

Expenses

Fish Head Noodle
9Square Hotel Queen Bed No Window Room
ShopBackMy
Dinner at BurgerLab
Breakfast
e-Curve Parking Fee
3 IKEA Frozen Yogurt Ice Cream
1 IKEA Ice Cream
2 IKEA Curry Puff
1 IKEA Hot Dog Bread
Fullen Mirror
2 Betydlig Wall
Rusch Wall Clock
2 Rast Bedside Tables
Racka Curtain
2 Albert Shelf
Lillnaggen shower squeegee
Billy Book shelf
6% GST @IKEA
Petrol
Toll fee

RM29.50
RM112.50
-RM4.80
RM36.70
RM15.00
RM3.00
RM4.50
RM1.00
RM2.00
RM2.00
RM75.00
RM3.80
RM59.80
RM9.90
RM118.00
RM6.90
RM139.00
RM24.68
RM65.00
RM40.00

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TOTAL expenses RM753.48

Google Map: #LerTravel IKEA Itinerary 2016

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4 October 2015

回门宴， Back home feast is defined as a feast for married couple to visit maternal house after 3 days of wedding. My sister and brother-in-law visited us on her third day of marriage. As we have many relatives, we decided to eat at Ban Heong Seng Restaurant. Ban Heong Seng Restaurant has been famous for its’ beggar chicken for decades. The most importantly it is a home based restaurant. It has this family oriented environment. Thus, we make the reservation one week ahead.

Ban_Heong_Seng_Restaurant_LerFoodie_018 — Beggar Chicken 叫化鸡 RM38.00

This chicken is stuffed with lots of herbs. Thus, the chicken meat is well marinated and cook. The meat is so tender soft. Each bite feel like meat floss. Interestingly,our family members are fighting for the gravy not the chicken meat. The gravy goes perfectly with the rice.

Ban_Heong_Seng_Restaurant_LerFoodie_013 — Arcar. A well marinated vegetable as appetiser.

The beggar pork hand is well cooked too. Mr. Ang, a person who dislike Chinese style cooking pork hand, also can’t resist the dish. This dish does not have pork smell and greasiness. Pork skin is famous for the collagen. I can’t help eating the pork skin for its tanginess.

This dish is very suitable for people who hate fish bone. The chef scraps the fresh off the skin. The fish fresh is mixed with vegetable and corn flour to make into fish paste. The paste is then carefully placed back into the fish skin to maintain the fish shape. The end result is as the photo above. Diners do not need to worry for the fish bone as it is actually fish cake.

Ban_Heong_Seng_Restaurant_LerFoodie_019 — Chang Sheng Pu Lao Soup 长生不老汤 RM28.00

Ban_Heong_Seng_Restaurant_LerFoodie_024 — The winter melon is filled with chicken meat, white fungus， wolfberry and red dates. The melon is steamed for hours for the soup essence.

Ban_Heong_Seng_Restaurant_LerFoodie_004 — Pe Pa Tau Fu 枇杷豆腐 RM14.00

Ban_Heong_Seng_Restaurant_LerFoodie_003 — Oil Vegetable 油菜 RM14.00

Total expenses for 2 tables (20 pax): RM370.00

LerLer’s Reviews:
Halal? : NON- HALAL
Tax?: No
Service Charge? : NO
Service: 8/10
Delicious: 10/10
Parking: 6/10
(Quite hard to find a parking lots during peak hour)

Ban Heong Seng Restaurant
34-B, Jalan Skudai,
Batu 3 1/4 Off Tahar
80200 Johor Bahru,
Johor
Tel: +607-237 5194 / +6016-757-1887

Operating Hour
Booking one day in advance
Monday – Sunday
12:00pm – 02:00pm
06:00pm – 09:00pm

Google Map: https://goo.gl/maps/89UYeHs1gou
GPS:1.483637, 103.721394

Ikea Damansara Gateway 1 Day Itinerary

1 May 2016, Sunday

2 May 2016, Monday

Expenses

Beggar Chicken @ Ban Heong Seng Restaurant, Johor Bahru