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Dinner @ Watercress Valley

By now I guess bored you with a lot of foodie posts of Cameron Highland, but don’t worry, because this is the last post, since this is our last stop before going back home.

Look at the terrains loaded with greeneries. Nice, isn’t it? Soothing to the eyes.

Yup, those are watercress. A whole farm planted with watercress.

The views are good isn’t it? Now, would you like to cook some sliced meat and vegetables in a hotpot while enjoying the green green views and cold weather?

If the answer is yes, then this place is a must drop by! Self explanatory signboard. This is our last pit stop before we went downhill, and boy, the temperature is decreasing very rapidly, I must say!

The teas in the teacups got all cold a minute after they are being poured out of the teapot. Brrr! I will have to disappoint you if you are looking for steamboat pictures, because we hadn’t had any due to time constraints.

We decided on some ala carte dishes so that we could have dinner quick and start our journey. We ordered a bowl of sui kaw, or meat dumplings in watercress soup. The soup is clear, refreshing and had a pleasant hint of watercress.

Sambal belacan watercress, or stir fried watercress with shrimp paste. This is the first time I eat stir fried watercress, because most of the time it was watercress soup for me. This is a great watercress dish! Totally tasty and unexpected. We had the two dishes pictured, and a fried rice, which is normal.

Apart from sambal belacan stir fry, the place also serves watercress stir fried in numerous ways, curry dishes and fried rice, noodles and the likes, along with their steamboat. Their steamboat is the type where could choose what you want from a fridge and they will keep a tab on what you took.

Its a pity that I didn’t get to sample their charcoal fire steamboat, so I must have by the next trip! By the time we finished our dinner, the sky was blanketed with fog. It was so cold that I was shivering nonstop. The drive downhill was a a bit on the scary side due to the fog, so if you are planning a one day trip, don’t go back too late, or you will end up like us.

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Tea and Scones @ Cameron Highland

This is one of the pit stops we made during our Cameron Highland family excursion.

Cameron Bharat Plantations in Ringlets. Nice view of the tea valley, isn’t it? The cooling weather and breezy air is very relaxing. It is nice to have some tea to wash down the wild durians we had during the last pit stop, which I will talk about later.

Teas for everyone.

Tea with milk, sugar or both?

Scones with frozen cream, butter and strawberry jam to go with the tea.

The teashop sells butter cakes, carrot cakes and tuna sandwiches as well. They serve a few types of tea, and business was brisk during the Sunday I was there. There is a souvenir shop selling tea leaves and souvenirs as well.

The view was great and the food was pleasant, so it really worths a drop by to try a variety of Cameron Valley teas if you are visiting Cameron Highland.

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