Day 1
After 2 hours drive and reached Kuala Selangor, we settle our lunch at McD. Another 20km drive, we reached the sekinchan. We stay at The One Boutique Hotel which cost RM158.75. It is discounted price that booked on Booking.com.
First we visited the rice factory. The entrance fee is RM5 which include a small pack of vacuumed rice. We got into a room and watched some video about paddy planting, seed nursery etc. Then a guide bring a group of people to told us about some operation of the factory. We knew different kind of machine. It is like factory visit in Taiwan which the visitor is separated from a glass window from the factory. We also just knew that brown rice without bran, germ and endosperm become white rice. After finished the visiting, we had dessert at the 米乐坊.
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| The rice packages |
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| The rice exhibition |
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| Old rice machine |
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| The view of factory |
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| Brown Rice Red Bean Dessert, RM3 |
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| Brown Rice Spring Roll (They called it dumpling), RM3 |
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| Paddy planting machine |
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| The paddy field view just outside of the rice factory |
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| Rice factory gallery entrance |
After that, we visit Sekinchan Fishing Port and walk around the fishing village. Most of the fishing boatmen were having shower on the boat.
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| Fishing port |
Then we have the photo with the mural arts
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We had our dinner at 喜记炒虾姑
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| 4 dishes cost RM41 include two drinks |
After dinner, we went back hotel and rest. For the star photography, we found that day weather is lesser cloud than next day. Hence, we went out at 10:30pm and find the darker area at the paddy field. At last, we stopped at the small lane between Jalan Parit 9 and 10. It was very dark, I need to use phone flashlight to help and adjust the camera and tripod.
This is my first time to take star photography. I learned a lot of thing like:
1. How to adjust manual focus for the dark sky. I adjusted the focus by focusing to the light on the land and adjust until best focus.
2. 500rule, shoot less than shutter speed of 500 divide by lens focal length. E.g. I used 14mm f2.5, hence is better shoot less than 500/14=35s. This is to avoid startrail
3. Bring mosquito repellent. There are too many mosquito.
4. Shooting Raw
5. That day still cloudy, cannot see milky way.
The star photos were taken with Olympus OM-D EM10 and Panasonic 14mm f2.5 len then edited with Lightroom.
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| The brightest star is the Jupiter. |
At last, we shot until 1am.
Day 2
We woke up for branch that day at Ri Ri Fatt Restaurant.
Then we visited the Ah Ma House, There are many antique gadgets and stuffs. It also sold a lot of my childhood memory sweets and snacks. After visited for a while, suddenly, a group of tourist from a bus visit this house. This made the house so crowded. Then we leave the house and buying nothing as the queue is quiet long.
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| Rice Prawn Cracker |
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| Old times snacks and sweets. |
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| The making of kuih kapit |
Then we walk to the opposite of the ah ma house to visit the maritime gallery. The entrance fee is RM5. The exhibition inside is quite simple and short. The we rest at the snack store nearby to having a coconut and fried yam shrimp snack.
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| Inside the maritime gallery |
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| Coconut cost RM4 and 炸芋头虾饼 Fried yam shrimp snack cost RM10 |
Next, we drove the Nan Tian Temple. The most interesting place in this temple is the two tower that you can climb up and view the wide area of the Sekinchan paddy field.
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| The view from the top of the temple tower. |
Since it's a hot day, Sekinchan doesn't have any shopping mall. We just chilled at the Mango King store for having the Mango Shake,
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| Mango shake cost RM5 each. Very sweet |
After that, we don't have any activities in the afternoon, we just took the timelapse of the paddy field.
Around 4pm, we went to the PTP prawn cracker. The owner told us that they don't have variety of flavour to select and suggest to bought at a souvenir shop. The souvenir shop called 新兴手信点, there are three flavours of cracker to choose which are yam, squid and prawn. Each big pack cost RM8 and free a magnet! Other shop don't have free magnet.
Next, we went to the Redang Beach. The main activity to do there is playing kite. There are a lot of shop selling kite with the normal price of RM12. Even renting kite for RM5. We didn't bought any kite and play the ship-style kite that I bought in Bali. It take 10 minutes to assemble it. After several times of throwing up and adjust the balancing, we successfully flew it but we didn't led it fly so high.
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| The tree house at the Redang Beach |
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| Proton Wira Exhibition? |
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| The ship-style kite |
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| Finally, it can fly. |
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| Ship in the air |
Then we were just sitting at the beach and enjoyed the sunset. It has been a long time haven't been at the shore. The sticky feel of my skin let me feel uncomfortable.
We settle our dinner at J&M lah lah seafood.
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| Top: 炒爱情鱼, super oily and it cost RM15 Bottom Right: 炸虾姑炒饭 Bottom Left: 啦啦煎 3 dishes and a drink cost RM31.5 |
Day 3
We woke up at 5:30am that day to go to catch sunrise of the paddy field.
We drove till the small lane in front of the rice factory and wait for the sunrise. After sunrise, the view is very beautiful and we took more photos.
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| This photo view is super nice. |
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| The condensed liquid water on the paddy leaf |
Next, we went to Ri Ri Fatt to have the pork glutinous rice. But the man said have to wait till 9:30am. Hence, we went back to the hotel and continue to sleep first. After checked out at 10am, we went back to the restaurant and having breakfast.
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| Top Left : 瓦煲老鼠粉 RM6.5 Bottom Left: 咖喱米粉 RM4 Bottom Right: 糯米猪 Pork Glutinous Rice Total RM18.4 |
Next, we go to rice factory bought the rice and Ah Ma house to buy more souvenirs and snacks.
Then drove back home.
