Sekinchan Savoury Short Trip

It's good to be back on my blog after a while back since my last visit to Vietnam. This time around we went to Sekinchan and it's the Hari Raya Puasa 2nd day in 2012. Getting there from Klang is pretty easy, however the sad part was the travel duration of supposedly 1 hour has drag till more than 1 1/2 hours due to the traffic jams at Kuala Selangor. Another bad news was that our Sekinchan visit timing in the month of August is not really good as all the padi fields were already harnessed between June till September of each year. Luckily for us there were still some young padi turf planted outside the PLS Marketing's factory's field. These padi spots were carefully nurtured and its green leaves were surprisingly striking in colour.

It was quite a contrast to see part of the fields which were totally bald while the other side was in bright green padi turfing. On our way out, we did manage to stop by at Nan Thien Temple (南天宫) (Nine Emperor Gods Temple). We also manage to buy some crackers @ RM10.00, 'kam kat' (plum extract) at RM11.50,if you buy extra bottles. (Good for cooling down the heaty body, I guess) (Normal price @ RM12.00) and mashed peanuts biscuits @ RM10.00. Finally, we had our late lunch at Guan Seng Long Restaurant. We manage to have some fried prawns, spicy claypot shark's meat, fried cuttlefish, claypot tauhu with mixed crabs, prawns & mushrooms. The big surprise here was the total of all these dishes c/w chinese tea was merely costing about RM80.20 which was very reasonable in comparison with Tanjung Sepat and Kuala Selangor which are way more expensive.

We also realise that the 'kam kat' in Melaka which is probably 20% lesser but cost about RM18.00 per bottle there. Last but not least, we are quite unhappy with some of the Sekinchan map attractions which we downloaded from the web were rather inaccurate (In particular the fishball & crackers as shown on their maps were not apparent at sight). So, we decided to include our GPS POI for 3 of the attractions which are quite easy to locate and also our case study link on Sekinchan which we manage to save as followed:

PLS Marketing - Padi Processing Plant

Address: Lot No 9990, Jalan Tali Air 5, Ban 2, 45400 Sekinchan, Selangor, Malaysia
Tel: +603-3243 6558
GPS :   3°31'16.11"N    101° 7'43.37"E

Nan Thien Temple (南天宫) - (Nine Emperor Gods Temple)
GPS :    3°31'24.77"N   101° 8'31.94"E

Guan Seng Long Restaurant
Address: 30-40, Jalan SD1, Taman Sekinchan Damai, 45400 Sekinchan, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia. Tel: +6019-224 7311 / +6019-323 4337
GPS :    3°30'17.86"N    101° 5'58.25"E

Hope our short guided tour can make your trip much easier to find the main attractions.