Water Cress Valley Restaurant at Brinchang, Cameron Highlands

Before we leave Cameron Highlands on the last day, we drop by this Water Cress Valley - Chiew Garden Cafe (N4.50811 E101.41643) for lunch, the garden cafe is truly unique that located in the middle of the Water Cress farm.

Water Cress Valley - Chiew Garden Cafe

The entrance of the Garden Cafe

Before we reach the cafe, we passed by the water cress seeding area...

The design of the cafe entrance is some kind of similar to Taiwanese restaurant...

Water Cress Valley Garden Cafe

Once step into the dining area, it was a breathtaking view of the water cress farm...cooling and nice! Very relaxing too...

 

 The cafe dining area...

I was fall in love at the first sight for this cafe...

Let me show you the scenic view from the cafe...

The Water Cress Farm

Beside water cress, they also planted some other vegetables and fruits...

View from the cafe...

The friendly lady boss took our order and she recommended their special drink - water cress juice! It had a unique taste and special! Not bad.

Water Cress Juice

Our lunch:-
*  Fried rice.
*  Recommended Special Ramen (signature dish)
*  Stir fried water cress
*  Recommended Special sauce Chicken (signature dish)

Fried rice

The Special Ramen - Signature dish

The Special sauce chicken - signature dish

Stir Fried water cress

The fried rice was nice! The Special Ramen taste good but the noodle not springy enough. The chicken was really special and we all like it! The water cress was definitely fresh and good! Overall, satisfied with the meals!

The Damage : RM52.00 for 2 adults and 1 child included the water cress juice. Reasonable price with the cool environment and the scenic view!

The Cafe just started about 6 months ago, but the farm has been through 5 generations of the family. The cafe open daily without off day during the school holiday season.

We spent almost 2 hours there to enjoy the view and we will visit it again!

The staff harvest the fresh water cress

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Water Cress Valley Sdn Bhd

Lee & Chiew Cafe

Jalan Besar, Batu 44, Tringkap

39100 Cameron Highlands

Tel : +605-4961071

Email : watercressvalley@yahoo.com

Business hour : 10am - 10pm

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Another visit to The Big Red Strawberry Farm at Brinchang, Cameron Highlands

Due to the early rain (about 4pm) in Cameron Highlands, we visited the The Big Red Strawberry Farm (N4.49624 E101.38656) in Brinchang town because it's fully cover in the farm. This was our second time visiting the farm and we like the way they arrange the plants and vegetables nice & neat, and it's clean too!

Initially, I was thinking to buy some plants or flowers for my garden...but just worry about the weather is different from the Highlands and it may not grow properly....

The flowers that I like...

Nice and colourful!

The prices of the flowers and the plants are much cheaper compare with the nursery around Johor Bahru  sell here. End up, we just bought some nice cactus...6 for RM10.

Lovely Green flowers...

The water stayed in the middle of the plant after rain...

Then we walked into the Lettuce and Strawberries area...

The Hydroponics Lettuces...

Lettuce seeding and the growing lettuces

Now they allow visitors to enter the Cassarova Strawberries area to pluck the strawberries, the fees is RM25.00. The Cassarova Strawberry is different from the normal strawberry where you can see it everywhere in Cameron Highlands, it's bigger, much sweeter and not that sour.

'Cassarova' Strawberries farm

We spent about 30-40 mintues to 'harvest' in that area and this (below) was what we got ...:)

Cassarova strawberries from The Big Red Strawberry Farm

The Strawberry Chocolate Fondue is the popular dessert at Cameron Highlands during our visit. It's widely available on the highlands including this strawberry farm...

I didn't take note on the price for the Fondue package at the cafe....

I think we will visit the farm again on our next trip, just felt very comfort walking in the farm...the staffs in the farm also freindly as usual...

We were hanging around the farm until the rain stop, then went back to the hotel for some rest...

The pink Hibiscus

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Sungai Palas BOH Tea Centre at Cameron Highlands

The farm alley is still narrow and winding all the way till the visitiors parking of Sungai Palas BOH Tea Centre (N4.51579 E101.41634). The total journey from the Brinchang Main Road to the Tea Centre parking area is approximately 3.5KM.

BOH Tea Vivitor Parking area

Once we got out of the car, there still a short distance to walk to the Tea Centre, it's locate at the small hill in the Tea Farm. The walk was refreshing and relax, it took about 10-15 minutes.

It was a nice walk within the Green...

The BOH Tea Centre is one of the Famous Attracttion in Cameron Highlands. I had been attracted by the unique structure of the tea centre on the hill which is not too far away...

The unique structure that protruded on the hill

If you notice the stairs next to it, that will be our return path later...

Sungai Palas BOH Tea Centre at Brinchang Town

The place was crowded! Yeah...it's a tourist hotspot. :)

I like the design very much. Let me share some photos in the cafe...

The Cafe area of the BOH Tea Centre

Everyone is busy queuing up for their snacks and drinks...included me...

There are indoor and outdoor area in the cafe...

The ourdoor or so call balcony area of the cafe

The scenic view...

We had 2 cups of BOH milk tea and a sausage with the unique name - 'Firecracker'. I bought it cause by the name...total bill was around RM15.

The sausage

The 'tea' was quite bland and the sausage was cold, not crunchy...but all of this was not our purpose to visit, it was actually the 'View'!
Look at the Breathtaking view from the cafe! It was Fantastic! We were relaxing at the cafe for more than an hour...Nice!

Scenic view from the cafe

This was the place where I can forget about everything and just sit at the cafe to enjoy the Marvelous view of the tea plantation! We can see the small village (where we parked our car) clearly from the cafe...
The photo above was on my right and the photo below was on my left...

Scenic view from the cafe

There is a small session selling all the tea leaf produced by the farm just within the Tea Centre, beside that you can also read the history of BOH Tea Farm at the gallery...

The BOH Tea Centre Gallery

That is the machine to grind and dry the tea leaf (correct me if I'm wrong) which is still in operation at the factory.

Had our factory walk after the tea break, and it's open for public.

BOH Tea Factory

Once we stepped in, there were 2 machines grinding the tea leafs....there's no clear explaination on the operation, so we have to base on what we saw within the production area.

The grinder machines

The word 'Sirocco' at the machine, I guess that's the Brand...too bad I can't find any information online...

The next session is where all the grinded dried tea leafs send for packing...I guess...

The tour was rather short, it took only 10-15 minutes to glance through the operation in the factory...

We chose to walk through the tea farm in our return path to the parking area. You can smell the tea leafs while walking...nice!

The path where we walked back to our car...

It was a nice experience having the tea break at the cafe! Especially the fresh air! I wish they can provide some info at the production area, and all visitors can understand the process of the tea leafs, that's make the perfect trip to BOH Tea Centre of Cameron Highlands.

History of the BOH Tea Plantation at Cameron Highlands
"BOH Plantations was founded in 1929 by J.A. Russell, a British businessman during the British colonial era in Malaya. He was optimistic of the tea plantation business due to huge demands despite of the world-wide Great Depression at that time. As a result of the potential, he applied for and was granted a concession of land for his first tea garden in Habu, Cameron Highlands.
Today, BOH Plantations owns three tea gardens - the first garden in Habu, Fairlie Tea Garden and Sungai Palas Tea Garden. To ensure the freshness of its tea products, BOH Plantations also set up a packaging factory near its main garden. BOH tea products are distributed both in domestic and international markets." Source from Wiki.

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The Butterfly Farm at Brinchang, Cameron HIghlands

After the simple breakfast provided by Rosa Passadena Hotel, my daughter suddenly asking...it's there any Butterfly and insects farm around Cameron Highlands?....Great! We were heading to Butterfly Farm (N4.50714 E101.40681) which is about 500 meters from Kea Farm Brinchang, Cameron Highlands immediately...

The Butterfly Farm at Brinchang, Cameron Highlands

The private vehicles parking area of the farm that really convenience to all the visitors! Because the farm entrance is located just about 8 meters from the main road...
The entrance fee is RM5 - adult and RM2 - children (12 years old and below)

The area is nice and refreshing. We went into the first session of the farm - Butterfly area...many colourful butterflies everywhere! My daughter was so excited!

The plants and flowers were so nice within the garden...

Huge butterflies in the farm...

Apologies that I cannot post all the butterflies photos here, too many butterflies! As you can see there were many of them hanging at the corner and everywhere in the area...

Once we stepped out the butterflies 'cage', the path continue to a insects, reptiles and bugs session.

There are many different spices of the Big Beetle Bugs family around!

Beetle bug

Next to the beetle bugs, I found my favorite - The Tarantula, beautiful and poison! Few different type of the poison spiders available in the farm...

One of the Tarantula at Butterfly Farm

Another type of spider, forgot the name of it...

Iguana and the lizards family...

Frogs pond...

Many visitors throw coins into the pond and make a wish, they believe it will bring good luck! Especially Chinese. There were 2 coins just laying beside the frog in the photo above...

And I felt that she was 'Cool'! (below...)

Kind of tiny green snake in the farm.

Out all these small animals, the area also full of colourful flowers and plants...

The Hibiscus (Malaysia National Flower) had many colours and interesting!

 Mixture of yellow and red colours...

The original Red Hibiscus

The pink Hibiscus

All names on the cactus...Oh! Don't kill them...

Just can't imagine if I fall on these...! Ouch!

We stuck at this small tree for quite some time...the reason is to discover the 'Stick insect'...can you notice it in the photo below?!

The Stick insect in Butterfly Farm

It was a nice and educational Farm for everyone! I will visit again for photography purpose...

We spent almost an hour+ in the farm that good enough to digested our breakfast, and continue of next itinenary to Sungai Palas BOH Tea Centre for another round of tea and snacks...

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Loaction map of Butterfly Farm at Brinchang, Cameron Highlands

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