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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Photos sharing - Sam Poh Temple (三宝万佛寺) at Brinchang, Cameron Highlands

After breakfast at the hotel, before we check out from the hotel, we visited this Famous Buddhist Temple at Brinchang - Sam Poh Temple (N4.48878 E101.39056).

"Sam Poh Buddhist Temple located in Brinchang. It built high on a hill overlooking Brinchang town. Due to its location, the temple has a good view of Brinchang town and the houses that dot the little hills surrounding Brinchang. Sam Poh Temple built in 1972, is is the 4th largest Buddhist temple in the country. Amongst others, it houses a large statue of Lord Buddha, the founder of Buddhism. The temple is quite pretty and has been well maintained by residents and monks. Surrounded by a bright yellow wall, the temple is serene and peaceful. Inside are lots of different statues, both Buddhist and Chinese, and incense burning in the background in memory of those passed on. Remove your shoes before entering the temple halls. But be careful, the marbled floor is so chilly to the feet without wearing a pair of socks." Source from here.

Beside of praying, there are many rooms beside the temple. According to friends, those Buddhism can stay at the temple for RM80 per day, for praying, chanting and meditation. But I couldn't find any other information about it...especially the contact person...

Let me share some photos of the temple here....

The main hall once entering the temple

The Deity in the main hall...

Both side of the Deity are the 'Four Heavenly Kings' (四大天王)...

'Four Heavenly Kings' (四大天王)

On the second hall...

Proceed to second hall...

The deities in the second hall

The third hall...

The thrid hall of Sam Poh Temple

On the right of the three halls...there was another small praying area...

There are many deities here which I cannot recognize them....
On the right of the deity above...

Left...

We were walking around the temple for about an hour and enjoyed the peacefulness of the area...there were some monks around doing the cleaning and some tourists and locals who came for praying...

The outlook of the temple on 1946 (below)...just wondering, it's this temple related to 'Cheng Ho'? Because of the name - Sam Poh which is similar with the Cheng Ho well at Malacca...

Sam Poh Temple during year 1946

Once we left the temple, it was almost the time we say bye-bye to Cameron Highlands....proceed to check out from the Rosa Passadena Hotel...

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Mountain House Charcoal Steamboat Restaurant at Brinchang, Cameron Highlnads

Most of the poeples will try out the steamboat when they visit Cameron Highlands, same as us especially in the cold weather. Bringchang town is famous with the Steamboat Restaurant and we decided to have a walk then simply pick one of them for dinner...

There are about 5-6 restaurants in the same row of KFC Brinchang town, another 3-4 same type of restaurant across the main road. We decided on this Mountain House Restaurant (N4.49180 E101.38856) because of not crowded that we no need to stand and wait for table. I like the way when the boss or person-in-charge approched us...

Mountain House Charcoal Steamboat Restaurant, Brinchang.

Service was fast, less than 10 minutes...everything was on our table...

Fresh vegetables and mushrooms

Bean curds, fish cakes, fish and meat balls...

Prawns, pork, fish and some cutterfish...

Noodles and eggs

You can request 2 types of soups without extra charges...one tomyam another side was normal soup...

All vegetables, mushrooms were really fresh! Same as the prawns and others, but we were disappointed with the soup, because of too much msg that made it over salty. The boss noticed that and apologies politely. Well, we did enjoyed the steamboat dinner due to the cooling weather...:)

Kind of unique charcoal steamboat

The Damage : RM30.00 for 2 persons included drinks. Children are free of charge. The price was reasonable...

We saw the next door restaurant which was also same with the charcoal steamboat had a 'Tripadvisor' sticker presented on the wall...we decided to visit it in our next visit...

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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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