Maximum Travellers – Twelve including Two EOs
Minimum Travellers – Seven including Two EOs
Closing date:………….11th November 12noon as by 2pm train tickets will be booked and payable
in Ringgit on Departure day.
Depart……………….9/9.05am JBahru
Arrive ………………..10/10.05am Kulai
Depart: Kulai 3pm to Senai Airport half-an-hour away
Depart: Senai 4pm to Larkin twenty mins away
Depart: Larkin 6pm of earlier, members have the option to drop off at JBaru for shopping &
dining and afterwards proceed home by yourselves(advisable not later than TENpm)
Regards
Lorraine Chia
Abel Tan
Hi-Abel and Lorraine
nice to see that you are organising another train trip
to Kulai
How about planning one for Ipoh?
Personally I feel Kulai is too near to Singapore and many
of us probably have visited or go thru it.
regds
Peter
Hi Abel, is the meeting place in JB? Anyone meeting in Spore and then proceeding to JB?Hv not been to Kulai the last 10yrs. Can u elaborate attractions in Kulai, Senai, Larkin?
Hello Lorraine and Abel,
Already bitten by the travel bug? Hahaha
Let me share with you a secret to be found in Kulai.
Many years ago, the people of Johore (chinese) would buy tow foo, tow kua whenever they passed through Kulai. Apparently, these were reportedly tasty and has very smooth texture. In other words, delicious!
Good luck if these are still of that quality cos profits and availability of raw materials and Mass production may have great impact on quality now.
If the greater community of Kulai is Hakka, look out for hakka Village food . This is probably why the tow foo ,tow kua products were great. Remember the hakka yong tow foo? That’s it.
Happy exploring Kulai on foot and let us know what unusual foods you discover.
Geok Suan.
Hi Members
Before opening of the Malaysian North-South Highway in early 1988, Nearly all Sporeans who go to KLumpur will drive through Kulai after passing through Tampoi(20/25 mins from JB) and Scudai(40/45mins from JB). Kulai is 1hour 15/20mins away from JB.
After 1988, just after Scudai, one turns left into the Highway.. Scudai is popular with Sporeans weekender for shopping & dining. This town tend to be mistaken for Kulai or vice-versa by some of us because the two towns’ names rhyme, ScuDAI, KuLAI and also due to their close proximity.
For those who are staying in Yishun and Woodlands, it is more convenient and practical to go directly to JBaru rather than gather at the Ban San Street express-bus terminal by 7.15am, located towards the end of Queen Street and behind the Catholic church St Lourdes.
Kulai town together with Kempas, Layang-Layang, Mengkibol, Kluang, Bekok, Paloh, Segamat(cannot recall three or four more towns) were collectively up to the 80s “Rubber Platation” towns of Johor, and all are railway stations in order to transport latex to Spore, as then Port Klang has not been upgraded and Tanjong Pelepas not in existence yet.
Yes Geok Suan, Kulai was known for its Yong Tau foo and I had tried it once in the late 80s. My last trip to Kulai was in 2004 in a group of eight persons and the Yong tau foo we had was unappetising as the last time which the other seven travellers confirmed compared to their previous mouthfuls.
Senai Airport opened in 2000 is quite reminiscient of our former Paya Lebar. Since we have the best terminal at Changi, presumably very few Sporeans have visited Senai Airport out of curiousity. Like Senai, Larkin has become a well-known place due to the opening up in 1997 of the Interstate Bus Terminal, a double-storey building(area-wise larger than our TPayoh Interchange) which housed several food & beverage shops, textiles & shoe shops. handphones, Macdonalds, and booths of bus-ticketing.
Sorry Peter, owing to my personal time-constraint, an outing to Ipoh will have to take at least three days as both the bus & train schedules are “unsuitable”. Perhaps, we shall go to Kampar/Telok Intan(leaning pagoda) which I have visited twice previously ’99 & ’05, if the train schedule remains unchanged re: JB-KL, then train transfer to KL-Kampar(Perak).
In mid 2012, if the “stars don’t forbid”, we can have durians in Segamat and the next day in Kuala Lipis(central-north Pahang), a town with a few handsome-looking colonial buildings as KLipis was the adminsitrative centre for Kelantan,Trengganu & Pahang for British Malaya Eastern states. We can go boating on the Sungei Pahang, twenty minutes out of town.
Rgards
Abel Tan
Hi Lorraine & Abel, may I have your permission to share the followings with everyone;
There is not much sightseeing in Kulai but it has good food and shopping.
FOOD – There is avery good claypot beef noodle shop(off the main road) and another beef noodle stall which operates in an old kampong house from 5am to l0am.
I like the chee cheong fun(tim sum style) freshly made at the stall with char siew & shrimp fillings. The CCF is very delicious.
A dessert shop which sells very good ice kachang also sells good Chinese rojak which I have tasted. I think it is better than any of the Singapore version (Whampoa, Old Airport, Rochore).
There is a famous bakery which is as good as Breadtalk. It has very tasty black pepper chicken bun and or nee (yam paste) bun.
There is also a famous bakuteh shop (along the main road) and a good Chinese restuarent (off the main road)which operates after 6pm.
SHOPPING – you can shop at Kulai Tesco or Giant.You can also get jumbo-size bathing shampoo (2 litre) @ R$l0 per bottle at Kulai Centre Point.
At the Kulai market you can get;
(a)sweet potatoe @ R$3.50/kg
(b) raw chicken feet @ R$3.50/kg
(c)Cooked Kambong fish @ R$l4/kg
You can also get char siew @ R$24/kg from a shop along the main road.
In Senai town there is;
(a) a fsmous curry mee shop which also sell
good kuah teow soup.The shop is always
crowded.
(b) a popular stall outside a coffee shop
sells otak kueh.
(c) a very good Chinese restuarent which is
crowded during lunch time. It specialised in
braised pig trotters, sesame sweet & sour pork,
pipa duck and curry fish head.
Happy makan & shopping.
Stephen Low
Food
Kulai trip is canceled due to reports that the coming monsoon rains may cause floods in Johore.
Message from Abel.