We were back in the hotel by 3 to change up and prepare for the trip down to Batu Ferringi for the wedding ceremony.
With the beach as a backdrop, it was a simple yet beautiful ceremony. As it was held in the garden are of the hotel, there were plenty of spectators with some even recording video of the wedding. After the ceremony, we adjourned to the ballroom for pre-dinner cocktails before the dinner proper.
I must say, this was one of the most unique chinese wedding dinners I've attended.
1. It started on time.
2. The couple sat down and actually ate (ask around, the bride and groom never get to eat)
3. The bride didn't change a billion costumes.
4. The food was actually quite good.
5. No baseball hats were in attendance.
Although, how Marvelous managed to get the Canadian equivalent of Coach to make the speech we do not know. The guy was talking hockey, and no one was paying any attention to him. He went on and on and on and on. We all had Guppy Wedding Flashbacks.
Breakfast. Bak Kut Teh. Not your average BKT. This one was cooked in a claypot, with mushrooms, tofu and many different cuts of pork. It was very good.
Thanks to Marty, we are all looking for property in Penang
Lunch at Bali Hai. Corny name, but great food. Wonderful dimsum.
The xiao long bao here was pretty special. They topped it with some fishroe, steamed on a xiaobaicai leaf. The skin was perfect. Not so thin that you couldn't pick it up with chopsticks, yet thin enough to melt in your mouth.
The tank of live Mantis Prawns. Btw, the cantonese name for these translates to pissing prawns.
We ordered it steamed with garlic and ginger. When cooked, the meat tastes much like lobster. Wonderfully sweet. They gave you a scissor to cut into the shell.
Nothing left but the shell.
Lunch for 2. 2 Mantis Prawns, and assorted dimsum. 110RM (the prawns were 35RM each)
Batu Ferringhi beach. I thought it was quite a crap beach. They had horses running around shitting all over the place. Idiots on 4wheelers, and people swimming alongside the jetskis. Zero safety rating. The sand and water was crap too. Don't believe what you read online. There is no white sand and clear waters.
Photographing the photographer.
Nothing like a dash of Singlemalt to spice up the milk.
Dr Ted 'Crockett' Wong making an entrance to the ceremony. Where's Tubbs?
"Survivor Penang"
Mrs Marvelous
There's Tubbs... in the background.
The Saturday Softball Crew. Guppy and Ted obviously didn't get the memo about the Batik dresscode.
Just Married.
The hotel had a playroom for parents to dump their kids while they go off for some beach fun. The playroom actually has the entire collection of Enid Blyton books. I asked to be left in there, but the dinner was about to start.
The Hustler
Oscar knows a thing or 2 about Canadian Rules
Martin B and little Ethan. Strange thing. Ethan was bawling his eyes out and Marty had to take him outside. When I followed them to take a photo, Ethan immediately stopped crying and posed for the camera. Of course he started crying again the moment I took the lens off him. Serious camwhorage.
The next generation of SaturdaySoftball. Oscar and Jeffery
Mr and Mrs Marvelous make their appearance at the dinner.
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