Did you ever watch the greatest series ever? The Spartacus series was great! God of the Arena. Season 1 aired on 412, Astro Max Channel every Sunday midnight (replay on Wednesday night). Spartacus: Blood and Sand Season 2 is now casting. Looking forward for it.

Season 1 –The series begins with an unnamed Thracian’s (Andy Whitfield) involvement in the war against the Getae in Roman auxiliary under the command of the Legatus, Claudius Glaber (Craig Parker). Glaber, persuaded by his wife Ilithyia (Viva Bianca) to seek greater glory, instead decides to confront the forces of Mithradates. The Thracian, feeling betrayed, leads a mutiny against Glaber, and returns to find his village destroyed. The Thracian and his wife Sura (Erin Cummings) are captured by Glaber the next day; the Thracian is condemned to die in the arena – he is forced to fight four gladiators – for inciting mass desertion of the auxiliary, and Sura is condemned to slavery. However, he manages to kill the gladiators, and Senator Albinius (Kevin J. Wilson) commutes the prisoner’s punishment to slavery. Since the prisoner’s true name is unknown, Batiatus (John Hannah) suggests to Albinius to name him “Spartacus”, because he fought like the ferocious Thracian king of that name.
Seeing the Thracian’s skill and popularity with the crowd, Batiatus purchases him for training in his ludus in Capua. Spartacus joins Batiatus’ ludus under the tutelage of Doctore (Peter Mensah), a former gladiator but fellow slave. He is befriended by Varro (Jai Courtney), a Roman who sold himself into slavery in order to pay his debts and support his family. However, he is harassed by more senior gladiators, notably Crixus (Manu Bennett), an undefeated Gaul, and Barca (Antonio Te Maioho), a Carthaginian. Soon, Spartacus learns that Sura was sold to a Syrian slave trader. Batiatus, who has been unable to control Spartacus during his first days of training, discovers the instrument of his taming, and persuades Spartacus to fight for his and Sura’s freedom.

Season 2– Andy Whitfield, who played the title character in the series, will appear in the prequel briefly, but Lucy Lawless and John Hannah take center stage in this story of the rise of the House of Batiatus and its champions before Spartacus arrives as a captured Thracian slave.

John Hannah returns as Batiatus, owner of the Ludus, along with his wife Lucretia, played by Lucy Lawless. Other returning actors include Peter Mensah (Doctore), Manu Bennett (Crixus), Antonio Te Maioha (Barca), Nick E. Tarabay (Ashur), Lesley-Ann Brandt (Naevia) – and others. New characters will also be added – most notably the gladiator who was champion of the House of Batiatus before Spartacus or even Crixus – who will help fill in the story about the people and politics in the House of Batiatus and ancient Capua as a whole.

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One of the favourite foods in Genting Café is the Chee Cheong Fun. The shrimp sauce (haeko) is fabulous! Though I don’t really like Chee Cheong fun with haeko, but this is good. It is creamy and does not produce fishy smell.  The Chee Cheong Fun costing only RM1.70 for the small portion that has two rice noddle rolls. Some other recommendable food would be Curry Mee, Loh Bak, and Char Keow Teow with duck egg. There is a Muachi stall outside the shop. The muachi taste good compare to those in KL (RM1.50). The food there satisfies our hunger.

After filled out stomach, we were heading to Tune Hotel for check in. I booked online for a Double Room (RM63.53/night) with 12 hours air-conditioning (additional of RM13.49 to the hotel room price).Check out is at 10am, everything in your room will shut down automatically. Check-in was quick for us, just need to hand in the print out of the reservation and ID for verification. We need to pay RM 10 as refundable deposit for 2 rooms.
The room was rather small but cozy. No windows, just a large mirror to give the illusion of a bigger room. Seriously, the bed is superb. It didn’t give me neck pain the next day. Because I had a bad experience in Bali, the bed giving me neck and body pain after a night stayed. This Penang trip also marked my first experience stay with Tune Hotel.

After checked in, we were heading to Gerai Padang Brown also known as Dato Keramat Stalls. We ordered Seafood Popiah, the only popiah stall that includes real crab meant as one of the ingredients. Two pieces are the minimum order priced at RM2.80. The special about the popiah is done in a wet way, the filling of the popiah includes shredded omelette, fried shallots and Hoisin and Chili sauce on the paper thin crepe. Personally, the popiah taste fishy. We also ordered the famous Pasembur (Indian Rojak) and ice kacang. The ice kacang priced RM2 was not bad.

Our next destination is Kek Lok Si Temple. I have not been up there 5 years. Surprisingly, the traffic was pretty smooth. The parking cost RM4. We need to pay RM entrance fees (2 ways) to view the Guan Yin Statue. The bronze Guan Yin statue was built to replace the previous white Guan Yin statue. The actual bronze was actually completed quite some time. If you refer to my photos, the ornate shelter just completed, and some other constructions work still carry out.

New Lane Street is truly a street food center in Penang and the place is jam packed with many hawker food stalls and food hunters (we are the food hunters too). You can almost all of the Penang famous food there.

KF recommended us to try the Chu Chap Cheok (Pork innards porridge) and the Char Keow teow.  The street signature is the Chu Chap Cheok with all the pig spare parts hanging in the stalls. This Penang Char Koay Teow using charcoal fire. This is a very popular stall in New Lane, we waited more than 30 minutes just for a plate for Char Keow teow. There are fried oyster stall here, the taste is average. However, the oyster is quite big and fresh though. We also ordered Ikan Bakar, Curry Mee and Apom Manis. I just like the Curry Mee compare to the one in Genting Café. We also tried the Belacan Fried Chicken. Special Chicken.

After that we proceed to Kimberly Street for our food again. It famous with the dessert, Loh Chicken Feet and Koay Chap.KF shared with us the Almond Tea here is the best. But unfortunately none of us like Almond. This uncle dessert sells almond paste with crunchy yau char kuay, gingko, lotus see, red beans and dried longan soup only. His soup is tastier and smells very fragrant. The chicken feet are fantastic!! YUMMY…

Location:
Genting Cafe (Kopitiam) (near SMK Hamid Khan)
Islang Glades Business Centre,
Lorong Delima 6, Greenlane,
Penang, Malaysia

Padang Brown Seafood Popiah
Stall 17, Gerai Gerai Padang Brown (Dato Keramat Stalls)
Open between 1 to 2pm until 7pm (Closed on Thursdays)

New Lane, Penang (next to Sunway Hotel)

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After spending 20 minutes looking for the place, we finally reached.  We ordered 7 dishes, and later added on 2 other side dishes after checking on the menu again.We had Broccoli with Fresh Scallops, Smoke Duck for non seafood dishes. The Smoke Duck was rather good.

As for the seafood dishes, we had Two Taste Giant Water Prawns, Sweet and Sour Crab, Salted Egg Crab, Steamed River Patin, Dried Chili Lala, and Cripsy Fried Squids. The Patin fish is very fresh, compare to the Seafood Restaurant in Sri Petaling, this is better. The Crispy Fried Squid was my favourite, the salted egg crab too salty for me.

Check out the size of the crab. It’s really Huge! The claw’s size is bigger than a chicken drumstick. I am not kidding! It’s Australian Crab.  The sauce was delicious and we ordered buns to dip on it. I Love it. End up, 17 of us had 14kg of crab.

Mei Keng Fatt serves very good quality seafood but the price quite expensive.Quite happening with lots of ang mo eating there.

Mei Keng Fatt Seafood Restaurant
1, Lorong Awan 6, Kuala Ampang
68000 Selangor
Tel : 03-4256 6491/ 4257 3232

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We went there about 545pm, we ordered Chinese Deep Fried Cruller, plate of vege, and a bowl of Bak Kut Teh for 3 persons. The portion was just enough for three of us. People telling me eating Bah Kut Teh ( fu chok, golder needle mushroom on top), need to go with garlic and cili padi, but I don’t like garlic at all.

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We’re delighted to see there were plenty of photos in the menu, all the foods looked yummy for us. After 20 minutes searching thru the menu, we ordered 42D (6 sausages platter- Chef Special), Roast Pork Ribs (Rachel), Mixed Roast ( PM & Joyce), H. Beef Goulash (KF), Fried Dory Fillet(Me), Mixed Salad ( Jason) and Roast Pork Salad (Suet Li). The meal comes with the salad, some salty veges, and mashed potatos. The salty vege were too salty for us, and the mashed potato was good. Overall, we were quite satisfying with the meal there. Very well worth .

Personal Opinion, for pork lover, Elcerdo ( Jalan Changkat Bkt Bintang) is still the best choice for me.

Address: 29, Jalan Yap Kwan Seng, Kuala Lumpur (03-2162 6991)

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