Have Perut Will Travel...: TGG Day 5 │ Abid Corner • Branch Visit • Pasar Kedai Payang!

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Tuesday, 2 September 2025

TGG Day 5 │ Abid Corner • Branch Visit • Pasar Kedai Payang!

Branch Visit!

Today is our 5th and penultimate day in Kuala Terengganu, and I had an appointment with my colleagues at our local office here later this morning.

This morning we woke up at seven and made our way to a nondescript stall near the home selling various rice-based breakfast dishes as well as hot drinks.

We took our seats and ordered the:

each the Nasi Dagang
hot Nescafe
iced Milk Tea

for an undisclosed amount since our neighbour Ah Tee, who happened to be there as well paid for our meal! We eventually found out the the name of the nondescript stall: Abid Corner.

We then walked back to the home, and I got ready to head out to meet my colleagues. We had arranged with Tony, a friend of Ah Tee to send a cleaner over this morning to clean the upstairs, mainly to mop the floor and wipe the windows.

I then said goodbye to Cat who was waiting for Tony to arrive and hopped into Bibi for the short drive to the Central Bank building along Jalan Sultan Mohamad.

I was met by the branch head here, and I spent the next few hours giving a briefing on a new internal core system that will be implemented at the end of the year. The session was very fruitful, and I was glad to be able to meet up with my counterparts here.

I bade them a fond farewell then headed back to the home to pick Cat up for lunch. We drove to the Pasar Kedai Payang https://bit.ly/47Pdwju where there were plenty of food stalls. Here we headed to the food court located at the back of the annexe building and settled on Nasi Dagang Kak Sal where we ordered the:

Nasi Kunyit (Pulut Kuning) Ikan Aya
Nasi Minyak Gulai
each an Iced Lemon Tea

again for a modest sum of RM17.50 (approximately USD/EUR4). We then headed over to the dried foodstuff section and visit Salmah's stall where we got:

5 packets of Dried Fish Crackers
200 packets of SEAmEQ Fried Fish Crackers
assortment of other goodies

for a grand total of RM232.00 (approximately USD55/EUR47). All done with replenishing our stocks of dried food we drove back to the home to rest as I continued working on our videos.

I was feeling a little under the weather so we walked back to the rest house at six in the evening to begin packing up. At dinnertime we decided against going out so we ordered in with the Grab food app. This time we tried Kedai Mesup Oren and ordered the:

Mee Goreng Mamak Ayam (Fried Noodles with Chicken)
Maggi Goreng Kerang (Fried Maggi Mee with Cockles)
Air Batu Campur (Shaved Ice)

for a total of RM25.90 (approximately USD6/EUR5). Our food arrived at half past seven and we spent the next hour downstairs at the lounge cum common area enjoying our dinner for two. We then had an early night.

Please stay tuned as we check out of the rest house, lock up the home and make the arduous drive up to Kota Bharu tomorrow!