summer stories: tale of a fish

Papa was on the way back to KL yesterday morning, when on an impulse decision , we decided to visit someone in a gold mine, a Mr Tan. On we made a detour to Kuala Lipis for lunch from whence we would go further to Sungai Koyan and from there, deeper into the jungle. Anyway that was the idea. But then we took another road to Kuala Lipis, and got ourselves slightly lost before we found a road leading to lunch. GPS was no help.

After lunch , onward to the gold mine. Unfortunately, we didn't know where the mine was and the Mr Tan was not answering. (Blasting operations maybe or something so that he could not pick up the phone). So having gotten rudimentary directions from a somebody of a somebody who knew the restaurant owner in K. Lipis, we drove off.

Papa then discovered that GPS (two units in Papa's hands!!) is really no good if the maps dont show anything . But then bumbling along , we got to the mine at just before 5pm. Having left Kuantan before 11am, this was a , ahem, circuitous drive.

Anyway, Papa wants to talk more about lunch and K. Lipis.

Boy it is a small town. We stopped a local and asked "where is a good place to eat??
Local : "You go next door to Toto, tasty but very expensive".

So we had lunch at 230pm or thereabouts at what Papa calls the Marilyn Monroe restaurant. OK, actually its called Restoran Low Kuan, or Low Kuan's Restaurant. Above it is Appu's Guest House....