7 Things You Must Do in Langkawi

Langkawi, is truly a tourist paradise. Every now and then I do love to visit the island with my friends and spend a glamourous gluttony life in boozeville. There really is no other way to spend your days here than to spoil yourself with the mountains of chocolate, sun, sea, beach and wine paired with seafood.




Take advantage of the cheap alcohol here and have your wine whereever you go. Be it at the beach, in the hotel over some board games with your peeps, and if you're twosome, with your sweetheart and chant the night away in a superb hotel under the brilliance of stars. Have some wine on the boat when you're doing your island hopping. Savour seafood in the night, exquisite pastries for afternoon tea.


Chocolate Croissant of The Loft


Now this, guys, is how you should enjoy Langkawi.

1. Dine at The Loaf - The King's Afternoon Tea




The infamous The Loaf




where once the ex pastry chef to our very own prime minister Tun Mahathir (now transfered to excel his expertise in Westin Langkawi) baked and now replaced with a Japanese Gold Medal Chef.




It's better to dine here in Langkawi than in KL Pavilion's branch because it's next to the Telaga harbour (very nice atmostphere), and it's cheaper here,







they have a more extensive menu served AND it's the original branch. :D


(Click here for an extensive review of The Loaf during our stay there.)






Gerald with his RM64 (+50% off) happy meal.

Lucky for us, it was 50% off all menu items for it was their 2nd Anniversary during our stay there. So we pratically dined there every single day. oh la la.


Ai ya uncle stealing my background.


You also MUST try their U Hu! Hu! Cheesecakes here.




My favourite will always be Luxurious Chocolate.







Else if you're out of cash, you can always feel the breeze outside at the harbour.


Blow~



they do other nice cafes at the harbour


2. Pee at 700 meters above sea level.




Take a cable up and go to the toilet to experience pee-ing in the sky. :D




Or you can perform the kiss pose at the curve bridge. :D


Hey it's a classical move ok.


3. Stay at a swanky hotel.

My pick here would be either Westin or Sheraton Langkawi.


Sheraton for this trip.


This is extremely essential because there are no other luxury than to have your once in a while ultimate pamper to drown yourself in the best thing life has to offer - comfort.




I always like a hotel that provides Kimono, they are the best damn thing in life!




So comfortable and so... so... so... sexy?




Ok, maybe not. Back to the room.




Sheraton Langkawi is pure heaven. Yes their rooms can be rather pricey (at around RM7~800 per room) but it was well worth every penny, trust me.

Me and Miss I-am-not-here shared the room. The guys slept in other hotels. Girls are so pampered. :p

And they always have really nice breakfast.
Nothing like a good healthy serving of breakfast.




Healthy... er.. er.. I mean..




yes... healthy breakfast! There you go. *cough*

Besides, you get to play pillow with your peeps! It's so awesome! I love pillow fights! It felt like an adult slumber party. (hey how many adults out there still do pillow fight huh? it's a cool thing ok!)


lol, pillow fight also must camwhore.





Miss I-am-not-here kena slammed!


4. Dance by the beach/pool at night.


Me popping with I-am-not-here


You're on an island for heaven's sake. Bring your boom box and rock it out on the beach under the moonlight. It's both super fun and romantic!


5. Go Diving




Well, though it's not really recommended to dive per se in Langkawi. There really isn't anything spectacular to see underwater here. But hey, part and parcel of the experience. :D




And there are not better experience than to experience the underwater world with some of your favourite people.




And have lunch together in between.



Now the only other dream I have left is to dive with my special love one. :p

We were so tired after the dive every one of us slept through the journey on the way back to shore.


Me



Miss I-am-not-here



Shawn



Jason



Me again



Gerald


6. Try Lobster Sashimi


OKAY! This is where I MUST introduce you the bestest best seafood restaurant in Langkawi.




Orkid Ria - at Pantai Cenang


There is not introduction to Orkid Ria without knowing this very popular uncle. Everyday... eh hem... *drum roll* This is Uncle Huat.


The king of lobster in Langkawi


He sells more lobster in a day than a lobster vendor do in a week at his restaurant.

Even his tiger prawns are like mini lobsters.




And his dishes. OMG. I will never look at seafood the same way again.


Moutain size butter prawns



Pregnant mother crabs



Giant Crab Claw


And finally, ladies and gentlemant, I present to you, the one and only, and my first ever,

LOBSTER SASHIMI! *cheers*




This is one of those reasons and sins in life to remind us why we should stay alive. (wait, sashimi should be healthy right?)

"Uncle Huat you are the best!"


7. Wine wine wine

Finally I was serving boozeville a purpose!




Head down to town and buy a truckload of your favourite alcohol.

Try playing Lychee liquor and Sprite with ice at night over a card game, lol, it's so sweet and subtle you won't even feel it when it hit you! Jason puked that night :p

We had wine during dinner, with seafood. *wink wink*


my selection, sweet wine
Martini Asti. Bubbly wine. This was not bad.



But FontanaFredda Asti was better. (Uncle Boris had something else drier, he no likey sweet wine)



This was the best. Moscato dAsti. And my favourite. But still couldn't compete with my sweet darling Nivole Moscato dAsti.


Had them in the afternoon, for lunch.


Yep, had it again. :p



Courtesy of Miss I-am-not-here. This was SWEEEET. Oh la la! And rather pricey too, even after duty free, goes up to 3 digit, you know how much? (like duh it's in the photo)


As you can tell I am a sweet wine person.

Even had it in the room.




Mystique Ice Wine - if you want to have diabetes, this is the wine to go.