How to go to Bagan Lalang: Part 2

This time the direction is more accurate and concise. We will start from

KLIA (Kuala Lumpur International Airport). You will have to pay

RM4.30 per journey.

The road is wide and you could see many advertisements by airlines.

Once you see the 'Kargo' signboard, make sure you take the most

left lane and get ready to exit to the left.

 

 

Take the left exit to Kargo/Terminal LCC (Low Cost Carrier)

You can't miss this huge mosque on your left once you take the

left turn.

 

See that roundabout. Make sure that you take the 12 o'clock exit.

 

Drive straight until you see the signboard to Bandar Enstek.

 

Then, you will see Sepang Goldcoast signboard and turn left.

 

Drive until you see the cross road and traffic lights at the end. You

won't miss the huge 'Enstek' signboard at the hill. Here, turn right.

Drive straight until you see this mosque on your right.

 

Drive straight until you find a T junction and a signboard to turn

right to Sepang Goldcoast.

 

Just follow the 'S' road and you won't miss this Digi signboard.

 

After that, just drive straight to Sg Pelik.

 

You will pass this brick factory on your left.

Esso gas station on your left.

And you are officially in Sg Pelik town! We are here. ^^

How to Market Malaysian Chips

After one month selling Malaysian chips, we found a few marketing tactics and techniques to distribute our expanding amount of chips.

In one month, we visited the chips factory 3 times.
1st time; we bought chips valued almost RM300
2nd time, we bought chips valued almost RM200
3rd time, we bought chips valued almost RM800

As we couldn't gauge the buyers' preferences over which chips they love most; we wasted a lot on transportation fees (petrol, toll and time). This one month has been our learning period. Tired, beaten, demoralized but OUR SPIRIT IS ROARING. ^^ Could you see the dynamic? In a month we have spent close to RM1,300 on chips alone. This does not include the money spent for snacks and ice-cream.

Our marketing strategies:

1. Create flyers - So far, we received very limited buyers with this method. Probably, the trust is not there.
2. Request friends to distribute - They agreed to do it albeit reluctantly. As our friends are not as passionate in implementing the business like us.
3. Sell to school students - Not the right targeted marketed. Students are not big spenders.
4. Sell to government and private offices - Right on the mark
5. Sell to university students - Right on the mark
6. Request convenience / grocery stores to sell our chips - We don't like it as our chips' quality will be compromised.

The best way is to find direct distributors who are willing to sell the chips with an attractive commission package.

How to make Ice Cream Malaysia : Part 2

If you remember, the last freezer we bought was a different model. The maker is still the same; Midea though but the loaned model is more powerful than the former. Our problem was, the old model could not freeze the ice cream as fast as we wished. According to the technician, we need to have air circulated in between the ice cream to ensure them to freeze in time. The major problem is: we don't have time ^^. We asked the technician to return the former freezer to the shop and do some experiment. In the mean time, this is loaned until God knows when.

Actually, we have never heard of Midea but we went along with the

salesman's suggesstion. Bummer!

Milo Ice cream

Rose syrup ice cream

Asam boi ice cream

How to make Ice Cream Malaysia

Have you tried Malaysian ice cream before? It's such a simple ice cream, nothing so fussy about the method to make one but the taste is heavenly on your taste bud. I can assure you that! ^^

Malaysian Ice Cream recipe

Ingredients

1. Mineral water
2. Sugar
3. Any flavor of your preferences
4. Ice cream plastic bag

How to

Mix some water with sugar and flavor. Fill in the mixture into the ice cream plastic bag. Tie a knot at the end of the plastic bag. Lastly, freeze it. You can enjoy it best especially in warm weather country like Malaysia.

This is a mixture of preserved fruit, water, orange flavor and sugar.

Normally called as Asam boi ice cream.

This is a concoction of Milo, sweetened milk, water and sugar.

Our precious freezer, just for ice cream but we had problem with

it as it couldn't freeze the ice cream even after we left the ice cream

whole night! Definitely will reprimand the seller. It's not a cheap freezer!

Syrup, sarsi and orange flavor. We prepared some ice cubes to put

into the ice cream container too. So far, our daily sales top at about

80 pieces of ice cream per 1 hour sales in the afternoon. Nice right?

Do you think that 20 cents per ice cream is very cheap? 

I bought a Malaysian ice cream in the year of 1993 for 20 cents too. 

It is crazily cheap, right? ^^

How to pack Malaysian snacks?

We bought almost 50kg of chips from the kerepek factory and now it's time to repackage it for daily consumers. Today

Our goal is to start a small business to supplement our dwindling income. Initially, the plan is to sell

1. pre-packed rice + 2 dishes
2. various kinds of chips
3. breakfast or lunch at a street stall

Unfortunately we have to abort the first plan as another girl at our desk has already started her marketing. Hmm..We need Plan B! Although we feel that we need the profit urgenly (not even started yet..hahaha) but our subconcious minds kept telling us to hold our horses. Don't rush, we have to plan properly.

So, we started our second plan instead. It was coincidental with our holiday, nonetheless. Luckily, we met the right people at the right time and we were blessed with wise suggestions and advice from Zahari and the elders.

1. Ensure where, when, who, how, why to market our products
2. The price of our products must be competitive as per the market eg in Kuala Lumpur or a little town, price differs

Not even once that they mention of how much profit we want to churn out of this venture. Zahari kept telling the same thing; do our market research extensively before we jump.

As a normal human being, we stashed that "market research" out of the window and thought we might need it later instead of NOW. Hmm..and we learned our lesson the hard way. Why?

1. We always had our congeniality plan if we find our initial idea is going to fail - we had an analog weighing scale to pack the chips but we found out the scale is not accurate. Hence, we bought a digital weighing scale (bummer..it's pricey but it will gonna be our precious asset).
2. We don't have any target market. We don't know what are office workers' preferences or the students preferences. Simply throw in everything under sun into our plan and slowly we amend it.
3. We should have listened to experienced businessman - Zahari mentioned a few tips on market research and even fatty bom bom suggested that we should buy another type of spicy chip but I declined as thought that because I don't like it, so others won't like it. Bad..really bad approach.

Our 50kg chips, not much as a start.

Our pink analog weighing scale, so girly!! Kya!! But we have

to put it aside. T_T

Our expensive digital weighing scale but it made our life unbelievably

easier! Technology does help people.

How to go to Bagan Lalang

It wasn't an easy ride from Seri Kembangan to Bagan Lalang. As a known fact that I always misplaced my "things" (blame it on aging..haha); I totally forgot about the printed direction that I had consolidated the day before from various blogs.

If you are coming from Seri Kembangan / Puchong / Putrajaya / Cyberjaya; you can follow the same direction as per the post here. It's actually very easy to go to Bagan Lalang. If minus the time we lost our way, from Seri Kembangan roughly takes about 30 to 45 minutes.

What really made our endeavour easier was this particular super nice guy called Zahari. He was uberly nice by showing us all the routes to the best 'kerepek' factories in town.

Fatty bombom was blowing her top off as I had the group circling around KLIA and LCCT aimlessly. Sorry!! Being the overly positive me, I told them zillionth time that it was alright! Furthermore, this is supposed to be our precious holiday, right? WRONG! Our first goal on the list is to find the kerepek factory. Right on! I think God must have heard our wish and our path was made easier. Right after we asked the numerous strangers for the way, we met Zahari. He happened to be the 'tokey mesin kerepek' in Bagan Lalang. Wow! What does that mean? Nothing else, except $$$ *did you hear the cash machine ring ding dong at the back ^^ *

Without further delay, let's take a tour of our journey finding the most delish of them all.

Ketemu Rezeki, one of the kerepek factories that we visited.

Kerepek ubi - tapioca chips, fried and flavoured with only salt.

This is tapioca (ubi kayu) before it becomes tapioca chips (kerepek ubi).

The finished products: flavoured chips, spicy chips and salted chips.

All from tapioca.

Fried chips before packaging

This is the warehouse where you can buy chips in bulk.

We had our share of unripe Markisa / Passion fruit grown beside the factory.

It was so sour that it made me salivating even just by looking at it now.

Picnic at Bagan Lalang

I woke up late!! As promised to Fatty bom bom, I should be at her house by 8 am but I woke up at 8am! Hahaha..

The initial plan was to have picnic, some shopping and seafood dinner as Bagan Lalang is famous for seafood. However, the only thing that we managed to do was shopping..not like shopping as in shopping for real..hehe but shopping for Malaysian chips!

We had breakfast at Mamak restaurant for roti canai and teh tarik before we go.

Malaysian style breakfast - roti canai and teh tarik.

Warning: Don't do this everyday. Not good for your health.

I had printed the direction to Bagan Lalang but in the end I left it at home cause the beg that I used the day before was different from the one I brought to Bagan Lalang. Or was it because of my memory getting older? Hahaha..

This cat scolded me for taking his picture but he's so cute! ^^

Fatty bom bom's house is near Seri Kembangan (SK), so I parked my car at her house and we carpooled with her car to Bagan Lalang. We used the route from SKVE, until we found this signboard.

In order to go to Bagan Lalang, we have to go towards KLIA. Then we take the exit to MEX (Maju expressway).

This is MEX

Drive straight until you find the signboard to KLIA for about another 1 km,

then take the exit to KLIA.

Just drive along the highway until you see the exit signboard to KLIA, turned left.

Once you see the toll pay RM4.30. After that drive straight until you see the 

signboard for LCCT Terminal, turned left.

(Warning: Don't drive straight after you see the LCCT Terminal sign Jangan terus, nanti pergi KLIA. Actually, we were lost and went straight to KLIA (Kuala Lumpur International Airport)

If you take the left exit after LCCT terminal you will see a mosque on your left.

Go straight and you will find a roundabout. Take 12 o'clock direction and drive

straight until you see Sepang Goldcoast.

Take the left exit and you will find the F1 circuit on your right. Drive straight until you

see the traffic light and you will see a very huge 'ENSTEK' signboard on the hill.

At the traffic light, turn right.

Drive straight until you find a T junction and the end of the T juction, you

will see the sightboard to Hotel Seri Malaysia. Take the right turn and just

follow the S curve. You will see a really small town.

Just go straight until you find the signboard to Sg Pelik.

Make sure that you pass this brick factory on your left.

Then drive straight until you find Sg. Pelik town!

Quiz: Can you guess which one is fatty bom bom?

Minus the time we lost our way, from Putrajaya to Bagan Lalang roughly takes

about 45 minutes or maybe 30 minutes if no traffic or police? Hehehe..

Why Google Adsense does not accept Malay Language?

Recently we have received an email from Google Adsense saying:

"Thank you for your interest in Google AdSense. Unfortunately, after reviewing your application, we're unable to accept you into AdSense at this time.
We did not approve your application for the reasons listed below.
Issues:
- Unsupported Language"

Although we knew that Google Adsense has updated they never accpet Malay Language, I just want to reaffirm the fact. I have made another blog totally in English :- http://budgettravel2korea.blogspot.com/ and Google Adsense has accepted to put their ads there.

This is quite dissappointing cause we are unable to make use and be proud of Malay Language. T_T

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