our weekend
Posted on Mar 15, 2010 under ashley, family, good stuff | 25 CommentsIt was a pretty hectic weekend for us. Since it’s the school holiday this week, hubs decided to bring Ashley up to the hills to pick strawberries on Saturday. On Sunday, we were out of town the whole day. Phew…luckily I took today off to recuperate 
Ok…back to the Strawberry Farm. It is located in Gohtong Jaya. We reached there at around 11am and there were many tourists that day.
Genting Strawberry Leisure Farm
This is how the strawberries are grown here….in a concept farm with fiberglass exterior shutters. Very different from the pick-your-own strawberry farms I’ve been to in Toronto. Over there, we had to squat or bend our back to pick them from the ground. Very back-breaking but the weather was cooling. At the Genting Strawberry Leisure Farm, the strawberries are cultivated in contained planters. Pretty easy to pick / cut them but not very easy to move around the farm because the walkways are quite narrow.
It cost RM8 per 100 gms. Pretty expensive huh?
An excited strawberry-picker with her loot
That’s how many we managed to pick. Couldn’t wait to get out because it was so hot in there.
A visit to a strawberry farm won’t be complete without some strawberry ice-cream and strawberry milkshake
Mmm….nothing like enjoying a cup of ice-cream on a strawberry-shaped table and stool
Quickly moving away because she didn’t want to share her ice-cream with us *roll eyes*
Stay tuned for more updates on where we went next
March 15th, 2010 at 8:09 pm
this must be a new tourist attraction for those non-gamblers.. will check them out one day..
March 15th, 2010 at 9:24 pm
hor…poonteng kerja ka!…hehehhehe…
oh btw, my ash has the same shirt!! one day we must come out and get them to wear again. for me to snap pics…:-)
heheheh…yes ponteng but today back to work
( oooo..what a coincidence. yeah one day should get both Ashleys to wear the same shirt and snap pics….heheheh
March 15th, 2010 at 9:41 pm
I thought you went to Cameron to pluck strawberries..hehe. Wah..didn’t know Genting also have strawberry farm.
I like the pic of Ashley with her loot..hehe..like a model.
March 15th, 2010 at 9:45 pm
Oh she loves ice cream
What a fun activity… strawberries picking! One day we’d like to go there too.
March 15th, 2010 at 10:02 pm
i din know genting has strawberry farm le. nice.
ash looks cool
March 15th, 2010 at 11:11 pm
Its so fun….I been there once before I got married…Hope nextime I got chance to bring my son there too..
March 16th, 2010 at 9:32 am
i never knew there’s a strawberry farm in Genting. i thought only Cameron has it. thanks for sharing, barb. we’ll be going to Genting in the upcoming week or so, and we try to drop by there for some berry-plucking adventure
oh, are you going to stay for a night in Genting? Have fun
The weather was superb. I’m sure Avery and Little chi would love the farm and the rides in genting.
March 16th, 2010 at 10:21 am
What a nice trip that you had. I have been to Genting many times, but I didn’t drop by the place that you mentioned here at all. I must remember this place next time.
March 16th, 2010 at 11:18 am
The ice cream looks good
What a great idea for a day trip.
P/S: did you managed to find out more about the orphanage?
March 16th, 2010 at 1:37 pm
omgggggg. i love strawberries tooooo! ashley is loving it eh? hehehe
March 16th, 2010 at 2:00 pm
Didn’t know there is a strawberry farm in Genting leh! The photo of Ashley posing with the basket is… interesting… Hhahaa!
March 16th, 2010 at 3:47 pm
Oh..i also thought you went to Cameron Highland. I didn’t know Genting can pluck strawberries lei. Thanks for sharing.
March 16th, 2010 at 4:30 pm
Wow…such a relaxing and fun holidays. Missed Genting’s cool weather. Hope to go there again soon.
March 16th, 2010 at 6:01 pm
I didnt know that there’s a strawberry farm in Gentings. The strawberry milkshake and ice cream look so good. Did they taste good? I want to bring my gals there too!
The milkshake is ok..not too bad
The ice cream is the normal Nestle Strawberry ice cream:) oh..they even sell strawberry coffee which my husband tried. normal coffee with dutch lady strawberry milk…hahahahahhaa. nope, he didn’t like that. yeah..i think you should take the girls there. i’m sure they would enjoy it
March 16th, 2010 at 6:20 pm
i personally think its not so sweet. in fact korea strawberries are sweet even though it looks not so red in color
no they are not sweet at all. in fact they are sour
i guess that’s why the ones in cameron highlands are eaten together with sugary powder.
March 16th, 2010 at 6:23 pm
Very berry feel in the farm…too bad my boy dun like strawberry, bring him there he will boring…haha…Ashley is so enjoy plucking and eating…like the milk shake..
March 17th, 2010 at 7:41 am
It as hot ? oh….that doesn’t sound good. Must be the crowd also. The strawberries can eat and pick at the same time ah?
But got to say the ice cream and milk shake looks good….IF they were really made with strawberries and not just flavour.
March 17th, 2010 at 11:49 am
Nice pose Ashley! (the one with the basket, really like a model
).
Gohtong Jaya ah… wanna bring the kids there sometime…
March 17th, 2010 at 3:00 pm
The ice-cream and milkshake looked yummy….
March 17th, 2010 at 3:14 pm
you know something? sometimes you can tell how happy a child is by only looking at the picture of a child, and therefore i can say that indeed Ashley is one happy lad…..
hey take care now and god bless ya
March 17th, 2010 at 8:59 pm
didn’t know genting had strawberry farm…..but the berries look kinda small huh? I remembered picking strawberries in Melb…..they were really big, juicy n sweet!
March 18th, 2010 at 2:56 pm
It seems that the starwberry farm at Genting is much nicer than Cameron one…hehehhe
Next time dun need to go so far to pluck strawberry…chuckles**
March 18th, 2010 at 2:57 pm
It seems that the strawberry farm at Genting is much nicer than Cameron one…hehehhe
Next time dun need to go so far to pluck strawberry…chuckles**
March 19th, 2010 at 1:30 pm
i love the photo of ashley with her loot. she looks sexy *hehe*
i haven’t been to the strawberry farm before, but will go next time coz i love the strawberry stools *hehe*
March 21st, 2010 at 2:20 pm
This is interesting! Maybe I should bring my monkey up there to pick some strawberries as he has been asking me when we can go pick strawberries!