The Lanun Darats (Malay for Land Pirates) were on the move last weekend with a 4WD trip to Sungai Kelmin, Ulu Dungun, Terengganu. For those who are unfamiliar with the Lanun Darats, they're a group of Ford 4WD owners who get together a few times a year to take 4WD trips into the jungle. Nothing hard core but just family trips where they get to test their 4WD skills, relax in the jungle and dip in the river to cool off.
Before the flag off, breakfast is served and a Malaysian essential is Nasi Lemak (Malay for Coconut Milk Rice). Here you have the condiments that go with Nasi Lemak, the sliced cucumbers, hard boiled eggs, the fried peanuts, ikan bilis (Malay for anchovies) and the sambal that is usually hot and spicy.
Usually, everyone tucks in to the food with gusto as it's probably the only decent food you will get during the weekend since you will be stuck in the jungle. There's also fried meehoon with a sprinkling of sliced up omelettes as a garnish.
Here is this year's Petronas Trans-Himalayas 4WD Car - a souped up Ford Everest. Ford Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. is co-sponsoring the event which will kick off on August 17 this year. Mike Pease, the Managing Director of Ford Malaysia drove this car for the trip.
These trips are usually catered and there is a kitchen crew on hand to cook up a storm for the participants. They usually pack up the kitchen essentials i.e. the wok, gas stoves and tanks which they will set up near the river to cook. Here you see them frying the fish with gas tanks - no mean feat as sometimes you need to do this in semi-darkness.
Here is the traditional camp way to make ikan bakar (Malay for grilled fish). All the smoke will add flavour to your yummy ikan kembung (Malay for mackerel).
The food that is served is usually Malay style with fried chicken, grilled ikan kembung, sayor kacang panjang (Malay for long beans), fish curry and rice.
Here is the fish curry, all ready to be ladled out to the participants.
As these are family trips, kids of all ages accompany their parents for a fun trip into the jungle. Think the youngest participant we ever had was a 6 months old baby. Here's the queue for food and that kid looks really hungry.
Besides the catered food, some others will cook their own food. Fireman Ho (everyone goes by their callsign in these trips) made this yummy roast beef. It was actually pre-cooked before and he slathered his famous JD (Jack Daniels) Hickory BBQ Sauce on it and wow, it tasted so nice. See all those guys fighting for a piece of it.
The next morning, essential to have some brunch before breaking camp and starting the journey home. On the menu for the morning is scrambled eggs.
Splashie Boy obviously could not do without his usual weekly dosage of roti canai. He started playing mamak man a bit by making roti canai from those pre-packed roti canai you get from the supermarkets.
A strange combination but guess it works for him, a cup of tomato soup and chicken kurma from the can to accompany his roti canai.
I love this picture! Here we have the board meeting of the pirates before they head on towards home, you sit in the river to cool off while discussing really heavy topics like the latest 4WDs launched and what should we eat for lunch afterwards. They brought their chairs to place in the river and one fella actually tied himself to his cooler box to keep afloat!
Before the flag off, breakfast is served and a Malaysian essential is Nasi Lemak (Malay for Coconut Milk Rice). Here you have the condiments that go with Nasi Lemak, the sliced cucumbers, hard boiled eggs, the fried peanuts, ikan bilis (Malay for anchovies) and the sambal that is usually hot and spicy.
Usually, everyone tucks in to the food with gusto as it's probably the only decent food you will get during the weekend since you will be stuck in the jungle. There's also fried meehoon with a sprinkling of sliced up omelettes as a garnish.
Here is this year's Petronas Trans-Himalayas 4WD Car - a souped up Ford Everest. Ford Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. is co-sponsoring the event which will kick off on August 17 this year. Mike Pease, the Managing Director of Ford Malaysia drove this car for the trip.
These trips are usually catered and there is a kitchen crew on hand to cook up a storm for the participants. They usually pack up the kitchen essentials i.e. the wok, gas stoves and tanks which they will set up near the river to cook. Here you see them frying the fish with gas tanks - no mean feat as sometimes you need to do this in semi-darkness.
Here is the traditional camp way to make ikan bakar (Malay for grilled fish). All the smoke will add flavour to your yummy ikan kembung (Malay for mackerel).
The food that is served is usually Malay style with fried chicken, grilled ikan kembung, sayor kacang panjang (Malay for long beans), fish curry and rice.
Here is the fish curry, all ready to be ladled out to the participants.
As these are family trips, kids of all ages accompany their parents for a fun trip into the jungle. Think the youngest participant we ever had was a 6 months old baby. Here's the queue for food and that kid looks really hungry.
Besides the catered food, some others will cook their own food. Fireman Ho (everyone goes by their callsign in these trips) made this yummy roast beef. It was actually pre-cooked before and he slathered his famous JD (Jack Daniels) Hickory BBQ Sauce on it and wow, it tasted so nice. See all those guys fighting for a piece of it.
The next morning, essential to have some brunch before breaking camp and starting the journey home. On the menu for the morning is scrambled eggs.
Splashie Boy obviously could not do without his usual weekly dosage of roti canai. He started playing mamak man a bit by making roti canai from those pre-packed roti canai you get from the supermarkets.
A strange combination but guess it works for him, a cup of tomato soup and chicken kurma from the can to accompany his roti canai.
I love this picture! Here we have the board meeting of the pirates before they head on towards home, you sit in the river to cool off while discussing really heavy topics like the latest 4WDs launched and what should we eat for lunch afterwards. They brought their chairs to place in the river and one fella actually tied himself to his cooler box to keep afloat!
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