April 29, 2007
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Loading ...sungai petani, my hometown
anjali* wrote:
Last month I went back to my hometown for a couple of days. So I thought it would be good to introduce this booming town which I grew up in – Sungai Petani or S.P, as what people of the northern region would simply refer to it as.
Nowadays, one can hardly call it a small town anymore as it has boomed from a sleepy, one-main-road town (which you would’ve most probably missed if you had blinked long enough when you passed through the town like 20 years ago! Ha.) to a booming industrial town – it has 2 main industrial areas, the old one being at the south and the newer on the north.
Contrary to what was written in Wikipedia, I believed the town got its name from the river which runs through the town, which is also called Sungai Petani (or in translation simply mean Farmer’s River; Sungai = River and Petani = Farmer) It was also by that river, where I hung out mostly at the riverfront eatery place after school, which was famous for its 30sen ais-kacang, dry noodles (in Hokkien it’s called ‘Tha Mee’; translation Tha = Dry and Mee = noodles), beef ball noodles, rojak buah and my favourite drink Thor-Tau Kar (ice-blended peanuts) with generous Milo powder topping.
Nicely written piece by blogger about her trip back to her hometown. Made me miss my hometown too =)
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