good morning from Kuala Lumpur Malaysia I am
currently at the TBS the terminal bus station I'm headed out of Kuala Lumpur and I'm headed
to a city that a lot of you might not even have heard of in Malaysia on the eastern coast of
Malaysia known as Kuantan and I'm taking a bus so let me show you guys what this bus looks like
I think we're boarding now so this is the bus Sari bus this one I can put here
okay got to put them down here here we are this is so this is what a bus looks like in Malaysia
and by the way this cost me like [Music] $5 on our way it's about a 5H hour Journey from KL
to uh Kuantan it's on the all the way on the Eastern side of Malaysia which I've never actually
explored myself so should be interesting and yeah this bus like I said luxury bus AC I think five
not sure but $5 for a ticket to go all the way there so let's see should be a good bus ride let's
make our [Music] way all right we have arrived to Kuantan City here in the pahang state of Malaysia
my first time in this state my first time in this city and so far the ride was absolutely beautiful
Greenery everywhere as Malaysia usually is look at that building over there so nice peaceful it'll be
nice to get away from K you know to the peaceful side the Eastern side of Malaysia I have to get a
grab taxy go to my hotel put these bags down cuz they're weighing me down cramping up my style but
you can see it's a nice bus terminal pretty big and you know what I have to say also the weather
feels a little bit cooler here a bit Breezy cuz we're right by the coast so it's quite nice but
I'm going to get myself a grab and get on my way all right guys let's start to explore the city of
Kuantan I'm actually staying in this hotel called Sky Tree hotel which is actually costing me about
$20 a night and it's actually pretty nice you know basic normal Hotel here in Malaysia but for 20
bucks I'm here and honestly the look of this city reminds me of being in like Bandar Begawan of
Brunei very chill or like Sarawak this is how this is how these cities of Malaysia look once you get
outside of like KL and that stuff usually have a very similar kind of vibe but I'm actually need to
go get some coffee guys uh because you know your boy Myer doesn't function until has his coffee
and I really haven't had a coffee today I took the bus here and yeah I'm actually headed to this
one coffee shop that I just found on Google cowboy I don't know what that is but yeah let's go but
you can see this is the chill City I love I love these cities of Malaysia like the chill cities
of Malaysia uh where you know you can just kind of breathe and just take in everything the air
is a bit cleaner here like we're right on the coast you can feel the water I'll show you guys
the beach later as well and yeah it just uh it's always nice being in these kind of cities but
stay tuned guys we got a full tour of Kuantan coming you know just walking through these local
neighborhoods here in um in Kuantan and you can see the street sign are in obviously in their
Malay language but they also have Arabic script but I think it's Malay but in Arabic script and
I love these old houses so this city is like uh you could call it like a a Muslim city which most
of Malaysia is dominantly Muslim but you have the Chinese influence here as well look at those the
two biggest buildings it's so funny to go from kl to this where like KL has this insane Skyline
and then here you can just see these two sore thumbs just sticking out amongst this flatter
kind of skyline or no no Skyline really but I love these houses very nice just to show you
like what a local residence area looks like so one really interesting fact about this city
of Kuantan is being so close to the coast and having a port it's actually one of the most if
not the what the most important port shipping Port here in Mal Malaysia a lot of the copper tin
that's extracted from the northwest of Malaysia actually comes here to the East and it's shipped
down to South to Singapore and other countries so um this city does have quite an important
bearing on the country of Malaysia and it's economy just taking a walk walking to this
coffee place only coffee that's the name of this place only coffee and that's what
we need only coffee not sure where it is though this is not only coffee oh okay
here we go open space Art Studio oh it's a art studio and a coffee shop let's
go W it's a art studio slash coffee okay we supposed to take our shoes
off or I I think maybe take my shoes off wow quite nice hello how are you you good I can see the
menu the menu is here okay is this a coffee shop yeah coffee shop and art studio art St
upstairs upstairs oh okay okay can I have one uh iced cappuccino with a little bit of
sugar yeah you can choose what beans you want uh we the bean Choice yeah but for now
I'm only got market place and it's a medium roast yeah there's um a medium dark medium
dark okay that's perfect medium dark this one Peru this one or Marketplace yeah I think
this one which one do you recommend um see your flavor this one will be a little bit Smokey
flavor and this one will be more Nutty Nutty okay I'll do the Nutty one here and what's
this tiramisu tiu one cheesecake can I have one tiramisu please yes do you take card or only
cash cash or QR cash or QR only okay how much 28 28 uh no need no need all righty thank you brother is this your
shop yeah what's your name Tim Tim oh very nice Tim I'm just making a vlog about
Kuantan oh where you from uh I'm from America America yeah yeah I make YouTube Vlogs
traveling around the world so what is special about Kuantan about beach the beach very good
what's the best beach in Kuantan uh or Beach put Beach or to Tuluk cempedek a I think I'm going
to go to that one yeah thank you I'm going to sit down here all right guys so I got this coffee
from only coffee looks really good inside of this glass cup which looks like it's plastic but
it's actually glass an ice cappuccino see how it is you know this is the Meer travels official
coffee taste test I'm world renowned coffee reviewer pretty soon they're going to call me
the Michelin of coffee so yeah This Means A Lot H very good and actually this
coffee shop just opened 2 months ago so if you're here in Kuantan and
you want to support good coffee thank you so much it's very good that's for you
very good oh thank you so much appreciate that M the coffee is very good I think you will your
your shop will become very famous Justus can you find it here huh how can you find it here uh I
found it from Google Maps Google Maps yeah but I'm telling all everyone in my video that if they come
to Quan They have to come to your cof shop yeah all right guys so now we are
in downtown and over here Salam alikum wow look at this beautiful mosque this
mosque is known as Majid Neri pahang also known as Majid Sultan Ahmed number number one and it is
absolutely beautiful definitely one of the things that you should come and visit when you come to
quanton brother how are you brother yeah I'm fine good good nice to meet you good I'm just making
a vlog about Quan and I'm visiting this beautiful mosque for the first time where you from uh I'm
from America but my family is from originally from Pakistan oh you came here to to do a vlog to
do Vlog and to explore yeah are you from quanton uh yes what special about your city about the
city yeah from my perspective I think uh such a beautiful scenario when it was a night when you
like walk for uh at night at the night you'll see such a beautiful scener uh the people the people
was nice so kind and such a peaceful City I think I agree so far that's what it feels like cuz I
just came from KL and KL is very crazy so compared to KL this is very peaceful yeah what's your name
brother uh Amma Amma brother nice to meet you I'm 17 17 oh you're so mature mashallah for your age
thank you brother thank you I I can just go in right no problem okay thank you bro nice to meet
you Salam alikum wow guys look at this mosque so it has the four golden minettes the Blue Dome
and it's huge it's really really big actually actually way bigger than I uh I imagined it to be
to be honest with you and this right here is the flag of pahang State this flag is a the flag of
pahang state right yeah the the white and black Flag represents the state of pahang I can show you
inside oh thank you bro appreciate it so do you you often come here uh I used to be school here oh
you used to go to school like madasa yeah like to madasa very nice when I was when I was a young
a young man still a young man 11 11 okay very nice and it's it's named after uh Sultan
Ahmed the first right he was one of the sultan and in pahang state or in P in
the pah state pahang state very nice mashallah it's beautiful
alikum how are you brother alhamdulillah thank you so much bro wow I
did not expect uh this mosque to be so big and so beautiful as it is as you can see it
reminds me of some of the Moss that I've seen throughout Indonesia and Malaysia and actually
it's very well-designed architecturally very very beautiful um sometimes Moss from the outside
they're beautiful but once you come inside they're not as nice as you can see this one is
gorgeous inside and out Botham Alum wow look at this now one thing you can one thing that's clear
here you see you can see like these uh the the windows they're very very distinct and then to
have this gold this blue Dome on top of us is like amazing it's absolutely beautiful it's actually
really really really wide and and vast and big and every detail there there's so many details
throughout the the architecture with the columns with the Mosaic tiles with the glass windows just
absolutely beautiful the blue carpeting you can tell they put some money into this mosque masah
it's beautiful wow and it's nice and cool in here so it's a good place to get away from the heat
I'm going to make some prayer look at these big fans I have a lot of fans but they're not that
big it's a dad joke they also have this outdoor area where you I guess like when during Juma time
it probably gets pretty full and then they have a place where they do hotline ncah so you can
see people are getting married here they're getting their ncah done masam alikum brothera
yes are you part of the ceremony kind of kind of just joining very nice who's getting
married oh those two Mah very nice very good are you married or no inshallah you will
be there soon I'm still young oh you're still young how old are you uh 21 years oh bro
yeah you have time don't worry inshah soon amum how are you guys hello are you where you
guys from I'm from Egypt from Syria oh very you guys are uh visiting or you live here live here
oh live here like 9 years wow look at that you have other is there a lot of foreigners here or
just like few few few few you guys are one of the few few araban a lot of very people yeah and so
you're from Egypt yes and from Syria Syria very nice very nice and what do do you think about this
city yeah Quan nice nice nice very peaceful quiet quiet I just came from kale today too crazy crazy
of course but uh I I I do travel vlogging like I make Vlogs around different different countries
so I just like to see the foreign foreigners perspective you know on the place so that's why
yeah what's your name brother ahed Ahmed Ahmed also Mah also oh Ahmed Ahmed okay yes me like
my zen you know like you know of course course so uh you guys study here or work here or um my
father work here I'm studying in J baru oh okay very J baru that's no J baru is South yeah
yeah South South I never went there before but inshallah next time you know after after
this I will go to koala tangu and different places more very nice to meet youum nice to
meet you nice to meet you so as you can see there's people from different countries here uh
although like they said there's a few foreigners but they they do exist so that's cool to see
and to get their perspective I think one word to describe this city would be peaceful you know
for sure definitely peaceful that's it epitomizes peace so I'm just walking through and one thing
I noticed is there's a lot of beautiful artwork along the side of the walls as well like hand
painted murals look at this cool little street so basically this is right by the Manara Tower
as you can see and if I go any further this way I'll end up by the water there so we'll go there
in a second but I just wanted to check out this cool little Street here just a good vibe honestly
really really small small town small City Vibe I should say and everything is painted in these
different colors to kind of just pop make the buildings pop out even though these are older
buildings there's a lot of of beautiful artwork on them just to kind of you know gives the city
a nice charm for sure 7-Eleven of course so far I am absolutely loving it reminds me a lot
of Sarawak Miri um yeah has very similar Vibes so I'm walking as close as I can to the
Tower I don't think you can go up the tower but they do have an elevator going up and down I'm not
sure if that's like for tus like can we go up even if you go up there it's not like there's a Skyline
or anything here to see but you can go up to the platform there and kind of just get a view of the
water which I'm about to show you guys so let's go looks like they're still working on this Skywalk
and stuff so I don't think I can actually go there but it's nice nice place to hang out for
[Music] sure there's like a boardwalk here [Music] oh hard work hard work
in this heat that's not easy as you can see this is the tower right right next to it I think they do allow oh there's like a I think there's maybe a zip line or
something that you can do here so you can walk along this Boardwalk here
and there's a big guantan sign over there like a Hollywood sign and it's so quiet but so nice
and look at this they got a f3000 powerboat I think they do a a powerboat Championship here
in uh along the water here I think and this is one of the boats that was probably used power
boat I always found that so cool it's like F1 on the water you know and then yeah I think they do
allow people to go up but I'm good on that I don't need to go up there but if you wanted to go do
a Skywalk you can do it they have it it's pretty cool but I mean skywalks are more interesting
like when there's a view or some kind of skyline or something to see but here you can pretty much
see everything it's pretty plain and flat so guys I need another coffee to keep me going through
this day and over here they have a place called Luth Luth coffee apparently it's it's a top rated
Cafe it's for the real coffee lovers hello thank you how are you fine thank you how are you good I
need a I'm good but I need a coffee try coffee yes I hear you have the best coffee in Quan who said
that [Laughter] Google are you the owner I no oh okay all right what do you recommend something
iced I think the most popular one is gabon Gula kabon yes what is that uh the sugar is from
palm tree oh we're using the palm tree sugar like local palm tree sugar palm tree sugar and
what is kab uh the name is Gul kab is sugar is the the P a local name for the p Ah
very nice okay yeah I'll try that but not too sweet though all right and it's what
two shots of espresso Two Shots perfect awesome thank you bro here it is my life
my life Source I can take one straw right okay all right this is my first time trying
this uh Gula kabon let's see the palm sugar wow it actually has an interesting flavor you can
definitely taste the bean of the coffee but the the sugar is not like typical cane sugar kind of
gives it a nice twist but the coffee is very good if you're a coffee lover you should definitely
come and check this place out it's right here right by the binara 188 and they have really good
coffee and how much is this one 14 ring 14 ring walking along the street here and you have a
bunch of guys just fixing shoes fixing shoes huh alikum wow I haven't seen like cers fixing
shoes in a while like this it's old school way man no need to buy new shoes just come here and
get them fixed how long have you been doing this um I was in the uh in school at that time at
the age of 15 right 15 and then uh I went to uh uh a place near the river yeah I saw one old man
he was making uh sandals out of lad right so uh I was watching him all day and then every day I
came over and then one day I asked him I said P can you can I get a parttime job here he said
no no money to pay so I said no I come I help you I just want to learn what you're doing so
from that day onwards I start doing it and then uh I went to study in Australia
I was in Australia for 4 years I was going to say your English is very
impressive oh my really yeah yeah yeah definitely so you studied in Australia yeah I
was I took the uh you know what the uh po station draftman for the electrical for the electrical
okay I can go on you too much for mathematics yeah yeah I was never good at math myself you know
yeah I was never good at math that's interesting though man you see like don't you ever see oh
thank you so much yeah I'm just making a vlog I'm making a video about guantan so it's nice
to just have like stories of locals who who have interesting story I think your story is also very
interesting you know someone who who's been around the world and you chose to do you I would say that
you love doing this yes I do I like to do things with my hands you know I like to do on working and
things that know oh okay okay handle bitting okay spr painting I like stuff so how so since you
were 15 you've been doing and you're now 25 right no I'm 63 63 years old guys and look he looks
like a he look like a young man you what's your secret just a bit of an exercise you know this
year and day definitely yeah and you don't have to worry about other people yeah you you had your
own problem I have my I can go to bed myself just enjoy your life yes correct I do what I do now is
as a hobby you know ah so you don't need to do it if I if I take it as a job then I have to go yes
yeah see what I do is I I go travel around the world and I make videos right and a lot of people
think like oh it's easy you know your life must be easy nothing is easy no nothing is easy everything
requires a little bit of work and hard work but when you love something it doesn't feel like work
right right there's people who do jobs just to make money that's going to feel like work because
you're never going to enjoy it but when you do something that you love you will really really
appreciate it and love your life yeah so that's a lesson man take the lesson from what's your name
brother my name yeah in Australia Romano but inan in Malaysia my name is Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali
wow like the boxer sham alayum my name is May May Pakistani Pakistani so I'm originally my family
is from Pakistan but I was born in America oh so I'm just like a you know a little bit of both no
worries no worries man no worries it's a pleasure talking with you Muhammad so guys if you're
ever here in Quan and you want to get your shoes fixed or just have a good conversation
you can come sit with Mr Muhammed Ali and he'll give you some wisdom what a nice gentleman
an amazing story we just sat down even off the camera had such a nice conversation just
to hear the stories of locals and people like so touching so nice but right here in the
middle of the city not far from the water they have this clock tower and this huge flag
and that black and white flag again that's the flag of pahang State very interesting flag but
yeah they have this water I think usually they have some like fountain show or something and
then nice place to just kind of walk but guys I'm hungry now so I'm going to go get some food
finally going to go get some food let's go do that all right guys so being how close we are to
the water one of the special Foods in this city of quan is any Seafood really but one of the
places that I've been told by locals to come to is known as jaman Tori is this place right
here jaman Tori and you can see super super busy so we're going to come here and we're
going to try some local food I don't know where we have to go in this way this is it jaman
Tori and this place is a famous place jaman Tori signatures so you can see alikum how
are you brother this is jaman yeah okay can I sit down here sure you already
register sir huh you already register I didn't register how many there just me
only one yeah just me and my camera for your table sure thank youum how are
you brother it's better to sit here or sit there okay perfect thank you so what is your special food here somebody
told me that you have Ean baka this one you got Paka P bak and then this one Sal you know we use
the durian paste durian paste this one patin t yeah this one um yeah just I think this one is too
big just for me so probably go with this one so so what is it it's it's which kind of fish uh patin
patin with a durian kind of is it good yeah very nice okay a little bit uh spicy but just nice I
don't mind spicy I like spicy you come together with the white rice ulam and awesome thank you
and and for drinking you have some so okay let me look at this and then I'll I'll let you know
what's that I you first yeah perfect and then I'll let you know thank you thank you so much all
right guys so we're going to try out this uh patin tempu apparently it's a uh um local kind of more
local dish so it's durian so this a very for those of you who don't know what durian is I mean you
haven't been to Southeast Asia or Malaysia it's a kind of the stinky fruit I'm not sure how it will
go with fish but let's try it out that's why we travel that's why we try different foods so here
we have it guys this is the fish with the durian paste very interesting they give you a little
bit of vegetable and of course you get some rice can definitely smell the durian taste um
very strong smell durian has but I don't think they use like a full Duran or else this
thing wouldn't be eatable but very interesting let's see first I want to try the soup so this
has a little bit of a can definitely smell the Duan wow it's uh definitely spicy very strong
andur but you know what I'm not the biggest fan of durian but actually this has like a a nice
uh just the right amount of durian I think like I think a little bit more than this would be too
overpowering let's try it with the [Music] fish obviously you got to be careful of the bones
try it with the fish take some soup try some rice [Music] you know I wasn't expecting it to be
this delicious to be honest I was expecting maybe overpower of durian but I feel like it's just
the right amount and the spice kind of balances it out so having the spice with the flavor of
durian and some other herbs amazing food is done that was amazing and the meal cost me with
the drink and the meal cost me about like uh $8 which is really good it's a nice restaurant
too as you can see so if you guys are ever here in guantan and you want to try some very
local interesting food come to jamori all right guys the meal was amazing what a day what a trip
so far it's been here in quanton Malaysia I love this city I love the vibe I love the people are so
kind um and yeah it's just been just been really blessed amongst my Muslim brothers and sisters
here like to be able to see the mosque and meet so many kind people I met a few people who actually
watch the channel which is pretty cool and uh yeah probably another video coming from here
soon so stay tuned more Malaysia videos coming guys I'm trying to show you the eastern coast the
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