Hello to all the lovely💖steemians.
This round let me introduce✍ my hometown 🏘🏚. I was born🤰👶 in Tawau few years ago 🤭🤫, a ❸rd largest town in Sabah. If you wonder where Sabah is 🤔, it is in East Malaysia 🌏 🌐🗺. Tawau plays an important role within Malaysia because of its cocoa, palm oil and logs.
Tawau next to sea🌊, so there were a lot of beaches 🏖 in Tawau. You can only travel to Tawau by plane✈ where the airport 🛬🛫 located ❶ hour⏲ from city center.
In Tawau, sun rise🌅 around 6am 🕕. It was bright 🌞 enough for you to start your daily activities 🚶♀️🏃♀️. Let me 🙋 bring you a one-day ☝ trip 🛣 of this city🌁. Tawau main transportation 🚛🚚🚗🚲🏍 would be automobile 🚘or motorbike🏍🛵. Public transport only cabs🚖 and bus🚍 available. There were no rail trains 🚇🚊 as in big city🌁.
If you want to get some fresh meat 🥩🍗, vegetables 🥦🥒and fruits🍇🍓. Tawau market would be the best 👍 option. It located in Tawau city center🌁. It was an indoor market with many stalls and located in a big ❸ stories building 🏬. Ground floor occupied by vegetables 🥥🥦🌶 stall. You just name what would you plan to buy eg sweet corn🌽, sweet potatoes🍠, tomatoes🍅, chilis🌶, cucumber🥒, egg plant🍆, green leafy vegetables🥦, beans, carrots 🥕, potatoes🥔, you could find in this floor. About ❺ minutes’ walk 🚶♀️ in the same floor, you also could find few fruits stalls which sale variety of fruits include of Green 🍏and red apple🍎, pear🍐, Oranges🍊, Lemon🍋, bananas🍌, watermelon🍉, grapes🍇, strawberries🍓, Honey melon🍈, Cherry🍒, peach🍑, pineapple🍍, Kiwi🥝, avocado 🥑 and many more.
❷nd floor would be dried food area which it sold all kind of dried seafood. If you like to have your breakfast in the market🤤😉, you can procced to ❸ rd floor where all the food stalls located. You able to find local food there like Tawau famous 😋fried noodles 🍜, Nasi Kuning or nasi kunyit 🍛. And order a cup of coffee or tea☕. That would be the best place for friend catch up🗣 and shared news📰.
With ❿ minutes’ walk👣 from the center market, there was a wet market which located beside the sea🌊. Fishing vessel ⚓would unload their catches of the day. If you want to buy any fresh seafood, this would be the best time. i.e early in the morning. You found all types of seafood like crabs🦀, lobster, prawn 🦐, fish🐠🐟, squid🦑,
❺🤚minutes drives 🚗from center market, there is a big Mosque 🕌 located in the main city area - Masjid Waqaff Ahmad Bin Daing Mapata. Then further north ➡, all banks 🏦 💰💵💸 were in the main city center of Tawau. High court 🏛 also located in the same area as the mosque 🕌. Drive 🚙 further 🛣, you would be able to see post office 🏤 and hospital 🏥🚑. Further away from city center, there where all the primary 🏫 and secondary school 🏫 located.
Tawau has a road where all the temples🕍, church⛪💒 and mosque🕌 were located along this road and the Tawau citizens named it “Heaven👼 road”. Not many traffic lights 🚦🚥in Tawau, most of the big junctions were used roundabout ❍.
If you want to know how to harvest cocoa, cocoa type, process and what it can made into. You can visit 👀Teck Guan Museum and chocolate 🍫factory🏭.
For nature lovers, and would like to have some camping 🏕 experience, close to rainforest flora 🌳🍁🌲🌴and fauna🌷🌹🌼🌻, you can consider Tawau Hills Park🏞. You can have bird 🐦watching 👁👀in this park as well.
If you want to experience in hiking 🧗♀️, you can consider Bombalai hill ⛰which is popular for trekking 🚶, you would be able come across variety of insects eg lady beetle🐞, snails🐌, cricket🦗, spider🕷, bees🐝and butterfly🦋. Less worries😨😱 that there were no snakes 🐍 in the park. Waterfall 💦 lovers can picnic in Bukit Gelas Waterfall 💦and took hot spring bath in the sulfur spring which not far from the waterfall 💦.
What are the famous food 🥢🥣🍽🍴 in Tawau 🤭🤔? Tawau food here is very Indonesian – Sabah fusion due to it close to Indonesia. A lot of Indonesian stay in Tawau as well. If you are a seafood lover, you can explore seafood at night 🌛⭐ in Sabindo area. Along the sea 🌊side, there were a whole lot of seafood stall. Choices of fish 🐟, crabs🦀, shells, prawns🦐 and lobsters make you think hard of which to order😅🤪😱, and what style. But the menu provided is of great help too👍.
Beside that a must try is Pisang Cheese 🍌🧀, Pisang Coklet 🍌🍫 and Sanggar Pisang 🍌, and is of Indonesian origins. These dishes are all made from deep fried banana 🍌 and coated with cheese 🧀and chocolate🍫.
Nasi Kuning or Nasi Kunyit (tumaric Rice) 🍲🍛🍚 also one of the must try when you visit Tawau. Another must try dishes would be pork 🐷 satay and pork 🐷 noddle 🍜. In short, diet would not be in your dictionary when you in Tawau 😝🤭🙈.
These 👆only a simple introduction of my hometown 🏙and have many more attractive, famous food and places didn’t mention here.
Below 👇were some of the places and food introduced.
Pictures from left to right:
Pisang Cheese: Own Picture
Nasi Kuning/Kunyit source
Pork Satay: Own Picture
Pork Noddle (Soup and Dried flavor): Own Picture
Sabindo Night Hawkers stall where can find all kinds of seafood
Pictures from left to right
Bukit Gelas Waterfall source
Tawau Hill Park source
Tawau Hill Park source
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