Amoi rides in the kampungs: A Taste of Johor IX : Kampung Sungai Melayu (2 September 2017)

The team in the kampong

Sunrise at Jia Qin Restaurant, Johor meets Singapore!

At meet up place, Pan Kobo Café

Rolling on butterfly interchange

Young riders with their mentors, Kg Sg Melayu

Team IRC

Kg Sg Melayu

Ladies team

Kg Sg Melayu

As usual, ATOJ team from Singapore arrived at the nick of the hour! Their 3 minutes delay this time was due to the spicy prawn noodle from Jia Qin coffee shop. Of course, we wouldn't go into details on what happened there!

No longer strangers to Johor riders by now, everyone exchanged greetings, huddled together for a group photo before finally rolling out. Malcolm was made our designated lead rider and as usual, he went a little too fast! Fast or slow, we all got to the village in one piece, thanks to caring riders who were ready to lend a helping hand.

Safe for SK who needed a tyre change in the palm oil estate, Anna who eventually swapped bikes with Lim and Malcolm who returned home after a dizzy spell, we continued our ride to Puteri Harbour! Of course, along the way, we also picked up a group of young boys and Julie...all latecomers who did not made it to meet up point!

It was a little disappointing for the Johor riders when they realized the ride was over at Puteri Harbour. Many had wanted to ride a lot further. As Team Singapore had arranged for a short 40 km ride not wanting more as they had a long ride home, the rest of the riders soon banded together with their own arrangements. Team IRC rode to Educity before ending the day with prawn noodles, the young boys were spotted circling Iskandar Puteri, Henry rode solo, all the way home to Permas Jaya while Matt continued his birthday "santai" with buddy BG! Happy Birthday, Matt!!!

It was a short ride for many but the newbies heaved a sigh of relief when they finally reached ground zero. As for Team Singapore, they can never return home without a standard visit to downtown's Ya Wang, an age old restaurant famous for their roast duck! You are always welcomed to join them on their food adventures!!!