That Hashtag Place In Ipoh

Burps & Giggles and sister cafe Buku Tiga Lima in Ipoh specialise in serving eye candy for food bloggers. While the food is stylish and tasty, it is the unique ambience that attracts. Imagine dining in a dimly-lit junkyard or besi buruk shop. Mismatched furniture, dilapidated walls, graffiti-like menu and rusty antique items. Add clever naming of menu items to the arty decor and the restaurant soon became a hipster’s wet dream. As a result, the place is showered with explicit hashtags on social media; foodporn, foodgasm, mouthgasm, eyegasm, vintageporn, besiburukporn, etc.

Even their take-away window, facing a rustic but smelly side path, is photogenic from the outside. Pictures of the interior and food coming up next.

Olympus OM-D, ISO 200, f3.5, 1/30 sec.

Burps & Giggles and Buku Tiga Lima

Mid-Autumn On The Kinta River

Near dusk, an electric tree remained unplugged on the Kinta Riverfront. Not a good thing normally; if you intend to combine lights with landscape for a twilight capture.  Fortunately, the setting sun was very intense yesterday and it lit the tree beautifully from behind.

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival (or Mooncake Festival or Lantern Festival) today.

Olympus OM-D, ISO 200, f11, 1/500 sec.

Mid-Autumn On The Kinta River

Men And Their Mean Machines

What is a Harley event without some gruff men with chains and tattoos? And behind those shades and leather, are some nice and sweet guys, as always.

Photography Tip: If you have the guts to push an ultra-wide angle lens very close, it will yield interesting results. Because it is so wide, people usually take the safe approach and take in everything from afar. I use it near to isolate and to add drama to candid portraits. Up-close and personal, it allowed me to capture the character, personality and mood, in this instance.

Olympus OM-D, ISO 200, f10, 1/200 sec.

Men And Their Mean Machines