Seterpa Homestay and other food stops
We traveled about 20 minutes to our next location to Seterpa Homestay, and as you can see, you don’t have to travel very far out of the city centre to experience Kelantan in all its rural glory.
Pulling up to Seterpa Homestay in KelantanFLASHBACK: Pulling up to Seterpa Homestay in Kelantan
Posted by Jackie M. on Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Pulling up to Seterpa Homestay in Kelantan
I’d experienced kampung stay at Sukasuka Lake Retreat in Perak just before my Kelantan trip, but this would be my first time checking out a Homestay property. Homestay vacations are a tourism initiative where rural kampung houses are turned into B&Bs for travellers wanting to experience life with a local family in a Malay village setting.
We got to learn 3 different Kelantan kuihs at Seterpa (recipes to follow next post) and then we headed back on the road.
We drove past a stall selling these Kelantanese kuihs, so we just HAD to stop to pick some up to try –
I’d heard from my friend Aspaliza about Kelantan’s famous, thick murtabak, which you can buy frozen; we decided to stop over at the cottage where it’s made –
Murtabak RajaMurtabak Raja (royal murtabak) was created for Kelantan royalty hence its name, and the recipe is the original from the palace.
Posted by Jackie M. on Wednesday, December 9, 2015
One of the other products by the same business is Kelantanese bubur lambuk (congee) –