La Casa Restaurant, Kuantan

La Casa is one of my very favourite restaurants in Kuantan.

La Casa is a roadside house, half of which has been renovated into a restaurant

La Casa is located on Jalan Teluk Sisek, just before the turn to Teruntum Zoo, and sits directly opposite the golf course. It is just a minute's drive from Teluk Chempedak beach.

Run by friendly Europeans, La Casa is a big hit for expats in the area, as well as locals who love Western food. We have enjoyed several visits to La Casa and come away very satisfied each time.

Here is a selection of some of the food we have ordered and loved from our visits:

I love the little decorational items around La Casa too, which add to its ambience and charm:

The 3 Princesses sitting on a bench outside La Casa

Candle on the table

Ok, guarantee is not spelled correctly, but it's a humourous sign nonetheless!

Got it?!

A photograph a day from Kuantan: #9 Lauren

Lauren enjoyed riding a horse at the Kuantan Zoo accompanied by her sister-in-law Florianna, her mummy, and grandmother.

Teruntum Zoo, Kuantan

We paid a visit to the mini-zoo here with Gaz and while it wasn't anything to shout out about, we still had a decent time there. It is a mini-zoo so it was rather small and there weren't many animals to really marvel at. But we did have a good feast on some tasty (but a little too oily) nasi goreng (fried rice).

Gaz, Fie and Loz wait patiently for their food

Me and tree

This bird looks like a statue...it had Gaz fooled until it eventually moved!

This honey bear came to have a look at us before sauntering off into the background

A ruefully shabby-looking peacock pecked at its plumage as we looked on

Managed to capture this speedy squirrel scrambling up the tree!

A view in the zoo

It was terribly hot and sweaty walking around this mini-zoo

Lauren looks away in disgust after falling over due to her Usain Bolt sprint past the ostriches

It wasn't dead...just napping!

Loz plays with the swings

Relaxing on a swing!

Thanks and enjoy Kuantan

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My wife's university is closed all of next week due to the H1N1 outbreak and so we decided to go and visit Taman Kejiranan and the Teruntum Zoo in celebratory attitude. We enjoyed the scenery and quiet atmosphere at Taman Kejiranan, although mosquitoes and red ants proved to be an annoying menace.

We then ventured on to the local zoo which is rather poorly maintained, but a little larger than we thought. Our daughter enjoyed the monkeys, ostrich and horses whilst I enjoyed taking this picture of a very old tree...

Finally we enquired at the golf Driving Range opposite the zoo. Maybe next week we will go there in proper golfing attire, which is one of the rules (long pants and collar shirt) so that I can practice driving a basket of 100 balls. I love the feeling of pinging a golf ball a couple hundred yards as it flies off the head. A basket of 100 balls will cost me RM10 with an additional RM5 charge to rent a golf club.

At Taman Kejiranan with my wife and daughter...