Cafe a with A Great View

A few years ago someone started a Ceritera Cafe here.Sadly it did not last long.It was too early. And then, there was not much activities around this location to make people come and eat here.About three years ago, a new restaurant came to open for business.It is called Umai Cafe.By sheer coincidence ,our cycling RV is located on the next lot,side by side with Umai Cafe.All of us ganged up to come and eat and drink here after our rides.We need the restaurant to make money so that they can stay put providing F&B services to us fellow cyclists.Now, the restaurant suffered growing pains.We promoted it too fast.As they say,the rest is history..Now,we have new problems-too many customers delay our food delivery.

During our rides,we stop and take photos.At first,I was snapping around,but later I got interested to capture better quality photos.So I started upgrading my camera from Lumix TZ2 to Lumix LX5.Not happy with these compact camera later on,I started using my DSLR Canon 400D.Now,my Canon went kaput due to old age,so I got Fujifilm X-T1- a gift from from a dear friend.

By the way ,the. view from this restaurant is great during day and night time.It is a good location to shoot Masjid Sultan Mizan and Ayer@8 Business Centre across the lake-not to mention the cruise boats at certain times..

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