Tioman Island 2026 刁曼島2026 #6

Here comes the exciting part. I can't swim, but I already have snorkeling experience many years ago. The difference is, many years ago I was healthy and we didn't bring kids to the snorkeling trip. This time around, I do not know how my body would react under the water. I can't tell if I'm overly excited about having NOT wearing glasses but I can see the coral clearly under the water, or if I am worry about if my body can adapt, what about the kids?

雖然我是個旱鴨子，但好歹多年前也有過浮潛的經驗。只不過，當年的我身體還算健壯，而且那時候出遊還沒帶上家裡的小魔怪。這一次，我心裡其實挺沒底的，不知道自己的身體在水底下會有什麼反應。我也說不清楚自己到底是太興奮（因為不戴眼鏡居然能在水底把珊瑚看得一清二楚），還是太擔心自己的身體吃不消，順便還要操心家裡的那兩隻小魔怪？

I woke up wayyyyyy too damn early sitting at the balcony so I don't disturb the family too much. The more I am trying to NOT think, the more ideas of how to die at a snorkeling trip came to attack me 😅 added with the most recent Maldives cave diving incident "flooding" the entire social media platforms, it's hard to not think about how the victim's family felt. The sunrise picture was taken after hours of mosquito feeding session at the balcony.

結果，老子大清早、真的是太太太早醒來了。為了不打擾家裡那幾位「大爺」，我只好一個人坐在陽台發呆。人就是這樣，越努力叫自己不要胡思亂想，腦袋就越是不爭氣，各種「浮潛的一百種死法」排山倒海地在腦海裡開片😅。再加上最近網上鋪天蓋地都是馬爾代夫洞穴潛水的意外新聞，想不聯想到遇難者家屬的心情都很難。這張日出照片，就是我用肉身在陽台餵了幾十隻蚊子、挨了好幾個小時才拍到的心血結晶。

After prepping the family, and then we headed to the Barat restaurant for a quick breakfast. We ordered two sets of breakfast so the 4 of us can share. This will be the first time the kids riding on a boat going out for snorkeling. We wouldn't want these kids become sea sick. Barfing out at the open sea whilst others snorkeling nearby isn't really a good impression 😂 and guess what, we're going to be on the same boat for half a day. We really don't want the fishes nor the passengers to know what we had for breakfast, so we keep our fuel level at minimum.

好不容易把全家人伺候好，我們便出發去 Barat 餐廳隨便塞點麵包填飽肚子。我們只點了兩份早餐，四個人分著吃。這可是家裡那兩隻小魔怪第一次坐船出海浮潛，我們可不想他們搞到暈船浪。要是別人在旁邊快快樂樂地浮潛，他們在公海上「湯」（嘔吐），那畫面太美我不敢看，印象分直接扣光 😂。而且你想想看，我們可是要在同一條船上呆足足半天。我們真的不想讓海裡的魚、還有同船的乘客知道我們早餐吃了什麼，所以還是把「燃油量」保持在最低水平就好。

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Wait?! Where are the bikinis? Well, instruction from home minister to NOT bring our phones. Her argument being, no signal coverage at the sea. Risk of losing the phone is great. The seal pouch couldn't survive underwater pressure. So, here's the explanation and the entire snorkeling experience were all documented in my brain. I can try to describe a few things here, but you'll be calling me BS, believe it or not, so I'm just going to tell you some mental picture that you will NOT believe.

1. We have a total of 19 passengers (including 2 operator and tour guide), in a 12 passenger boat 😂
2. After "reading" many other people's wife, I like my home minister's body most 😂
3. Unfortunately, the stroke causes balancing problems extended to the water. Every time when I try to move forward, my body wll be automatically roll to the right 😂 the more I try to fight it, the more I do barrel roll. If I don't fight it, spread my arms apart, I can at least face down for a short period of time and see some corals, but that eventually becomes boring after sme 5 minutes soaking my face on the same place saying hi to the same fishes.
4. I insist to jump into the water on all 5 snorkeling spot so the RM160 trip doesn't go to waste.
5. The best snorkeling location, is the nearest to where we stayed 😂 I think with the property sorkeling gear, floats and fins, we can already float our way to these coral reefs.

等等？！你們一定會問：說好的比基尼呢？唉，這全靠我家「母老虎」下達的最高指示——不准帶手機出海！她的理由很充分：海上面又沒有信號，手機弄丟的風險還大得要命，萬一那防水袋頂不住水壓就直接報銷。所以啦，別問了，整個浮潛的精彩畫面，全都一滴不漏地記錄在我的「腦袋瓜」裡了。我可以在這裡跟你們吹一下水，但不管信不信，你們大概都會覺得我在扯淡，所以我就隨便分享幾個你們絕對不信的「腦袋畫面」吧：

1. 我們這條船，原本限載 12 人，最後竟然塞了 19 個人（包括兩位船員兼導遊），簡直是神蹟 😂。
2. 在「讀」了那麼多別人的老婆之後，我發現我還是最欣賞我家母老虎的身材 😂。
3. 遺憾的是，之前中風留下來的平衡障礙，竟然也跟著我下水了。每當我試著想往前游，我的身體就會自動自覺向右邊來個「側滾翻」 😂。我越是用力去跟它對抗，就翻滾得越厲害（直接變桶滾動作）。後來我索性不掙扎了，把雙手攤開，唉，好歹還能面向下趴在海面上泡個 5 分鐘，看看底下的珊瑚。不過，一直泡在同一個地方、對著同一批魚打招呼，很快就悶了。
4. 雖然身體不聽使喚，但我依然堅持在全部 5 個浮潛點都跳下水去，畢竟 160 塊大洋的船費，總不能虧給他吧！
5. 最好笑的是，最漂亮的浮潛點，竟然就是我們住的附近 😂。我看只要裝備齊全、套上救生衣和蛙鞋，我們自己都能一路飄到那片珊瑚礁去。

After the snorkeling trip, we are super hungry since we didn't eat much in the morning. We went to take a shower and proceed to Island Station for ultra late lunch. The girl got herself the usual fired chicken rice meal.

浮潛完回來，因為早上一肚子空空，大家簡直餓到要吃人。衝進浴室洗了個痛快澡後，我們便直奔 Island Station 去吃一頓「超級遲」的午餐。我家閨女點了她雷打不動的老樣—炸雞飯。

Boy got himself the chicken mayo sandwich. Funnily, on the first day of our arrival, thechicken mayo was NOT toasted.

兒子則點了一份美乃滋雞肉三明治。搞笑的是，我們第一天到的時候，這款三明治的麵包竟然是沒有烘過的。

After the Bihun Ladna experience the day before, I decided to go deeper, trying their Chinese style Kung Fu Kuey Teow(deep fried flat noodles on egg brothe). Once again, they surprise me by deep frying the flat noodles INTO the egg wash. That makes it a rice noodle omelette 😂 it's absolutely nothing like Chinese style yo, but surprisingly tasty.

有了前一天吃「馬來式廣府米粉」（Bihun Ladna）的驚嚇體驗，這天我決定深入虎穴，試試他們的「中式廣府炒粿條」（Kung Fu Kuey Teow）。不出所料，他們再次驚艷了我,他們竟然把粿條直接丟進蛋液裡一起去油炸！這哪裡是廣府炒，這簡直是「粿條煎蛋餅」 😂。雖然味道跟正宗的中式廣府炒完全不沾邊，但居然出奇地好吃，算他過關。

We also ordered an omelette to share. I cant tell if it's any different than two days ago when we had dinner, but it's still surely the best in the island 😂 better than our resort restaurant!

我們還加點了一份煎蛋一起分。雖然分不出跟兩天前晚餐吃的那份有什麼差別，但它絕對是這座島上水準最高的煎蛋了 😂，比我們度假村自家餐廳做的好吃幾百倍！

Home minister got herself a Kampung fried rice. This is a typical Malaysian style fried rice. Kampung means Village. Since we're in Kampung Juara, the champion village, it's good to have a village fried rice hat came with anchovies and chicken cubes. According to her, marvelous. Apologize on the cucumber whom got beaten before the camera sets in.

我家母老虎則點了一份甘榜炒飯（Kampung Fried Rice）。這是非常地道的大馬風味，Kampung 就是鄉村的意思。既然我們身在「冠軍村」（Kampung Juara），來一盤加了江魚仔和雞肉丁的鄉村炒飯自然最應景。據她本人評價：味道一絕。至於照片裡那幾片在相機定焦前就被偷吃了一半的小黃瓜，我就在這裡向大家賠個不是啦。

After the late lunch, home minister finally ran out of battery, she had to hit the sack for recharge, so as my boy. The girl decided to go visit those cats at Tamara after seeing my photograph. And later on we found a new resort hotel Mutiara Beach Resort, which was closed down a couple of years ago during the lockdown. The premises is restored and have a brand spanking new double storey hotel by the beach. What caught our attention was the food menu. From here, we decided this will be our last breakfast in the island, which is the following day.

這頓遲來的午餐吃完，母老虎的電量終於徹底耗盡，不得不回房「充電」見周公，兒子也跟著一起去睡午覺。閨女看過我拍的照片後，決定獨自跑去 Tamara 探望那幾隻可愛的貓咪。晚些時候，我們在海灘邊發現了一家新裝修的度假酒店Mutiara Beach Resort。據說它在幾年前疫情封鎖期間倒閉了，如今重新翻修，變成了一座全新的兩層海景酒店。最吸引我們眼球的是他們的菜單，當下我們就決定，明天在島上的最後一頓早餐，就在這裡解決了。

The sky went dark quite quickly, the girl doesn't feel too well after blasting by the sea water splashes during the snorkeling trip, so I sent her back to take rest. Me and son watch TV for a while before I set my foot out to find food again.

天色暗得比想象中快。閨女在浮潛時被海浪無情地拍打摧殘，身體開始有點不舒服，我便趕緊送她回房休息。我和兒子在房間看了會電視，眼看肚子又開始打鼓，我只好再次移步出去覓食。

Many of the restaurants remain closed because of Eid Ul-Adhar celebration. So I ended up with more getting burgers from once again, Island Station. I think I can eat in this place for as long as I am staying in Juara Village. I've got us one burger each, and later more cup noodles fr supper and that's the final night we spent in Tioman Island.

因為正逢哈芝節（Eid Ul-Adha）慶典，島上很多餐廳都關門休息。轉了一圈，最後我還是回到 Island Station 打包漢堡。我想，只要我繼續住在甘榜朱阿拉，我大概可以天天吃這家都不會厭。我給每人打包了一個漢堡，晚點再泡幾杯杯麵當宵夜，這就是我們在刁曼島度過的最後一個夜晚了。