Bagan Datoh - Homestay

Still in Bagan Datoh, as I was driving along the "kampung" road, I saw a lot of the "Homestay" signage.

Ignorantly I told my mom, is Bagan Datoh where they put all the old folks? So many homestays....

My cousin's daughter who was in Uni, quickly then explain to me that "Homestay" is a place where foreigners usually exchanged students or profesors and even tourists come and stay to learn our culture. The government also place the researchers there to learn about our economy and drainage system. Talking about drainage, I hope they won't summarize our drainage system based on Bagan Datoh's only. That would be so behind time. At some areas they're bad smell because water just don't flow properly.

They usually come in groups which is why they are so many of them in Bagan Datoh.

These Homestays are certified by the government. The house must have certain standards and requirements such as proper bedrooms, dining area and most importantly the toilet and bathing area. Next priority is of course the cleanliness. The Homestays houses must be clean and neat and located among the paddy field and many others such as banana field and mangoes field.

These people usually come from various parts of Asia such as Japan, China, Vietnam and also middle east. They learn how to work in paddy field, pluck mangoes etc... Hmmm...very interesting..

The only thing that is depriving these Homestays from the Americans and Europeans market are their squatting toilet. Majority of the Homestays are still using this instead of the sitting pan.

As per my sister's info, this in one of the main economy sources for Bagan Datoh, Perak. And for that I strongly feel that the government should subsidize or educate the people of Bagan Datoh on the benefit of having sitting pan.

Oh..for anyone of you who likes to eat "sukun goreng", have you seen a sukun tree? I did snap a photo of a sukun tree or it's also called breadfruit tree.

Put a fried sukun and "keladi" together, I would not know the difference.
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