Backroad Fun

Edric rediscovers the joys of an early-morning B-road blast in Malaysia.

- Edric Pan

YEARS ago, Malaysian B-road drives used to be my thing. 

These short getaways – even if just up to the east coast of Johor for a morning roti canai and then back to Singapore by lunchtime – were wonderfully liberating, an escape from the stifling confines of our congested city roads.

Sometimes I’d go further – up to Cherating for lunch perhaps, or Fraser’s Hill or Cameron Highlands for an overnight stay.

But marriage and kids intervened, priorities changed, and time for these drives dwindled and then eventually disappeared.