Today we started a little slowly, those fireworks for Chinese
New Year we mentioned yesterday. Well we
found out what time they finish. 3 Am. Wasn’t
too bad though, Giss managed to sleep through them completely, and I was only
woken for the 5 minutes they went off and then managed to crash again.
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| Jalan Alor by day |
Although there is only a 2 hour time difference here, the
body clock is still a bit messed up. It doesn’t
help having an inside hotel room, so no daylight to judge with. In the end we ended up leaving the hotel
around 8am here time, or 10am body clock time.
KL operates on a very different schedule to us, start late
and finish late, so it was a very different scene that greeted us on our morning
walk. Jalan Alor still had a few people
walking through it, but you couldn’t recognise it from the vibrant hub it was
the night before.
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| Pavilion Shopping Centre Decorations |
So on we trecked to Jalan Buckit Bintang, a main street
of sorts, in search of some breakfast.
It’s interesting how your body does funny things to taunt you, I’m never
very picky about breakfast usually, however being in an Islamic country where
bacon is nearly impossible to come by, all I can think about is a nice plate of
bacon and eggs. After half an hour of
wandering, we settled for a restaurant we have been to before, which serves
western style breakfasts and has tables outside so you can still enjoy the
view.
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| Food Court Entrance |
Giss wussed out and had a plate of scrambled
eggs, baked beans, toast and sausage (chicken of course) but I felt guilty
about eating western food o/s and went for the Hong Kong breakfast. It was a decent feed and a nice cup of tea as
well, and it was enjoyable sitting and watching the city slowly come to life.
As I said before KL operates on a very different schedule,
and the schedule varies depending where you are. The whole day we have been watching the city
slowly awaken, and no matter where we went there was something opening or
getting ready to open. We started out heading
to The Pavillion – a very upmarket shopping centre which hosts the Gucci,
Prada, Tiffany’s etc. While we certainly weren't going to be doing any shopping here, it’s nice to dream. $10,000 watches aren't too shabby I
learned.
From there we just did a general wander up the main strip
looking through the various shopping centres along the way. We ended up by a bit of chance finding a
great little food court for lunch. We
saw a sign above an escalator pointing down, so though we might as well head
down for a look, at first it seemed we had found one restaurant, but as you
walked further in through the narrow strip, it just kept going and going. There was at least 20 different food sellers,
offering Chinese, Malay, Indian, Thai, Taiwanese just to name a few. I ended up settling for a curry pork noodle
dish (must have still been craving bacon) and Giss went for the 3 bbq meat with
rice.
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| Curry Pork Noodle - not as hot as it looks |
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| Chef |
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| 3x BBQ meat and rice |
I got my dish, and suddenly wondered if I had messed up big
time, ordering curry in Asia is always risky, but when it comes with a red oily
sheen floating on top, that’s usually a sign of imminent taste bud
immolation. Thankfully it was on the
tamer side of things, and I put on a healthy spice sweat and powered through. The bbq meats with rice were pretty standard,
a little disappointing to be honest, I’ve had better in Sunnybank.
Our next stop was our
old time favourite shopping centre, Sungei Wang which is a pretty decent blend
of clothing, tech, and remote control helicopters. We did a general recon as we’re going to try
and save most of the shopping for Cambodia, however I did discover my dream record
player in one audio store. At 157,000
ringit (that comes through to roughly 50k depending on your exchange rate) it’s
out of reach at this stage, but if I do hit the millions, I’ve now found the
turntable to match my Bentley.
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| Ultimate Turntable - $50,000 |
After all that wandering, we were ready for a bit of a cool
down, so we headed to an impressive looking French styled bakery, which most
importantly had air conditioning. The
tropical iced tea and mango frappe hit the spot, and gave us the energy to
carry on, so it was back to the hotel room for a quick refresh and to find a
nice spot for a quiet afternoon beer.
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| Pisco Bar |
So it is here you find us at Pisco Bar, a Spanish themed
establishment with tapas on order, and decent happy hour prices on pints of
Carlsberg as well as watermelon daiquiris which are just what we need in this
climate. So until we figure out what we
feel like for dinner, it looks like this will be the spot, at least until 8pm
when happy hour ends.
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| Malaysia, less PC than Australia |
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