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| Our hotel lobby, because I didn't take a dinner picture |
I should probably start off with dinner last night, we ended
up wandering down to a very basic looking restaurant called SK Corner. It seems to be primarily Indian, but also
offers the usual options; Nasi Lemak, Nasi Goreng etc. It also has a fantastic looking buffet, and
appeared to have a largely local crowd as well as a few westerners, which I
always find comforting.
We looked through the menu card and made our decisions,
however when the time came to order it got a little difficult. The waiter spoke no English. Zero.
All good I thought, we’ll just point to the words that we want to order
on the menu. Oh, that’s right, he can’t
read either! In the end we managed to
blunder our way through by just repeating Tandoori and Butter Naan. Apparently those words must be universal,
because that was exactly what we got.
Two big metal trays with beautiful fresh Naan coated with butter, and
little dishes with Dahl and some kind of spicy green liquid.
Unfortunately I didn’t have the camera so I didn’t get any
pictures but I’m going to try and convince Giss to head back there again, as
the food was lovely, but more than that was the atmosphere. It really felt like an authentic foreign
adventure eating at a place like that, and while it definitely took me out of
my comfort level a little, it was thoroughly enjoyable, and the Lassi was
delish as well!
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| Times Square Shopping Centre |
So after a well-deserved sleep in we geared up and headed
out around 10:30 for a local coffee shop called Feka we had spotted yesterday. We had a pretty decent breakfast here, I had
fried eggs with potato and duck hash, and Giss had Brioche French toast with
spiced orange syrup and Chantilly cream.
Real coffee too which isn't all that easy to find over here! Unfortunately again no photos as I left the
stupid SD card in the computer, so after a trip back to the hotel to pick it
up, we wandered over to a shopping centre called Times Square.
This place is absolutely enormous, it has over nine floors
of shops, and the floors are massive as well.
It has a pretty good mix of up-market brands and cheaper Asian style
shopping. Oh, and it also has a theme
park with a roller coaster, after all, who wants to do their shopping if they
can’t ride a roller coaster afterwards!
We spent a good couple of hours here, Giss enjoying searching for shoes,
and me enjoying the A/C. Mission
successful on the shoes, so it was time to jump on the monorail and head over
to the Twin Towers, the iconic buildings which have featured in several movies,
and are an iconic feature of the Malaysian skyline.
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| Times Square Shopping Centre Theme Park |
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| Building under construction |
We took advantage of a few photo ops on the walk from the
monorail to the twin towers, one thing that has amazed me is the amount of
construction going on around the city. I
have counted at least 10 enormous skyscrapers (?) or at least high rise
buildings going up, as well as many more smaller (still huge) buildings, road
works, demolitions etc. The slightly strange part of it all is that we have
seen so many abandoned (we assume) around the city as well. Derelict buildings or even half completed but
obviously sitting for a long time. Even
the new constructions look old and abandoned, with concrete covered in mould,
not sure if that is due to the time for construction, or just the speed that
mould appears in this climate.
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| Giss at Twin Towers |
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| Dan at Twin Towers |
So once we arrived at
the Twin Towers and got a few pictures, we wandered through the shopping centre
attached to the towers. However unfortunately this is another shopping centre
which is aimed a little out of our budget.
As much as we’d love a Versace hyper colour jacket, or a Ralph Lauren
polo shirt, we have a $50,000 record player to save up for! So after hitting the food court for a late
lunch of Naan and Dahl we headed back to the monorail (even bought our ticket
from the machine this time, like real locals!) and returned to the hotel.
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| The Petronas Twin Towers |
On the way back to the hotel however, we hit gold. Wandering through one of the food vendors in
Jalan Alor, I spotted a guy cooking what looked suspiciously like bacon on a
charcoal grill. Moving in for a closer
look, the shop had piles and piles of this meat, and after a quick taste
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| Looks like bacon.... Smells like bacon..... |
test
(she insisted) I can confirm, this is almost certainly bacon, however judging
by the sweet/sticky sheen on it they must coat it in honey or something similar
before cooking.
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| Piles of meaty goodness |
I almost bought the
chili variety, however thankfully the heat kicked in after my taste test before
I bought, and I realised the mistake I nearly made. It’s called Gui Fei dried meat, and it is
absolutely delicious, so now I can sit here sipping on my beer, chewing on my “bacon”
and writing up the blog. This is the
life!
Not sure what the plan is for dinner tonight, we might head
to a restaurant which a lovely lady runs, we have eaten there several times
every time we come to KL, tomorrow is our last day here before we head off to
Phnom Penh, and I can’t wait to be honest.
KL is great, but I’m itching to see what Cambodia will be like.
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| Kind of ironic, Fosters is the cheapest beer you can buy here |
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