Day #5
Beef Bacon
Today we dined at the executive level breakfast, since we are staying in executive rooms at the hotel, for about the equivalent of $70AU / night mind you, where my room is about as big as my house back home.
I tried beef bacon in amongst the usual eggs on toast deal. Beef bacon is not as weird as chicken bacon, but it’s still not bacon.
Then we checked out the hotel pool, if I get time, it would be worth a dip, looks like a great area to kick back and relax.
Time to explore KL. But first, we went to Petronas Towers, just a short walk from the hotel, now I can say I’ve seen it. In case you are wondering, it looks like 2 really tall buildings.
Adventourists:
After that, we caught a teksi downtown to some bazaar, with lots of little areas with titles such as little india, little china, little malay. There were many interesting shops here, and they had the fish that eat you, so I had to try that. One of the guys straight away just said “first time?”, it was pretty obvious. My feet are not generally all that ticklish, but damn did I twitch a lot while these things were eating me alive. After this, we had coffee at a place called Old Town White Coffee, this is going to go down as the best coffee in Singapore/Kuala Lumpur. So much for giving up on trying new coffee. I’m now voting that we stick to only this place, as it is a chain and can be found in Singapore too.
After this, we decided to experiment and learn the rail system, it didn’t take too long to figure it out, and some man just randomly came over to help us, even though we were actually doing fine, he managed to make it take longer than if we’d continued doing it ourselves. We headed over to somewhere called Sentral, which sounded like it should be … you know, central to something. We wandered underground, into some dirty under construction area, and came out who knows where. Then we walked around for a while longer until we had no idea where we were. KL is no way near as clean as Singapore, even the dirtier parts of Singapore are cleaner. Here, there is just bags of rubbish on the ground, on steps, and piled in alleyways. The smell is pretty bad in some of the out of the way areas as well.
So we jumped back in a taxi and headed back to Pavillion, our main shopping centre area, where we went for lunch. Trying out food court food today, I opted for Stingray and rice, where dad had some fish I don’t remember the name of. The Stingray wasn’t bad, but not as good as some of the other food we had, pretty much what I expected from a food court in a shopping centre. Then we wandered around trying to find a wallet, this is a task I failed at.
Turkasian:
So the evening ended much the same as last night, Dad and I had some drinks at the local Spazzios, then venturing back to days of old, went for dinner at a Turkish place called something to do with fire, combustion, locomotion, phosphor, Bosphorus! that’s the one. The food was good, but not great, certainly no traditional Turkish cuisine, it seemed to be rather westernised. After dinner, you guessed it, we went straight back to Spazzios to finish what we started. They did, however, close at 2am, and that’s where you find me writing this. The guys there gave us complimentary spirits (the alcoholic kind, not the spiritual) to finish off our last night here, along with a photo finish!
