Kuala Lumpur is Best Served by Street Vendor
It was my first day in Kuala Lumpur and it was starting to get hot. I was sworn by my travelling buddy Marcia to never say ‘It’s really hot!’, unless I had permission, if I didn’t Marcia would punch me in the arm, hard. If any of you know Marcia, then you know just how much that can hurt. But, really, I’m coming from the freezing Chicago suburbs! It’s really hot here! (Ouch). Example, standing by the train, 5am and it’s 20 degrees! My face and my feet were soaked in sweat, but I’m sworn to keep quiet.
Kuala Lumpur isn’t so easy to navigate, the streets are all jumbled and turn this way and that way, basically there are no straight roads here. Marci, fortunately, has a great sense of direction. Me, I can’t find my feet to put shoes on. We found one of the luxury hotels Kuala lumpur that had some decent rates and had rooms available. Yes, that’s right, we didn’t make reservations anywhere, and yes, we were lucky.
We found the local people here in Malaysia to be so very nice. We only have run into one American so far, and all the rest of the tourist are mostly from Southeast Asia. There’s a variety of food here, lots of Indian, which we both love, and lots of Kopi coffee, it comes already sweetened with milk. Actually, that’s the way all coffees and teas come, pre-sweetened. Our first meal was at a local street vendor, and man was that so tasty! After that, we only ate from the street vendors and skipped the restaurants.
Marcia had a tough day, for some reason the therapeutic massages we got didn’t help her feel any better, so we called it an early evening. Tomorrow, we’ll fly up to and island called Langkawai. It’s known for where they filmed ‘The King and I’ with Jodie Foster. We hear it’s even more spectacular than what we saw in the movie, but we were told to stay out of the ocean, too many jellyfish, really tiny weenie jellyfish that is one stings you, you’d barely feel it, but there are thousands and thousands. So, we’ll stay away from swimming. At least we’ll eat!
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