KL, Malaysia Day 5

We were picked up at 10 and drove through a completely derelict town to a little hole-in-the-wall called Fatty for breakfast, in Jalan Kelang Lama. Menu: Bak Kut (pigs trotters (hooves)), Pork intestine with wine, Curried fish heads. Hua tiew wine steam chicken, freshly squeezed apple juice, chinese tea with ice. Christine ordered for us, everything but the fish heads. As our policy is to try everything once, we both tasted the intestine, even though Kelly doesn’t eat pork. We love Malaysian food, but next time, we'll pass on the guts. We've done it, we don’t have to do it again. And come to think of it, Kelly never wants to see a pork product again) Dessert was soy milk jello with dragons eye lychee, and it was quite refreshing. In total the bill came to 138.50 ringgit (£23.08)
We then hopped in the cars and headed into the center of Kuala Lumpur. Along the way we came upon quite a few run down, delapidated buildings. Ric explained that due to the market crash of 1997, many companies were forced to abandon development and left the partially built structures to rot where they stood.
It wasn’t long before we parked beneath the Twin Towers (KLCC) and ventured up, entering a large, modern mall. While the boys went to the restroom to change from shorts to trousers for our visit to the office,
Christian noticed two giant moths, brown and white with a four inch wingspan in one corner of the mall. We of course got photos.
We went up one lift to the midpoint on the 41st floor, which literally took about 15 seconds to ascend. We switched lifts and kept going to the 61st floor. Since we work for the same company as Ric, we thought it would be an ideal opportunity to visit the KL news bureau, as it has one of the best views of the city.
The moment we badged in we felt completely at home and proceeded to raid the kitchen, make a long distance phonecall (called mum; it was far too early to call NY), and check our e-mails.
Leaving the office, we returned to the mall and walked around for a short while to digest breakfast. Of course, the best way to do that is with pastry, so Christine and Ric led us to Rotiboy Bakeshoppe, where I was instructed to order "saku Roti" (one bun). It is about the size of a hamburger bun; slightly chrispy outside with a very soft inside and a slightly coffee flavor. Amazingly good but we were still very full from morning meal.
KLCC mall is very big and western and not at all interesting so we bailed and jumped into both cars to head for more traditional shopping; where the Malaysians go. Enroute we saw a lot of motorcycle riders, always wearing the jackets backwards as a clever way to avoid drag. We drove to another large shopping complex, but not as fancy and oodles cheaper. We did pretty well on the electronics front. Christian needed a portable harddrive and case, which we got for 276 ringgit, and we brought a new Nikon Coolpix little digital camera (since Kelly's Sony has just about had it) for 1076 ringgit (£206/$400). It's worth twice that at home, and he threw in a 2gig memory card for £6. Time to head back to the hotel, as we had a large evening planned and all of us at the Boulevard hotel (Mr & Mrs Wang, Henry & Lucia, and us) were all checking out tommorow.
The two of us used the time to get a Big Mac from downstairs in the Megamall, since Christian has to taste one in every country we visit (good, but in China they're better). We exchanged some more cash and harvested some wifi from Starbucks. Unfortunately the rain meant our much anticipated plans of visiting the street market were shot. We all decided on a proper dinner in the mall, but as Christian wasn’t felling well we left the group, went to the Jusco market on the ground floor; bought rice bundles (steamed rice packed in a banana leaf with a little, dried fish), coffee flavored ice cream, and three large bottles of 100Plus; all for 17 ringgit (£2.87).
We picnicked in the room whilst watching The Majestic on cable.