We woke up again to the bustling sounds of the morning traffic of Malaysia. Breakfast turned out to be not too different from the previous morning. There were some switches made. There was rice instead of the noodles and vegetable puffs instead of the spring rolls and French roast instead of the sandwiches which I liked so much.
We had a consultation with our concierge at the hotel and on his advice went to Medan Tuanku station and took the monorail to Imbi looking for DVD players and an XD card for the camera. We went to one of the computer places, but inspite of it being 10.30 a.m., it was still closed. So we didn’t get to look around the place, which was called computer paradise or something like that. I think they start work after 11.00 a.m.!!!
Anyway, we walked around another plaza and paid 175Rm for a 258MB DX Card. Much later I realized that I had not even been given a receipt for the payment I had made! Clever me!!
I wanted to see the Bukit Binthang area. We gave it special attention cos’ most of the b&b places advertised on the net come from this area and it is supposed to be a very touristy kind of place. It did seem lovely though perhaps a little pricier that the other places we’d been to. We managed to get hold of a phone card for 15RM and called home.
The next stop we wanted to make was China Town. So we found another monorail station to take us there. It turned out to be lovely! We first visited a Chinese temple just outside the station, where an old Chinese man tried to persuade us to worship at his temple and demanding a ‘donation’ of 5$. There were some statues that looked the teeniest bit scary so we backed out of there in a bit of a hurry especially since the old man was very insistent that we WORSHIP there.
Right next to or rather just below the temple at road level is another large ancient looking building to honour the dead. It had a beautiful, intricately designed doorway that beckoned to us very enticingly. It was a huge, lovely red door with dragons painted on in gold. Very inviting! We went in, looked around and took some pictures.
We then found our way to the famous Petaling Street. Walked the entire length of it, and went into a Mall across the street for lunch in the Food Court. Our lunch turned out to be lovely too. It was called Nasi Pataya. Spicy rice covered with an omelette which is then decorated with sauce and accompanied by a soup. It was lovely! Of course it does take a bit of time to communicate one’s wants to those at the food courts. I would point to a picture and want to know what went into the dish before I ordered it. Imagine if I get a snake or something equally repulsive!!!!! Yucks!!! Lots of people seem to favour steamed rice and with a curry or two to taking the more ‘exotic ‘ dishes.
We walked about a bit more and popped into McDonalds for mixed vanilla and chocolate ice-cream. We were quite tired and wound our way back through Petaling Street to the taxi stand. The street comes alive in the night. The roadway which only had stalls on either side and a few folding tables in the middle in the afternoon was packed with people and little stalls stacked one against the other which had sprung up in a couple of hours. They sold everything from shoes to clothes and most of all to watches of every style and colour one could think of. The taxi guy wanted 25RM back to the hotel. which we had been warned would be waaaay too much. So we walked back to the monorail station, and went back to our hotel for just 2.20 RM per person! The monorail runs till at 11.00 p.m. in the night….. thank goodness for that!
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