Bukit bintang/Jln Alor food galore

you can't be far away from food in the Bukit Bintang area and Jalan Alor.
late at night we took a stroll from our hotel to the hawker stall strip @ jalan alor. it's full of life.
tried the satay and it was nice. btw, the prices are not standardized..




went to the above stall for the penang char kuay tiaw. it was YUMMMM..we walked around looking for frog claypot dish too..finally found it at the store below..(it's located somewhere in the midle part of jln alor)




we also tried out the herbal tea from Gong Ho. It was a big no-no to try the dimsum at the HKstyle cafe. Felt cheated.

Petronas Twin Tower

i had been to this place a few times. first time, karen brought me there, we were in KLCC mostly, sitting by the bench watching shoppers buy things, particularly the rich shoppers from Middle East.

the year before, jake and I went there but the twin tower is not open to public. (the 42nd floor)

this year, jake again wanted to go. We had watched a documentary in Bangkok about the construction of the towers and i guess that sort of make me slightly more interested.


i had to take a pic of a notice in the KL Philarmonic Hall as it says LANG LANG will not be performing the symphony orchestra. *wink. Only knew Lang can sing and didn't know she's involved in the orchestra.

the others are just pics of 'things' around/in the towers. the 42nd floor skywalk is pic no 3 (2nd row) only the lower level skywalk is open to the public. we took some aerial shots of the 'golden triangle'.

More of KL

we had time in our hand before our scheduled time to go on the 42nd floor of the Petronas twin tower. we decided to go to pasar seni/central market. this market used to be a wet market long time ago but have since been tastefully converted to be a cultural handicraft centre.

the market is divided into specific wings to show crafts from specific races.
on the upper level, there is also a foodcourt that sells 'malaysian' food.




jake washing his hands on the wok basin. the nasi kerabu(blue)/dagang(yellow) and dishes he bought from rasa kelantan.it was rather nice but i was skeptical about the blue coloured rice. i went to the melaka stall to try the sizzling noodle and it was a letdown. i find the noodle not tasty.there was too much soy sauce in it.

after finshing the dishes, we walked around and I stopped for a while to listen to the guy playing the 'angklung'. we also stopped at Old town to try the popular roti and the hot milk tea..

note the tiling on each wing is different to represent the specific races.

Astro Concert

we got back from melaka and decided to wander around searching for food. we were staying at bukit bintang area and we just wandered into throngs of people and heard ppl singing.
jake saw pics of singer and is super adamant that 'guang liang' will be in the concert!

so we stayed for the whole night waiting for guang liang to appear. the concert was organised by ASTRO to commemorate the 50th year of Msian's Independence. SO watch out in Astro channel for this program.

i don't know many of the singers but they are mostly in the malaysian chinese top40 selection. they are mostly locals who has gone to taiwan to develop their career. Out of the numerous singers, i knew Fish leung, Penny tai??(tai pei yi) and of coz Guang Liang and Ping Guan.

anyhow, guang liang was the last person to come out. So i was tip toeing for a good 2 hours!
we later saw them (the whole bunch of singers) going into Hotel ROyal Bintang. They were escorted by 'body guards' in the form of those emergency troop.

teenagers were hysterical..I overheard this .."EDDIE is so cuteeeee...He's so handsome'....
i didn't even know who he is.

CLose up, fish is very tiny...probably 5 ft tall but wearing very high heels and wearing very thick makeups :) but i do like her song.


Me, after the concert. Towards the end of the concert, the whole group sang 'SETIA'.
anyone still remember the song? Excuse my camera, our lens is practically non-existent.

Day trip to Melaka

continuing with my never ending travelogue, after CNY and all the glorious wedding parties, we traveled to KL before going back to Bangkok and Nz.

We decided to make a side trip to Melaka. jake has never been to Melaka and I was last there when I was 11.

we took an express bus from Puduraya Station to Melaka one early morning. The bus ticket was RM9.40each way for a 2 hour journey.

We reached Melaka Sentral at about 10 30am and caught a taxi to the 'central' of Melaka. I call it Central because that's where all the attractions are.


we decided to go to the malacca sultanate palace. the building has a minangkabau influence and it's made of wood. it was just the right thing to do on a hot scorching day to be inside the 'palace'.. i went through the palace (it was really a house with lots of mannequins in various costumes) reading about the different type of baju melayu etc. there were also pictures, models of various castles in malaysia and model of how malay royal bedroom is like ..

the story of hang tuah and hang jebat and also tun perak were outlined. was suddenly transported back to ol' school days. i remember completing an assignment on tun perak although i can't remember much about tun perak anymore.

then we came out of the 'palace' and walked to the A Famosa (Porta De Santiago). It's jammed pack with tourists and everyone couldn't stop snapping pictures. We walked uphill and saw remnants of church with lots of tombstones.

we then went to the stadhuys area and took picture of the red christ church. i am impressed with the landscaping of the gardens.

having read in kennysia.com re chicken rice ball, and jonker street, we decided to walk there.
it wasn't hard to find the chicken rice ball shop..there was a huge queue when we arrive outside the shop. the shop looks like a very old chinese house with open courtyards. we ordered the rice balls and hainan chicken and veggie for lunch. there was even a dutch windmill near the gardens and finally jake took a pic with an iguana.

we then walked to the new dataran pahlawan mall as the sweltering sun is making us sweat like crazy.


before too soon, it was time for afternoon tea. we found this food court across dataran pahlawan.


we tried out several hawker favourites. when we were finished, we walked to mahkota parade. it is less upmarket like dataran pahlawan but has its own attraction. we bought nyonya curry powder and spotted these cool decors using egg cartons in some boutique (Pic below)



we took another taxi and asked the pak driver to bring us to a nyonya restaurant but none of them was open when he brought us there. I guess we were too early *(they all open around dinner time)...we decided to head back to Melaka Sentral and catch another express back to KL.