Day 46 - 48 Kuala Lumpur

1 - 3 September 2014

Day 46

Flight from Amsterdam to Paris aka One hour in Paris ;)

I had to do a short flight to Paris before the long one to Malaysia. It was delayed by 30 minutes but I had lots of time before my next flight so it was no worries. On this flight I read the magazine in the seat pocket and learned that dragonflies are the fastest insect. They can fly at up to 15m/s for short periods. That's 54km/h!

In Charles de Gaulle airport there was a Playstation 3 and I thought the warning sign next to it was funny.

PS3 warning sign

"Avoid playing if you are tired". I think playing games is probably the thing that makes people tired.

"Take a 15 minute break every hour". But you'll lose your focus.

Flight to Kuala Lumpur

I slept for a bit on the flight, but like always, it's not very comfortable. I also watched a few movies on the flight.

I started to watch the new Godzilla but I couldn't finish it. The screens on the AirFrance plane were pieces of crap and the contrast was so bad I couldn't see anything during the night scenes. So maybe I lost interest in the movie because a fair bit is in the dark but it was also very "America, fuck yeah! Kill everything!" and I just couldn't take it. Sure part of it was set in Japan and Bryan Cranston spoke some Japanese but for the most part, why did everyone in Japan speak English?

Next movie was X-Men: Days of future past, which was ok. All I could think of was this Oatmeal comic though.

Then I watched The secret life of Walter Mitty. This movie was really good and by far the best movie I've seen for a while. I highly recommend it. I feel like it was a good movie to watch at the end of a trip although he was a lot more out there than I was. I lived pretty safely.

Maleficent was next up and I enjoyed this movie too. Like all magic movies, I couldn't help but analyse the inconsistencies of the magic in the movie but it was a good story.

The final movie was Capitan American 2: The Winter Soldier but I didn't get to finish it because we were coming in to land. AirFrance, although owned by KLM, are nowhere near as good as KLM. The equipment is better on the Dutch flights and they let you watch movies from the moment you get on to after you land. It's how it should be.

Flying away from the sunset

Day 47

In Kuala Lumpur

I didn't really do much in KL because I only had 1 night there and I've already done most of the typical tourist things. The goal was basically to get my blogs done and eat as much of the amazing food as I could fit. I've been pretty good about not talking about food on this trip but this is all I've got for this blog.

In Chinatown I found a street food stall that sold these things that the lady called crocodiles. I don't know what the real name is but they're really nice. They're made of vegetables cut up and mixed with batter and fried and they're served in a plastic bag, covered in spicy sauce and stabbed with a skewer to eat them with. You can't complain at the price either at 2 RM for 5 of them, which is about 65 Australian cents.

Crocodiles

I tried one of these potato curry puffs for 2 RM too.

Cheap, delicious curry puff

It was 31 degrees in KL so these slushie things are a nice relief from the heat.

My blog will never be this cool.

Day 48
Roti canai
I'd seen roti canai on the menu when I was in KL on the way over but didn't know what it was. I eventually looked it up, after I'd left, and it sounded amazing so I wasn't going to leave without trying it this time. It was a bit on an effort because the first night I went out and none of the places I walked past served it, then the next day I found a place but they only serve the dish for breakfast or dinner. Finally, third time's a charm, I got it for dinner on my second (last) day. The restaurant was full of locals so I didn't take a picture of my food and show that I was a total tourist but it looked a lot like this.

Same as what my roti canai looked like

It was both really yummy and quite cheap. I could get used to having it for breakfast. The only complaint is there wasn't enough of it. While I was there, I saw a lady order something similar but bigger that I think it might have been the thosai dish, so more like a pancake.

Finally something not food related. I saw this cool looking temple in my wanders around Chinatown.

Very detailed temple

In the evening it was off to the airport for my flight back to Adelaide that left around midnight. It was an AirAsia flight, so no onboard entertainment but it left on time and was fairly empty so I scored a row of 3 seats to myself.