Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur: where's the great food?

After a smooth flight from Hanoi we waved goodbye to Vietnam and started our Malaysia leg of the trip. Kuala Lumpur was full of expectations for us as civilization at last, as so many people have raved about it.

We found a reasonable but still expensive hotel in Chinatown and had a wander round. It is a very new city with lots of sky-scrapers and Islamic-style buildings. Lots of traffic. Chinatown is not very Chinese and Little India is not very Indian so we just headed for the shopping malls.

The Petronas Twin towers - KL's most famous building - was very cool although we simply couldn't be arsed to get up early morning to queue for one of the tickets to go up the tower. So we just had a good lie in and looked at it from below. We also did a short walking tour, encompassing a few buildings of note but after an hour or so we were bored of culture and went back to the mall.

The Petronas Twin towers

Our most notable pastime was, surprise surprise, sitting in the cinema and we managed 3 films in 2 days - a record for us both! (Transformers, Harry Potter and Die Hard 4.0). Oh and we went up the 4th largest tower in the world which was quite cool if you like heights.

We had been swamped with stories of great food but to our disappointment found very little worth eating let alone talking about. We went to McDonald's twice. And the food hall of the shopping mall.

Finally we met up with our German travel buddy, Carolin, for the 6th and last time which was lovely to see her, and headed to the airport to fly up to the north east coast to get to the beach.

Kulala Lumpur was nice, clean, modern, but didn't quite live up to our expectations.

Kieran against KL skyline