Ikan bilis-hot hot hot
Ikan bilis-hot hot hot
Guava, Mango and Orange Juice to start off the
morning. Followed by Kuala Lumpur Hokkien Mee
(Japanese noodles), 3 types of Dim Sum, French Toast,
Scrambled eggs and a mix of rice and cocoa Krispies.
Sitting in a beautiful dining room of my hotel:
Cititel; I was reflecting over the past 20 or so hours
since I landed at 9:00 pm at the KL International
Airport on Tuesday evening. It is now Thursday
morning about 9:30 am.
My flight from Brisbane lasted for 8 hours. We flew
at 39,000 ft. A fairly smooth flight across much of
northern Queensland and Northern Territory and the
Timor Sea. "Spy Kids", "Tailor of Panama" and various
music videos held my interest while I was drawing
cartoons for Dr. Alice Lee who I will meet to be
interviewed by this morning in about 30 minutes.
My first breakfast consisted of:
Mango and Orange Juice, scrambled egges, noodles (or
something else...still speculating on what they were)
that tasted good, Dim Sum, a boiled egg. That was
followed by a walk through the Mega Mall that the
hotel is attached to. I was seeking an email-cafe.
Instead what I discovered was a very contemporary 4 to
6 level mall that would not open for another hour.
When I returned from my search I discovered that the
hotel has a Business Centre with two internet
connection computers where I now sit for the 6th or
7th time. Had some contacting to do about this visit,
Singapore and arrangements for the next feew weeks.
My contact person, Audrey arrived at 10:00 to tour me
around some of KL. After some herbal tea, getting to
know each other discussion and planning we took off to
visit the Central City Market.
The cab ride through China Town and the streets
between the Citatel, the Central Train Station,
Central Bus Station and the Market cost 5Rm ($1.25+).
The central market consists of 140 shops and 130
stalls of very colorful, fun, intriging things from
all over the orient: fabrics, crafts, pewterware,
jewelry. Drool folks.
All very, very reasonable in price.
Did some fair bartering on some items. Some of the
shopkeepers would not bend enough on things that were
iffy, iffy if the price was low enough.
After an hour of sifting through shop after shop after
shop after stall Audrey and I went seeking a
restaurant.
We ended up taking another taxi back to the Mid Valley
Mega Mall to have lunch at a wonderful Japanese Noodle
restaurant. Mine was beef and noodles.
Audrey works with the Malaysian Institute for Training
and Development who I am speaking for on Friday. The
prediction is 50 people (10 more than the assigned
room will hold in classroom style). A star is
born...ha ha!
We talked for a couple hours about our interests,
families, education, training, Bob Pike and CTTI and
ASTD conferences in the states. Audrey attended the
recent one in Orlando.
After freshening up I wandered off by taxi to the
subway station near the hotel. Actually it was not
that easy but I don't want to take the time to bore
you to explain all it took to find the subway stop.
I was off to the famous KL Petronas Twin Towers.
I made it, toured some. It was after 5:00 pm when I
finally arrived and the world of people who work in
the towers was flowing out like grain out the largest
grain elevator you can imagine with a sudden hole in
the bottom of it.
A couple left turns and around the base of the tower,
click, click, click, photographing around the tower.
Then what should appear but the entrance to still
another gigantic mall. Mall of America look out.
You've got lots of competition in KL for the largest
shopping center.
The one located at the base of the Petronas Towers
consists of 4 sections that are 7 or more open
stories tall.
Back to the Bongsar Station, the hotel to freshen up
again to meet my new Malay friend Ananda who was
taking me on a tour of KL at night.
Ikan bilis --- hot, hot, hot...doesnt' describe the
sensation in my mouth
Okra --- fried and spicey
long beans --- not so spicey
of course anything that I put in my mouth could not
compare to the first shock of Ikan Bilis
then this was followed by
shrimp and fish curries
then
a teepee looking pastry (wafer thin) called Paper
"thosai" that you break pieces off and dip into
various sauces including one called Chutney
also their was
keropok (made from fish and flour)
Ananda is a professor of educational psychology at the
University of Malaysia. He took me on a tour of his
beautiful campus. Then we walked through a student
fair filled with 100+ booths with food, gifts and
things. As we walked through he promoted my sampling
some of the dishes. Little did I know he was setting
me up for Ikan Bilis in the Bongsar restaurant and bar
area.
Trying to walk to places you continue to hear
tremendous bursts of bee sounds, very loud, motor
scooters by the hundreds. They seem to travel in
packs. At least it seemed that way. At every traffic
light there would be a group of 20 or 50 motor
scooters.
After dinner Ananda drove me around the civic area of
KL to see the beautifully decorated buildings,
decorated in sparkling white lights. The buildings
looked like a wonderful Christmas time display. Two
streets for a few blocks are decorated this way every
evening. Crossing at an any is a tree bordered road
with the trees beautifully uplighted in blue, green,
purple and yellow light. Across from the wedding cake
like decorated central court building is a huge open
park of very flat land where many celebrations are
held with a very large outdoor movie screen for
showing movies.
This morning once again I watched the day begin for
KL. It starts with the dark decorated by street
lights and the moving red and white lights of the
varying streams of automobiles. Slowing the black
gives way to white and light gray. The sky is covered
with a blanket of puffy white clouds with holes
through which the blue sky and bright yellow sun
shine.
Now I am off to my interview.
Ciao Y'all
Wandering Alan
Guava, Mango and Orange Juice to start off the
morning. Followed by Kuala Lumpur Hokkien Mee
(Japanese noodles), 3 types of Dim Sum, French Toast,
Scrambled eggs and a mix of rice and cocoa Krispies.
Sitting in a beautiful dining room of my hotel:
Cititel; I was reflecting over the past 20 or so hours
since I landed at 9:00 pm at the KL International
Airport on Tuesday evening. It is now Thursday
morning about 9:30 am.
My flight from Brisbane lasted for 8 hours. We flew
at 39,000 ft. A fairly smooth flight across much of
northern Queensland and Northern Territory and the
Timor Sea. "Spy Kids", "Tailor of Panama" and various
music videos held my interest while I was drawing
cartoons for Dr. Alice Lee who I will meet to be
interviewed by this morning in about 30 minutes.
My first breakfast consisted of:
Mango and Orange Juice, scrambled egges, noodles (or
something else...still speculating on what they were)
that tasted good, Dim Sum, a boiled egg. That was
followed by a walk through the Mega Mall that the
hotel is attached to. I was seeking an email-cafe.
Instead what I discovered was a very contemporary 4 to
6 level mall that would not open for another hour.
When I returned from my search I discovered that the
hotel has a Business Centre with two internet
connection computers where I now sit for the 6th or
7th time. Had some contacting to do about this visit,
Singapore and arrangements for the next feew weeks.
My contact person, Audrey arrived at 10:00 to tour me
around some of KL. After some herbal tea, getting to
know each other discussion and planning we took off to
visit the Central City Market.
The cab ride through China Town and the streets
between the Citatel, the Central Train Station,
Central Bus Station and the Market cost 5Rm ($1.25+).
The central market consists of 140 shops and 130
stalls of very colorful, fun, intriging things from
all over the orient: fabrics, crafts, pewterware,
jewelry. Drool folks.
All very, very reasonable in price.
Did some fair bartering on some items. Some of the
shopkeepers would not bend enough on things that were
iffy, iffy if the price was low enough.
After an hour of sifting through shop after shop after
shop after stall Audrey and I went seeking a
restaurant.
We ended up taking another taxi back to the Mid Valley
Mega Mall to have lunch at a wonderful Japanese Noodle
restaurant. Mine was beef and noodles.
Audrey works with the Malaysian Institute for Training
and Development who I am speaking for on Friday. The
prediction is 50 people (10 more than the assigned
room will hold in classroom style). A star is
born...ha ha!
We talked for a couple hours about our interests,
families, education, training, Bob Pike and CTTI and
ASTD conferences in the states. Audrey attended the
recent one in Orlando.
After freshening up I wandered off by taxi to the
subway station near the hotel. Actually it was not
that easy but I don't want to take the time to bore
you to explain all it took to find the subway stop.
I was off to the famous KL Petronas Twin Towers.
I made it, toured some. It was after 5:00 pm when I
finally arrived and the world of people who work in
the towers was flowing out like grain out the largest
grain elevator you can imagine with a sudden hole in
the bottom of it.
A couple left turns and around the base of the tower,
click, click, click, photographing around the tower.
Then what should appear but the entrance to still
another gigantic mall. Mall of America look out.
You've got lots of competition in KL for the largest
shopping center.
The one located at the base of the Petronas Towers
consists of 4 sections that are 7 or more open
stories tall.
Back to the Bongsar Station, the hotel to freshen up
again to meet my new Malay friend Ananda who was
taking me on a tour of KL at night.
Ikan bilis --- hot, hot, hot...doesnt' describe the
sensation in my mouth
Okra --- fried and spicey
long beans --- not so spicey
of course anything that I put in my mouth could not
compare to the first shock of Ikan Bilis
then this was followed by
shrimp and fish curries
then
a teepee looking pastry (wafer thin) called Paper
"thosai" that you break pieces off and dip into
various sauces including one called Chutney
also their was
keropok (made from fish and flour)
Ananda is a professor of educational psychology at the
University of Malaysia. He took me on a tour of his
beautiful campus. Then we walked through a student
fair filled with 100+ booths with food, gifts and
things. As we walked through he promoted my sampling
some of the dishes. Little did I know he was setting
me up for Ikan Bilis in the Bongsar restaurant and bar
area.
Trying to walk to places you continue to hear
tremendous bursts of bee sounds, very loud, motor
scooters by the hundreds. They seem to travel in
packs. At least it seemed that way. At every traffic
light there would be a group of 20 or 50 motor
scooters.
After dinner Ananda drove me around the civic area of
KL to see the beautifully decorated buildings,
decorated in sparkling white lights. The buildings
looked like a wonderful Christmas time display. Two
streets for a few blocks are decorated this way every
evening. Crossing at an any is a tree bordered road
with the trees beautifully uplighted in blue, green,
purple and yellow light. Across from the wedding cake
like decorated central court building is a huge open
park of very flat land where many celebrations are
held with a very large outdoor movie screen for
showing movies.
This morning once again I watched the day begin for
KL. It starts with the dark decorated by street
lights and the moving red and white lights of the
varying streams of automobiles. Slowing the black
gives way to white and light gray. The sky is covered
with a blanket of puffy white clouds with holes
through which the blue sky and bright yellow sun
shine.
Now I am off to my interview.
Ciao Y'all
Wandering Alan
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