foraging in KL

well, so i'm in KL for a few days, and like the last time, it's for work.

only this time i'm staying longer than just two days - so that means i've to really walk around to find food outside of the darned hotel. so, right, today i find myself inspired enough to buy food from the hotel, and i was right to trust it (i ordered chicken curry) - and it was good...

then came dinner. i didn't want to stay cooped up in the room and hello, i'm in another part of the world, it'd be a shame if i didn't take the chance to look and walk around, take a few pictures here and there, do the tourist thing. so i did, but the main thing is that i need to know what to eat.

and just now, i felt like eating hokkien mee (recommended by jenn) - and since i've no bloody idea where to get myself a bowl, i decided to do a search online. and voila! makan kings came up. and thus inspired i took to my literal heels and walked my jaunty walk out of the hotel... only to find myself at the sidewalk (duh) with no apparent mamak roadside stall boasting "MALAYSIAN HOKKIEN MEE" in sight.

but what'd i expect, really? it's outside of the damn city, near the twin towers - did i really expect mamak stalls?


...actually, yes.

but then i admit i was naive. but having walked ALL THE WAY to KLCC (wah lan eh) directed by strange people who point the way then carrying on with their walking without waiting for "thanks" - i concluded that KLCC is like our takashimaya. the only difference is that the A&W sucks and the soupe in the chinese restaurants - or the one i had my soupe at at least - is "too salty".

in the end, i left both places with food barely halfway eaten. it's horrid. the "restaurant", too.


the next time i eat, it will be at mamak stalls, i swear. if there are NO mamak stalls out on the hotel sidewalk, i will FIND mamak stalls at SOME sidewalk. and i will bring pochai.