How you know you live in a suburb?

There are different ways in different countries how you decorate your balcony. This is how it would look like in a suburb to Stockholm.

In Asia on the other hand, the balcony decoration tend to be a little bit more colorful and of different shapes.

Sunway Lagoon

As any big city Kuala Lumpur also have its own theme park. The name is Sunway Lagoon and as the website tells you can find 5 different parks inside; Water park, Amusement park, Extreme park, Scream park and Wild life park. In my opinion a little overrated but the main reason for going was Lina and Sara's crazy idea they wanted to go bungy jumping, and so they did!

We spent the full day of Saturday in the amusement and water park and all of us turned into excited kids running between the coasters and rides. Each park is kind of small but the rides were great fun. I was not alone to not have brought any change of cloths and in Malaysia its absolutely normal to swim with your cloths on, and frankly we didn't really have any choice.. The rides in the Wild West part of the amusement park is not water proof to say the least so there was not really any point in changing into swimming wear when moving on to the water park.

Totally soaked from top till toe we passed through the Sunway mall in search for food and beer. We made a quick stop to buy a new DRY outfit for the night, 5 minutes efficient shopping and a quick make over in the toilet and i was ready for some Satey (Malaysian amazing BBQ sticks).

I love you I miss you I kiss you

MURNI is another restaurant in SS2 that attracts a lot of people. The restaurant itself is rather small but during the evening the pavement outside is turned into a 500 meter long dining table with hungry locals. Last night I found myself in the middle. The food served here is supposed to be special and looking at the number of people waiting while the staff is stressing to put up another table at the end makes it obvious. All of a sudden the dining stroll becomes 510 meter and it keeps on growing. When ordering Lina said to the waiter: I love you I miss you I kiss you. And NO it was not Lina expressing her love to this random waiter. It was the name of the drinks she ordered for us. All beverages are home made mixes and they tasted really nice. The best one was I kiss you with a base of apple juice.

I love you - I miss you - I kiss you

 

The dirtier the place, the tastier the food

Saturday night Ms Lina took me and our two neighbours for Chinese food at SS2 which is an area not far from Bangsar south, where I, for those who do not know live. Here they have a lively Chinese food court by locals called Wai Sek Gai. After parking the car and walking the 50 meters towards the stalls we managed to pass a mountain of smelling garbage and a dead rat on the side of the road. Lina has taken me to this place before in my earlier days in KL so thanks to that I was still sure I was going to have a nice meal. However, our two friends joining us didn't seem all that convinced (I don't blame them..) Lina and myself laughed it over and said "the dirtier the place, the tastier the food" which I have found to be so true. From my experience traveling in China and South East Asia you cannot find as good and tasty food as in the street stalls and in the whole in the wall kind of restaurants. You pay absolutely nothing and yet you get dishes delicious enough for a Michelin star. Maybe I am exaggerating a little bit here but considering what you get for the money I will continue finding my way in KL's dirty allies searching for food and I will be happy to share it with you.

We ended up having a really nice dinner with Japanese tofu, dried chili chicken, baby kai lan with butter and spicy sambal prawns.. yum yum..

Apollo launches Langkawi as destination

The Swedish tour operator Apollo is going to launch the Malaysian island Langkawi as a new destination next winter with a direct flight. This will probably happen even before Malaysian Airlines will reopen its non stop line KL-Stockholm. Hopefully this might be a start to open and widen the traditional Swedish tour traveling a bit.   

Langkawi is situated on the Malaysian west coast very close to the Thailand boarder and is famous for the number of water sports you can do here as well as the tax free shopping. 

http://www.travelnews.se/artiklar/nyheter/20120216/apollo-lanserar-direktflyg-till-langkawi

Mashed Potatoes @ George and the Dragon Legend

It is far from everyday I add a little extra luxury in my daily routine, considering my lunch most of the days is spent in the over crowded canteen. Last night however I met up with Ana and Nanditha at the English pub George and the Dragon Legend @ Bangsar Shopping Center. I surely enjoyed the traditional pub atmosphere and I had a huge plate of chicken and mushroom pie with beautiful fluffy mashed potatoes. I can very much recommend that! Thanks Ana for taken me!

With our bellies full we jumped in a taxi and went to Bangsar Village where we got ourselves some DVDs for the weekend, the non original covered in plastic kind of DVD. Let's just hope the quality is somewhat good!