Malaysia – Kuala Lumpur Arrival

By Rough Guy’d

The journey from Melaka to Kuala Lumpur didn’t take too long and I arrived in the big city just after lunch. I quickly met up with my uncle who knew that I was arriving today as he was earlier informed when I was in Singapore. He took me around and showed me some of the sights including the Petronas towers, the twin towers of Malaysia that are connected together by a bridge so that they looked like a giant H.

We walked around a little bit before we headed back to his home to meet up with the rest of his family and my other uncle who came around to see me. After that we went to a hawker market for dinner. This style of market is different from other types of night markets that I had been to so far. The best way to imagine this type of a hawker market is to think of a food court in a shopping mall.

Every stall is selling something different and you walk between them to choose what you would like to eat before taking a seat at a table in the main area. The main difference between this type of food stalls and those found in a shopping mall is that the quality and variety is much better, there are no big massive lines and once cooked, they will deliver the food to the table you are at.

The next day, Sunday 21st of June saw us go to a shopping mall as I joined my uncle and his family on a family outing. While there, I discovered two of my cousins working and realised once again how little I really know about my extended family. On my father’s side of the family there are five brothers and three sisters, almost all with three children.

They are the side of the family that I am most familiar with as half of them live in New Zealand and there was a recent family reunion that saw me meeting up with most of them. On my mum’s side of the family I know much less with approximately eight sisters and two brothers. My youngest cousin is about ten and my oldest cousin has two kids of his own. Because of the vast differences in ages among other things, other than my mum and aunties, I am a lot more distant from this side of the family and I was looking forward to meeting them.

Lunch was at a fancy Japanese restaurant at the mall which for me was a tomato chicken and rice dish served in an omelette with bolognaise sauce. An odd combination but deliciously worth trying if you ever get the chance. Later that evening, I took the chance to meet up with an old friend, the girl that I had met in Bali earlier, and we took the time to catch up and have a good long chat.