As promised, here's my short report on KL.
What can I say, KL is a city that is as modern (if not more) as $ingapore. The pedestrian crossings at major intersections have LEDs that count down too, and what more, their green man is a moving graphic.
Explored the city using the monorail, which seems to be every bit as efficient as our MRT.
Caught Lemony Snickett's A Series Of Unfortunate Events at the Golden Screens cinema in Berjaya Times Square. Golden Screens seems to be a clone of Golden Village, and I won't be surprised if they are under one umbrella. The cinema looked spanking new, yet the ticket price is only 8 ringgit, yes, 8 ringgit.
Berjaya Times Square is this huge building that makes our Ngee Ann City look like a community centre by comparison. It has an indoor theme park, with a roller coaster ride in the shopping centre itself; the tracks even have a loop!
My meals in KL, just for the record:
Mon: lunch - KFC at Pudu Raya plus McDonald's fries and milkshake at KLCC; dinner - Hainanese chicken rice in Chinatown.
Tues: breakfast - provided at hotel (lots of hashbrowns); lunch - curry chicken with beryani rice at Bintang area plus waffle with ice-cream plus Italian ice-cream cone at Times Square; dinner - Chinese crispy noodles at Bintang area.
Wed: breakfast - provided at hotel (lots of hashbrowns) plus 2 fluffy and chewy roti canai, 2 excellent cups of kopi and 1 nice cup of teh at one of those dark and dingy stalls within the open-air marketplace near hotel. In all, the dingy stall meal cost only 3.40 ringgit-- amazing. The makcik at the stall seemed to be delighted to see me downing cup after cup of her brew; lunch - wanton mee at Chinatown plus KFC (4 Original pieces & wedges) at Pudu Raya to 'load up' for the long coach-ride home.
Some pics to share:
A shot inside the Kuala Lumpur Civic Centre to give you an idea how big the malls in KL are.
Our Isetan is blue, theirs is green:
Standing at this busy intersection, you could be forgiven for thinking that you are in Tokyo or New York. The Bintang area is as cosmopolitan as our Orchard Rd.
Flags outside Times Square, signalling that F1 season in Sepang is approaching.
The gigantic towers of Times Square.
On par with our MRT, the KL Monorail.
A shot of the accommodation (Grand Seasons Hotel).
The view from the hotel room (29th floor).
Those red lanterns could only mean one thing-- Chinatown.
My wanton mee lunch on the last day. The malaysian style has lots of black sauce. Yummy.
What can I say, KL is a city that is as modern (if not more) as $ingapore. The pedestrian crossings at major intersections have LEDs that count down too, and what more, their green man is a moving graphic.
Explored the city using the monorail, which seems to be every bit as efficient as our MRT.
Caught Lemony Snickett's A Series Of Unfortunate Events at the Golden Screens cinema in Berjaya Times Square. Golden Screens seems to be a clone of Golden Village, and I won't be surprised if they are under one umbrella. The cinema looked spanking new, yet the ticket price is only 8 ringgit, yes, 8 ringgit.
Berjaya Times Square is this huge building that makes our Ngee Ann City look like a community centre by comparison. It has an indoor theme park, with a roller coaster ride in the shopping centre itself; the tracks even have a loop!
My meals in KL, just for the record:
Mon: lunch - KFC at Pudu Raya plus McDonald's fries and milkshake at KLCC; dinner - Hainanese chicken rice in Chinatown.
Tues: breakfast - provided at hotel (lots of hashbrowns); lunch - curry chicken with beryani rice at Bintang area plus waffle with ice-cream plus Italian ice-cream cone at Times Square; dinner - Chinese crispy noodles at Bintang area.
Wed: breakfast - provided at hotel (lots of hashbrowns) plus 2 fluffy and chewy roti canai, 2 excellent cups of kopi and 1 nice cup of teh at one of those dark and dingy stalls within the open-air marketplace near hotel. In all, the dingy stall meal cost only 3.40 ringgit-- amazing. The makcik at the stall seemed to be delighted to see me downing cup after cup of her brew; lunch - wanton mee at Chinatown plus KFC (4 Original pieces & wedges) at Pudu Raya to 'load up' for the long coach-ride home.
Some pics to share:
A shot inside the Kuala Lumpur Civic Centre to give you an idea how big the malls in KL are.
Our Isetan is blue, theirs is green:
Standing at this busy intersection, you could be forgiven for thinking that you are in Tokyo or New York. The Bintang area is as cosmopolitan as our Orchard Rd.
Flags outside Times Square, signalling that F1 season in Sepang is approaching.
The gigantic towers of Times Square.
On par with our MRT, the KL Monorail.
A shot of the accommodation (Grand Seasons Hotel).
The view from the hotel room (29th floor).
Those red lanterns could only mean one thing-- Chinatown.
My wanton mee lunch on the last day. The malaysian style has lots of black sauce. Yummy.
