Destination: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Duration: 3 Days 2 Nights (Jul 07~Jul
09, 2016)
Day 1: Onwards to Bukit Bintang!
It was a long holiday for Hari Raya and
we had no idea where to go. We ended up with a short KL trip with no particular
destination in mind which ended up pigging out non-stop the entire trip.
*facepalm* We departed Penang at around 12noon (no one was willing to climb out
of bed early since it was PUBLIC HOLIDAY!!!) and stopped at the highway rest
stop for some fruits and fatty deep fried stuffs.
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| Snack anyone? |
After 3.5 hours drive and some panic
with our “GPS Signal not found” ipad, we finally arrived in Oasia Suites Kuala
Lumpur (Link)
which is located next to KL Tower. It was a newly opened hotel and we got the
Deluxe room with 50% discount. There was some issue with the door handle of our
room and had to ask the reception for help. Apparently there was a special
method to open the handle which I’d never learned during the stay. LOL!!!
We were pleasantly surprised by our room
once we opened the door. There were dining area, kitchen, fridge, washing
machine, living room before we even reached our bedroom. Wow! What a good deal!
The design and bright and pleasant and we felt immediately at home. The KL
tower was right outside of our window but we could only see the lower part of
it since it is too high!
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| Kitchen & Washing Machine |
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| Dining & Living Room |
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| Bedroom |
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| Shower Room |
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| Toilet! LOL!!! |
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| The Bright Side of driving to KL - you can bring the whole family! |
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| KL Tower beside our room |
After settling down and did some last
minute googling on food nearby, we took to rooftop to scout the swimming pool
area. The pool looked nice with KL tower right in our sight. It was too hot to
swim at this hour though so we continued to walk to Bukit Bintang for late
lunch/early dinner as we were starving. It was around a 20 minutes walk and we
got there without any incidence (eg, Lost our way ;p) thanks so Google Map.
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| Swimming Pool! |
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| A View of KL Tower |
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| The Gym - opens 24 hours but we never utilize this! LOL!!! |
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| Oasia Suites |
Our 1st destination was Lot
10 Hutong (十號胡同), apparently it was highly
recommended for overpriced local street food by the famous HK foodie Cai
Lan (蔡瀾). Since we had no idea what to eat, we
simple referred to the “Top 10 Must-Eat Heritage Food” Poster there. We ended
up with Pork Ball Noodle, Hokkien Mee and wanton noodle with barbequed pork
(Char siew).
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| Top 10 Must Eat!!! |
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| Press Coverages |
The pork ball noodle was kind of similar
to koay teow soup in Penang but with pork ball instead. They did provided some
chili sauce which spiced up the slightly sourly soup. The pork ball was really bouncy though.
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| Pork Ball Noodle |
The Hokkien Noodle had the longest queue
among all the stalls and owner/helper was really arrogant. It was a mixture of
thick noodle with vegetables, prawns and pork with tons of dark soy sauce and
OIL… basically it was drenched in oil… it was not as spectacular as its
reputation though. It tasted just like the ‘dai lok mee’ we get in Tong Hooi coffee
shop at Dato Keramat Road Penang. =P
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| Hokkien Mee |
The wanton noodle’s texture was very
different – a bit hard and not as springy as I liked but the star of the meal
was definitely the barbequed pork! Oh Mine! It was soooooo good until I bought
an extra plate from the stall. *innocent look*
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| Wanton Noodle with BBQ Pork |
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| This is DA BOOM!!! |
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| Heavenly! |
There was this barbequed pork pastry
stall right beside our table and the pastries kept calling my name - I just had
to buy one crispy bun to try out. Oh my ^#@(^#@(^(^@(&^(!!!! It was really
scrumptious with the salty juicy meat and the crispy pastry skin! We ended
up getting a whole box for supper tonight. *facepalm*
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| BBQ Pork Pastry |
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| Yum Yum |
After stuffing ourselves silly with all
the foodssss, we walked aimlessly into Lot 10, Fahrenheit 81, Starhill gallery
before stopping in front of Pavillion. Frankly speaking we had no idea what to
do and majority of the shops in those shopping malls are available in Penang
anyway. The only shops that were not available Penang were expensive high-end
boutiques which we were too poor to step in. LOL!
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| Ended up In front of Pavillion... |
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| All the High-End Shops! |
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| Fountain at Pavillion |
We’d decided to walk back to our hotel
instead and got ourselves some shawarma on the way back. We utilized the
swimming pool with Jacuzzi at rooftop which offered great view of KL tower glistening
with different light every 30 minutes.
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| Walking towards KL Tower Direction |
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| Getting some Random Shawarma |
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| Swimming Pool at Night! Forget to take picture of KL tower! *facepalm* |
We stayed at the pool until 10pm – the timing pool
is closed before eating our supper – gyros & crispy BBQ pork pastry. The shawarma
were not really nice though – still prefer the one at Penang Gurney Paragon. This
was when we realized we were desperately in need for alcohol!!! This definitely
constituted as our to-do list tomorrow!!!
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| KL TOwer from our Room |
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| Supper! |
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| Look at all that!!! |
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| This is not so nice though.. =P |
Day 2 (Boozes & Foods)
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