KL Tower (Kuala Lumpur)

We went to the Menara Kuala Lumpur Tower (KL Tower) only because the Twin Towers were undergoing renovation. I should have known better than to go to KL Tower. The thing is that there is a temptation to go up to these towers, pay some entrance fee that you'd be better off not paying and then end up feeling like you just contributed to another country's economy for nothing. That was how I felt when I went to the Willis Tower in Chicago....

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Kiki Taiwan Cuisine (Kuala Lumpur)

When we passed by Ki Ki Taiwan Cuisine, it was crowded. Singaporean mentality- If it's crowded, must be good! We waited around 15 minutes for a table and decided what we wanted to eat.  It was a sweet and sour prawn combo plus some seafood steamboat where the seafood has already been cooked. The prawns for the sweet and sour prawns were not fresh, what a pity. I know the prawns look like pork, but no, this restaurant is apparently pork...

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十号胡同 Lot 10 (Kuala Lumpur)

To continue on my blog post spree, this is the last for today. There's a limit to how much you can write in a day and I feel like the capacity is reaching soon. We went to 十号胡同 at Lot 10. It's a food court, with apparently the best food in KL (the branches) congregated here.  We ordered a few plates to share so that we would know whether they really lived up to their name. We ordered a bowl of pork ribs noodles. The noodles are from 何禁记....

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Restoran Hakka 客家饭店 (Kuala Lumpur)

As our last meal in KL, we decided to go to the Hakka Restaurant to try... what else? Hakka food! Let me set out something first- I didn't think this place was fantastic even though the reviews made it sound like there's nothing on earth that can compare to it. I think this is because the food ordered by other reviewers were typical Malaysian Chinese food like sambal kangkong or crab and the likes, and not true Hakka food. So my review stands in...

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Restoran Oversea 海外天 (Kuala Lumpur)

I'm clearly on a roll today with the number of blog posts today. But for people who enjoy writing, I think they understand what a writing addiction means. And the only reason why I have been so short of blog posts for the past month is due to an evil thing (not necessarily a necessary evil) called exams. Now that exams have ended, it's time for some play and some serious (?) writing. Several people have recommended this place called 海外天 for...

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糖百府 Tong Pak Fu (Kuala Lumpur)

The thing is, I really have a thing for pun-ish names. I love it when names of anything are clearly thought through and are creative. And this is a typical example. Tong Pak Fu is actually the Cantonese pronunciation of 唐伯虎, who is a painter and poet. (click on the link if you are interested in Chinese history) Now here's where the pun comes in. Tang means sugar (ie their desserts), bai refers to the variety of desserts they have and fu refers...

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Madam Kwan's (Kuala Lumpur)

So we went on a weekend trip to Kuala Lumpur. We haven't really been there to explore despite just staying next door. But this is probably because driving anywhere in Singapore in more than one hour is probably something alarming, something worth posting on facebook. Driving from Singapore to Malaysia in 7 hours seems like a bit of a chore. So we flew there via JetStar and reached in an hour.  One of the places that everybody seemed to...

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Guide: What to do in Boston in One Day

There's always a problem in deciding how to fully maximise your time in a place- not dwelling too long at a particular place, and yet hoping to see everything interesting there is in a place! Before I left Boston for Singapore, I decided to do a one last walk around in Boston. While the guide that I'm going to write here won't exactly match it, I think it's to a certain extent what people would probably like to see if they only had one day to...

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