KL is lovely, no really, it’s our kinda place. The weather is pleasant, even if it’s raining… the people are (mostly) smiling, always friendly and ever so polite, and the food… to die for. We survived the trip in from the airport on Air Asia’s bus and monorail to our hotel. Despite the monorail becoming packed and everyone squishing around our bags, there was not one death stare! Not even a glance. Just a normal day on the monorail. So polite and friendly!

After checking-in without hassles, we tried the downstairs cafe for a coffee. The Indian waiter was visibly offended at our request for soy milk in ‘his’ coffee like it was against his religion! He kept saying (and you need the Indian accent on this) “Soy milk? No, I cannot.” … “In the coffee? No. I cannot.” *furrows eyebrows* haha. Oh well, we’ll try Starbucks. No luck, they were out of soy due to a strong demand from a soy tea latte promotion. Another customer at the counter was grumbling even louder than us! The main gripe was the barista had told him it’d be another week before the store got more in. Bazz spoke to the barista later and he said he’d try to get some that night… but no luck on that either. We did eventually get our soy lattes and have been savouring them ever since.

We met with Alex’s friend Mike and had a delicious lunch and dinner at a vege Indian place called Ghandi’s. We ate from a banana leaf with rice and many different vege curries and some extra plates of fake meat curries (soy imitations). Bazz tried his hand (literally) at the old Indonesian/Malay style of eating with your hands. I wasn’t that game (and worried about making a mess everywhere) and stuck to fork and spoon. Excellent food though! So tasty. Mike told us he is a vege and lent us an excellent reference book “Becoming Vegetarian”. After the delicious food and reading the book we decided to reduce our meat intake from now on. It’s called flexitarian - will eat vegetarian for preference, but still ‘flexible’. Kinda like the name. I think we were always flexitarian, but now we’re actively trying to reduce the meat side.

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