125 - Sailing and Touring Kuala Lumpur
after arriving in Singapore and saying goodbye to Steve we went to the service shop for our life raft in jon buoy the jon buoy is a man vverboard recovery system that automatically inflates and deploys at the press of a button on our helm station upon servicing the technicians showed us that the Jon buoy had leaky seams upon further discussion of the expiry date and date of manufacture Ocean Safety agreed to replace it under warranty while we were here I hopped into the life raft and had a look around going in once everything's repacked we'll be able to set sail for Malaysia welcome we are Kevin and Jeannine a Canadian couple who have escaped the rat race and are continuing our dream of slow travel around the world subscribe and follow along this season as we cruise Southeast Asia aboard a McConaghy 55 catamaran your sushi's on fire ah it's spitting got me be like this is still the mall it feels like we're out in the streets so this morning we are going to be leaving Singapore we fueled up already and now we're waiting for Customs to uh come bye give us the clear out you have a nice day thank you and then we head to Malaysia uh first stop should be Port Dixon and then maybe we'll go tour Kuala Lumpur for a couple days sailing through anchored ships all these guys most of them are anchored and then we're going to hop into the edge of the shipping lane all the way up to Port Dickson almost there Kevin it's raining we're about to check into Malaysia here we go on the dock in Malaysia pretty uneventful passage we sailed most of the way which we thought we'd motor more so that was nice and tomorrow we check in cuz today's Sunday and things are not open today so we get to hang out and maybe go to the marina for dinner so we just went to the Port Authorities now this is immigration or customs sorry customs so we just finished with immigration and it took us about an hour and a half not too bad we were expecting worse actually watch your step don't fall in the hole now we're going to wander and maybe get some food then going to KL today decided while we're here we're going to go on a little on a little Adventure because we've I've never been Kevin has been KL yeah he wants to see his old house I don't know if we'll make it there we'll make it a little dining area can anybody pick up the theme yet even your glass little bit of vertigo scared for your phone without a case you don't have a lanyard or anything I have a grip of Steel on this thing so that's the building we're staying in we're on the roof of the mall right now it's this like beautiful garden area Adventure day in KL yeah our first stop today is visiting Kevin's old house when he used to live here as a kid houses houses sorry the first one is the one that burnt by lightning yeah and we moved see if it looks any different I mean it will look different because they rebuilt it after the fire but it's about to rain yeah starting to rain there it is part of the house is still the same all these overpasses are new oh yeah this was kind of like the edge of town not anymore yeah they built a bypass and makes sense cuz it was kind of the main route up north but new gate though yeah this is the one that's the one can't see much of the house second old house new gate and stuff though it doesn't look the same Adventure number two doing a food tour tonight just started these are the stinky beans they're huge so we're starting with this it's called Salak or snaek skin fruit ever get soft and it has a pit inside it's delicious Longan palm tree family this is from the lychee family yeah it's got a very big seed in the middle pretty hard for you to miss trust me guys say how many slices you have inside this is mangosteen the queen of fruit you just break it off and once you get it off just check your thumb you see the dark purplish stain right this is why this fruit is not allowed in the hotels right hotels got everything like blanket the roti expert right here after this is what you going to be doing guys come closer you'll see how it's going to be holding right the left hand the four fingers will be facing down right and then he's holding it with his thumb and then the right hand is going to be the other way around now it's going to go up halfway and back down it's not flipping it over fully right only halfway back down and if you notice he's also rotating the dough while he lifts it and then moving his hands can you see that? so that you won't be holding the same spot otherwise it's just going to drag one side so now it is going to be pretty even the whole idea is you get it as as wide as possible so you're going to be getting a very uh soft roti later bound to have many holes so don't worry about it see he now going to be folding the roti he will show you see there's quite a few holes right when you do this folding it's going to cover all the holes and also give it multiple layers so who's going to go first you sir all right then go Kevin she standing at the right position to take photos and video you ready for a train wreck you got this no no you can do it okay stretching got it yeah understand you need me to wipe it still or just already okay so down down already already maybe I'm not how do I avoid folding it like this huh you're doing okay I keep folding over that edge though what's the secret oh big hole big hole big hole it does that's probably good enough okay he's going to show he's going to fix it for me is down is down that hand down down stay in the place okay okay that's a good stretch right there oh yeah more or is it okay more oh you do like a circle okay you are the last one thank you very much not going to be very spicy so you don't have to worry too much it's going to be very nice right this our Mie Goreng and this is our Teh Tarik pulled tea which is what's in this condensed milk and tea yeah black tea the milk will take away some of the spice curries from left is chicken chicken middle is dahl (lentil) and then fish on the right fish and these are beautiful rotis we just made why are you serving me dessert in between meals okay uh the reason why we serve it now and not although a lot of people take it like dessert we don't serve it at the end of the tour because that's not when we Malaysians have it okay we have Chendol when it's really really hot especially during the hot season you'll find a lot of uh food trucks you'll find a nice big tree park underneath set up couple of tables and chairs like this and that's all they'll be selling very refreshing because it's made out of shaved ice and coconut milk and this jelly here right it's made out of tapioca and pandan leaf you know the leaf that I showed you guys earlier that's where they get the color from this jelly is what's called chendol now the whole drink is called chindol because of the jelly and then you got sweet corn and best part you know where that is in the middle at the bottom you see all the brown stuff coming up you can actually see uh better there yeah that is the palm sugar palm sugar oh yeah so you got to stir the whole uh stir the whole thing stir the whole thing just like that those who are trying it for the first time there's actually a way of doing so the reason why you get a lot of people only have got bad impression or bad experience with the fruit is they have not tried it correctly okay okay okay um you can't have too much it's going to be too overwhelming and you can't have too little then you're not going to get the taste of the fruit so what you going to do is you scrape it off a bit just like that probably just about that that much okay transfer to your spoon pass the bowl around right put it into your mouth chew it munch it keep it as long as possible in your mouth right as long as possible right reason why I'm saying this is cuz initially it's going to be very garlicky or oniony right and then slowly you will get the actual taste of the fruit creeping in all right so a lot of people do not like it because they've given up too fast before they get the actual taste let's see you have your durian there mister oh you have some right now I'm just looking at your your scoop there and is it good this time it's less repulsive the last time I had it repulsive that's a strong word I'm trying you it's got a strong you know but it tastes it's the secret right let it sit don't swallow it right away don't chase it chew on it for a while fruit King what else is in this Kevin palm sugar rice flour coconut and coconut and the green ones have Pandan Leaf for colour how is it sugar is very crunchy crunchy sugar Curry Laksa yeah is the most popular version of Laksa Curry Laksa different than a Laksa Kedah with noodles that will be a bit sour yeah okay and fishy yeah fish base fish fish so this is the beef noodle this is the beef noodle right guys uh remember telling you guys it's going to be the right white rice noodle vermicelli right this doesn't look that white am I right the reason why it is yellow in colour is because of turmeric for extra flavoring they they soak it in turmeric and then rinse it off right it's pretty much grilled fish cake Otak Otak so this is Nasi Lemak which has so it's means fatty rice there's coconut milk in the rice and there's like anchovies sambal sometimes peanuts we got two right we can do with one right chicken rendang here's the lime juice Kalamansi limes ooh Satay Ayam with a bit of palm sugar the secret ingredient a bit not much thank you o dripping ...on the villages and that is the city center all right so it is connecting the past to the future and apparently the lights resembles the Malaysian flag it is called the Saloma bridge it was named after a very popular actress in the' 70s by the name of Saloma she was also known as the Malaysian Marilyn Monroe because she was so pretty okay very cool thank you some kind of concert or something going on oh my gosh everybody going at the same time yeah everybody's going I like this intersection it's like a Japanese intersection this is so cool I feel a little bit like musical ride or um you know Depot today's our third and last day in KL just going to wander so Kuala Lumpur is know best known I think for its Twin Towers the Petronas Towers which were built when I was living here as a kid 30 years ago these things where I think when they were built they were the tallest building at the time or the tallest occupied buildings now we came in and we saw this other really interesting looking building when we drove in a couple days ago this one here is being called the Merdeka 118 Merdeka is a Malay word for Independence I think and it's much taller than the Petronas towers over 200 me taller actually and is the now the second tallest building in the world after the Berj Khalifa in uh in Dubai so uh it's actually not fully open yet there's going to be a hotel Hyat Regency or something in like the top floors in the spike yep very interesting building yeah it's cool but uh we weren't expecting it and it's it's really stands out so hopefully it'll be open soon with all the lights and everything new icon of Kuala Lumpur we ended our trip in KL with a walk through some historical streets namely Jalan Petaling and the Central Market area this area was known for its industry and Chinese Cultural and social atmosphere in the 1800s many of the buildings are called Shop houses as the residents would live above their ground floor shops roasting chestnuts we say it's a cooling tea this is a roasted tea this warmer tea so tea that's uh white yellow green oolong black and dark tea so there's a yin and yang tea so you have to understand what your body type to drink tea at the same time originally a wet market yep repurposed in 1986 as an arts and craft Market maybe we can find some batik sarongs in there maybe we're not eating vegetarian today you got the beef set I got the pork set
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