Malaysian madness

So we have just had our last night in Vietnam and are about to head to Laos this afternoon, but thanks to some laziness and Internet trouble I have yet to write about Malaysia which ended over 2 weeks ago. So you now have the joys of reading a bit about Malalysia and then about the amazing Vietnam!

Our first stop in Malaysia was Kuala Lumpur which we thought was a great city. We spent a lot of our time, most evenings in fact, in Chinatown where there was a huge market and great food being sold. My favourite dish from our time there was a soup called 'beef ball mee'. A lady cooks it in front of you in about 1 minute and includes beef, beef balls, mee noodles and some veg, all for about $1! We also were bargaining a lot with the market sellers and Tess even got an Omega/Rolex watch! Completely genuine of course. The water that is getting in the face of it is just bad luck!
We were also on the look out for some great satay, which Malaysia is famous for but our search proved difficult.

We spent 3 days there originally and had a look around the main sites including the petronas towers and the malls! After the 3 days we headed south to Melaka, which is a very funny town that is heavily influenced by the Dutch. Trying to find anything traditionally Malaysian was difficult. Tess and I really enjoyed Melaka though as it was very laid back and our riverview guesthouse made us feel at home. The town is easily walkable so we had 2 days of some casual strolls and looking around Melaka's Chinatown on Jonker Walk.
One great experience in Melaka was a restaurant called Capitol Satay. Satay at last!! We decided to go there one evening but when we arrived the queue was miles out of the door but we persevered and waited an hour to get into the restaurant. When we got in the atmosphere was great. We sat on a round table and had a big bubbling pot of satay in front of us. We then had to cook our meat, fish and veg in the satay and we were very satisfied afterwards.

We then left Melaka after 2 days and headed back to Kuala Lumpur for another 2 days as we had a flight to Penang booked after that. In these couple of days we wanted to see the sites we had missed the first time around. Central market was a great place filled with Malaysian souvenirs and also a tank of fish that massage your feet. Tess had a go for 10 minutes and was walking on air after that for the whole day!

Penang followed this and was definitely an interesting time... We checked into a nice hotel as it was Tess's birthday and received a birthday cake from the staff within an hour of being there. All seemed well but thanks to some perverted men and some camera phones, the pool was unusable. After a chat with the staff we ended up getting our 4 night stay for free. However Penang was not how we hoped it would be and so we headed back to KL after our 4 nights ready to move on from Malaysia and get into Vietnam.

Vietnam has been an amazing 2 and a half weeks and I have so much to tell you all about but this will have to be another day!

We have been trying to upload photos to of Vietnam but after the hour it takes to upload an album, we are getting used to seeing 'upload failed' and so pictures are having to wait too.

Speak to you all soon with some more Asia news!