After Melaka, we headed up to Kuala Lumpur as we were scheduled to fly from there to Sydney a few days later. Kuala Lumpur really surprised me…it was very clean and there was so much new construction and new buildings. Everything is kind of over the top…HUGE malls are located just blocks away from each other and you can find every chain store you have ever been to in your life…High end, mid-range, European, American…it was great. Too bad we were too poor to buy anything.
We did hang out at the mall though and ate at Carl’s Junior (so nice to have bad American fast food after nothing but Asian food for 5 weeks), we went and saw Couples Retreat at their gigantic theatre, bought vanilla iced blendeds at Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf (my favorite thing about KL!), and visited their over the top Christmas display at the mall. This was the first time we saw anything Christmas throughout all of South East Asia and it was really fun…in super hot KL they had a whole section of the mall that was a winter wonderland with real falling snow!They had HUGE Christmas trees, fully decorated, Santa in his sleigh with his reindeer flying through the sky, elves, everything Christmas you could ever imagine…it was better than how Will Ferrell decorated the mall in Elf; it was crazy.
We didn't just hang out at the mall while we were there, although we did go there twice...it was just too cool. Other than that, we visited their huge street markets, went to the night bazaar at Little India, walked through China Town and ate the last of our authentic South East Asian food.
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