Malaysian food is generally quite spicy and after our first meal (which was a particularly chilli intensive buffet) we decided that the weather was just too hot for spicy food so we avoided it for the remainder of our visit.
 A colourful fruit stall on Chow Kit Market |
Inside, there were bar stools arranged around a bar that circled around the chefs area. A conveyor belt ran along the back of this bar and it was carrying saucers containing various types of sushi. The diners helped themselves to anything they fancied that passed them on the conveyor belt and the chef would fill any gaps usually with something different. These saucers were colour coded to indicate the price of the contents and the total bill was calculated by totting up the empty saucers when you had finished. We chose quite a few dishes between us including: prawn, salmon, eel, squid and octopus.
We discovered a delicious snack while we were in Kuala Lumpur that we couldn't get enough of. It was misleadingly called Sumo in a cup but it was actually a cup full of hot buttered sweetcorn and we both really loved it. It was available in most of the shopping centres that we visited and we could always find it by following our noses to the source of its buttery aroma. We're eagerly waiting for it to take the world by storm so that we can get a regular supply.
It was the Islamic holy month of Ramadan while we were in Kuala Lumpur but we didn't really notice anything different until we ate in a food court in the Central Market. We had both selected tasty meals from a sizzling claypot noodle stall and we were in the process of tucking in when we noticed that nobody else was eating - they were just staring at their food in front of them, occasionally playing with it. We wondered what they were waiting for when we remembered that Muslims couldn't eat between dawn and dusk during Ramadan. I checked on my Psion Organiser when dusk was due and they still had about ¼ hour to wait. We felt a little guilty while we were eating as some people looked like they were really desperate to eat - they had food on their forks ready to pop it into their mouths. We wondered how they would know when they could eat as nobody seemed to be watching the time. Our question was answered when we heard chanting from a nearby mosque which was closely followed by the mass consumption of food all around us.
