Kuala Lumpur and Restaurant Review # 1 in KL

Came a good bit south and met Charles and Linda in big city with a capital C, Kuala Lumpur for the Sepang F-1 Circuit Race of formula 1 cars.  As we arrived a day prior to practice or time trials we spent a day touring.  Rode the "hop on hop off" double decker open top bus around town.

An advantage of being upper deck is that you can see stuff, like the top of a merchant ally in China town.  It is lunch time, the bus is driving slow, so we hop off — the street looks good and we are near the famous Petalang Street.

and this is down below, not too crowded, a few food stalls, and some not overly aggressive purchasing opportunities,  "no I do not want a suit this afternoon, no not even a nice shirt"

this food court looked good to me and the group complied with my entreaties — after walking the perimeter — we went four directions, returned to table 17 and awaited our orders.

They came slowly and only with a few surprises.  The crispy pork is good.  real good - like a roast.

our fellow diners, this guy enjoyed watching us. We shoulda charged him a fee. We forgot to take a photo of the other dishes as they arrived.

But there was just a little food left toward the end so you can get the idea. Yeah we liked it.

and Petalang Street where the sales opportunities just keep on coming.

We resisted, but Linda was a hard one to keep from adding to her collection of hand waving cats. Don't Charles and I resemble this guy's smile?

The bus tour gave us chance to see the city and traffic of which there is a some — of both.

We went up the KL Tower, the 5th highest tower in the world. See shadow, do math, it was in March, about  1:00 PM, hot, now you know how tall it is. The city is very spread out with large clumps of tall buildings separated by green spaces and crowded highways.

The tower at dusk from our hotel rooftop looking toward a pending storm. Never did get photo of lightning. And Patt tried.

Today went by the Islamic Arts Museum, saw little, well not so little, mock ups of famous mosques from around the world and history. This one Tamerlane (Timour) built about 1200 AD in Samarkand, what is now Uzbekistan.  Looks real impressive.

Also had all sorts of artifacts, tapestries, books, and gems, jewels and, of course, war making materials.

The museum was next to the National Mosque, a large blue mosque, of somewhat the same significance to Malaysia as the National Cathedral in Washington DC is to us. This is the prayer room (photo taken from the outside as I, a heretic, according to those of the Muslim faith, was not allowed to enter).

And another heretic, made presentable enough to walk around part of the mosque with me.