Photo-Video : Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur is the capital city and also the face of Malaysia. KL as it is more commonly known by the famous Petronas Twin Towers, is more than just a city with fancy looking buildings. It has so much to keep tourist entertained days and nights non-stop.

In the morning, walk down the streets and you can go into a “coffee shops” and have coffee and toast as breakfast. By the time you finished, walk along Jalan Bukit Bintang and the shopping malls would have their doors opened and you should be able to spend a good first few hours in the mall. Why not when you have a 7-floor mall that sells only electrical and electronics (Cameras/Mobile Phones/Computers).

When it’s time for lunch, there are plenty of stalls in the food court with so many different variaties of food to choose from. When you are done, there is more shopping to do as the CBD itself is packed with a dozens of giant malls. And when you think you have visited all the shopping malls, there are even more outside of the CBD. Mid-Valley Mega Mall as it is called, has recently completed its expansion and is now one of the largest in Asia. If you are like my wife, and you like shopping very much, a day in the mall is not going to be enough.

For dinner, the back alley of Jalan Alor in parallel to Jalan Bukit Bintang has hundreds of food stalls with so many choices to spoil you. It opens in the evening till late and can be quite packed every single night. Don’t forget to walk at least half of the entire street to see a more variety of choices, as the few big ones at the start are always very busy.

There was a street drift demo show on one of the nights during our stay, the organiser literally blocked off the entire stretch of one of the busiest streets in the middle of KL. There was no safety barrier, and I was standing 2 feets away from the action when the Nissan Silvia S15 did a sliding u-turn in front of me. That was exciting, and you can see all of that in action on my video below.

I wished we had more time allocated for KL as there are several other places outside of KL I would like to go like Cameron Highlands and also the town of Melaka. I guess we will shall leave that for our next trip back to Malaysia.