Kuala Lumpur retreat ( Day 2 ) (Part 1)
Lost touched of where I have stopped for my KL trip! Its been week that I last updated on this trip.
Second day of the trip, we started our morning at Imbi market which was known as the best place for Breakfast. I was pretty excited after reading reviews from friends and bloggers about the best breakfast place in Kuala Lumpur. The fact that it’s actually within walking distance from Bukit Bintang area but a part of our laziness chose to cab there for RM10.
If you are keen of having KL authentic food and doesn't mind eating under the hot heat then Imbi market is a wonderful place for you. Its cheap, authentic, "hometown food' and they have a top list of their fast service.
If you need your morning caffeine then Ah Weng Koh Hainan Tea stall is your best friend.
This isn’t single origin nor cold pressed sophisticated cafe coffee but just a plain good strong coffee to startled you out of your morning daze. If you are caught between a cup of coffee or tea? Why not mixed it together and become Yin Yang?
Chee Cheong Fun lover, head over to Ah Fook Chee Cheong Fun. They served fresh everyday. The ingredients were displayed infront of the booth for you to choose ( dried beancurd, ngioh hiong, prawn fritter, dough fritter, taupok, taukee), identical like Yong tau foo. The uncle will add on chee cheong fun after you made your choices. Chee Chong Fun was served with Curry or Sweet sauce gravy!
Next up, Sisters Crispy Popiah is one of the most popular stalls in the market. These delicious rolls can be eaten as a snack or an entire meal, depending on your appetite. However 1 roll of her popiah is not enough ( because we did that and in the end we returned back to order 1 more roll), at least get 2 rolls to share with your friends. I was impressed by how 'ah may' aunty skillful skills. She could roll and add all the ingredients on her popiah within 10 seconds.
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Last but not least, Bunn choong egg tart ( the best egg tarts that I have eaten so far!) A normal egg tart (RM 1.50 each), black sesame egg tart (RM 1.70) and they have green tea flavours too! Pastry is super crispy. Filling is not too sweet, smooth and has a good depth to the tart.
Batches of egg tarts are sold almost immediately after they have been taken out of the oven and there was no time for the egg tarts to cool as the customers would add on pressure to the boss. For instance, you can wait up till 30-45mins for his egg tarts. As what they said, good food worth the wait.
This is us, happy smiling away with all the good food we have! To energize us for our hiking tour later.
Imbi Market (also known as Pasar Imbi) Jalan Melati, Kuala Lumpur GPS: 3.14340, 101.71664 Opening hours: 6.30am til noon Tuesdays to Sundays. Closed Mondays.
We mentioned about Hiking and yes our next destination brought us somewhere where we have to climb up hundreds of steps to reach the peak. After a good breakfast, we made our way back to Imbi Monorail station by foot ( Yes, we need to digest our food) and trained down to KL sentral to change over to KTM komuter. KL sentral train terminal inspired me like our very own Changi airport but to compare our facilities, our airport is still the best!
Our next destination would be Batu Cave and instead of taking cab there, we turned into an adventurous warrior and chose the longer route to reach Batu Cave. We hopped over to KTM which costs us RM2 and took us 40 mins to reach Batu Cave station itself, All of us KO-ed in the train due to the long ride.
We are here finally after a long ride! The weather was killing us with a temperature of 34 degree Celsius. Lucky all of us wore shorts and something light, we did see some of them covered themselves with long jeans and sleeves which I wondered will they strike by a heat stroke?
A little background of Batu cave:
The cave is one of the most popular Hindu shrines outside India, and is dedicated to Lord Murugan. It is the focal point of Hindu festival of Thaipusam in Malaysia.
Batu Caves is also the centre of rock climbing development in Malaysia for the past 10 years. Batu Caves offers more than 160 climbing routes. The routes are scattered all around the side of Batu Caves, which is made up of limestone hills rising to 150m. Now you know why this fleet of stairs could scared most of us. Since we are here, we challenged to climb up the whole fleet of stairs.
Now I know why some of them have to wear long sleeves and pants? While we were ready to enter in, we were stopped by one indian lady that we have to put on this piece of long cloth to cover our legs. As you know that we are wearing shorts, we were told that it is a disrespect to the indian god to show off our beautiful legs. Quickly and obediently, we handed her RM5 ( in exchange that we can get back our RM3 upon returning) and she helped us to put on with it.
On our journey, we spotted many monkeys jumping from one end to another, One of the monkey began to attacked Ying Wei's bag as she hung her peanut pancake on her bag. This cheeky monkey will never stopped itself when it saw the packet of food. As quoted from Yw that she did not feel anything but she reacted when someone screamed loudly and when she turned her head back, the monkey was happily munching her pancake. The end of the pancake story! RIP.
We made it to the stop with lots of resting in between. The stairs were steep and if you did not lean your forward, it felt like you are going to roll off from the cliff. I dared not even want to look down from where is stood. Some many images lingered in my mind! What if I fell off unconsciously? What if I lost my balance and tripped and fall. Cut it short, better not to think about it. HAHA
We continued to walk deeper and by the time we reached the end, we were all soaked with perspiration. But nevertheless, it was a good morning workout ( some calories were burnt off defintiely!)
We didn't stay long at Batu Cave and gauged ourselves to be done with everything after 2 hours. We did it less than what we expected and walked down stealthily to the KTM to catch our train back to Farenheit 88 for high tea session.
Last post will be up soon!
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