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Kalai, Shatish and Eddy took Hans, Gerard and myself out on Saturday. We drove for 2 hours to do a bit of fruit tasting. We sampled Pineapple (which Gerard and I particularly like) Melon, Paw-Paw and dragon fruit - a tasty and unusually coloured fruit - see below:
Gerard enjoying a fresh coconut and a slice of pineapple:
After we left the fruit stall we drove to Selangor, the home of the famous Royal Selangor Pewter. We watched the sunset there and fed some monkeys, which were cheeky little blighters. See below for some monkey snaps:
![]() The little bugger below has a cool mohawk, but how she had an orange baby, I don't know. ![]() After we left Selangor we drove to Klang, to go to a seafood restaurant. All the driving was on a bumpy single road, and even though the restaurant was only 40 kms away it took more than 2 and a half hours to get there. There were 2 reasons for this - 1) We passed 3 Chinese parades which caused huge traffic jams as the roads were blocked off. They were throwing symbolic money for the public from trucks, Hans and myself almost picked some up as a souvenir, luckily we didn't as we were told later that it was bad luck. 2) Kalai's car broke down - Gerard has a photo of this, I may post it at a later date. While Kalai, Eddy and Gerard went to get a new battery, Shatish, Hans and myself waited by the cars, which attracted many lollygaggers (onlookers). It then started to rain, though not particularly heavily.
When we finally arrived at the restaurant we had a seafood feast, and also tried some "toddy" which is an extract of some part of the coconut tree. It gives you a slight numbness, and after a few glasses I was starting to feel a bit euphoric. The sensation didn't last for too long, maybe half an hour, and I nodded off in the back of Eddy's car on the drive back to KL. Below is a photo of me with the "toddy".
Personally I am looking forward to getting home now, so i can have some bacon. |
| Glen September 22, 2004 12:58 PM PDT Sadly I am back to mundane life in Australia now. I hope to visit KL again on business in the future though. | ||
| Gigglesbee September 16, 2004 09:19 PM PDT I know this is a very girl thing to say but....it's a gorgeous color! :) Are you just visiting over there, or do you live there now? | ||
| Glen September 15, 2004 04:38 AM PDT Hey no probs, good to see others having a look that aren't friends or family - the Dragon fruit was like nothing I have ever tasted, sweet but not too sweet - hard to explain. It had a similar texture to Kiwifruit, only a bit firmer. | ||
| Gigglesbee September 15, 2004 12:26 AM PDT I came by your blog by accident...so I hope you don't mind a straggler...but these pictures are great! The dragon fruit looks like nothing I've ever seen. How did it taste? One of these days...I'm going to have to start traveling! | ||
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