Out tonight to take some photos around Little India, Chinatown and Merdeka Square at dusk / night time and then have food. Little India is a little bit uninspirational – all rather new and rebuilt recently – and rather sterile, but some of the lights are cool. I did think that there was already a Little India in Kuala Lumpur (not here in Brickfields) but I guess like with the shopping centres that need renovating – it’s just easier to build something new and let the old one rot before eventually knocking it down and building something bigger in the area!
From there to Chinatown and eat Bak Kut Teh at tai hau chai restaurant (translates to Big Mouth Boy's restaurant, according to the guide book) before heading over the road to Sri Mahamariamamm temple, a pretty impressive Indian temple where I walk barefoot around the place snapping photos of the insides, feeling a little bit intrusive to those that are praying, but I think it's OK. No-one says otherwise...
My shoes are not where I left them when I get outside, and for a moment, I fear that I will have to walk barefoot through the streets of Chinatown to buy another pair of (fake) shoes. It's OK, they have only been moved down the street a little bit...
After a brief wander around Chinatown, stopping to have this rather interesting (i.e. horrible) drink called Air Mata, a warm sweet black coloured drink with mashed up vegetable pulp and a fried pork skin dish at this other restaurant called Seng Kee, we head to Merdeka Square: the Sultan Abdul Samad building looked pretty amazing as it was all lit up yellow and so are able to take some pretty good photos with the help of a tripod. We’d parked in the Central Market car park under some trees, and by the time we got back, Charles’ nice clean car (cleaned today) was covered in bird shit!
So, what do you do if a bird craps on your car? Don't take her out for dinner again! Boom boom
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