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My name is Doug Nienhuis. I was born in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada and I graduated from university with a degree in International Development. Since then, I've spent much of my life overseas teaching English and working as an editor and writer for ESL publishing companies. In between jobs, I go on short and sometimes long trips around Asia, South and Central America, and Africa.
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Vey interesting deep dive journalism on The Indefinite Walk. I like his approach of not rushing it by taking time for breaks and visiting around the place. A lot of time I do feel like its easy to miss out things when you are driving instead walking, you get to soak it in and have a better travel experience but taking it slow (as much as your time/money allow)
CC. Excellent service: fast and polite. I believe services in Singapore is much better than here. They really emphasize the priority of customers. There are many such ''hidden foodcourt'' at malls for staffs working there and also for people wanting a budget meal. It is actually a bad practise to not let many people know about these places (management often want the crowd to eat at more expensive outlets). Singapore actually does not do these things. Their foodcourt is basically not hidden.
CC. As a Malaysian most of us are used to the spicyness. Many of us eats nasi lemak for breakfast. 1. Independence Day parade this year is not held in KL city, but Putrajaya. 2. There are many types of laksa. In Penang Laksa means Asam Laksa, the sour type. In KL/Central region, Laksa means curry noodle (which we also call Laksa). Also you can actually choose your noodle type (yellow noodle, rice vermicelli and so on). 3. I am not sure why they didn't give you the clams in the first place. It is suppose to come together when u order the laksa. Anyway the clams are raw, so it is better if you put it underneath the hot broth to kill any germs. 4. The ''egg'' is actually fishball. 5. Like the laksa, there are more than 1 type or rojak. The one u had is the normal type that is usually served with yellow noodles (called mee rojak). In Penang they have the same rojak without noodle called Pasembur. The other different rojak is the ones with black, shrimp sauce, divided into vege rojak and fruit rojak.
Have you been to Avillon Admiral Cove? You've got a 3/4 star hotel but with a marina and homes built right up on the cove facing open sea. Pretty lux, I'd say 🤩
CC-Happens often in most Indian/Indian Muslim restaurant that u need to tell them what u ate or drink when u wana pay. Perhaps u can get them to write down the price on a piece of paper when ur meals are fully served to u. There are many Indian/Indian Muslim restaurants because there are many races in Malaysia, Chinese and Malay included that likes to hang out and eat the food. Thus you might be surprised to see non Indian customers in these restaurants. Also, there are many other races in Malaysia apart from the 3 main races. There are the Natives of Peninsular, Natives of Borneos, the Eurasians (Portuguese etc), the Peranakan etc. There are actually a few hundered of them.
I like go to Mayangsari campsite at Port Dickson to escape KL once a while..its well maintained campsite with a nice stretch of beach..went there two weeks ago before school holidays. the nicest beach would be the Blue Lagoon beach.
