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Our 600th post !
We are caught a bit off guard when the admin page of WordPress indicated that our next post will be the six hundredth (600th) that we published. As previously said several times, we are surprised that the interest in keeping up this blog has not fizzled out over the last 5 years. True it is, that we…
Lima Blas 十五, Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur
While we were in KL, our friend J took us to Lima Blas which means 15 as the restaurant is at 15 Jalan Mesui, Bukit Bintang – an area full of bars and restaurants. It was raining lightly that night, thankfully the restaurant was practically just downhill from our rented apartment (click here to see Lanson Place). The…
Zheng He 鄭和 teahouse and museum, Melacca
While in Kuala Lumpur, we took a day trip to Melacca 馬六甲 – a historic town that is about 2 hours by car in the southerly direction on the Malaysian peninsula. The main street was really crowded with tourists. It took us almost an hour standing in line to get a table at one of…
Kinokuniya, Kuala Lumpur
A few more posts about Malaysia … My regular readers know that I(Chris) like taking pictures of bookstores and have been posting them online, for example: Alexandre in Budapest, Livraria Cultura in Sao Paulo, MIT Press in Boston, Waterstones in London. As we were wandering in KL’s celebrated shopping mall – Suria KLCC, we found this massive…
