Yet another lie in for Leon and Alicia, but I felt less guilty about this one given it is boxing day and usually a well earned public holiday and time for rest from the excesses of the previous days festive cheer. A late breakfast at 11am consisted of my now favourite way to start the day, Roti Cannai, fried chicken, beef curry, dahl and chicken curry and I then ploughed on with my last weeks worth of blog updates (I will not fall behind again!!).
Early afternoon we were joined by Alicia's childhood friend Sian and her Brummie Boyfriend Pete for Prima swimming and sun bathing action. Despite the fact the sun failed to make an appearence all day, I managed to get myself sun burnt??!!!....As our hazy clouds grew darker and the distant rumble of thunder began to get louder and more frequent we retired to the apartment for some cards.
Pete and Sian left us around 6pm and we quickly changed for dinner with Alicia's parents and her brother Lan and sister in law Sophie. This evening we were treated (again!!) to some Thai food in a restaurant run by Southern Thai's and Malaysia called Vicchuda. The set up was no frills but as with many street facing restaurant in Malaysia the no added expense on the decor was firmly replaced with extra loving care going in to the food. For the grand total of GBP20 we feasted on a full baked fish marinated in fresh seasonal fruits and chili, BBQ spit roasted chicken with an exquisite marinade (I was told I could ask for the recipe but I was likely to be laughed at for trying!) omelet, Tom Yam soup (a fragrant and delicate soup heavy on the lemon grass and with liberal helpings of birds eye chili...a good palate freshener!), Kuey Teow (a noodle dish close to Pad Thai), Prawn Fritters, Mango Salad, Sam Bal (squid in sauce) and what can only be described as a trophy of fresh rice, all washed down with lime juice and barley water....
We then retired to a coffee house around the corner for ice cream toast (sounds weird but it works) and some, good luck trying to sleep for the next 3 days, coffee.
Its now 11pm, I am a very tired boy and need my beauty sleep for our first venture outside of KL tomorrow. Alicia and I are off to the historic and supposeldy picturesque port town of Melaka on the SW coast on the Malaysian peninsula, an importnat town for the spice trade and therefore a town very much of interest to the Portuguese and Dutch in the 14th and 15th Centuries.......I will report back on my fiundings tomorrow!!!
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