My 1st Kuala Lumpur Trip           21st to 29th November 2006
 Bahasa Malaysia write up by Wong Chun Xing     English reference guide by the father

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22-11-2006    Wednesday - First sight of KL
1 21st November 2006 Tuesday  
2 22nd November 2006 Wednesday Good morning KLSentral
3 23rd November 2006 Thursday  
4 24th November 2006 Friday  
5 25th November 2006 Saturday  
6 26th November 2006 Sunday  
7 27th November 2006 Monday  
8 28th November 2006 Tuesday  
9 29th November 2006 Wednesday  

8:40AM We finally arrived China Town.  The street is still quite with few people passing by. Here we look for a traveler inn to put up for the nights.

9:15 AM We had our first breakfast in a back lane in Petaling Street. It a bowl of 'Fish Head soup Bee Hun'
In the morning and evening Chinatown is filled with aroma that  permeate along the lane and main street of Petaling Street , tempting a passerby to stop, look, and try.  Beside the food hawker stall where we eat a Chinese man is doing his daily routing of roasting pork for distributing to surrounding food stall.  He make 2 types of roasted pork : Char Siew and Siew Bak (Red BBQ Pork and Roasted Pork).  The 2 type of roasted pork are common favorite of Chinese and I love very since childhood. Only until today I seen how the BBQ pork are processed and roasted:

This is Siew-Bak (Roasted Pork)

With a thick crispy skin and a layer of fat.

This is Char-Siew (Red BBQ Pork)

Pure lean meat roasted with honey. Good Cha-Siew is always soft and tender with fragrance BBQ smell.

9:30 AM we finished our bowl of bee hun and begaan a short walk alone the back lanes to explore sight that once so familiar to me but new and unusual to my son.
Afternoon we went to Mid Valley Megamall to see the Biggest Bookstore in Malaysia. Mid Valley is South-East Asia’s largest shopping mall. It is a popular landmark in Kuala Lumpur that offers a one-stop shopping destination, with something for everyone under its roof.

MPH Bookstore  (Malaysia Publishing House) G/F, Mid Valley Megamall - the largest bookstore in Malaysia has a branch store here in KLCC. MPH has branch stores through West Malaysia and Sarawak except Sabah.

(MPH opened its first outlet in East Malaysia on 28th February 2008 in The Spring Mall in Kuching)

We spent one and half hours inside these bookstore.

We also visited Popular Bookstore near to China Town. Popular Bookstore  is part of a chain of bookstore in Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong.

This  largest Chinese bookstore in Malaysia is noted for its Chinese books.  .Popular Bookstore is the place to find Chinese books that not available elsewhere.
To KL Aquaria we walked through an air-conditioned pedestrian walkway at the Centre Court of Suria KLCC to the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre. It is delightful walk on this walkway with such experience we experience and feeling we could not easily find back home. My son apparently attracted to the posters of Incredible India. To our amazement, in the next 6 days, Indian tourists from India would become our close traveling companions on journey forward.

 
Teacher (with a cane in right hand) : "I already told you not to disturb the little penguins...."

Boy (crying) : "...Yes Sir ! .......I will not disturb any animal from  now on..."
Boy (very proud) : "Look ! Here I  am, at  the marvelous Taj Mahal  in India. We came here by camels ..... camel riding is more exciting than our Kota Belud's hose riding...."
Boy (shivering) : "Finally I reached Mount Everest .... so high and more difficult to climb then Mt Kinabalu ..... and it is incredible cold here. ....."

Aquaria KLCC

http://www.klaquaria.com  Map : http://www.klaquaria.com/map

 

• 10 minutes walk from the Petronas Twin Towers    

• 5 minutes walk from Suria KLCC connecting tunnel    

• 8 km from KL Sentral Station, 80 km from KLIA International Airport

“ ocean of discovery ” at the Aquaria Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre in Kuala Lumpur City. It is the first commercial aquarium in the KL and a wonderful place to spend the school holidays with the family.

It's a RM60 million aquarium featuring some 5,000 aquatic and marine animal exhibits of over 150 different species from Malaysia and around the world – some caught, some sourced and some given. Boasting of an area spanning two levels and covering over 5,500 sq m, making it the largest aquarium in the world, the Aquaria has 19 tanks with various environments to keep and display fishes from various parts of the world.
Hawksbill Turtle Green Turtle

Wednesday, March 21, 2012 01:20:14 PM