Hawker centres and Ice wine

After spending almost 6 months on and off in Kuala Lumpur, the time has finally come to leave and even though I'm looking forward to moving on to pastures new, I'm also very sad to be leaving what I've been calling home my second home. It's been fantastic living here in my family apartment, experiencing Malaysian life as a local and getting to know the relatives I only saw for a few weeks every couple of years when I was growing up.

With just less than a week to go before I leave, my lazy days of hiding from the relentless heat are over and have been replaced with lists of things to do in order to get myself organised for the next leg of my travels, heading to New Zealand to meet up with Stacy, my travel buddy since last June who is already over there. I've still got a fair few things to do and relatives I need to say goodbye to but its all coming together nicely and I know I'll get most, if not all of it done.

The first of my farewells occured last night when myself and Danny went to dinner with my surrogate parents out here, aka my Aunty Kuan and Uncle Min as well as my cousins to a local hawker centre, Asia Cafe, one of my favourite places to dine in the area. And with such a large choice of local food there, who could blame me?! After feasting on dim sum and wonton noodles we all headed to another food centre for some roti tisu, a new dish I only discovered a few months ago and has fast become one of my favourite desserts. I'm glad I started going to the gym recently because all this food hasn't been good for my waistline!

Back in the apartment after dinner I tasted my first ever sip of Ice Wine, a very yellow sweet dessert wine while we watched Man on Wire, a documentary about Philippe Petit's amazing tight rope walk betwen the Twin Towers in 1974. Saying goodbye, especially to my cousins as I probably won't see them again before I leave, is always hard but after the past year or so of travelling I'm slowly getting used to it and I know we'll all be seeing each other again soon.