A Malaysian Culinary Experience
The mad female taxi driver who drove us for the ferry port had great delight in pointing out to us the night market and the local food stalls where she said you could get cheap food.
We of ,course, ignored her until we were looking for somewhere to eat last night. As we walked along the road we spied the Long Beach Cafe which was full of customers, taking this to be a good omen we went in. We had to wait for an empty table and as we sat down tried to work out how the place worked. Don't get the idea this was a posh restaurant with table cloths etc, the table was like a plastic French bistro table with a prominent number 35 glued to it.
A waitress came and asked us if we wanted a drink and we ordered two beers, she explained that you looked around the 20 or so food vendors and then ordered what you wanted and gave them your table number.
In the interests of gallantry and diplomacy Rosemarie was sent off to investigate. As we are in Malaysia we decided to have Malaysian food, so we ordered satay to start with a prawn noodle dish and then another noodle dish with chicken. Total cost was 28 Ringits or about £6, in fact the three large bottles of beer we had come to 54 Ringits or almost twice the cost of the food.
The meal was served on a variety of plastic plates that Rosemarie would never have accepted in England, but it was all hot and all delicious.
It was so good in fact that we plan to eat there again tonight, there was a definite vibrancy about the place and the food was really good.
Today we have had an easy day as we are back on the road or the railways tomorrow.We walked to the bank to exchange some Thai Baht to be told the bank wouldn't change money and we had to go to a money changer. We asked to woman I the bank to recommend one and she pointed to the petrol station across the road, we wandered over there, and sure enough I the shop, was a money changer behind a glass screen. It all seemed very professional and was dealt with quickly, we have never changed money in a garage before.
We had lunch in a beach cafe and strolled romantically back along the edge of the beach paddling in the Bay of Bengal.We then went for a swim in the Indian Ocean which was incredibly warm.
Tomorrow we move by train to Kuala Lumpar for the princely sum of £7 each for a 7 hour railway journey.Who knows what that will bring?