Food is awesome in KL!

By far, the best experience in KL has been trying the local (and imported) food! Because we work long hours with our host company, really the only thing we get to be adventuresome with is trying new things.













There is a sidewalk roadside cafe next to our hotel that is open "24 jam" (24/7 in Malay). In the morning they have a breakfast special where you can get roti cenai (roti and lentil dip) and teh tarik (malaysian sweet tea with milk) all for ONE Malaysian ringit. That's 30 cents! I am in love with this place, but we can't go every day. It's so bad for you! We watched the guy throw butter and oil on the roti dough and press it with his hands.










During lunch the MIT team went to a near by food court (lots of food here is in a food court- go figure) and we were told we must eat a Malaysian delicacy called Durian. It's a spiky fruit that is like custard when you break it open and people eat it raw. So I bought a Malaysian dessert of chipped ice, some other stuff with a scoop of durian on it topped with sweet corn (they are crazy for that corn). The problem is that durian smells like rotting trash and tastes like dirty feet! So if you zoom in on this pic, you can see how gross this "dessert" looks like. The above pic captures one of the first few bites of this dessert and my colleague Courtney laughing at me for eating it!









Then last night we went to yet another mall (there are TONS of them here) and I got black sesame seed gelato. So wrong, but so right!










This was Thursday's lunch where one of the JobStreet employees took us out for a traditional Malaysian lunch. There were dumplings in broth, fried dumplings, something called rojak where they mix fruits with hoisin sauce and top it with crushed peanuts, chicken "in a paper bag" (marinated chicken wrapped in paper then fried", tofu stuffed with fish balls, chillis stuffed with fish balls, okra stuffed with fish balls... well you get the idea!