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Kuala Lumpur: mouse tail noodle; SS2 night market; tsunami

We ate Mouse Tail Noodle in downtown. The restaurant has been around for 58 years and is famous in KL. The noodles look like tails of little mice: an inch long, fat at one end and thin at the other. I liked the noodles and meatballs, but I've also liked almost all the food I've had so far in Singapore and Malaysia.

We took the Light Rail Transit home. The trains drive themselves automatically--no drivers.

On the way up to Popo's condominium, we walked through an afternoon market that sells fruit, meat, and snacks. We had some peanut-filled pancakes and bought some longan, rambutan, and mangostine.

We visited the weekly SS2 night market. That place is hopping on Monday nights! Stalls line the street around a square whose sides are two city blocks. The market is so crowded that it's hard to walk and one has to guard one's pockets and bags. Vendors sell vegetables, fruits, hotpot items, desserts, fish, clothes, clocks, and lots of other stuff.

The first vendor we saw sold frogs. He had a cage of 100 live frogs next to a dish of 10 skinned frogs. The skinned frogs were still twitching!

My aunt, Oongie, introduced me to some weird food at a hotpot stall. We dunked skewers of food into boiling pots and ate them with sauces. Oongie had me eat pig's ear, pig's intestines, and duck's liver and foot wrapped in intestines. The pig's ear was crunchy and the duck's sauce made it tasty.

Uncle Allan told us about his experience in the tsunami tonight when we stayed at his place. When he was tumbling underwater, he thought, "I don't want to die like this." It was hard for Oongie and him to watch the news coverage of the tsunami when they returned to KL.

posted by Li at 7:33 AM