We’re in KL staying in my Aunt’s lovely old link house in PJ. We just had lunch at my Aunt’s local café. She had duck with ginger, Lena had roast chicken with noodles and I had braised beef with noodles all 7 RM each. It came with complimentary servings of fruit, a glass of barley water and cup of green tea and the food was real, fresh and delicious. So Air Asia’s food doesn’t really compare.

When seen through the window of the light rail on stilts above the city, KL could be a city from a science fiction illustration. Concrete towers spring up amidst the exotic greenery of the tropics.