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We had a choice of a continental breakfast at the club
lounge, rather tony and with nice views, or the full buffet
at Latest Recipe downstairs. We chose the latter, enjoying a
quite wide-ranging selection of Asian and western dishes,
some of which were quite good.

I didn't record what Lilli had, but be assured it was your
pretty standard American fare. On the other hand, my meal
was wide-ranging and pretty interesting; also twice what a
normal meal would consist of and many times what a normal
breakfast would be for me.

Rice came in fried (with fishy things and dry-fried
onion bits) or plain.

Soy sauce noodles were pretty ordinary chow mein, a bit
salty and with many more bean sprouts than I like, so I
abandoned that after a couple bites.

I liked the beef rendang a whole lot, especially doctored
up with the plain chili sauce that came in another chafing
dish; I ate two helpings of it, and along with a dose of
the hottest chicken curry I have ever tasted, it warmed my
belly as much as anyone would want. Chicken murtabak was
pretty ordinary, a bit heavy and starchy, and a nasi lemak
sotong overpoweringly fishy even before I got to the
squiddly bits. Another odd highlight was the assorted tofu,
which included okra, hot peppers, and tofu puff, all stuffed
with tofu mash. Very good, surprisingly tasty.

To wash all this down, excellent recently-squeezed orange
and mango juices, with guava and kiwi also available.

The Batu Caves are supposed to be the most spectacular (and
also, according to some, the most hokey) sight in the KL
area. We figured that as one can take the train for only a
buck or so and half an hour or so, the investment is minimal
compared to the potential return. So we did that.

You get off the train at the end of the line and follow the
crowd. To the left is the rather lurid Ramayana Cave,
straight ahead past the hawker stalls is the Lord Murugan
statue, 140 feet high, followed by the several hundred step
stair to the main cave temples, where you dodge the other
tourists, the faithful, and numerous macaque monkeys that
scrounge for food and shiny colorful things to steal. At
the end a series of pretty impressive caves, at the end end
of which is a picturesque though tourist- and monkey-ridden
little temple. In between, not much, but there was plenty of
activity preparing for the festival of Thaipusam coming up
the next weekend.

A raucous but enjoyable site, much better than I had feared.
The train back costs twice as much as the train over.

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