The REAL Kuala Lumpur Experience No One Talks About!

The REAL Kuala Lumpur Experience No One Talks About!

Our day in Koala Lumpur started simple. Breakfast at this iconic cafe and a quick trip to the bird park. But somehow we ended up exploring three different malls. Had a little mixup at IKEA and learned the hard way about the Petronis Towers. Let’s just say the way this day ended we did not see coming. Good morning guys. It is another beautiful day in Qualore. It is 9:15 and we are headed to one of the most famous breakfast spots here. I heard you have to wait about an hour in line. So, we’re walking there. It’s about a 30-minute walk. Hopefully, we don’t have to wait that long. A lot of plans today. Let’s jump right into it. Man, y’all have one of the most beautiful cities that we’ve seen while we’ve been traveling. Like, the buildings are so nice. I just know y’all skyline is nice, too. Y’all have no idea how much of a luxury it is to have a sidewalk. I was thinking that the entire time we were walking. Like, this is so walkable. Indonesia had no sidewalk. Not putting Indonesia down. We loved Indonesia. Make sure you go and watch some of our Indonesia videos, but having a sidewalk is a luxury. There’s just certain spots that did have it and then there some that weren’t and so we were right next to the road. But we do have a walkable sidewalk here. And honestly, every country we go to, we always compare the sidewalks. Like in Vietnam, yes, they have big sidewalks. Some places have big sidewalks, but then you have all of the restaurants right in the middle. They were driving on the sidewalks. You have all your motorbikes on the They drive on the on the sidewalks and then you have to walk through people while they’re eating on those like their street food. So, it’s so much fun. What other sidewalk did we say? I don’t know. But this is definitely a luxury. So nice. This city is so nice. And seeing this mosque behind me just reminded me this is a predominantly Muslim country. So ladies and gentlemen, make sure y’all cover up, be respectful of the culture, and yeah, the more you know. Walking on those bridges cuz every single time we have to cross the street a lot of times since we’re in a major roadway, they have the over overpass. But it reminds me of Panama a lot. Actually, this is like Panama City. Yeah, she’s talking about like those right there that you can walk on. And I’m very much looking forward to using the public transportation. We tried to take the bus this morning, but the bus was longer than the walk. I’m sure we’ll take it at some point. We’ll show youall how to do that as well. And for some reason, I’m super excited to check out y’all’s IKEA. We have IKEA back in Texas. We saw IKEA in Japan, which was kind of underwhelming. I want to see y’all’s IKEA. The building looked bigger than the one in Japan. So, I’m super excited. They got cheap food there. I’m so excited for the food. Really? That’s a travel hack right there. I think they’re all the same. Like in Japan, I haven’t had I’ve never had a vegan ice cream at They have ice cream. Oh, well in Japan the ice cream in IKEA was like 43 cents or like $1.13. It was definitely a good late night snack. All right, so we unintentionally came to the tallest building in Koala Lumpur. Still on the way to breakfast, though. This isn’t our stop, but it’s cool to see from like the bottom. All right, y’all. We’re pulling up on the place and I feel like it’s going to be packed. Hopefully not though. We are kind of late. I don’t see anybody actually. I think we’re in Chinatown. Is that the spot? Like this is the spot. You go up to the front and grab a ticket to wait in line. Then we can order before we get seated. So now we wait. Looks like the wait time will be about 20 minutes before we enter the signs. This restaurant has such an inspirational story. The father of the owner started this place in 1956. He was here in search of a better life from China and found himself selling high goods like tea and softboiled eggs. And this street, Lorraine Hangong in Chinatown used to be known as Little Ghost Lane because it because there was many people that participated in brothel and gambling halls being like around this around this lane. So then Mr. Ho took his tea shop and started adding a main dish every single day. And so that variety brought many customers. Then eventually he got evicted from his tea shop. But now they have this building that we’re in. His uh son runs and then his daughter also is now like an expert in coffee and tea. So they sell all these all these really delicious dishes. I’m very very excited to to try it. And we love going to restaurants that have history like this. This place looks delicious. Cheese. All right. I got the Maka black soy milk, which I love soy milk. This is good. It’s not super sweet cuz it has the whatever other thing in there, so it’s not too sweet, but this is fine. I love some milk. I got the cham cham. It’s supposed to be sweet. This place is supposed to be originated a coffee shop. [Music] All right, our Dried chicken curry noodles just came in. Oh, it smells so good. I love the curry. That’s potatoes. I think I’m happy with this dish because this is exactly what I expect to be eating. I’m going to give it like a seven out of 10. Seven out of 10. That’s kind of low for Malaysia standards. Let me give it a try. I can see why you gave it a seven out of 10. It’s not bad though. It’s not bad. No, it’s still good. I thought this would be more soupy. It’s still very good. The food comes out so fast. Thank you. [Music] Okay. Come on. Give it over. Get it over. [Music] It’s good. We got this dish because it’s Mr. Crowd’s signature Chinese fried chicken. So, come on. Now, we had to get what the OG created himself. Got Chinese f spices in this chicken that I can tell you for sure. This restaurant’s delicious. Uh lives up to the hype. Cornbelli. Yeah, it’s in 15 minutes. This place is huge. It cost us 90 local currency to get in each. So, I don’t think those are koiish, though. These are some of them are. Yeah, this is actually a lot of koiish for the small pond. I don’t know that they’re cleaning each other a lot. But yeah, those little ponds. Some more birds. Wow. The world’s largest bird sanctuary. I’m sure this place is huge. We’ll see plenty of species. I’m not a bird watcher yet, but maybe when I’m 60. Have you heard the sound peacocks made? I have an attitude. Somebody showed us. How did they get up there? They’re fightless, right? Yeah. But I mean, take off. Yeah. Yeah. There’s someone with attitude. We just can’t get close. All right, honey. Go and get in this personal space. They will bully you. I wonder how they bully you. Like they just peck at your body. They probably just try to intimidate you. Yeah. And like open. Our new friend who we just met is inching close. Oh, see how it just like got up. Wow. You see how long its neck went up? Oh yeah. Yeah. It like it like got bigger to intimidate you. That pelican just got a little territorial. If you ever go to Austin, Texas, there is also another peacock place. So beautiful. Yeah. Look at the geese down there. Okay, let me back up cuz it’s coming towards us. Oh, that’s a female. She doesn’t have cuz she doesn’t have as much color as the males. They have to They’re the ones that are more colorful cuz when it’s mating season, they flare up their their um Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The guys, all the guys, they always have to have the prettiest colors to get Yeah. We’re flashy. Yeah. Yeah. To get a mate, you know. We got to do all of that. Yeah. But that’s a girl. The handler just just brought food and all these birds have come. I got very vocal. Yeah. Casually strolling. Oh, let me get this. See? O. Wow. See? And these are the males during mating season. They got to get flashy to get a mate. I love birds because so no pretty much any animal in the animal kingdom, they always the males always have to either do a dance or like but especially birds, they do some sort of dance or like one bird I saw they had they were collecting pebbles and press their meat. Yeah. Yeah, there was one that like collect pebbles and like did a dance. It’s it’s it’s very unique. Have you seen how long how long their legs are? Yeah. Like if you pull them all get bit so quickly. If you ever pull up like very long legs. I highly believe in owls. Like if they ever come to a restaurant or they come to like where you’re worshiping and stuff, this is a good omen. I do believe that. Hello. Wow. This is feeding point. He has red eyes. Yeah, with the red eyes. I’ve never seen a bird with red eyes before. Excuse me. Look at those legs. They are so big. They’re bigger than me. Yeah. Wow. How tall are they? 180. 70 km per hour. 70 km hour. Each egg is equivalent to 24 hen eggs. Oh, look look look. What am I looking at? That must be a male. Yeah. What? [Music] It’s so vulgar. Wow. I’m so sorry y’all. I had to witness that. But hey, that was a lot. I’m traumatized. Look at that peacock right there. Right here. Wow. There’s one right here. I can go my whole life without ever seeing an ostrich poop again. That was a lot. Why did that red thing that came out? That’s not I didn’t know what that was. Cuz I wouldn’t say it was like the genital. It was That’s what I thought it was. But Right. It But then but then it pooped. So, it had to be this really long anal canal. I don’t know. Wow. What? Y’all were right behind it. Saw everything. That was weird. That was trippy. Jumping around a lot. It’s it’s having fun. Yeah, it’s putting on a show. All right. A I’m surprised the honks the hawks and owls don’t mess with the monkeys. That one’s feeding its baby. Oh, look at I know. They’re just swimming. A I’m sure. Eat this. Yeah. Don’t fight with the other bird. What type of lizard is that? I don’t know. That almost looks like a minus lizard. Like that close to me. They all have fishes. There’s another bird that has a fish. Wow. Yeah, they’re all hunting. All righty, we just finished up at the bird exhibit and now we’re heading to the biggest mall in KL. Hopefully not spend too much money. We’re not going to spend any money. We already spent so much money for We already spent so much money for the bank I mean for the bird sanctuary. We didn’t realize it was going to be like $20 US. She also needs to realize that my shirt messed up and and it’s all down my neck. So, I might get a new t-shirt or five. But we’ll see. Looks like we’re like in the basement of the mall. Have no idea how to get to the stores. Maybe that’s a good thing. But uh still on the hunt. I’ve been looking for this place in every country we have visited. Lucan coffee. I heard from another traveler that it was really good. I have no idea what to get, but I’m ready to try it. Let’s see. We have to scan a Q QR code everywhere. Everywhere we’ve been, it’s been QR code. So, you really got to use technology around here. So you scan the QR code and then you order. It’s very efficient. I was like the places that we’ve been to so far, two places that we’ve been has been very efficient. This morning when we went to the restaurant, it was QR code. Now it’s QR code. So CO has made us Malaysia living in the future. I know. And CO has just made us very efficient. I don’t even think we’re like in the big part of the mall yet, but there are four floors it looks like and it’s shops all along. So looks like we have a lot of exploring ahead of us. I’m excited. I just like window shopping. Yeah. Just got our coffee. All right. I got the coconut latte and he got the dream and creamy latte. It’s not bad. You got to try mine. I think you’re going to like mine more. I do like yours. Okay. I feel like it tastes the same. doesn’t. Yours has a little like kick to it. It’s a huge mall, by the way. So, guess how much these were. Look at these. Look at these two nice cups of coffee. 352. Not bad. Malaysia got it going on. I always love stores like this where you can buy like little toys and stuff. You like these stores, too. So, I like looking at them. I don’t buy anything, though. Neither do I. So, you just like window shopping. I do know plenty of people that would love this store, though. [Music] We saw a lot of stores like this in um Japan. Korea. Korea and Japan. Oh my god. Oh my gosh. Babe, we should do a team builder activity. Like I tell you how to I tell you the instructions and you got to put that together. That would be pretty funny. Let us know if y’all want to see something like that. Look at the little pandas, y’all. Look at this nice peacock Dali. There’s so many escalators everywhere. Like you have this, but then there’s that right behind. There’s more on the other side. And then we came, the direction that we came from was through a hotel where we had to go to the basement floor. Wow. Lost in the mall part two. Leave a comment below in the middle of the video who you think is going to blow the budget. This is a kid heaven. Did you know, fun fact, Joshua loves scents? I like welcome. That smells good. Welcome. Acne patches. We have not done a face mask in so long. They got serums, creams. I’m trying to find this face wash that I’ve lost or got stolen from me. She left it in the shower. one of the host in Japan. But you know what? When I’ve left stuff in other hosts, guess what? I still get them back, right? But sure, not in Japan. Where was that? Kyoto. That was in Osaka. Make sure to go and check out our Saka vlog. We’ll leave the link up in the right corner, right or left somewhere. In the meantime, y’all can check the outfit of the day. This is her spend money outfit. I was just thinking that. Go and watch our Bangkok video to see how much money she spent. That video is hilarious with the pork ribs. All right, guys. This is too much for us to explore. There’s like 10 stories and we’re tired. Yeah, we’re about to tap out and then we’re going to IKEA to explore. So, yeah, we’re about to hit IKEA. All right, y’all. This is the mall we were at. Here’s a better to the name. Bea Time Square. Baya Bayia Baya Time Square. Baya Time Square. How are you rolling your eyes? I don’t know. I emphasize this is a very walkable country and we are in city center where a lot of things are. But yeah, I had no expectations of Malaysia. But I think it’s so wild because we really don’t I don’t hear so much of Malays Malaysia. Like you really don’t hear much about this country and it’s been really really amazing. It’s been really nice being here. So I can’t wait to leave the city and see what else we’ll be exploring. But Malaysia is the best kept secret. Y’all been keeping it secret. I get it though. I’ve been seeing things on TikTok where people post about Malaysia and then a lot of Malaysians are like keep it secret, you know, cuz we don’t want over tourism. I get it. We also wanted to thank y’all for being so kind and welcoming us to your country. Everyone we met has been so nice that we interacted with. Even y’all in the comments, we really appreciate it. On our last video, y’all really showed love. So, make sure you go and watch that. And yeah, hopefully we were able to bring y’all a bunch of good videos. So, but thank you. It is hot out here. Why ain’t nobody tell us it was so hot? We walking everywhere cuz we don’t want to pay for no grabs or nothing. Okay, that’s cuz he’s being cheap. I really did want to get a motorcycle grab or something. That would have been 8 minutes compared to the 31 minutes of walking in the heat. We working out. All right, y’all. We’ve made it. It looks like they have spaghetti and pizza as the only options. A few drinks. I’m thinking the spaghetti. She’s thinking the pizza cuz it’s a choreo cheese meatball, but like back in the States, you have the Swedish meatballs. They don’t seem like they have that at all. Yeah. So I guess every IKEA serves different stuff or they look they put the meatball that meatball looks like the individual. They just put it in a pizza instead of having it individual leaves. So truffle mushroom soup. We’ll see. That was terrible. All righty. I got the spaghetti. Let me try the spaghetti. Very like basic. Better than I thought. What? It’s better than I thought it would be. It’s not like plain. I’d rather try your pizza. You know what I like? Or I’d rather try your spaghetti. You know what I like in a pizza? The crunchiness. But this one’s still really doughy. This like a All right, we’re running out of battery, so we’re going to cut this short. And this is eating from Malaysia. All right, fellas. If you’re ever looking for a place to take your girl to a date, cheap, you out of money, go to IKEA, man. Y’all can dream up your future house together. And we made a huge mistake. We went to the Swedish cafe and that’s a restaurant, y’all. There’s a restaurant. We haven’t had a kitchen in months, guys. Look at the Look at the race car. But regardless, what I’ve appreciated is that sometimes, yes, I miss the cooking and the the cleaning or whatever. But we have gotten so much time back because while we’re traveling, like when we were in that last place, we just woke up and ate, but we woke up and we were able to work because we had we had just had to pay for the room and then food was already provided. You even have to clean the room. That’s probably going to be it for IKEA today. Uh, next place we’ll be is either at the tower or back at our place so we can charge our camera. Well, there it is. We’re We missed out on so much. Oh gosh, y’all. They have baskets for all the food. Wow, we totally missed out. So IKEA is attached to a mall. So here we are at mall number two of the day. We are in like the metropolitan area headed to the KLCC Petronos Twin Tower. Man, this city just shines during the day. The sun is reflecting off the buildings. Something special about this place, man. I’m really enjoying it. All righty, guys. I think we’re here. We’re here. I am looking for the bathing store and then hopefully we make it to the towers for sunset. I swear Malaysia might have one of the best hunt uh one of the best uh skylines. Malaysia, the place to be. I see a bunch of designer brands. Yeah. We need to get off this floor immediately. Yep. Can we come here? Come here. Come here. Come here. Wow. Oh my cultural celebrations are just so beautiful. Look at Wow. [Music] Look how fast she walking, ready to spin her little butt off. We’re on a mission. We have to We’re just going to check out Baape and then we’re going to head to the Twin Towers to watch Well, to see the view of all of KL. So, we’re going to check out after we buy some stuff at Bae. No, he is. I’m not buying anything. Don’t you got a bathing shirt? There’s a cafe. You know what? I got my bathing shirt at a flea market. in Korea. This is so comfortable. You want a babe couch? They got a little baby bathing, too. This is all baked stuff. I don’t know if any of y’all are bake fans, but this is cool. Oh my lord. Look at this. This is the most decked out. Let’s go look in the cafe. Vape store. Vape cafe. All right, the food looked good in the Babe Cafe, but it was pretty pricey. So, we’ll pass. We’re going to make it to K LCC Tower. Petronis Twin Tower. The Twin Tower. Twin Tower. Wow. The architecture here is so nice. All right. In order to enter the Twin Tower, look at those buildings covered in like Yeah. Then you got to go in. About to walk in the street. Yeah. Oops. All right. Let’s go. I like that building cuz it’s covered in rings. Is that the one Louis H? All right. We thought it was free to come in here, but we’re seeing a bunch of like ticket boos. So, we’re going to ask for some help and see if it’s free or not. All right. So, we thought it was free. Let’s go this way. But it’s not. Everything costs money and they’re sold out today. So, and it’s not something that we super care to do. So, we highly recommend if you want to go, you need to book. You got to book in advance. Do not come at sunset time. I mean, yeah, sunset time and try to buy anything cuz everything is sold out today. Also, I think that I saw it was 137 local currency. Local currency. So, that’s about like $30. I’ve been to the Burj Khif before. Tallest building in the world. And I was kind of scared at the top. So, I don’t really care to go. But it is cool to be at the bottom. Yeah. Now we can go in the mall. All right. Let’s I’m hungry. All right. Now, we’re just going to meander around the third mall of the day. We’re not going to record this one. I’m sure y’all are tired of seeing them all. So, she wanted me to get one little B-roll shot for y’all. Oh, right. We are back on the same street you were on last night to get some food. Wa! Look at that. Oh, I love some handmade noodles. Hold up. [Music] Joshua went to get us a drink, but I have some dumpling noodle soup. I just really craving some soup, some soupy foods. So, I like this place is handmade. Like, you see them making the bed. This isn’t something to be like wow about, but it does quench my craving. I’m very happy. I got two drinks. She can clearly see which one that is. Passion fruit. She’s going to taste that one and decide if she wants to taste the other one. And if you take the other one, then you can’t get that one back. Wow. What sort of game show is this? Whoa, whoa, whoa. Slow down, cowboy. M. This is solely passion fruit. I don’t care about passion fruit too much. So, give me the other one. Wait, you can’t get it back. Give me the other one. I I think that one’s sugarcane. I’m pretty positive this is sugarcane. No, this is like No, this is not sugarcane. Uh-oh. Some sort of tea. Are you regretting your decision? It’s some sort of tea. Oh my god. It’s chrysanthemum tea. I love chrysanthemum tea. Oh, but I said I didn’t want a tea. Dang it. It doesn’t have caffeine. Okay, I looked it up. Oh, thank you. I love candle lentine. Okay, I saved this dumpling for you. So, please eat this and I’m going to eat the other one. That tastes all right. I know it has like a lot of pulp. Th This is so sweet. It’s so refreshing. These are five each. That’s going to be it for today. Hope you guys enjoyed the vlog. Wait, no. I was going to ask you what was your favorite moment of today. I’ll go first. One of my favorite moments was helping this older gentleman take a photo. So, he wanted to take a photo in front of the Eco World building and it’s very very I mean it’s a high-rise so or skyscraper. So, he had his phone like positioned. He’s an older gentleman. So, it was super cute. But Joshua was like maybe we should help him. So, I offered and and then he ended up dancing. I think he’s like he was like in his 50s60s but he started dancing was so excited. He’s with his family, but they left him because he was like just invested in his picture. And he did this dance and I was like, “I got you cuz I feel like a videographer now.” So he he did his dance and then I I like panned over to the building. But I was telling Joshua that this like his energy and his type of positivity is something that I want to continue to have throughout my entire life no matter how old I am. And he just he was just enjoying himself dancing at like 50s 60s. I love that. I think that’s just like in you. That’s your personality. What about you? I was so excited to wake up and see like the comments we were getting on the video. That was probably my favorite moment reading some of y’all’s comments on yesterday’s video. Yeah, I like when y’all interact with us. Let us know how we’re doing. But I do appreciate y’all for watching that video and this video. Thank you so much. Make sure to check out Make sure to check out our Traveling Southeast Asia playlist. Make sure to drop a like, comment, and subscribe. And we’ll catch y’all on the next one. Thank you.

Spend an unforgettable day exploring Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with us! 🇲🇾 From breakfast at the iconic Ho Kow Hainam Kopitiam, meeting new friends, and visiting KL Bird Park — Asia’s Largest Bird Park, to discovering three massive malls (Berjaya Times Square, MyTown, and Suria KLCC), this vlog captures the vibrant energy and hidden gems of Malaysia’s capital. We even learned the hard way that you need tickets in advance for the Petronas Twin Towers!

End the day with us at Jalan Alor Food Street, indulging in delicious dumpling noodles and soaking in the city’s nightlife.

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