KL – Karaoke

Now over the years I’ve been to South-East Asia many times and one thing you’ll find for sure is bar room lounge acts in the hotels. This does seem a lot more prevalent in Malaysia but I’ve seen it in Hong Kong also. Now generally live music is good. In Melaka the band were a 5-piece Filipino outfit. Two musicians and three singers – two female and one male. They were pretty good and had been playing various hotels in Malaysia over the past few months and were in Melaka for the next five. Here in KL….in a Sheraton Luxury Collection hotel….one would expect something a step up from this. Not really. What we have here are a 4-piece girl band who are more like a karaoke night. Last nights rendition of the Dire Straits classic of “The Walk of Life” was murdered and hasn’t been as badly sung since Mark Knopfler's original rendition. To sum up - they were very easy on the eye but not so on the ear.

Here in Malaysia there is a chain of restaurants dedicated to chicken rice, The Chicken Rice Shop. It must have been a good 48 hours since my last chicken rice so I had to give it a try.

http://www.thechickenriceshop.com/

As it was lunch they had some set menus on offer so I thought I'd give it a try. It was a substantial lunch with a portion of rice, chicken, soup, Ipoh beansproouts, and something called Pei Tee. The chicken also came either braised, steamed, roasted or curry so I plumped for steamed. It was just OK. It was a bit underdone for my liking (more red than pink) and was not as tender as I thought a steamed chicken should be. The Ipoh breansprouts on the other hand were good. I think Ipoh beansprouts are just beansprouts with chili on top - but a bit of chili makes a whole lot of difference. As for the Pei Tee (the final photo) I wasn't sure if this was a starter or a dessert? What it tasted of was a cold spring roll. Maybe I needed to try it with one of the sauces (which were chili or ginger)? Overall - not bad at all for a fast food chain...Malaysian style.