Toddy, Iguana and Wild Boar Curry @ Banting

A Banting we will go.. A banting we will go.. hey ho the merry ho, a Banting we will go… Knowing how to spell “wild boar” won’t help you find this well hidden shack of a place, tucked behind something that looks like someone’s backyard, in the sleepy town of Banting, any easier. Here sits [...]

Where does cocoa come from?

It was during an impromptu visit, to a certain Chocolate exhibition earlier this year, that we met a some people from the Malaysian Cocoa Board (MCB), named Easther and Felicity. Cumi being the curious one and always loving a little adventure wanted to find out how cocoa was planted and processed so we talked with [...]

10 Ways to Experience the Malaysian Night Market

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Adventure Rob was in town on a really tight schedule, en route London. The SMS read – I’m free for dinner, what’s the plan? Since it was a Sunday and Cumi & Ciki’s routine is normally to visit the *T.T.D.I. Night Market or ‘Pasar Malam’ (after Cumi’s basketball game), we decided to drag Rob along [...]

Hot Springs Wet Market

On weekends, Cumi & Ciki love to go to the wet market. The Setapak wet market is usually a hive of activity by the time we get there. Setapak is a major suburb in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Formerly a tin-mining and rubber-growing area, the name is derived from the Malay word ‘tapak’ which means ‘step’, [...]

Nasi Lemak Daun Pisang @ Robson Heights, KL

Nasi Lemak is to Malaysians, what the English fry-up is to the British. But whilst the full English breakfast has streaky bacon, eggs, fried or grilled tomatoes, fried mushrooms, fried bread or toast and sausages, the Malaysian nasi lemak has hot spicy sauce (sambal),  hard boiled egg, cucumber slices, small dried anchovies (ikan bilis) and [...]