Wednesday, 11 June 2014

Hospitality that knows no bounds

Khan and Lotus treated us yet again to lunch today; this time in Semenyih village. This is in addition to the outstanding buffet breakfast served at the hotel, which provides for every taste and, it seems, culinary style. This includes some of the best croissants I've tasted, and I've stayed in France many times. The coffee's pretty good too as are the omelettes, fresh fruit, daal, chocolate cake, roast potatoes, curry etc....

Anyway, enough about breakfast. Lunch consisted of fish noodles and a glass of green tea (this time without ice). I did my best to eat it with chopsticks and did ok but my shirt suffered. The use of a spoon and slurping seemed to compensate for my poor chopstick control but it did mean that I was the last to finish. I've added a few photos below of the lunch, our kind hosts and of Semenyih.

Unfortunately, we returned late and after I was due to start the final training session, to find a group of people patiently waiting for me to turn up. Fortunately, we had plenty of time due to their familiarity with Supportworks and we'll start to roll out access to the live system tomorrow.

Did you know? Sunset in KL varies by no more than 27 minutes during the entire year. The earliest is 19.01 in December and the latest is 19.28 in late July. Also, the average temperature varies by no more than 1.2 degrees C throughout the year and there are only two seasons, 'wet' and 'dry' although it's never completely dry. Fortunately, June is the driest month at 144mm. Quite a contrast to the UK and I had an interesting conversation with some of our Malaysian colleagues this morning about seasons, which we take for granted,

Tonight consisted of a return visit to Lot 10 Huton. Both Chris and I pulled the boat in this evening, spending only 10RM (£2) on a local specialty (or so we're told): Beef Noodles complete with Beef Balls. I've just looked up 'Beef Balls' having feared that they might be what they said on the tin however it turns out they consist of 'pulverised' beef. So, much like a beefburger. The minced beef with the noodles was tasty but I was less enthused by the balls, which I found were a bit tasteless and had a springy texture (hence my suspicion).

I've also included some pics of Huton, the local area and a bowl of floating balls below. Enjoy.









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