This morning we solved the breakfast issue by locating a supermarket downtown and stocking up on cereal, milk, jam and bread for our stay in KK. Hopefully we won't have to go through the half-boiled egg incident ever again. The Half Boiled Egg Incident. This a phenomenon we have only found in Malaysia. The only item on any breakfast menu that slightly hints at the western world. So ambitiously wehave being trying to order half boiled eggs on toast to the Malaysia waiters but asking them to cooking them for ten minutes (making them hard boiled). The outcome has being a mixed bag. From barely edible; raw warm egg; snotty white but cooked yolk (how does that even happen); the staff leaving the half boiled eggs on the side for ten minutes before service; us taking the half boiled eggs back and asking for them to be cooked for longer, but no matter what we always get the same result. Raw egg and soldiers. We understand this is their culture but come on, they don't know what they are missing out on...... Dippy egg and soldiers with the white cooked so you can scrape it out with a spoon on to your last piece of toast. Call us crazy but that is a breakfast that dreams are made of. Not only because of taste but the practical, get stuck in nature of the meal from beheading the egg, to the toast soldier plunge technique that forces the guts of the wounded on to the plate begging for the final clean up act. You would think that for a country known for head hunting and cannibalism this would be the ideal meal.
32 degrees heat and a Heritage Walk doesn't really mix well. We poured with sweat as we saw the 'landmarks' of Kota Kinabalu including the clock tower and the observational point. And if we hadn't walked off enough this morning we spent an hour in the gym, not much worked but we managed a good workout. To cool off we spent the afternoon in our pool. We still can't get over only paying $12 for this place. M & C xxxx