A taste of Malaysia- Penang and Langkawi

Selamat Petang!
Blogger tells me that it's only been two days since I last wrote, but we're cramming so much into our time that it feels like ages!

I'm currently in our hostel lobby, with what seems to be a Chinese movie playing behind me, American music playing in the street and a very cool mix of travellers heading in and out of the guesthouse.
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I wrote this two days ago and we got so sleepy that it never got finished! Two days later and Sean and I are now in Langkawi with Dave and his mate Scotty. Just had an absolutely amazing dinner at a local night market. I am seriously in food paradise! The market was full of food stalls, toys, drinks and various other odds and ends- more of a local market though and not filled with tourists like the rest of Langkawi. The 4 of us had about 3 or 4 things each- a variety of fried chicken (Dave unfortunately had some kind of offal instead!), fried noodles, chilli mango salad, spring rolls, samosas, pancakes with corn and coconut pancakes. Mmmmm... so good! And this post was meant to be about the amazing things we tried in Penang.. But I can simply report that we have had so much fun discovering many new and interesting tastes on both of these islands on the west coast of Malaysia. All I can say that this is some kind of heaven, with food as unbelievably cheap as it is here (all of those meals I mentioned were 4 ringgits and under, nothing over $1.50), fresh from the grill or mortar and pestle, and served by the sweetest and most lovely Malaysian people. Such a contrast to our first day with the awful bus issues when we were so disheartened about this new country, we of little faith back then! and on top of that, beach here is great, maybe comparable to those back home ;) Terima kasih Langkawi!






How is everyone anyway?