This is a photo of the Klang river as it passes under the Masjid Jamek LRT station. A truly pitiful sight. To be fair, there is now a regeneration effort to release the river from its bounds, or at least clean it up and make walking paths alongside it. For now, however, it’s a dank, dreary little drain inhabited by unidentifiable muddy creatures and plastic bottles.
After much thinking and wondering what I should do (foolish, but there it is) I decided to go to Masjid India for roti canai. I walked there and took the photo along the way. Once I arrived the Mantion Tea House was no longer serving roti canai but since I’d settled I had to have something. The man spoke no English and I spoke neither Bahasa nor Tamil so I ended up with a rather poor fried chicken and rice with curry to pour over it. The teh tarik was good, though, perhaps the best I’ve ever had. It was very sweet, of course, but somehow less tooth-achingly so.
I took the free bus back to Bukit Bintang. It was packed, really packed, but for once everyone there was shorter than me (I am five feet two and a half inches) which was a significant improvement over times spent trapped on the Tube in London. Generally I feel I would rather be too short than too tall, but one does miss out on a great deal at my height.
In Bukit Bintang I shot off the bus at Pavilion, tried on some clothes at Muji (I might go back for a linen skirt) and bought some combination locks from Daiso. I also bought some stock bags as one of my missions this weekend is to use up all the fish heads I have in the freezer (three) to make stock, discarding the meat. My Malaysian friends would disapprove, but it is too fiddly for words and otherwise I’ll never clean out the freezer as I intend. Tomorrow’s resolution is to make haleem, which I had been craving until I OD-ed on it in Lahore, and am still very happy to have more of.
Then I bought some fish oil capsules, having convinced myself in the night that I have incipient psoriatic arthritis. And finally, to the supermarket for some meat for the haleem to add to the beef bones in the freezer and a bag of limes.
So here I am, after a rather active if unadventurous day.
