Malaysia Vacation – One Week In Kuala Lumpur Day 8

27 Nov – Day 8 – Friday

KL Tower - one the Malaysia attractions

Today is the last day of our Malaysia vacation. As the saying goes, time flies even more quickly when you are having fun and enjoying yourself. In all our numerous holidays to Malaysia, this has been our longest stay. We have been pretty adventurous in going around and exploring some Malaysia attractions around Kuala Lumpur as well as doing quite a fair bit of great Malaysia shopping, not forgetting our favorite Tesco shopping this time round. We also tried out quite a number of the local food of Malaysia.

Somehow when we live with open hearts, things happen for a reason. We did not buy any breakfast as we had over the past few days for this morning. However for some reason, the Duty Manager of the Palace of the Golden Horses presented us with 2 breakfast vouchers for today. Thank you!

2 Breakfast vouchers

Buffet breakfast food was served at The Café Carousal, a buffet restaurant with pictures of the carousel giving it a bright and cheery ambience. With a good local breakfast spread with some Western breakfast food, it was a great dining location.

Cafe Carousal

Breakfast buffet counter

Assortment of breakfast food

Fried egg

Buffet breakfast

Cafe Carousal

We were fortunate to have three of the hotel management staff accompany us for the meal. There was intense discussion on how the hotel is run, their challenges as well as prestigious events and dignitaries whom they have hosted.

Some of the renowned names who have stayed in Asia’s Most Extraordinary Hotel include Queen Elizabeth, the late President Arafat, golf legend Tiger Wood, actor Jackie Chan, singer Alan Tam and countless others.

It was an educational as well as entertaining breakfast session with the Director of Rooms, Mr Andrew Satu, Manager on Duty cum acting General Manager for the day, Mr Lingam and Duty Manager Ms Michelle Jalleh. We highly recommend this resort-feel hotel with great architecture overlooking the lake with a 36-hole exclusive golf course just next to it.

Together with the management staff of the resort, Palace of the Golden Horses

Upon checking out from the hotel at 1400 hrs upon special request, we did another short tour of the Palace of the Golden Horses, a beautiful place we consider a resort within the city.

The public restroom

Somethin' Juicy

Healthy fruit juice bar

Seating are in the Juice Bar

A cute looking tree

TCM Treatment available in Palace of the Golden Horses

Art work on tiles

The Chinese Restaurant at the Palace of the Golden Horses, Kim Ma

More horses

Looking into the garden

The convention centre

Teh Tarik (Tea Pulling) at the Cafe

Teh Tarik is a hot tea beverage and the name is derived from the pouring process of "pulling" the drink during preparation as seen in the picture.

Kin No Uma Japanese Restaurant

Fancy an elaborate wedding in this resort?

Thereafter, we drove to UOG Plaza where we went next door to Central Hypermarket. You can find a wet market here that was still open at 1500 hrs in the afternoon. We bought some Chinese snacks, the baked char siew pao (barbequed pork bun), curry puff and egg tart.

The Chinese snack stall

The char siew bun filling was tasty and fragrant accompanied by pastry that was great. Same can be said for the curry puff where you could get a good portion of the chicken curry with a nice and crispy puff pastry.

Fruits galore

Wet market still on at 1500 hrs

Next we made our way to Low Yat Plaza in Bukit Bintang area to look for our favorite doughnut franchise Big Apple where we bought some doughnuts home for the family.

These doughnuts are a big hit at home!

We also bought some nonya cakes from Lulu Nonya Kuih in Sungei Wang Plaza before we started our journey back to Singapore at 1730 hrs.

Lulu Nonya Kuih

Delicious nonya kuih

Besides the heavy rain for part of the way, it was a smooth journey. We made a stop at Tesco Extra in Seremban to do some final Tesco shopping as well as look for dinner.

Tesco extra in Seremban

As there were not too many food and beverage outlets at Tesco Extra and a lack of seats at the Thai stall, we decided to have dinner at MacDonald’s. The ayam goreng (fried chicken) and McChicken Deluxe value meals cost RM20.70.


MacDonald's

Ayam Goreng - Fried Chicken

McChicken Deluxe

The Thai food stall where we could not find any seats

Kuih Bahulu kiosk
a traditional cake made from egg, sugar and flour


After dinner and more shopping to complete this vacation in Malaysia, we moved off again at 1840 hrs.

We were fortunate that the traffic all the way along the North South highway was smooth. With a final stop at Gelang Patah to top up petrol, we made our way into Singapore through the Tuas 2^nd Link at 2300 hrs with almost no queue.

This happened to be the longest Malaysia vacation we have taken and was made memorable with our stay at Asia’s Most Extraordinary Hotel or as we like to call it, a wonderful resort, Palace of the Golden Horses. If you like to return to a ‘resort-feel accommodation with lots of greenery at the end of our day after a tour to any of the wonderful Malaysia attractions or some Malaysia shopping, then the Palace of the Golden Horses would be a wonderful choice. Whilst enjoying your holiday in Malaysia, do try out the various delectable food of Malaysia as you will be amazed at the local cuisine they offer.

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