I’m not just here to see things. I’m here to cocreate with the beauty, to live a life of simple pleasures.
This is TK — former interior designer turned food tour guide, enthusiastic gamer, meditation mentor for young kids, and friendly guy around town. He knows everybody and took me to the secret spots that I would never have visited on my own. His English was superb and we laughed a lot! He also offers tours around the countryside near KL. If I return to Malaysia I will be calling him and asking him to take me to the fireflies, rivers, caves, elephants and plankton.
These lanterns win the award for most inspiring thing I saw in Kuala Lumpur. They stuck in my mind, filled up my phone gallery and squeezed their way out of paint tubes onto my canvases day after day. I love how the light behind them illuminates and makes the red shine! Gold tassels hang from them. They scream CHINA TOWN!!!! Happy and blowing in the breeze.
FOOD I TASTED in China Town, on Petaling Street in Kuala Lumpur:
Sticky sweet rice steamed in bamboo
Chinese pancake; peanut and coconut with flirting kantonese James Bond; stall 60 years old, bicycle from World War Two
Sushi cut spring roll, shrimp and turnip
Fresh soy milk
Asam Lusak; spicy soup, hidden with no shop name or sign, tourist walk by
Coffee and tea with toast & steamed bread with butter and sweet green sauce
Fresh soy milk — I’ve never had it fresh before. Only out of boxes. Magical sweet flavor alive in the mouth. I went back for more the next day!!
Secret (world famous) curry laksa. Featured on Lonely Planet, no sign or name for this place. Just a humble cart with a big pot of boiling red liquid, fish cooking in it, all sorts of vegetables and pineapple. Top it off with a dark liquid made of squid heads and we’re good to go! Actually delicious though. Tourists walked right past it…no idea. We laughed.
So much color here!! I’m in artist eye candy heaven!! And I’m eating a traditional/ typical Malaysian breakfast — steamed bread with butter and something green sweet and sticky, perfectly boiled eggs and a beverage that’s half coffee and half tea! Almost tastes like chocolate!
I actually really enjoy being in an apartment in the city; the view is inspiring me. The food tours are inspiring me. I love how meditation is integral to life for many people here. I love editing videos on my phone as I travel around. It’s fun, especially creating the music videos. It feels good to be in the city where the world is at work, busier! I hope to have a week of focused business productivity in this city vibe….sprinkled with a little food fun in the evenings!
And the art I created today….
Love & Full Bellies :)
Cha Wilde
FOLLOW IN MY FOOTSTEPS