If you like seafood, you’ll LOVE KL. There are loads of brilliant cafes and restaurants specializing in rich, delicious crabs. The best is Fatty Crabs, which has won the Time Out KL Best Seafood Restaurant award five years running.
Watch the EPL with 100 blokes on the street at 3am
They bloody LOVE the EPL in Malaysia. It’s off the charts. Every single game is watched avidly, with hawker stalls and street cafes regularly packed out even during late night games. Join the lads enjoying their roti and iced coffee at 3am as they go off for Liverpool or Man Utd (pretty much all Malaysians follow one or the other).
Frogs legs in Chinatown
Another entry under the “only for the brave”, once you’ve walked around Chinatown in KL or Penang for a while and haggled over counterfeit goods enough so you need a bite to eat, you could go to Hon Kee for some frog leg porridge. We said “could”.
Night golf
Malaysia has some outstanding golf courses up in the mountains, by the beach, in the rainforest, and the heart of the city. The only problem is it gets too hot for a full round during the day, which is why lots of courses are offering night golf. Playing under floodlights as the odd monkey or monitor lizard dodges your ball is pretty cool. Check out TPC (formerly KLGCC), Seri Selangor, Monterez or Tropicana. And if all that’s too much, there’s even a golf simulator with in-built bar at City Golf.
Blind massage
Where else in the world can you get a massage from a blind Paralympian? In KL there’s a whole community of blind therapists, many in Brickfields, which will give you one of the best massages of your life.
Explore the paradise of Penang
The awesome old shophouses of Penang provide a unique backdrop to a very walkable city rich in great food, coffee and party spots. Plus, you’ve got beaches, temples, an island that was an old prison, rainforest, harbor, Chinese family jetties, funicular railway, and tons of great boutique hotels for a real change of pace.