Kuala Lumpur day 5 (mum's first day)

To ease mum in we were basic and got western food for breakfast (plus the cafe was just across the road from our hostel).
We walked into town, passing lots of colonial buildings. We then followed the river along the 'river of light', a trail of street art which lights up at night, but was equally impressive during the day.
When taking a break from the heat, stopping off for an iced drink, mum found a big in the lid of her lemon tea, and if that's not a welcome to Asia I don't know what is 🤣
Continuing her cultural exploration of the city, I of course took her to a huge shopping mall. On the top floor we found the spa shops and I got treated to pedicure. Then in the basement level, we got some lunch at the food court, then headed back out to go to a park. However we were greeted by absolutely torrential rain accompanied by thunder and lighting. Aborting that idea, we sought out shelter and grabbed coffee until the rain eased off enough to venture outside to find beer.
Unfortunately alcohol here is the same price, if not more expensive than back home, but we enjoyed two delicious beers in a craft bar. Mum actually got a beer from one of the only craft breweries in Malaysia, Paperkite.
After a quick trip to the hostel, we found a nearby hotel with a kind of rooftop bar (a balcony) and watched the sunset and city come alive with lights.
We then ticked off probably the most popular landmark in Kuala Lumpur, and went to see the Petronas twin towers. To be fair, they did look pretty spectacular up close and lit up. We sat and watched the nightly water fountain 'show' which was definitely less spectacular, especially compared to what it was completing with (the towers).
I then dragged mum across town to the famous Jalan Alors street food market. Lili had told me it wasn't worth going to, but I didn't think it'd be as bad as it was. It was so packed we shuffled along a single file, past hundreds of people. Most of the stalls were meat or seafood, the only veggie things we found that appealed to us were my favourite sweetcorn peanut pancakes (which were delicious) and some mediocre chinese chive pancakes.
After a disappointing fill, I took mum to the Indian restaurant I went to on my first night in the country. It was a mission to get served as the waiter kept walking past us, but we finally got some food gone 10pm. We perhaps didn't order the best choices, but the food filled a whole and we got a taxi back 'home'.Read more