Back in the Motherland

So begins our two week journey of food, family and friends. After dropping our keys off with the kind neighbours (someone has to look after the fish while we’re away), we scooted off in the cab to Brisbane International. We managed to get there way ahead of time for the flight in order to claim duty off Alison’s new camera. I got a little disappointed when I spotted the ixus 65 in the duty free shop for $450 seeing as that’s what we paid for at Harvey Norman. That soon went away when we got our 10% duty back though.



Slightly boring side note, moving to Annerley has effectively shaved off $20 from our normal cab fair. Sure beats trying to wrangle three heavy suitcases onto the Air Train. Hooray for us!

The flight itself to KL was fairly uneventful though all the pills that Alsie ended up popping to help with travel sickness didn’t appear to be too effective. The main thing I did notice in the air was how rude and unprofessional the flight attendants were (we were flying Malaysian Airlines). You’d think that if your job basically involved ensuring that your passengers were happy and provided for then you’d be a little more accommodating to requests. Honestly, this bunch just seemed shocked that a paying customer had the temerity to ask them for something. Very disappointing MAS, we’re definitely flying Singapore Airlines on our next trip.

Arriving in KLIA we filled out our entry forms and proceeded to the checkout counter. It was kinda sad for me as this could potentially be the last time I get to walk through the Malaysian Passport autogate if I intend to apply for Australian Citizenship.



All the other passengers on our flight had rushed off by the time we got out to baggage reclaim. Our two suitcases were waiting for us so we snapped them up and were waved through customs to meet mum and Uncle Wing. We quickly got the hugs and greetings over with in order to move on to the important stuff… food! Uncle Wing took us to a little hole in the wall that he’d heard about which was on the way back from the airport.


Here we are at seven in the morning having our first Malaysian meal of the trip. This is Bak Kut Teh, a claypot stew of pork and tofu in a Chinese herbal tea which is served with rice. The little bowl on the side is filled with intestines in the same tea. Certainly beats the pants off cornflakes and milk any day of the week if you ask me.



After brekkie we stopped by Uncle Wing’s house for a bit of a rest before driving back to Subang. Sitting by the indoor fish pond we got a chance to see how large the carp have grown in the two years since our last trip.