Jalan Alor, Kuala Lumpur

Okay, so I’ve finally had chance to sit down and put something together; in our first 2 days we’ve had so much food I think I already have enough to cover a month of posts; we’ve eaten Indian, Nyonya, Malay, Chinese and even Japanese (with Vietnamese to come tomorrow too).
Our first evening’s introduction to KL, as indeed every travellers should be was the street food of Jalan Alor. The air in the street was hanging heavy with the smoke of grilling skewers of meat and fish and mingled with frying garlic, chilli oils caught in your lungs, making us splutter and at one end of the street; the pungent hum from the durian stalls was potent (more to come of that in a later post)
We ate at Charn Kee Tasty Corner run by Elang and her team which is a regular favourite of my Uncles who we’re staying here with. We ordered up a range of chilli laden dishes which arrived quickly and in quick succession:
Chickenfish (middle photo) deep fried, crispy skinned and meaty and came with a delicious tangy spicy dipping sauce
Stir fried chilli frog- whole frogs pan fried in a light chilli broth, slurp on the soft meat and removing the tiny bones as we went.
Gai Lan (Chinese kale) leaves stir fried in a soy/oyster sauce mix, smoky with wok breath and a ton of sliced garlic.
Chilli chicken- deep fried chicken stir fried in a rich red chilli paste with spring onions
Fried rice- this was a meal in itself- full of shrimp, omelette and vegetables with a soy/chilli dip
we eventually left, very full, very happy and headed off for our first experience of durian… (to come in part 2)