This heading will make no sense, of course, unless you recall last week's post.

But today we did another trip into the metropolis.

We paid our second visit to Yut Kee for brunch, and I had the incredibly nice roti babi.

And we paid our umpteenth visit to KLCC. The fountains in the park in front of the Petronas towers are doing the full performance these days, and it's very impressive to watch -- there's a line of fountains, a big circle of fountains, and a little circle of fountains, and they all do a neat routine. I'm not a great clothes shopper, as I may have had occasion to note before, but at least at KLCC, you can bribe yourself to stay the course by using a visit to Kinokuniya as a carrot.

From here we went to Kampung Baru. This is a fascinating bit of town, where cute little wooden houses on stilts, flanked by neat gardens and/or collections of pot plants, form a very curious contrast to the high-rise, glitzy buildings all around. Here there are little stalls where people mend shoes or crush real sugarcane juice (as opposed to that ready-made variety which is never as good). And here there is also a plentiful supply of Malay food. We picked up some yummy little green cakes (which had a bad habit of spitting when you bit into them, we discovered), and some leaf-wrapped glutinous rice packages (one containing spicy fish, and one containing banana) to take home with us.

It's all made for a nice mixture of the modern and the traditional.