Day 348: Signed and sent!

We were up late again this morning and initially just hung around the hotel expectantly, waiting for the documents to arrive, but as our stomachs began to rumble we gave the tracking number to the Boss and headed out to look for somewhere to have breakfast. The nice-looking café just around the corner from the hotel was shut, so we walked further up the road to another little place located at the end of an alley that Tony had suggested. However, they only served one thing: egg toast, which consisted of a very, very runny half-boiled egg squashed between two pieces of toast. This didn't look all that appealing, so we pushed on. The next place we found had stopped serving breakfast and we ended up at a funny little 'restaurant' on the corner called Ho Ping. Like the food court we visited last night, it's a sort of a street-food hybrid. While there's a proper bricks-and-mortar open shell with tables and chairs and a dedicated staff, who will seat you and serve you drinks, it doesn't actually serve food. Instead, a series of individual vendors, whose carts are arrayed around the perimeter of the restaurant, do all of the cooking. I got some char kway teow, while the others had some barbecue pork buns.

When we got back to the hotel, there was still no sign of the documents, so Tony rang DHL and was assured that they would be delivered between 2pm and 5pm this afternoon. We went back to the room to wait, decamping again when the cleaners came around to give the room a bit of a spruce. When we went downstairs to the little lobby, Tony arrived with the documents. They've arrived! We quickly read and signed them and then headed out to Kapitan for lunch before walking over to the 'shopping district' - a collection of Western-style malls – where the post office is located. Then, with the mortgage ball back out of our court, we headed into one of the malls, where we found an H&M where I found a shirt and t-shirt. We meandered about for a while, but the mall was even more soulless than the norm and we made our way back out into the warmer world. Conveniently, the area we were in is also where the buses for the Cameron Highlands – our next stop – leave from,so Kate shopped around a bit and then bought our tickets. 

After stopping back in the room for a little while we went out to Monalisa for beer, chips and cards (and a bit less fresh pineapple this time). For dinner we went back to Ho Ping, where we got some bak kut teh (a soupy pork hotpot), some char kway teow and barbecue pork buns. Back in the room, we stayed up late finally putting all of that planning to good use, booking five flights around and between Malaysia and Indonesia, starting with a flight to Sumatra in a few days' time.