For the next 4 days, we traveled to 4 different cities through West and East Malaysia. On Monday, we had a breakfast meeting with one of our top sales leaders in Malaysia at the hotel executive lounge. The food wasn’t bad, but if we had the opportunity, the breakfast in the hotel lobby restaurant makes fresh roti prata, which we can’t get back home.

Afterwards, we caught a flight up the coast to Penang. Here’s a shot outside our hotel room:

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After giving our talk in the evening, Elijah went back to the hotel to rest while I went out with some of the sales people to enjoy some local Penang food specialties:

On Tuesday, we caught an early flight back to Kuala Lumpur for meetings with our Malaysia management for most of the day. At noontime, we took the managers out for lunch. And continued our meetings through the afternoon. Before our evening meetings with distributors, we had to take care of a clothing emergency and made a quick trip to the nearest mall (if you want to know what happened, you can ask Elijah).

On Wednesday, we took another early flight, this time over to Sibu in East Malaysia. Note that Elijah is wearing a dress shirt and long pants. Our sales leaders were meeting us at the airport, so we couldn’t wear our usual casual travel attire:

For lunch, we ate a meal with our Sibu sales leaders in the Chinese restaurant in the hotel. It was passable, but nothing really special. However, for dinner, they took us to enjoy some local specialties like roasted pigs foot. The best part of the meal wasn’t even the food, it was that we were told to wear shorts and t-shirts because the restaurant was very casual and didn’t have air conditioning:

On Thursday, we had some time in the morning before our flight, so our sales leaders took us to enjoy a local breakfast of delicious prawn noodles:

Afterwards, we took a flight to Kota Kinabalu, where we met with the local leaders. They took us to enjoy some local noodles that were made out of fish paste along with a local version of Tom Yam soup. Delicious, unfortunately, I was too hungry and forgot to take a picture. Later in the evening after our speeches, we got back to our hotel and couldn’t remember our room number. I think that was just indicative of the travel and hotel switching that we went through in our second week out.