The reason why I moved to Kuala Lumpur from Japan

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 I moved to Kuala Lumpur this year, and I love it. And I get asked a lot why I did. 

Although Malaysia has been the number 1 country for the Japanese to move into, I have the feeling my reason is different from other Japanese. 

Today I want to talk about the reasons I moved to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia!

My reason comes from one Youtube video

Video from Nakata University

There is a famous Japanese singer, Gackt that relocated to Kuala Lumpur.

The guy on the left is Acchan, a comedian who became an Educational Youtuber. Acchan went on to relocate to Singapore, but before he made his decision on where to live, he asked for advice from Gackt, and why Gackt chose Malaysia.

Who is Gackt?


Video from crownrecord

Gackt is a Japanese singer song writer. He started his career as a vocal for Malice Mizer and later moved onto sing solo as Gackt. He is known to be very stoic in what he does, music, excersizes, martial arts, food, etc...

He appeared in Japanese gourmet show "Geinojin Kakuzuke Check"（芸能人格付けチェック） to blind taste every New Year and will score very high marks, which is how I best know him.

Excellent variety in food

Out of 70 countries Gackt has been to, KL was his top city to live. His top priority in choosing the place to live is food, and he saids the level of various cuisine he could enjoy in KL is top of the world.

Gackt is wealthy enough to pay for expensive meals. But he talked about how he would feel so happy that the meal is very good in Southeast Asia and the bill is a lot lower than his expectations, while in Europe it will be much more expensive in Europe after a good tasting dinner.

which, I relate to a lot. My dad was the same too, where he will tip more than usual for very good cost performance restaurants and keep going back, while he will lower the tip and never go again for the restaurants that gave less value than what he paid for.

So I definitely have the same habits. And I started looking for ways to relocate to KL after watching this video.

So I moved in. The variety of food...

When I was on a ride to the city center of KL from the airport, the driver seemed very happy with the reason why I decided to give it a try living in KL.

"Ohhh it's food heaven, sir. But you should also go Penang. It will be the place for you. While you are in KL, you should go to,..." and he will give me a whole list of things to try. And I'm constantly blown away with the new flavors I discover.

Every street will have Malay, Chinese, and Indian dishes to have in KL, but Spanish, Mexican, Arabic, Pakistani, ... 

For me, I eat Malay food the most. And I will be telling the locals how I love Malay food. Then they would say.

"Ohhh you like Malay food? Then Indonesian food might even be better."

And I will start finding out that the people who cook my favorite Malay food are people from Indonesia.

So, here I am now in Indonesia. And I've been to Vietnam, Thailand, a little earlier and I've also lived in Singapore, too.  I agree with Gackt. The variety of cuisine you can eat in KL with excellent cost performance is top noche.

Where will you want to live?

For me my top priority is food and I'm very easy going with other aspects, although life became happier and simpler after moving to KL.
Gackt had to factor his work, weather, time difference and distance from Japan.. Many Japanese factor better QOL in KL than in Japan, or English education.

How about you? Any foodie countries you dream of? If you have any good information I would love it if you can share it :)

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In this blog, I post my food trips worldwide, as insights into Japanese food in comparison to all the different cuisines I encounter through my journey. 

I also try to share information from Japan that fills our hearts or might help us think about how to better the world!

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