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Home » Mexican Food » Taco Bell In Kuala Lumpur…
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Taco Bell In Kuala Lumpur…

Matthew Klint Posted onMarch 2, 2024March 2, 2024 29 Comments

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I do have a known weakness for Taco Bell, one of my few indulgences in an otherwise regimented diet. Thankfully…or perhaps regrettably for my body…I found a Taco Bell in Kuala Lumpur near my hotel and decided to eat dinner there…

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I enjoyed eating at Taco Bell in Bangkok and was delighted (yes, delighted) to find that KL also has Taco Bells (several locations actually).

I chose the Avenue K Shopping Mall location, just a short walk from the Grand Hyatt KL.

While walking there, I came across Nando’s, which is my other favorite fast food. Nando’s is much healthier: a half chicken is a good source of lean protein and I did consider skipping Taco Bell altogether for Nando’s.

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a group of people sitting at tables in a restaurant

But no…I had to try Taco Bell and atoned for it with a six-mile bike ride when I returned to the hotel gym. That’s not a great way to justify putting toxins in your body like the crap at Taco Bell, but somehow I find a way to justify it…

Taco Bell was crowded…I think there would not be more than a dozen locations in Malaysia if people did not like it.

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people sitting at tables in a restaurant

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a group of people sitting at tables in a restaurant

I ordered a chicken burrito and a cheese quesadilla…and was given a buzzer that would alert me when the food was ready.

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It took about six minutes for the food to be ready.

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The quesadilla didn’t have the creamy jalapeño sauce you find in the USA, but it was still quite acceptable, as was the chicken burrito.

In conclusion, a nice meal.

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Matthew Klint

Matthew is an avid traveler who calls Los Angeles home. Each year he travels more than 200,000 miles by air and has visited more than 135 countries. Working both in the aviation industry and as a travel consultant, Matthew has been featured in major media outlets around the world and uses his Live and Let's Fly blog to share the latest news in the airline industry, commentary on frequent flyer programs, and detailed reports of his worldwide travel.

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29 Comments

  1. Maryland Reply
    March 2, 2024 at 3:13 pm

    “Few indulgences in an otherwise regimented diet” um, how many United burgers are in that diet? ; )

    • Aaron Reply
      March 2, 2024 at 4:25 pm

      “but somehow I find a way to justify it…”

      He does a lot of that when it comes to his eating habits…

      • Matthew Klint Reply
        March 2, 2024 at 6:54 pm

        When traveling, yes.

  2. Ed Reply
    March 2, 2024 at 3:25 pm

    Sometimes I’m tempted to eat at American fast food chains when I’m overseas but I talk myself out of it. I know my time abroad is limited and there are only x number of meals available before I’m back to my old familiar haunts again.

  3. JoeMart Reply
    March 2, 2024 at 3:25 pm

    Can someone explain why fast food is so pricey in SE Asia? I still remember the shock of visiting an upscale Mexican restaurant in Thailand that carried no tortillas in traditional dishes. The owner mentioned the high taxes on imported food.

    • Maryland Reply
      March 2, 2024 at 4:28 pm

      Franchises allow the US chain restaurants to set their own prices. (And a lot of the food is not it imported from the states. Burger King in Bangkok patties have meats other than beef) . In Thailand they know the farang folks are addicted enough pay stupid money to dine on the fast food they eat regularly at home. But if you’re craving fries…

  4. Alex Reply
    March 2, 2024 at 3:28 pm

    No no no! You went to one of the great multicultural culinary capitals of the world and ate at TACO BELL?!

    • Santastico Reply
      March 2, 2024 at 5:13 pm

      What can one say, right? I never forget my first trip to Kuala Lumpur for business. The the country manager for the company I worked for at that time came to pick me up at the hotel to take me for dinner. I was salivating to have dinner at some local place when he said he was taking me to his favorite restaurant in KL. I am not kidding but he had a reservation at the Tony Roma’s restaurant. All I could do was to have a fake smile on my face and say I loves his choice.

      • Maryland Reply
        March 2, 2024 at 6:06 pm

        Almost same story. Substitute Tokyo. I thought Tony Romas was out of business as I had not seen one in 20 years. I don’t care for sushi, but heck Japan does have other delicious food. Just slapped that smile on and we did have a fun evening.

        • Santastico Reply
          March 2, 2024 at 7:43 pm

          Do you know what I learned? That place was considered expensive for the locals so once he had an opportunity to go there at the company ‘s expense, he didn’t think twice. I didn’t care but thought it was a really bad choice to take someone coming from America to eat at an American chain restaurant in Asia.

          • Maryland
            March 2, 2024 at 8:01 pm

            With you. Lol

  5. Chi Hsuan Reply
    March 2, 2024 at 3:53 pm

    For someone who eats a “regimented diet” you seem like a connoisseur for junk food.

  6. Loretta Jackson Reply
    March 2, 2024 at 4:15 pm

    Matthew, I say this with genuine love despite my love of snark:

    You have an eating disorder.

    You may choose to or not to deal with this, but you do. See below.

    Please be very careful not to teach it to others around you. Children who grow up with a disordered view of food do *not* “avoid” obesity, rather end up more prone to be of unhealthy body mass.

    —
    This is **not** a normal amount of fixation. Healthy adults don’t spend this amount of consideration on where to grab a meal on the go:

    >I do have a known weakness for Taco Bell, one of my few indulgences in an otherwise regimented diet.

    >or perhaps regrettably for my body

    >Nando’s is much healthier

    >a half chicken is a good source of lean protein

    >I did consider skipping Taco Bell altogether for Nando’s.

    >But no…I had to try Taco Bell

    >[I] atoned for it with a six-mile bike ride when I returned to the hotel gym (That’s not a great way to justify putting toxins in your body like the crap at Taco Bell, but somehow I find a way to justify it…

    This isn’t normal. Again, this comes from love, but you need to seek out options to deal better with this. Life’s not worth spending this much time dealing with a mental health issue.

    And before you come for me, I am in excellent shape.

    • Sam Reply
      March 2, 2024 at 5:47 pm

      Matthew is a 6 pack. He must be doing something right that I’m not

      • Sam Reply
        March 2, 2024 at 5:48 pm

        Matthew has* a 6 pack. He must be doing something right that I’m not

        *stupid autocorrect

        • Chi Hsuan Reply
          March 2, 2024 at 6:19 pm

          How do you know?

          • Alex
            March 5, 2024 at 12:42 pm

            Here –>

            https://liveandletsfly.com/tegenungan-waterfall-in-bali/

      • Loretta Jackson Reply
        March 2, 2024 at 6:42 pm

        Having a sixpack has nothing to do with mental health.

        You can very much suffer from an ED and have a sixpack. In fact, having a sixpack is only contingent on having a sufficiently low body fat percentage. I can see my abs, and I eat McDonald’s sometimes.

        However, by your logic, doing heroin and getting your body fat percentage down from living on the street is ‘doing something right’. I wouldn’t agree.

    • Matthew Klint Reply
      March 2, 2024 at 8:11 pm

      @Loretta Jackson: You’ve suggested I have an eating disorder multiple times now and I am going to assume you comment in good faith.

      Here’s my response. I have never been obese or even overweight, but I also never really restrained what I ate for my first 25 years. A lot of sugar. A lot of carbs. I worked out like crazy but never got the body I wanted because of my diet.

      When I injured my wrist several years ago, I found that eating carbs would trigger intense wrist pain. I soon realized that I felt much better not consuming so many carbs. Then my wife and I decided to try intermittent fasting and not only did I shed body fat (I had always wanted to have visible abs), but I felt much better. I slept better. My mind was sharper. It worked very well and has for several years now.

      There’s really nothing over the top about what I’m doing. Rather, I simply feel better when I eat healthier and yet I do have to remind myself of this since I still love and crave all the junk I grew up eating. And there are times I’ll eat Taco Bell or a bag of candy and then regret it afterward. I don’t see how you can extrapolate from such feelings that I have an eating disorder.

      I don’t go to bed hungry nor do I feel that I actually deprive myself of anything. It feels so great, for example, to eat raw vegetables instead of potato chips. Does that really show that I am sick?

      I can refer you to several medical experts on the value of intermittent fasting or of avoiding carbs…but I suspect you are probably already familiar with them.

      • hate airbus Reply
        March 3, 2024 at 2:37 am

        skinny does not mean healthy
        all that airline pig-swill you eat will land you in a hospital bed or hospice real quick
        good you ate that taco bell not sure how much longer you got..

  7. Love KL Reply
    March 2, 2024 at 5:12 pm

    Love the shopping Mall in KL. a Few thousand steps from Hilton, La Meridian & St Regis.

  8. Mrs C Reply
    March 2, 2024 at 10:17 pm

    So how were you the next day after the Taco Hell?

    • Matthew Klint Reply
      March 2, 2024 at 10:52 pm

      Thankfully, no Montezuma’s revenge!

    • C. Reply
      March 4, 2024 at 12:24 am

      I tend to agree with Loretta here and I am also seeing red flags – having suffered from them myself. You are missing her point. The concerning part about your eating behavior is the need to punish yourself when you occasionally have sub optimal food, and the constant explanations around it like you did some horrible thing that requires “atonement”. This is not OK especially since you seem to otherwise have a very healthy lifestyle by any standard. Remember that your children are seeing you do this and will internalize it. You are in good shape enough that you should know that having junk food every once in a while is NOT going to make your abs disappear overnight. And maybe your writing makes it sound more dramatic than it really is, but otherwise I would also consider taking a look within at what’s going on here.

      • Matthew Klint Reply
        March 4, 2024 at 9:02 am

        I can tell you I don’t lose any sleep after having Taco Bell. My “atonement” language may be driven by the religious side of my life, but it is just flowery language.

  9. Aztec Reply
    March 3, 2024 at 5:31 am

    Have you ever gone to a Burger King in Bangkok? They have fried chicken, not chicken fingers, real genuine fried chicken with bones. The quality of the chicken is excellent but, surprisingly, a bit bland but since you like In-N-Out I’m thinking you might like it.

  10. Interested Traveller Reply
    March 3, 2024 at 7:32 am

    @Matthew, I too like Nandos, but it not super healthy either.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ReyHWaYfVbY

    Cheeky Nandos.

  11. Island Miler Reply
    March 4, 2024 at 6:09 pm

    Taco Bell is a hard pass for me… Unless I want a free “colon cleanse” lol

  12. Sam Reply
    March 8, 2024 at 12:01 am

    Good advice if on arrival at KLIA late… If you’re transiting downtown, absolutely nothing is open late.

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