Travelling advice...

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The taxi drivers in south east asia will usually try to charge you more if you're foreign, so look out. Not really that much you can do actually unless you look asian and speak the native language at least semi-fluently.

Eating there can also be dangerous, but generally go for the crappiest looking hawker stalls with the most people. If you're used to clean water, don't drink the water there either unless it's boiled or bottled. Try to avoid ice - it's worse than water, had me throwing up for a week after I ate one of those ice kachang thingys. Also, if you go to a malay stall in KL, well, last time I went there they served barely-warm rice, which is apparently how they eat it (o.o). The satays were good though.

That's just my personal experience, being a chinese with parents born in malaysia. We take trips to KL and other cities every now and then. I'm sure people can give better advice in greater quantity.