@liztai During my travels in SEA, as an obvious westerner, whenever I saw food prices start to look like home, my alarm would kick in to overdrive as I looked for the most viable way out.
English menus were the best cue. In KL, I would escape & find some wellpriced, comforting murtabak and teh tarik elsewhere.
That said, KL confounds me. I like it a lot but I never puzzled it out. I can groove with George Town, Phnom Penh, Chaing Mai, Hanoi, etc. but not there. Don't know why.