Reading about Kuala Lumpur

The couple of days O and I will spend in Malaysia on our way back from Australia is not a part of the trip we've thought about much, but the other day I was looking up info on visas and I ended up reading a guide to Kuala Lumpur. For whatever reason, I didn't realize how cheap Malaysia is. Sure, it's in SE Asia which is known for being cheap by Western standards, but maybe it seemed more modern to me and thus it would be more Western? But in this guide I was reading, it was saying that mid-range hotels, like O and I would normally look at staying in, cost between 70 and 150 ringgits (RM). So I checked out what, say, RM100 was in euros: about 21 euros. I didn't think that was right. I started digging around in the Rough Guide and online travel agencies, and I found that, yes, things are very cheap. On the D-Reizen site (a Dutch travel agency), you can get deals for a stay in a posh four or five-star hotel for 50-70 eur a night! I was shocked that it was so incredibly cheap. And the food is even cheaper! The Rough Guide listed Indian and Chinese restaurants that served whole meals for only a couple of euros, plus there are tons of street vendors serving up fried noodles and curries for near nothing, like 50 cents or so. It'll be a nice ending to the trip, living it up in a fancy hotel and gorging ourselves on Asian food.