Chinese Street Market In Kuala Lumpur City - Petaling Street, is it worth to visit?

Had been living in Malaysia's main city around (maybe more than) 10 years, but still have less interest on what is the main attraction for tourist in this colorful capital city. But recently, not sure why, is it because lack of understanding how & why these places existed and some had become a tourism places. Thus, I went to some tourism information counter to take a tour guide map as shown below:

“KUALA LUMPUR Walks & Tours Map -25th Issue (Edited & Updated – Jan 2017)”, still able to get latest info from this leaflet :D
(Note: this map leaflet is NOT FUND BY GOVERNMENT, but a private company called ARCH with government support)

As open the leaflet, the 1ST place recommend to all visitor is Chinatown @ Petaling Street (Chinese: 茨厂街). About the brief history & details can be found at these website link: "http://kuala-lumpur.attractionsinmalaysia.com/Petaling-Street.php" or "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petaling_Street".

Is this 160 years old China Town still remain those old Chinese street feel/"taste" or it has change to meet current generation? Let's find out :)
And I planned a weekday to visit China Town by taking KTM train (http://www.ktmb.com.my/ktmb/index.php?r=portal/setlang&lang=en) & with some walking distance from train station to Petaling Street.

Nice evening weather while walking to Petaling Street.

After walked & snapped photos around the place, here is the China Town’s front main gate entrance.

Since reach Petaling Street around 5pm, sooner or later will more people come to visit and looking for delicious Chinese food :D

In Petaling Street, there have big & small booths selling wearables (clothes, pants, shoes, sunglasses, watches), bags, accessories, souvenir & gift, toys, food & drink, and others useable item. Most of wearables item they sell are copycat from many famous fashion brand, you name it and will able to find it :p

From the photos shown below, some foreign (Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, or Myanmar, India, etc…) workers/sellers even local business man are not like their photos been taken. Therefore, always be cautious while taking photos around this crowded area.

Friendly Foreign Seller, he good in speaking English & local language - Bahasa Malaysia ;-)



No photo, please >_<

Bags, Backpack, Travel Cases, handbags, almost everywhere




Everyday "Stock Clearance" :p

Still able to see Chinese Medicine Shop available in this old street :0

Other booths & shops




Sleeping uncle with his clothes booth

Near dinner time, more visitor come looking for food while look something to buy ;-)


REMEMBER!! not come here to eat, as this food court aim for tourist, taste normal with expensive meal. Better look for others more tasty food :P

As night coming, more sellers prepare to setup more booths at middle of the walking road for night market.
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Here are some night shots of Petaling Street

Main front entrance of Petaling Street

Back entrance of Petaling Street

SUMMARY:

Pros:

• Tasty food & drink can found in the Petaling Street.
• Good to walk around and still able to see all remain old building design & shops
• Night market (start after 5pm until 10pm) are more booths
• Recommend come at weekend as most of the shop will open

Cons:

• Feel hot as it is open space + Malaysia's all days hot weather
• A lot of Copycat Branded with quality issue, and price is NOT CHEAP
• Booths' Seller always Smarter than you if plan to price bargain with them :)
• Pray not raining during your visit
• Many foreign workers than local Chinese doing business

Is it worth to visit Malaysia's remain oldest Chinatown? Is depend on what you aim for. If for food & drink, YES, is worth for it. If looking for wearables, clothes for your boyfriend/girlfriend/family members, you might consider else where.

P/S: Hope able improve more in writing skills & reduce grammar mistake :p

Thank you everyone willing spend some time to read this small info of travel articles :)

Best Regards,
@timelessvolcano
Member of @steemitmalaysia

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 吉隆坡 - 是马来西亚首都，在这里居住了大概有（应该超过）十年了，但是没有一些旅游区想要去，因为感觉上没什么特别。但是最近不知为什么，想要了解马来西亚历史地点，为何它还在保留着而且有的地方已经变成旅游胜地。所以选了了一天去拿了吉隆坡旅游地图资料研究看看。发现第一个旅游地点建议去拜访的是 - 茨厂街，已经拥有160年的历史，经历了多少年代的变化和”洗礼“而变成了现在几十年家喻户晓的唐人街。因为这原因，平民就选了一天平日去茨厂街走走见识。

那天选择搭电动火车到城市中心然后走路到茨厂街。到了茨厂街，可以容易发现到哪里的华商为了减低成本，请外劳来看店和做买卖。这群外劳们不简单，不但会多种简单语言沟通（英文，马来语，一些还有会说广东话/中文）而且蛮会讨价还价，为了生活硬着头去学，佩服。茨厂街里多数卖的东西是衣服，鞋，裤子或其他穿着之类，太阳眼镜，背包，旅行包等等。多数都是山寨版名牌，如果要正版的话需要去其他地方找。

 虽然茨厂街里有很多外劳工作，被大马本地人称为”外劳街“， 但是还是有当地华人做卖吃喝生意。有不少好吃好喝的华人餐厅和街边小食，需要注意多点就可以找到。如果有机会，需要带一群朋友到这里寻找好吃的好喝的，呵呵 😀 

谢谢大家花时间看这文章。感恩。

@timelessvolcano
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