Eating Out at Chinatown’s Food Stall
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Each and everytime, when we mention about food in Malaysia, every visitors will know that Malaysia is a Food haven. We have so many type of food from different cultures. The menu is endless.
Today, we just want to talk about Eating Out at Chinatown’s Food Stall
Kuala Lumpur’s Chinatown is a fantastic place for Chinese food, especially hawker stalls and open-air restaurants. In addition, you can get a magnificent variety of cakes, pastries, fruits and sweet drinks from the stalls lining Petaling Street. Almost all the eating areas, in the form of stalls, are concentrated in the middle of Chinatown, which is where Petaling Street intersects with Hang Jebat Road, near a corner book store called ‘Popular’. Unless stated otherwise, all the stalls are open only from the evenings till late night.
Roasted Duck
The whole roasted duck available from Petaling Street is claim to be legendary. Coated in a deep rich brown marinade and crispy to the bite, the roasted duck are sold by a few peddlers on motorbikes and bicycles, stored in thermal glass cabinets. Of particular fame is the ‘’Sai Ngap Chai’, which means ‘Spectacles’ in Cantonese and refers to a one of the traders who wears spectacles. Visitors can order them in whole or part, chopped up into meat pieces and eaten with a tantalising black sauce.(Stall Name” Say Gunn Chai)
Claypot Chicken
This is a quick and simply meal, namely ‘Nga Poh Kai Fun’ in Cantonese, this is a dish that’s served in a small earthen clay pot, consisting of a bottom spread of rice and chicken pieces with ginger and sliced preserved pork sausages. The clay pot is covered and left to cook over a stove, and the final result is an aromatic piece that will warm your taste buds!
Portuguese Grilled Fish
Specially in grill fish over a hot bed of coals with a distinct assam and chilli flavour typical of the Portuguese culinary style. You can select a variety of seafoods to get the grilled treatment, but most would opt for sting ray; grilled to a crispy brown and served with spicy sweet sauce.This is quite spicy and hot
Seafood
The restaurants cum stalls in Petaling Street towards Sultan Road are popular spots for tourists. Here, cooks can be seen blazing away their woks in large flames while tourists sit and chat on tables erected on the road, sipping beer. Patrons can order a variety of cooked local Chinese food, especially seafood. The ‘La-la’ or clams are really popular here, often cooked in a sweet and sour sauce. Other dishes that you should try “Butter prawns, Sweet and sour Crabs, Steam Prawns, steam fish and many more”
Lok Kon / Local B-B-Q meat
‘Lok Kon’ in Cantonese, or ‘Bak Kwah’ in Hokkien, is a popular dried meat delicacy, eaten most during the Chinese New Year festival. However, you can find it available all-year-round in Petaling Street from stalls that ‘dry’ and stock this delicious meat. Lok Kon is made by mashing up pork (including the entrails!) and shredding it with a machine into a gooey paste. The paste is then cut into square-shaped pieces and smoked over a bed of coals. The final result is a delicious combination of sweetness and meaty goodness! My favourite is Chicken meat.
Beef Noodles
The beef noodles are found not in Petaling Street, but just opposite along Tun Tan Cheng Lock Road. From the Petaling Street entrance fronting that road, you can see a corner open-air restaurant cum coffee shop just opposite. It is here that you can get delicious beef noodles cooked in a variety of styles. You can get noodles served with beef meat either in the form of meatballs that sliced into thin pieces, or mashed into crumbs. You can eat it either in soup or ‘dry’, mixed with black sauce. The shop is open only during the day. My recommedation “Lai Fong Beef Noodel stall”
Bah Kut Teh / Pork stew
‘Bah Kut Teh’ is a popular Hokkien dish that’s available under a shady alley along the Petaling Street Road. This dish is made from boiling pig parts, including intestines, heat, liver and tongue in a herbal soup for hours. The end result is a rich aroma and delicious meaty soup, eaten with rice and a ‘Yau Char Kwai’, a type of fried bread-like dough. Those of you who are put off by what goes in it may be pleasantly surprised when you actually try this dish yourself!
Asam Laksa
This is a Nyonya favourite made from blending rice vermicelli with onions, cucumber, chilli, pineapple, lettuce, mint and ginger buds. The whole lot is placed into a thick soup made by blending curry with fish paste into a mushy, gooey like liquid that is both sweet and sour to taste. The taste is extremely sharp and its high tones of sweetness and sourness are truly something that may appeal to you. My recommendation ” Twin Sister stall” at the entrance of Wet Market.
Chee Chong Fun / rice roll
‘Chee Chong Fun’ is another popular culinary entrée; the term actually refers to a collection of meat pastries that is cooked by placing it in boiling soup, drained and eaten with silky strips of white, flat noodles drenched in chilli and black sauce. Most of the Chee Chong Fun items are made with beancurd and meat stuffed into it. This is popular for breakfast and is available only during the day. Served with sweet sauce or hot spicy chilies. Situated at the cross of petaling street
Mata Kuching / Local Lychee
Petaling Street is legendary for this popular local drink; ‘Mata Kuching’ which means Cat’s eye. In actuality, this drink is made from blending three different fruits together which are; ‘Longan’ a grape-like type of fruit grown in Thailand, ‘Tung Kwa’, or winter melon and ‘Loh Horn Guo’ a type of plum-like fruit without a proper name outside the Chinese language. This traditional drink is sold from stalls and has a cooling effect when drunk with crushed ice. You can also drink it hot. The stall is situated next to Hong Leong Bank.
Herbal Soup & Hong Kong Black Jelly
At both ends of Petaling Street there are two traditional herbal shops, which are unmistakable in design having large brass urns and gold-clothed tables inside. These shops sell traditional herbal soup and tea as well as a type of black jelly from Hong Kong. Usually served as dessert. it was claim taht will help to cool down your body and ingestion.
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[...] Walk about Chinatown 8932331754564396Chinatown is a doorstep from Hotel Malaya. Right here you are able to experience the enthralling streets, colors, cultures and local foods. [...]
[...] Dozens of restaurants can be found at the shop houses that originally line the streets. Food stalls can also be found towards the centre of the street selling local Chinese delights such as Hokkien mee, BBQ sting ray, Assam Laksa and many more. Most of these shops and stalls have been in operation for decades. The delicious food at Petaling Street is a legacy that has been passed down from one generation to another. [...]