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Dragons, swirling smoke, music and fire cracker explosions that
jolt the senses, its Kuala Lumpur China Town,

a place where one can also sit quietly in a Chinese Teahouse or drink some beer in a open air Kuala Lumpur China Town food court.. The scene is not Beijing, its Petaling Street in the heart of Kuala Lumpur's China Town.

Chinese began trickling into Malaysia and settled in Kuala Lumpur China Town,  Penang Georgetown and elsewhere with the help of the British colonialists since the last tin boom roughly a century ago since someone has to work the tin mines.

Chinese are the economic power house of Malaysia, actually not many of them live in Kuala Lumpur China Town anymore. They have the finger on the wealth of the country and even since several Malaysian governments try to move wealth towards native Malaysians nothing much happen, its simple, Chinese are very strong after good education, work hard and have their native sources of money, but often with interest rates of hundred or 200 percent per year.

The hearth of Kuala Lumpur China Town with its bustling markets is Petaling Street and during daytime also the central market just nearby. Petaling street is Patpong Bangkok without the Go Go bars and even more difficult to walk after 8 pm.

The alleys between the stalls at Kuala Lumpur China Town Petaling street are  narrow and all the entrance and exits into the street totally blocked, anyone who see this can imagine what happen when a emergency situation comes up, maybe a fire or whatever, it will bring death to hundreds of  people, only the relevant authorities seem not the see this.

The side roads of Kuala Lumpur China Town Petaling Street are the preferable places to enjoy the open air restaurant, watch the guys selling the fake Rolex, Luis Vuitton luggage and countless other textile, fake Nike and other brand shoes, just name it. Since all this are illegal goods police raids are frequent at Kuala Lumpur China Town Petaling Street but the vendors are very organized. Many of them carry walky talky and if some outposts at the entrance to Kuala Lumpur’s China Town’s Petaling Street give alarm within seconds everything is hidden and locked up, it’s a continuous cat and mouse game.

Kuala Lumpur China Town Stall in the Alley selling Watches
Kuala Lumpur China Town Stall in the Alley selling Watches
Kuala Lumpur China Town Flower Shop at Petaling Street
Kuala Lumpur China Town Flower Shop at Petaling Street
Sell chestnut at KL Chinatown
Sell chestnut at KL China Town, Kuala Lumpur China Town, Kuala Lumpur,
china town restaurant, Chinatown shopping,
Flower Market Kuala Lumpur
Flower Market Kuala Lumpur, China town Kuala Lumpur, new China Town.

Maybe the best places to have a exotic dinner are the open air restaurants

in front of the food courts on the side alleys of Kuala Lumpur’s China Town’s Petaling Street. The food courts offer plenty of exotic dishes for low prices, a real heap dinner is waiting, but the quality of the food is good.

Kuala Lumpur China Town
Kuala Lumpur China Town
Chinese tea house
Chinese tea house

It seems somehow that all tourist come down to Kuala Lumpur’s China Town’s Petaling Street in the evening for a walk and something to eat or maybe just have some beers.

There is also a marvelous Chinese tea  house at the end of Kuala Lumpur’s China Town’s Petaling Street, with polished and shining pots plus

a strong Chinese atmosphere, you can really feel it. Musicians play in front of the KL China Town restaurants , ts very entertaining and a long evening in Kuala Lumpur’s China Town’s Petaling Street should be on the agenda of everyone who visit Kuala Lumpur.

To round up the good time and not wasting to much time the traveler can stay in the Malaya Hotel right in the center at the intersection between Kuala Lumpur’s China Town’s Petaling Street and a smaller street.

Kuala Lumpur China Town Food Center Restaurant
Kuala Lumpur China Town Food Center Restaurant
Kuala Lumpur China Town Open Air Restaurant
Kuala Lumpur China Town Open Air Restaurant, Chinatown restaurants,
Chinatown hotel, china town.
China Town Restaurant
China Town Restaurant, Chinatown shopping, china town Kuala Lumpur, Chinatown.

Malay, Chinese, Indian, Indonesian, Italian and other food is waiting for you in Kuala Lumpur China Town. When it comes to food and restaurant diversity K L Chinatown is hard to beat.

Aside of dozens of food stalls, food courts and hawkers at Petaling Street at KL China Town are other excellent full scale restaurants. If you are for restaurants on the upper price level have

Teppanyaki
Teppanyaki
Chinatown travel
Chinatown travel

a look at Bangsar or around Bukit Bintang’ Imbi Plaza area.

Actually the shopping centers at Bukit Bintang have great restaurants and they are
real cheap, e.g. you can get a full Japanese beef Teppanyaki, there are also seafood and chicken variants, meal prepared in front of you for about $ 6,- including drinks, pic left.

It's no question that Kuala Lumpur's Chinat Town is a excellent travel destination, in particular because of its exotic


ethnic diversity which produce such a interesting mixture of food and habits. Also the diversity of the people around.

Kuala Lumpur China Town is a real heaven for exotic food lover. Throughout the city are markets and food courts with excellent and exotic food for just a few dollars. They are also called hawker centers offering fish curries and traditional chicken skewers (Satays), fried rice and chili crabs plus plus, all freshly prepared.

If you look for something special at Kuala Lumpur China Town try Nasi Lemak, that’s steamed rice with coconut milk, fried fish and chili, but be careful with the chili, tell them to bring the chili separate so that you can add as much as you like since usually this is extremely hot food, just as in Thailand.

Other KL delicacies are shrimp soup, Satay's with peanut sauce and all kind of grilled sea food. Fresh fruit juice, coconut milk, coke, Chinese tea and other drinks are available.

Taxis are cheap and the monorail and subway quite ok, you can travel easily on a Kuala Lumpur tour from Chinatown's

Chinatown Hawker
Chinatown Hawker
Chinese Food
Chinese Food
Kuala Lumpur Chinatown
Kuala Lumpur Chinatown

Maharadjalela Station up to Bukit Bintang area, not much can get wrong the environment is quite clean, even the water.

Kuala Lumpur Chinatown is as indicated by the name, the domain of the Malaysian Chinese, but not only. They are descendants of early Chinese settlers who came to work in tin mines of the Klang valley.

 
  The Chan She Shu Yuen Chinese Temple in China Town Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur China Town Chan She Shu Yuen Temple
Kuala Lumpur China Town Chan She Shu Yuen Temple
Kuala Lumpur China Town Chan She Shu Yuen Temple Information
Kuala Lumpur China Town Chan She Shu Yuen Temple Information
Kuala Lumpur China Town Chan She Shu Yuen Temple Inside
Kuala Lumpur China Town Chan She Shu Yuen Temple Inside
Kuala Lumpur China Town Chan She Shu Yuen Temple Front Door
Kuala Lumpur China Town Chan She Shu Yuen Temple Front Door

 

 

Some Kuala Lumpur China Town History

When British officials moved from Klang at the seaside to Kuala Lumpur in March 1880, KL Chinatown was already set up because this was the center of tin mining. Kuala Lumpur China Town was constantly the target of thousands of Chinese immigrants who try to find work in the tin mines and over time in the rubber industries and at the coffee plantation.

The Klang Valley is rich in tin bearing granites, this is the area along the Klang river from Klang town at the sea eastwards to today Kuala Lumpur, mined was from open cast tin mines.

In the 18xx the Chinese immigrant worker at Kuala Lumpur Chinatown were seen as follows:

The Chinese can do everything; they are actors, acrobats, artists, musicians, chemists and druggists, clerks, cashiers, engineers, architects, surveyors, missionaries, priests, doctors, schoolmasters, lodging-house keepers, butchers, pepper grower, gambler, cake-sellers, carriage owners, cloth hawkers, distillers of spirits, eating-house keepers, fishmongers, fruit sellers, ferrymen, grass-seller, hawkers, merchants and agents, oil-sellers, opium-shop keepers, pawnbrokers, pig dealers, chicken farmer, paper-lantern makers, pea-grinders, tomb-builders, water carriers, beggars, idle vagabonds and thieves.

The problem with the area of today Kuala Lumpur China Town was the malaria, hundreds of people died every couple of month, but some made it through and got immense wealthy

In the 188X the China Town area was ruled by the so called “Captain China” Mr. Yap Ah Loy and his Chinese friends.

In the 1890-ties most of the Chinese immigrant workers were men and they called themselves 'free laborers' who could change their employer as they like. The so called -pig business- to import workers before without having a chance to change the employer had been stopped. But a newcomer from China with his travel paid by a recruiting agent was still likely to be locked up in a lodging house at Kuala Lumpur Chinatown while the recruiter went off to arrange for his disposal to an employer.

The Kuala Lumpur China Town dweller of 189X lived where he could find space to lie down. He either lived on the job or shared a room with dozens of other Chinese workers. The Chinese working population was of men usually between twenty and fifty with a ratio of ten guys to one woman. This resulted to forty registered brothels at Kuala Lumpur Chinatown in the 189X where about 500 women, mainly Chinese did their job.

The Chinese worker lived where his job was, some also on a covered pavement or in a crowded guesthouse. There the Chinese men at Kuala Lumpur slept in wooden beds fixed to the walls in tiers, on canvas or straw mats. In many cases the man had no more than the shared use of a bed for twelve or even eight hours, it was rented by another person during his working shift. Here he kept his box with his few possessions, including an opium pipe.

There are not many remains left from that time in Kuala Lumpur China Town. The only city in Malaysia still having a Chinatown very similar to this old days is Penang Georgetown.

Kuala Lumpur China Town today is mainly directed to tourism, shopping and some nightlife. It is one of the most interesting places in Malaysia's capital and the right place when you want to have some fun in the evening. There are also a couple of relatively cheap Kuala Lumpur hotels around, the Hotel Malaya is one of them.

Chinatown Penang Georgetown
Chinatown Penang Georgetown

 

Kuala Lumpur China Town shopping at the Central Market.

The top shopping mall for native Malaysian items of any kind including Malaysian gallery art with interesting ethnic and tribal art on display. The right place to go shopping for a exotic native souvenir to give the special touch in your home decoration.

The Kuala Lumpur China Town Central Market was built in 1888 as a wet market, renovated in 2005 and the shops redesigned to look like traditional Malaysian houses.

Now the Central Market KL serves as a cultural center to promote arts and crafts of multicultural Malaysia.

Behind the Kuala Lumpur China Town Central Market is a annex with art shops for more contemporary paintings and other items of art.

In the Central Market Kuala Lumpur China Town are plenty food stalls and small restaurants with native food of the different states of Malaysia.

Crispy toasts are served in Old town Kopitiam, means coffee shop. Indian food such as roti canai, briyani and several curry dishes are on the menu.

A great gallery with antique Chinese furniture is integrated in the Baba Nyonya restaurant. In a other typical Malaya cafe, old style Malaysian food is served.

Central Market Kuala
Central Market Kuala
Shopping Central Market
Shopping Central Market
Malaysia gallery art
Malaysia gallery art
Central Market Kuala Lumpur China Town
Central Market Kuala Lumpur China Town
Central Market KL shopping
Central Market KL shopping


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