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Food & Markets in Kuala Lumpur

🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Food & Markets in Kuala Lumpur

Local food scenes, markets, and culinary stops. Explore 6 curated stops in Kuala Lumpur, including KL Tower, Jalan Alor, and Aquaria KLCC. Highlights include KL Tower, rated 4.5/5 by 8,806 visitors.

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KL Tower By Jorge Láscar, CC BY 2.0

KL Tower

Kuala Lumpur Tower, also known as KL Tower is a 15-story, 421-meter-tall telecommunication tower in Kuala Lumpur. It is the world's 7th tallest tower, also, Malaysia and Southeast Asia's tallest tower. Its construction was completed on 1 March 1995. It features an antenna that increases its height to 421 metres (1,381 feet). The roof of the pod is at 335 metres (1,099 feet). The rest of the tower below has a stairwell and an elevator to reach the upper area, which also contains a revolving restaurant, providing diners with a panoramic view of the city. Races are held annually, where participants race up the stairs to the top. The tower also acts as the Islamic falak observatory to observe the crescent moon which marks the beginning of Muslim month of Ramadhan, Syawal, and Zulhijjah, to celebrate fasting month of Ramadhan, Hari Raya Aidilfitri and Aidiladha. The tower is the highest viewpoint in Kuala Lumpur that is open to the public.

Jalan Alor By IQRemix, CC BY-SA 2.0

Jalan Alor

(Night Food Market)

Alor Street, or Jalan Alor in Malay, is an entire street dedicated to cheap hawker food of mainly local Chinese cuisines. Located within walking proximity of Bintang Walk, it is popular among the locals for offering food served in a traditional open-air atmosphere, with chairs and tables dotting the curbs and road-sides. This is a place burgeoning with activity both during night and day. While some hawkers erect stalls along curbs, others operate food stalls from utilitarian restaurants. The food served in local hawker stalls is generally cleaner than their counterparts in Malaysia's less-developed neighbouring countries. For local and foreign Muslim, most of the stalls are non-halal which served pork, frog and beer.

Aquaria KLCC By Phalinn Ooi, CC BY 2.0

Aquaria KLCC

The Aquaria KLCC is an oceanarium located beneath Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre. Featuring 60,000 square feet (5,600 m2) in two levels with a 90-metre (300 ft) underwater tunnel, Aquaria KLCC houses over 250 different species and over 5,000 land and aquatic animals from Malaysia and around the world. Interactive information kiosks on fish and turtle conservation. It includes a themed retail area of about 5,000 square feet (460 m2). Aquaria KLCC is based on the journey of water from the land to the sea. The journey starts in the misty highlands, down through rivers, through the rainforest and mangroves to the coral reefs into the deep blue sea. There is a large food-court just outside the aquarium with many choices of food.

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Central Market By Winter.daniel92 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0

Central Market

It was founded in 1888 and originally used as a wet market, while the current Art Deco style building was completed in 1937. It has been classified as a Heritage Site by the Malaysian Heritage Society, and it is now a landmark for Malaysian culture and heritage. The Central Market Kuala Lumpur is arranged in a stall concept, representing the traditional market in Kuala Lumpur since the 1800s. Travellers can scroll through the many sections within the Central Market, from the Lorong Melayu, Straits Chinese, and Lorong India, located on the west wing. The second floor hosts a food court, offering an array of food. Notable are two-storey and single-storey buildings resembling the kampong-style houses representing the many ethnic groups living harmoniously in Kuala Lumpur.

Petaling Street By Goosmurft, CC BY-SA 2.0

Petaling Street

Chinatown KL

Petaling Street (Malay: Jalan Petaling). The whole vicinity is also known as Chinatown KL. Haggling is a common sight here and the place is usually crowded with locals as well as tourists. The area has dozens of restaurants and food stalls, serving local favourites such as Hokkien mee, Ikan Bakar (barbecued fish), asam laksa and curry noodles. Traders here are mainly Chinese but there are also Indian, Malay, and Bangladeshi traders.

Medan Pasar By Chainwit, CC BY-SA 4.0

Medan Pasar

Medan Pasar (also known as Old Market Square in English) is a public square. It was originally a market and was one of the earliest market in Kuala Lumpur built by Ye Yalai, the pioneer of Kuala Lumpur. One of the first sites to be developed. Before the independence of Malaysia, this place has always been a lively commercial market square. After a hundred years, the traces of the old market have disappeared and brought in, but the three-storey century-old buildings left over from the British colonial period on both sides of the square are still there to witness the elegance of that year. It has now become the main bus transfer station as well as a tourist attraction in the Kuala Lumpur. In the centre of the square is the Clock Tower built in Art Deco style. Designed by Arthur Oakley Coltman, the tower was built to commemorate the coronation of George VI in 1937. The memorial plaques mentioning the English king were removed after Malaysia's independence.

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