Photoblog: Petaling Street and Jalan Alor, KL
| Hawker food/street food is a big part of Malaysian culture and can be found anywhere in the country. If you are a foreign tourist to KL, don't miss out Petaling Street and Jalan Alor. A tad touristy, the foods are delectable nonetheless. Here are some pictures snapped at Jalan Alor and Petaling Street during my whirlwind 36 hours in KL.  Mangosteen--the queen of all fruits--has a milky color flesh which is sweet with just the right tint of sourness. A friendly street vendor with his hot wok. His stir-fried Hokkien Mee is cooked with lots of wok hei (the breath of wok). A very colorful and festive open-air restaurant at Petaling Street. Another street vendor watching over his Portuguese baked fish wrapped with aluminum foil. Claypot chicken rice. This is how the the real stuff are done--with two electric fans fanning the charcoal flame.View the complete set and take a virtual tour of the food scenes in KL...enjoy! Related Post: 36 Hours in KL Labels: Malaysia Cultural Guides, Malaysian Food Guides, Photo Blog, Travel |
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post a commentI wish I could open up those aluminum foil packages and smell and taste what is inside!
Oh, all these souvenirs...it was really good...to bad that I'm not here any more ;-) Nice pictures
Cheers
Claude
Hope to see some pics of Penang..
You people are killing me! With your food pictures and Tigerfish's pictures, I'm "lau nuah" all day long.
I want those Portuguese fish and claypot chicken rice. Makes me so hungry.
Great photos. Imagine how many more we could have had if you were there longer?? Hope it was good.
I'm surprised the hokkien mee is black (is it fried with sweet sauce or what?). Wow, lucky the covers were still on the claypot...if not, looking at the chicken rice in the claypot would have made me crave. How nice if we could have all these hawker/street food in cooler weather such as in California? :D
Your pictures make me miss Malaysia so much! More so the food. lol. I was born there but I found your blog and your recipes are awesome!
Seriously the nex time those hyperactive energetic eating/drinking/singing/state-of-de-art digital imaging happy dynamos aka KL/PJ/Klang/Shah Alam//Thai/US(ex-Pg) floggers & super cooks/bakers/recipe King/Queens/& of course Gluttons shud do their wondrous illuminating acrobatic gastronomical thing right here in Food Paradise...
...Home of Hawker Cuisine @ Pearl of De Orient, Penang.
PE - too bad I myself didn't have the Portuguese Baked fish because my favorite stall wasn't opened. I am a food snob. :P
Claude - you can go back again. :)
WMW - OK, I will take some pictures of Penang. I posted some here a few months ago.
Ming - when was the last time you are home in Malaysia?
Suane - yeah lah...what we get outside of Malaysia is not the same. Malaysian food is the best. ;)
Mallika - you will have no idea. I am constantly eating when I am home...every waking hour!
Tiga - I think it's darker because of my lousy camera lah...taken at night...but it was quite black, but maybe it's the wok hei?! CA and street food...hmmm...I don't think so. :(
Bake your cake - Ooooh, time to go home and eat your cake too! :P
Team BSG - right on...yes, the next time you guys have to pay back by coming up to Penang. Have you read my Tambun post? La La Chong can fight with it or not?
did u guys have the air mata kucing at the most famous stall next to hong leong bank?
those claypot are gigantic, i dont think there is something like that in the Philippines, very interesting!
Hmm, durian and mangosteen look nice, but ohhhhh the bak kwa makes my mouth water!
never try the kai si ho fan next to the claypot chicken rice at petaling street? one of the best in its class. miss that..
I wrote a review on the Hokkien Mee not too long ago and has just "reposted" it in my blog here. Great Hokkien Mee!
That's really cool.
Hi Bee - we revisited that Portugese fish stall last night for the first time in 4 years. It was a highlight of our first visit to KL but I'm sorry to say that last night's dinner was horrible. Muddied sauces with no real discernible flavors other than 'hot' and - get this - surimi (fake crab) thrown in with our squid and ray! What a bummer. Some things do, unfortunately, change.
to me the best hokkien mee in kl is mun wah hokkien mee at choo cheng khay! no fight for petaling street hokkien mee :p
i have not had all those KL food since leaving KL!
remembering friend and i will go around eating during weekends.
KL is indeed quite interesting
But the pesky VCD/DVD peddlers are really a nuisance.. And I used to walk by the colorful open-air restaurant you shown :)