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feel it. Musicians play in front of
the Chinese and open air restaurants all
the old good stuff from the Beatles, Neil
Young, Bob Dylan just to
name a few. Its 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.
Chinatown Kuala Lumpur night market at Petaling Street
is the right
place in
the evening
for a walk and something to eat
or maybe just have some beers.
If you
are not for a beer and
similar, there is a
marvelous Kuala Lumpur
Chinatown tea
house at the end of Petaling Street, with
polished and shining pots
plus a strong
Chinese
atmosphere, you can really feel it. China Town nightlife
is not finished yet. If you
sit down in one of
the open air restaurants and
bars, as you can see in the
picture left a whole Asian
selection of food is for
your selection.
The waitress will bring you
some menus with Malaysian,
Chinese, Indian and
other food from the food
courtyards in the back and
you can order real exotic
food to be
happy on your nightlife tour in
KL China
Town.
There is no sexy girl
stuff around like in
Bangkok
Nightlife or
Phuket
Nightlife. But its not
bad, its focused on a
different type.
From time to time some
guys, maybe one or two,
will stop in front of the
tables to spice up your KL Nightlife trip,
take their guitars and small
drums and bring some spices
in form of music into the
picture.
When the guys on the
other side close down
their displays of not
genuine
watches, run,
and pretend nobody knows
anything, the police is out
for a copy product raid.
But
they are not capable to
handle this since at both
ends of Petaling Street are
the guys watching and if
they see something which
looks like police the walky
talky runs hot and
everything disappears.
There are also some
bars
at KL
Chinatown,
one is the Reggae Bar.
Actually it is rather slow
burning, no girls or discos
and nightclubs. This is also
a excellent shopping strip
in the night and Central
Market during daytime. They
have a lot of interesting
things, but its a hit and
run business since this
stalls are one day there,
the next day not.
If you go shopping here it might be useful to
buy at the shops who are in
the houses just behind the
removable shops, because if
something is wrong with the
items you bought last night
next day you can go there
and change something.
At the
stalls of the night market
they usually sell fake
goods, like copy watches,
designer bags, well known
brand shoes and so on. It is
clearly visible, Kuala
Lumpur is not a dull place,
even as the people get more
and more influenced from
Arab Muslims who pour lots
of money into the country.
This area is probably the
best for a pleasant evening,
dining in open air, don't
worry when there is some
rain, umbrellas are pushed
up. Food is good and exotic
the scenes are constantly
changing because of a stream
of people from every corner
of the world, though it is
the real genuine "eastern
touch".
If it needs anything
just go shopping a few steps
away, that's also the
biggest night market in town.
Many items sold are somehow
travel related such as
luggage, bags, shoes,
clothing and also typical
Chinese items imported from
China, but be careful, its
often junk. |
