Petaling street
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 07/06/2005
The last time i went, I stayed in Swiss Inn hotel, a budget hotel in Pataling street, chinatown.
I enjoy the food there, I can easily find lots of food ranging from eaterie shops to roadside hawkers, offering plentiful of variety ranging from dumpling noodle, claypot chicken rice, bbq chicken wing, seafood, steamboat and more, and most of all, its cheap!! I like the chee cheong fun (long piece of flour with sauce in it) and the ang pang yong tou fu (a mix of beancurd, vegetables, fishballs, cuttlefish), which open in the morning till afternoon. Then a slow walk along the street, you feel the ambience and crowd, a mood for shopping. There are plentiful of bazaar stalls selling mainly immitation bags, watches, t shirts, clocks, and their malaysian cookies n candies, the price there are bargainable. Check the product for default and bargain at least 50% off normal price. The bazaar stalls are crampy to each other but its a nice experience to shop.
The shophouses are pretty old but it is historical and enhance its ambience. Though the area is quite mondernise now, recently just renovated with shelter and and clean tile flooring at the main street. Well to some people, it may be just an ordinary street, fill with shops and food.
But if you are a detailed person, besides enjoying the food there, shopping for the rite stuff, paying attention to the shophouses, lifestyle of vendor and the crowd, the things around you, it is interesting.
Roaming around, I saw these interesting mobile pancake stall n roastduck stall there every morning whereby many people will line up to buy. There was one day when i shop, 2 Buddhist nuns go round offering people some cards or pictures and ask for donation in return. There is a wet market there where everymorning ladies will be doing their marketing there.