Hawker Stalls in Chinatown Restaurants in Kuala Lumpur

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Jln Sultan & Jln Tun HS Lee, Chinatown
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Chinatown has some of the best street food in KL. From late afternoon the pavements along Jln Sultan and Jln Tun HS Lee fill with plastic chairs and tables, and mobile kitchens are set up in the street, serving an astonishing array of Malay and Chinese dishes. Many of the food stalls stay open till midnight or later and you can get a filling meal of rice and spicy stir-fried beef with a cold beer for as little as around RM20 .

Everything is prepared fresh so the food is almost always safe to eat, but stick to stalls with lots of customers.

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Forget fancy restaurants and steep bills! Sometimes the best meals can be found at roadsides or in forgotten alleys. Any adventurous traveller looking for a decent, fast and very reasonably priced meal should make a trip to Kuala Lumpur's Chinatown; a haven of Chinese hawker stalls selling everything from roasted duck and claypot chicken rice to desserts and old-fashion sweets. One can literally eat their way through the long stretch of delightful stalls without burning a hole in one's pocket. Start your meal with herbal soup from one stall and then move to another stall for a selection of either grilled portugese fish, beef noodles, assam laksa (a sour spicy fish base soup eaten with rice noodles), porridge cooked to smooth perfection, seafood cooked in the various sauces that Malaysia is famous for or even bak kut teh (pork parts boiled with herbs and mushrooms and traditionally served boiling hot in a claypot). Once you have determined that you have had your fill, end your culinary journey with the local favourite; Mata Kuching, a sweet cold dessert made out of longan, winter melon and 'loh horn guo' a round chinese plum like fruit. You may even decide to come back the next day to try out all the other interesting stalls.