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Bon Ton
Housed in an atmospheric Malay-style wooden pavilion just east of the Bukit Bintang tourist area, Bon Ton serves excellent Euro-Asian fusion food, plus a series of set menus showcasing cooking from around Malaysia. Sample such unusual dishes as tom yam carbonara, and black pepper and mango chicken.
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Food Stalls at Lorong Tuanku Abdul Rahman
The best time to visit Little India is during the Saturday pasar malam on Lorong Tuanku Abdul Rahman, the alley between Jln TAR and Jln Masjid India. From mid-afternoon, this narrow lane becomes crammed with food stalls serving excellent Malaysian Indian food, as well as favourite dishes of the Chinese and Indian communities.
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Gin Ger
Wooden screens and Thai knick-knacks disguise the mall location at this upmarket Thai restaurant inside Central Market. It's a quiet place but the food is excellent. Try the Thai salads.
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Jln Alor
KL's biggest collection of roadside restaurants sprawls along Jln Alor, just north of Jln Bukit Bintang. From around till late every evening, the street transforms into a continuous open-air restaurant, with hundreds of plastic tables and chairs and rival caterers shouting out to passers-by to drum up business.
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Masjid India Hawker Court
A bustling covered hawker court serving all the usual Malay, Indian and Chinese favourites. Good to visit if you can't make it to the Saturday pasar malam .
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Medan Hang Tuah
A Pudu-based re-creation of an old city street, complete with mock shophouses. The food stalls here serve excellent and cheap Malay, Chinese and Indian food.
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Old China Café
The old guild hall of the Selangor & Federal Territory Laundry Association is the atmospheric home for this fine cafe, which specialises in Nonya dishes from Malacca and Penang - their speciality is the laksa , with its spicy coconut milk soup.
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Restoran Makanan Laut Lai Fatt Ikan Bakar
Brickfields has a number of informal hawker-style restaurants serving tasty Malay Chinese dishes for around RM2 to RM15 . Try Restoran Makanan Laut Lai Fatt Ikan Bakar for delicious fresh seafood and ikan panggang (grilled skate with tamarind paste).
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Restoran Nagansari Curry House
This simple hawker-style restaurant serves a good selection of Malay dishes - soup mee, tom yam and the like - with a few Indian favourites thrown in for good measure. Fans blow moist air around the dining hall to keep diners cool.
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Restoran Nelayan Titiwangsa
Housed in a wooden pavilion at Taman Tasik Titiwangsa, Restoran Nelayan offers a popular Malaysian buffet. There's touristy but entertaining cultural shows ( daily except Monday), free with buffet supper.
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Top Hat
Set in an old mansion behind the KLCC, Top Hat offers more imaginative European and Asian cooking plus set menus of traditional Malay cooking. Whatever you order for mains, start with the house speciality, pie tee (crispy hat-shaped shells stuffed with shredded vegetables). Also check out the Top Room jazz bar upstairs at the weekends.
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West Lake Restoran
Chinatown has a number of informal hawker-style restaurants, with various food stations serving classic Malay Chinese dishes. Almost all offer fried rice, fish curry, rice porridge, mee (thin noodles, fried or in soup) and tofu dishes - a meal should cost less than RM20 . West Lake Restoran is recommended.
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