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Eating Your Way Through Chinatown

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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.