We have put together all the things to do, places to eat and see for you from our very own experience of roaming and traveling the neighborhood.
Places to Eat
Jalan Mesui (3-min walk)
FEEKA – All day dining, single origin coffee or fresh pastries. Great place for brunch or stop for specialty coffee.
Super Boring Club – Fusing imaginative Korean-Japanese fusion.
Tono Izakaya – Japanese skewers and beers.
Pisco Bar – Peruvian and Spanish tapas restaurant and bar.
Jalan Ceylon (7-min walk)
Bottega KL – Italian cafe, pizzeria and grocer that has really amazing hearty Italian food.
Jalan Tong Shin (7-min walk)
TG’s Bistro Nasi Kandar –Authentic Indian Malaysian restaurant. Pick dishes and gravies for your Nasi Kandar, or order “mee goreng” (fried noodles) or “roti canai” (flaky flatbread) or “nasi lemak” (fragrant rice with achovies and sambal).
Restoran Kam Fatt (non-halal) – Local hawker stalls with a variety of chinese-style soup, noodles, rice dishes and other local delicacies.
Ngau Kee Beef Noodles (non-halal) – One of the oldest chinese-style beef ball noodle shops in town.
Jalan Alor (4-min walk)
Jalan Alor Food Street -The most popular and crowded food street in KL. Lined with seafood eateries and hawker stalls.
Nasi Lemak Alor Corner -Tuesday-Sunday 8:00am-11:30am
PUDU (10-min drive)
Heun Kee Claypot Chicken Rice – Michelin Bib Gourmand claypot chicken rice.
Restoran 168 Wantan Mee & Curry Mee – One of the best curry mee in town!
Places to See
Jalan Bedara (1-min walk)
UR-MU – Short for Urban Museum. A local art museum with personal pieces by an avid local collector in his 50s.
Jalan Alor (4-min walk)
Alor Backspace Street Art – Explore vibrant wall murals.
Petaling Street / Chinatown (12-min drive)
Kwai Chai Hong (“Little Demon Alley”) – Attractive murals reminiscent of the ’60s.
REX KL – Community-based cultural and creative centre.
The Zhongshan Building –Creative hangout with art, music, books & niche stores.
City Centre (12-min drive)
Merdeka Square – A historical site where Malaya declared its independence.
National Mosque of Malaysia – open for tourists. Visiting hours for non-muslims are Monday – Sunday 9am-12pm, 3-4pm, 5.30-6.30pm. On Fridays, hours are 3-4pm, 5.30-6.30pm.
Sri Mahamariamman Temple – oldest Hindu temple in KL Open daily 06:00 – 21:00 (but these hours can vary during festival etc)
Bank Negara Malaysia Museum – This is a museum about money… and who doesn’t love money! So how can this be boring? Daily 10:00 to 17:00 (except for Hari Raya Aidilfitri)
KL City Gallery – This gallery tells the history of KL and has a massive model of the city. You can also jump on the KL Tram (a hop on hop off) for a small fee of MYR 2.00 each for passing by prominent buildings, visiting hibiscus garden and the KL orchid garden.
Other places to visit for free – National Art gallery, National Textile Museum, Trade Museum, Royal Malaysia Police Museum
Shopping Malls – Pavilion, Starhill & Lot10 –Luxury urban shopping retreat in the heart of Kuala Lumpur. Merdeka 118 – The second-tallest building and structure in the world. TRX – World-class experiential retail mall. Lalaport – a Japanese lifestyle shopping mall
Markets
Central Market – KL’s oldest surviving marketplace that has been revived to preserve its heritage.
Chinatown (“Petaling Street”) Market – Hundreds of stalls sell all sorts of things at the Petaling Market, including “genuine fakes” and ridiculously useless stuff such as rubber squawking chickens.
Jalan Alor – a street crammed with hawker stalls and seafood restaurants. There is often entertainment in the form of buskers and a wide range of food, such as frog porridge, skewered frogs, seafood, duck, dim sum, Chinese, Vietnamese, Indian, and Malay fare. It is a must-do if you enjoy trying different food or are a fan of giant prawns.
Snacks
Durian Bros at CommonsKL – get your durian craving satisfied. First timer? Get stink-bombed or love-bombed.
Chinatown – walk and shop around Chinatown where there are cafes, cake shops, street food stalls, local confectionaries, local desserts to snack from. Try 1978 Cucur Udang.
Outdoor / nature
Perdana Botanical Garden (19-min drive) – Kuala Lumpur’s first large-scale recreational park. Measuring 91.6 hectares, it is located in the heart of the city and established in 1888.
KL Forest Eco Park – Open daily from 08:00 to 17:30, including weekends and public holidays.
KLCC Park – is a 50-acre garden near the KLCC shopping centre. Open daily from 10:00 t0 22:00
Hours for Lake Symphony Music and light show are daily at 20:00, 21:00, and 22:00. The Lake Symphony Water Fountain showtimes (Light only) are daily at 19:30, 20:30, and 21:30.
Getting around Kuala Lumpur
Rapid KL
Includes – Light Railway Transit (LRT), KL Monorail, Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) and bus. Click here for their website or download the Pulse App, which covers the MRT, LRT, KL Monorail, Sunway BRT, buses under the Rapid KL, Rapid Penang, and Rapid Kuantan, including the MRT feeder buses.
Grab
If we do not use public transport, we use Grab. It is super cheap and easy to use in Malaysia. One of the best things (apart from how cheap it is) is that you can see how much it is going to cost before you even order the car. Download the GRAB app.
Taxi
A few years back, we used taxis, but it was a very painful experience. Even though they say (on the outside of the vehicle) that the meter must be on and there is no bartering for taxi ride cost, many taxi drivers refuse to turn on the meter and just charge you what they want to. It is so much easier to use GRAB.
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