Malaysia | Street Dining at Jalan Alor KL

Summer time is adventure time...in another country! ;) Last summer, I joined a friend (and her friends) in their summer adventure in Malaysia and Singapore. We bought a 5D/5N package tour, 3 days in Malaysia and 3 days in Singapore. *wink-wink* :D

We left Manila at around 2:10PM via Cebu Pacific Air and reached Kuala Lumpur at around 6:00PM. Since it was a package tour, airport-hotel transfer was provided so we have a ride to our hotel. During the trip to the hotel, I asked the driver what Malaysian food should we try but he discouraged us and said that Malaysian food is full of fats, we might not like it (our driver looks like an Indian, maybe that's why...hehe!). However, he was kind enough to show us the famous Jalan Alor, which is just walking distance from our hotel.

Jalan Alor - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Jalan Alor is a street in Bukit Bintang area lined up with hawker stalls and restaurants. There are also those food carts like what we have here in the Philippines that offer dimsum and barbecue products. But instead of "isaw" (chicken intestine), "tokneneng" (quail eggs), "adidas" (chicken feet), etc., they have prawns, meats, and different kinds of dimsum on the carts. Fruit  stalls also lined up the street. There's so many restaurants, stalls and food choices here, it's so hard to choose where and what to eat. Anyway, we ended up trying Dragon View Restaurant, one of the Chinese restaurants in Jalan Alor.

Eager to try out a new dish, I ordered fried cockles koey teow. I didn't understand then the restaurant staff when she explained what koey teow is so I also ordered roaster mix chicken rice, a set meal of roasted chicken, pork and another meat (I forgot what it was) with rice and a can of sprite (RM3.50, around PhP46.00, expensive right?) for drinks. My friends, who are afraid of trying out dishes they don't know, also ordered roaster mixed chicken rice. When our orders arrived, I found out that koey teow is a stir-fried flat noodles with cockles, shrimps and bean sprouts (wow, carbo-loading itech...hehe!). It tasted good by the way, and one order could serve 2 - 3 persons (for RM6, around PhP80, it's fair enough).

Fried Cockles Koey Teow - RM6
Roaster Mix Chicken Rice - RM8.50
Restoran Dragon View - Jalan Alor, Kuala Lumpur
Street Dining - Jalan Alor, Kuala Lumpur
Street Foods - Jalan Alor, Kuala Lumpur
Street Foods - Jalan, Alor, Kuala Lumpur
Street Foods - Jalan Alor, Kuala Lumpur
Jalan Alor is a must-visit destination in Kuala Lumpur especially for food lovers looking for food varieties at a reasonable price, check it out when you visit Malaysia. More of our KL summer adventures next time. See you around...

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KL Summer Adventure Series:
  * Street Dining at Jalan Alor (Day 1)
  * Accommodations at Hotel Alpha Genesis
  * The City Tour (Day 2)
  * 272 Steps to Batu Caves Temple (Day 2)
  * The Towering Towers of Kuala Lumpur (Day 2)
  * Shopping in Jalan Petaling - KL Chinatown (Day 3)

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Date of Visit: May 6, 2012
Total Expenses for this dinner: RM18.00 (around PhP238.00)

32 comments:

  1. Parang ang sarap mag-food trip diyan ha. hehe :D

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    1. Kapag nagpunta ka ng KL, daan ka dito Joann, food trip talaga kase ang daming choices.

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  2. NIce to see this place and what kind of food they served. New experience, new places. LOved it!

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    1. Kapag nakita mo yun lugar, mas magugutom ka, kabi-kabila ang pagkain, kaloka pumili. ;)

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  4. Nagutom naman ako bigla hehehe.

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  5. Mukhang masasarap ang food ang daming kumakain o!

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    1. dami talagang kumakain dito Anney, try nyo Jalan Alor kung makapunta kayo ng Malaysia. :)

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  6. mukang masarap yung mga food lalo na yung fried cockles..mouthwatering!

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    1. Masarap naman sya, parang yun mga noodle dishes din dito sa Philippines na lutong Chinese. Na-curious ako sa name kaya ni-try ko, flat noodles lang pala ang ibig sabihin...hehe! Pero sulit ang pumunta dito, try mo when you visit KL. :)

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  7. Ako hindi yung food ung highlight. It was the Indian driver telling that Malaysian foods are not good, Urghh! Cultural barrier ba ang peg ni kuya. hahaha...

    Cheers Tal!

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    1. di pa feel ni kuya ang pagiging Malaysian nya...hehe. Thanks Edmar! :)

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  8. Ang ganda ng Kuala Lumpar.Naka punta ako noon ilang days lang ako kasi nag apply ako ng visa instead uwi ako ng pinas..hehehe.try mo indian food dyan masarap ang indian food nila dyan...

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    1. Parang Manila o parang NCR lang KL, hehe! Naka-try kami ng indian food, super spicy, as in!

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  9. tiyak sa susunod na balakin ng friend mo na magpunta uli sa ibang bansa ay sasama ka rin......ang sarap ng tikman ng mga pagkain na iyan...

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  10. food trip! street foods..
    exotic food meron?

    jan yun meron fried cockroach, cricket,etc. sa malaysia?

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    1. ala ata ako napansin exotic foods sa KL, ang alam ko sa Thailand marami. Salamat sa pagdalaw Ken! :)

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  11. Wow, ang saya naman! Nagutom ako sa mga kinain nyo.. at talagang gutom na ko kaya makakain muna, haha..

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    1. Hala sige, kain ka na pero hinay lang, sayang ang ka-sexy-han. hehe... ;)

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  12. Wow, 2 countries in one package tour, saya naman.

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    1. tabi lang kase sila kaya sinulit na ang gala..hehe!

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    2. Ilang hours ang biyahe Singapore-Malaysia?

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    3. Less than 1 hour lang girl, 55 minutes actually via Tiger Airways for less than P2k. Sa bus naman, nabasa ko eh 4-5 hours, depende kung madami stopover yun bus, more or less P1k naman yun pasahe.

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  13. Nami miss ko na mag food trip! Yaman! Pa travel travel na lang hehe... Saan next country mo? Sama ko hehe

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    1. Ngek, pawis, luha at sipon ang kapalit ng gala na yan...hahaha! Next summer na ulit kapag may pera, sama ka...hehe!

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  14. Agree ako sa lahat mukhang masarap nga pero tanong ko lang malinis po ba place and how they handle the food? :)

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    1. Di naman nasira tyan ko so I guess malinis naman o siguro matibay lang sikmura ko, hehe! Seriously, ok naman at malinis yun place, ala mga lumilipad-lipad na insekto pero syempre yun mga food carts na open lang eh posible madapuan ng mga dumi-dumi na dala ng hangin. Madami naman choices eh, yun mga iba restaurants freshly cooked naman yun mga foods, so pili ka na lang. :)

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  15. That's the spirit! I like that you were open to try new food! Mukha rin namang masarap :)

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    1. Basta di exotic, keri lang mag-try ng iba mga foods...hehe!

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