Market
Chow Kit Market
Jln Raja Alang, Kampung Baru, 50300 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur
Labyrinthine covered wet market with fresh produce, spice, fish, and butcher stalls from dawn.
This guide to Chow Kit Market in Kuala Lumpur opens on a Monday evening in April 1986, when a hundred thousand people packed this street to hear the singer Sudirman Arshad perform from a stage built in four frantic hours. It traces the street's name to Loke Chow Kit, a Penang-born tin tycoon turned municipal councillor, and follows why Sudirman chose this rough, market-lined stretch for his biggest show. Along the way you'll wind through the wet market itself, the largest in Kuala Lumpur, its lanes lined with spice and fish stalls since dawn.
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