Petaling Street is Kuala Lumpur most famous and lively street market. The street is roughly half a mile long with partly roofed string of stalls specializing mostly in fake designer goods. Petaling Street is the central of the street market activities but there are also some stalls located on the streets connecting to Petaling Street. Therefore, you can basically throng the shop houses and the hawker stalls in Petaling Street as well as in neighboring streets.

Most of the items sold in Petaling Street are fake designer goods. These fake designer goods look exactly like the real one. Even if you were scrutinizing these items with your naked eye in a detail manner, I bet you can’t tell if there were real or fake. Some of the famous fake items you can find here are watches, clothes, wallets, handbags and so on. It used to be that there are pirated CDs and DVDs sold openly here. But the crackdown by the authority has rendered many of these stores selling them secretly.

When you are at the Petaling Street market place, bargain is the order of the day. There are a few fixed price items, and the initial offers by vendors are often at unreasonably high. Buyers are expected to haggle with the vendors and if you were buying in bulk, you have more bargaining power. Aside from clothing and accessories, there are a few shops that sell an assortment of other goods such as a variety of dried meat and traditional medicines. At the northern end is a vegetable and fruit market and plenty of cheap cafes.

During the day, Petaling Street is just a normal shop-lined street in Chinatown until around 4 or 5pm everyday, when the area is closed off to traffic and transformed into a Pasar Malam or night market. Many of the daytime stalls pack up and are replaced by food stalls that sell a tempting array of Indian, Malay, and Chinese delicacies. Local souvenirs are also available. Both day and night markets attract large crowd and vsitors must be careful of their belongings.

Petaling Street is just a 15 minutes walking distance from the Pasar Seni LRT station. Therefore, you can take the LRT and stop at Pasar Seni station and from there, just take a walk of about 15 minutes to reach Petaling Street.

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