Everything at Malaysia

Petaling Street, KL’s own Chinatown is a real blast to your senses - the sights, sounds and smells. It seems that this place never sleeps. The night market is a daily feature here. A great shopping haunt for leather goods, souvenirs, cheap clothes, fabrics, electronic items, flowers and watches to pet shops, restaurants serving regional authentic Chinese cuisine, Chinese artifacts, figurines, traditional and herbal remedies, you can find almost anything here.

Look out for aged craftsmen, working along this street from their shop houses creating and producing quality calligraphy, lanterns, tinware and other crafts. There are also traders with their mats spread out along narrow five-foot ways, offering brightly coloured trinkets, wall hangings, teapots, curios and ornaments from Malaysia, India, Myanmar and elsewhere.

The Telekom Museum is an unique 2 storey Neo Classical Greek architecture built in 1928, is nestled among Kuala Lumpur’s skyscrappers at the junction of Jalan Raja Chulan and Jalan Gereja and served as a telephone exchange in the old days.

This building was almost demolished when the plans were halted and the building was designated for conservation. Over RM10 million was well spent to restore the building.

The museum showcases the telecommunications development for the past 120 years, from the early days of the Morse code telegraph to the modern cellular phones and digital networks of today. On display are some equipment dating back to the pre-war days.

Pasar Malam Taman Connaught is located in Kuala Lumpur on south area of Cheras’s Taman Connaugh garden, the Pasar Malan is Malaysia’s longest night market. You can buy all kinds of food and items on the night market. Which carries the famous Assam Laksa, Stinky Tofu and popular Malaysia dishes like Nyonya Kuih, Char Kway Teow & Otak-Otak.

Malaysian Tourism Centre is a one-stop visitor centre offers a wide range of facilities, services and warm hospitality to assist tourists in planning an enjoyable and eventful holiday in Malaysia. MTC also enables visitors to experience the essence of Malaysia within the complex itself through shows and demonstrations of various aspects of its culture. This distinctive colonial style building is a historical and architectural landmark in Kuala Lumpur, and a striking contrast to its modern surroundings. The main building to the complex was built in 1935, as the residence of a Chinese miner and planter named Eu Tong Seng. Later, it housed the war of British Army. When the Japanese invaded Malaya during World War II, it became the headquarters of the Japanese Imperial Army till the war ended in 1945.

Malaysian Tourism Centre known once as MATIC, the MTC has been open to public since 1989. Some of the services and facilities include the tourist information counter, tourist police counter, ticket counter for executive buses, craft centre, Saloma Theatre Restaurant, ATM Machine, money changes etc. There are also 3 units of personal computers to assist tourists looking for travel information through the state tourism websites. MTC also organises a host of programmes throughout the year, ranging from regular Malaysian dance performances to theatre to musicals.

Kuala Lumpur is Malaysia’s capital and the largest city in Malaysia. At present, many federal government agencies has moved to Putrajaya. In Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur abbreviation “KL” also widely used.
Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia is one of the three municipalities geographical position in selangor, central west coast or peninsular Malaysia.

Kuala Lumpur was held in 1998, is a commonwealth games hosted the games of Asian cities. Located in downtown Kuala Lumpur’s petronas towers in Kuala Lumpur’s famous landmarks.
According to the statistical data in 2000, Kuala Lumpur area of 243.65 square kilometers, the urban population 1,479,388 port-kelang, along with the population of klang valley about 400 million, more Chinese mandarin and cantonese in between.

Wayang Kulit Kelantan state is a traditional drama, Kelantan’s auspicious year may end in the TUMPAT during basant at night. Shadow puppet is made using the buffalo leather, then hold in thin bamboo pole. When the curtain, placed in the doll and lamplight from behind the curtain on the doll, forming the so-called “shadow”. The storyteller side hand puppets, combined with the RAMAYANA describes the music legends. The whole story is made by a play of namely TOK DALANG one director, sometimes even can command as much as 45 dolls.

This is a kind of outdoor games play by brave men from Sabah BAJAU and IRANUM family. When the game start, participants gather in a circle, tried to blow face a string of 10 meters high above high stalk hanging on it includes bouquet, towel, food and money involved.

Sepak Takraw also known as Sepak Raga is a Malaysia’s most popular kind of sports games, the participating parties on both sides of the net in the side of each one grain of cane ball kicking. Besides, they can use hand body parts, including the heel, foot instep, shoulder, hip, head to play ball and not let the ball drops as long as possible.

Silat Melayu is a Malay martial arts to defend the Malay natio. This fascinating sport is also a kind of dancing in Malaysia that has been widely circulated for hundreds of years. According to the Muslim doctrines, and participants can borrow the Malay martial arts in order to improve the power of his spiritual. In marriage, national celebration or martial arts competition, silat can be seen.

On the east coast of Malaysia, the great kite flying over with intricate patterns, the size also differ. Among them, the most common is the moon kite (Traditional Wau Kite), because its crescent shape. Kelantan auspicious year hold an important competitions, the participants from all over the world.

Kite fighting is a popular sport, participants will rival the kite cut, or rope from the air dropped down. Kite rope glued to break the glass powder, with “the kite” cutting ability. The kite and wind control technique is the key to participants.