Chinatown Restaurants
Where and What to Eat in Chinatown
Chinatown is practically filled with Chinese restaurants and hawker stalls selling all sorts of delicacies from steamed buns to seafood. Almost everywhere you look, a Chinese restaurant greets your eyes, the glorious smells wafting from its kitchen beckoning you to come inside and sample what’s cooking. Chinatown is also a popular place for ‘daging salai’ or smoked meat; people have been known to come here just to stock up on them or bring them home as gifts.But those are not the only things you can find here; there are many more popular delicacies that are unique to Chinatown and can’t be found anywhere else in the city. What’s best about these places is that they are all open until late at night, well into the wee hours of the morning. Finding a worthwhile place to eat at in Chinatown is no easy feat, as every corner, street and lane is teemed with hawker stalls and restaurants, but the ones that are listed below are the pick of the crop and come highly recommended (for Muslims, please note that most of the Chinese restaurants and stalls here sell non-Halal food, so be sure to ask first before ordering
Assam Laksa Stall
Served with shredded cucumber and thick mackerel chunks, the assam laksa in Petaling Street is quite legendary, at once sweet, sour and spicy. The stalls selling this dish at Madras Lane have been in the business for more than 30 years, and has just the right balance of flavours to make their assam laksa’s popularity last throughout the decades.
Opening Hours: Differ from stall to stall – some are open in the morning and some only open in the afternoon, and some are closed on certain days of the week.
Location: Madras Lane, near the entrance of Petaling Street wet market.
Cuisine: Assam laksa
Chinatown Pavillion
With a bright yellow and red exterior that is hard to miss as you enter Petaling Street market area from Jalan Sultan, Chinatown Pavillion beckons hungry visitors into its enclosures with an eye-catching signboard and a tempting aroma. Serving kopitiam favourites such as curry and prawn noodles, char kuay teow, wantan noodles, fried rice and beef noodles, this restaurant’s strategic location and affordable prices prove to be a great pulling factor.Opening Hours: Daily, 08:00 – 00:00
Address: 27 Jalan Hang Lekir (adjacent to Jalan Petaling)
Cuisine: Local kopitiam (coffeeshop) favourites
China Town Seng Kee Restaurant
Famous for their claypot lou shu fan (rat-tail noodles) and siew yuk (BBQ pork) noodles, China Town Seng Kee Restaurant serves delicious Cantonese dishes, some of which only available at night.Opening Hours: Daily, 07:00 – 04:00
Location: opposite Bangunan Ka Yin Fui Kon & The Shanghai Bookstore
Address: 52 Jalan Sultan
Tel: (603) 2072 5950
Cuisine: Cantonese, claypot lou shu fan, siew yuk noodles
Hong Kong Mee
Despite its hidden location behind a wet market, Hong Kong Mee enjoys a brisk business due to its delicious claypot noodles. Its specialty, however, is the wok chai mee, which is noodles served in a tiny black wok atop a mini burner, ensuring that the noodles stay hot.Opening Hours: Daily, 09:00 – 15:00
Location: near Jalan Tun H. S. Lee, behind the wet market near Chinatown Pavillion
Address: 9 Lorong Drury, Jalan Bandar
Tel: (603) 2078 9296
Cuisine: Claypot noodles, wok chai noodles
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Chinatown is practically filled with Chinese restaurants and hawker stalls selling all sorts of delicacies from steamed buns to seafood. Almost everywhere you look, a Chinese restaurant greets your eyes, the glorious smells wafting from its kitchen beckoning you to come inside and sample what’s cooking. Chinatown is also a popular place for ‘daging salai’ or smoked meat; people have been known to come here just to stock up on them or bring them home as gifts.
But those are not the only things you can find here; there are many more popular delicacies that are unique to Chinatown and can’t be found anywhere else in the city. What’s best about these places is that they are all open until late at night, well into the wee hours of the morning. Finding a worthwhile place to eat at in Chinatown is no easy feat, as every corner, street and lane is teemed with hawker stalls and restaurants, but the ones that are listed below are the pick of the crop and come highly recommended (for Muslims, please note that most of the Chinese restaurants and stalls here sell non-Halal food, so be sure to ask first before ordering
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Assam Laksa Stall
Served with shredded cucumber and thick mackerel chunks, the assam laksa in Petaling Street is quite legendary, at once sweet, sour and spicy. The stalls selling this dish at Madras Lane have been in the business for more than 30 years, and has just the right balance of flavours to make their assam laksa’s popularity last throughout the decades.
Location: Madras Lane, near the entrance of Petaling Street wet market.
Cuisine: Assam laksa
Chinatown Pavillion
With a bright yellow and red exterior that is hard to miss as you enter Petaling Street market area from Jalan Sultan, Chinatown Pavillion beckons hungry visitors into its enclosures with an eye-catching signboard and a tempting aroma. Serving kopitiam favourites such as curry and prawn noodles, char kuay teow, wantan noodles, fried rice and beef noodles, this restaurant’s strategic location and affordable prices prove to be a great pulling factor.
Address: 27 Jalan Hang Lekir (adjacent to Jalan Petaling)
Cuisine: Local kopitiam (coffeeshop) favourites
China Town Seng Kee Restaurant
Famous for their claypot lou shu fan (rat-tail noodles) and siew yuk (BBQ pork) noodles, China Town Seng Kee Restaurant serves delicious Cantonese dishes, some of which only available at night.
Location: opposite Bangunan Ka Yin Fui Kon & The Shanghai Bookstore
Address: 52 Jalan Sultan
Tel: (603) 2072 5950
Cuisine: Cantonese, claypot lou shu fan, siew yuk noodles
Hong Kong Mee
Despite its hidden location behind a wet market, Hong Kong Mee enjoys a brisk business due to its delicious claypot noodles. Its specialty, however, is the wok chai mee, which is noodles served in a tiny black wok atop a mini burner, ensuring that the noodles stay hot.
Location: near Jalan Tun H. S. Lee, behind the wet market near Chinatown Pavillion
Address: 9 Lorong Drury, Jalan Bandar
Tel: (603) 2078 9296
Cuisine: Claypot noodles, wok chai noodles
