A relatively recent addition to the local night market, the China Burger is a misnomer. It is actually a burger-shaped pancake with neither buns nor meat patty. More like an egg muffin blended with a choice of real prawn, chicken, squid or seaweed fillings. Yumz.
Olympus OM-D, ISO 1250, f4, 1/400 sec.
Young man, there’s a place you can go. I said, young man, when you’re short on your dough. Behind the Y-M-C-A is A-B-C.
This Brickfields hawker sells an awesome ice dessert known locally as A.B.C. It is a bowl of fresh coconut slices, sweet corn, jellies and red beans buried in ice shaving dripping with syrup and evaporated milk.
The plastic table there had a surface so scratchy you get a grunge filter effect for free. By the way, across the street is another hawker that sells the best goreng pisang (banana fritters) in town.
Captions and title inspired by lyrics from the song Y.M.C.A performed by Village People, written by Henri Belolo, Jacques Morali and Victor Willis. The stall is located in front of the corner 7-Eleven, just behind the Y.M.C.A. Kuala Lumpur in Brickfields. Daily from 10 am to 6pm.
Olympus OM-D, ISO 200, f10, 1/200 sec.
The Kuala Pansoon area is well-known for its picturesque kampung houses, hills, rivers and eco resorts. At the village square, is a nondescript kopitiam famous for its kaya or coconut egg jam. The family started making the breakfast spread some forty years ago. Branded as Kaya Sri Langat, it has become so popular that they now make around 12,000 jars a month.
The kaya is preservative-free and their pandan-flavoured version is made with real pandan (screwpine) leaves. Don’t just take-away but try it there with their steamed or toasted Hainanese bread (fluffy Roti Benggali), half-boiled kampung chicken eggs and black coffee.
Nam Wah Coffee Shop, it seems, is also popular with the cycling community and is at 18th Mile Hulu Langat.
Olympus OM-D, ISO 200, f8, 1/250 sec.
