Parking here is terrible. Some parts of the market emanates certain odour that might not be pleasant (I am trying to down play this). Not only are the car lanes congested, human lanes are just as bad. But despite all those, the place remained one of the popular markets for housewives to do their household ingredients shopping. It is also a place where many people meet and trades all sorts of things, from antiques to rare animals. I say it is a rather good place to show the tourist, if they really want to see Malaysia. But make sure they have gone to restroom prior to the visits and don't drink too much water. Malaysian toilets are still rather appalling.
These are not for sale.
Pet fishes are sold by packets.
Many choices for many preferences.
Fresh & dried herbs for your health.
Veges of all sorts. 
More local veges.
A little hill of dried anchovies.
I couldn't believe it at first. But I was really walking on road piled with cockerel shells.
Fresh fishes anyone?
Rows after rows after rows of stalls.
Citruses, seeds, squash, gourds and tubers. 
Red hot chilies. 
The are still more shops behind the stalls.
Colourful pickles.
Uncle special offer. 
Beautiful torch ginger flower/bud (locally called bunga kantan).
Petai, twisted cluster bean, yongchaak or stink bean. Call it whatever you want, true Malaysian love it just the same.
You'll find everything you need to cook up a Malaysian fare from this market.
4 comments:
Nice blog!! I have my own travel blog as well:)
I am gonna ask my daddy about this market:D
Gee thanks Christy. I have tried visiting your travel blog, but it seems that its a private affair. Anyway, the food blog is interesting. I love Starry Starry Night the best. Not so much on the spooky element, but the extensive research is worth the read. Kudos!
Hi,I was looking for "yongchaak" in google and came across ur blog...I didn't knew that yongchaak or Petai is widely eaten in ur country...I am from the Northeastern part of India, a state called Manipur and we Manipuri's love this beans...we make various kind of dishes from yongchaak...it can also be eaten raw after pealing the green cover and we also sun dry it for later use...it's good to know that pple from other part of the world enjoy having this giant beans..
Hello my dear "travel food and living" (wow... a long name there). Yep. We either love or avoid them. Some ppl avoide them due to the smell the body emanate after taking these beans. But many love them for its crispiness and health value. This beans is believed to have cooling effect and fight diabetes. So it is called yong chaak eh..
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