Uncle Hon Tin Long is a daily fixture among the hawkers of Petaling Street. He pushes a trishaw cart onto Jalan Hang Lekir, and sells freshly made apam balik and nyonya apam balik under a colorful umbrella. Uncle Hon is always jovial, and can chat with passersby. Now over 70 years old, he has been in Petaling Street for almost six decades, running his own...
Kien Choon Restaurant
To bypass the congestion on Rawang’s main street, local residents would use the back lane of Jalan Maxwell. As one drives past, most of the rear doors and windows are tightly shut. Towards the end of the lane, there is a unit embellished with plants, a hand-carved wooden stand by the roadside and a banner on top of the entrance inscribed with “Kien Choon Restaurant”....
Chinese Herbal Tea
A few decades ago, there was a Sentosa Cinema in Section 17, Petaling Jaya. In its immediate surroundings, there were plenty of roadside stalls, a wet market by day and a food court by night, fulfilling the community’s living needs. After the cinema burned down in 1997, the site became a carpark, until Seventeen residence and mall was constructed in 2014. Beside the building, Petaling...