Streets Of Malaysia (Part 2)

For my second post about the streets of Malaysia. I’ll be talking about ‘Bukit Bintang’.

Bukit bintang is mostly famous for shopping malls like Pavilion, Sungai wang and Low Yat. The reason why I’m talking about bukit bintang is because usually during the weekends, one of the places where I’ll go and shop at is Pavilion or Pavi for short.

Pavilion is something similar like KLCC except it’s bigger and has more choices than KLCC. Every time I go to Pavi is usually to karaoke at Redbox as the surroundings and the service there are really good and quite affordable if you want to go with a huge group of friends and family with you. The movie theaters there are also comfortable and huge compared to the ones in KLCC, and of course the shopping there is absolute shopping heaven. There are shops like, Juicy Couture, Cotton On, Paul Frank, Forever 21, and Topshop etc. Any well-known brands, you name it – They’re all there in Pavilion. Those are few of the reasons why I picked pavilion to be my weekend shopping hang out gateway.

The next stop where you can find good affordable prices for the latest technology gadgets is Low yat. It’s usually filled with people who can’t wait to get their hands on their tech-craving like cameras, phones, video games, computers, etc. Everything is there; including a few clothing outlets but mostly Low Yat is famous for its gadgets. To be honest, Low Yat is the best place to get computers, printers etc at a pretty affordable price, well it’s got to depend on which store you pick to buy what you want.

But I’m pretty sure Low Yat is the place to be.

The area of Bukit Bintang is also filled with different varieties of restaurants such as Arabian, Western, Malay and Chinese. During the weekends, every evening the streets also has street performers such as the gold man and the silver man. Both of those performers usually attract the locals and the tourists to take a picture with them and just to enjoy for the entertainment.

Bukit Bintang is one of the places where locals and tourists would like to go to.

Streets Of Malaysia (Part 1)

Here in Malaysia, the only place where you’d find the most affordable cheapest goods is the one and only, Petaling Street or also known as China Town. 

(Source; http://mywilayah.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/petaling-street)

 Petaling Street is usually filled with locals and tourists splurging on things like accessories, handbags, shoes, clothing, food, etc. Anything you need, they’re all there. They’re only opened during the evening around 6pm and that’s when people will start crowding around the whole area to get what they want.

Therefore my cousin and my uncle from Singapore loves to go to Petaling street for the fun of it and of course for the things that’s being sold there. Although most goods there aren’t really original as most goods there are mostly imitations of famous brands like ‘Chanel’, ‘Gucci’ etc but hey look at the Brightside, at least they’re at an affordable price. But usually my cousin would go there just for the accessories and anything unique that catches their eye.

I’ve only been there a few times because my family and myself don't really like going to Petaling Street.

To be honest, I’ve only been to Petaling Street twice in my whole life staying here in Malaysia. I’ll give you at least 3 common reasons why I barely go to Petaling Street.

1)   There are cases of people getting pickpocket.

2)   It’s always crowded and I hate being in crowded places.

3)   Crowded people = humid, hot.

The only time I went there was to get a cheong sam for an event for my school way back when I was still in Junior school. My point of view when I saw the place was, yes I did enjoy looking at all the things that’s being sold there but somehow I didn’t like the scene of how hot, crowded and noisy it was. With people bargaining and yelling out to attract customers into buying their items.

Even though I’ve been there only twice so far, I still think it’s the best way for tourists to visit Petaling Street if they want to buy unique goods at an affordable price.