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Sunday, September 28, 2008

Is Petaling Street still consider as Chinatown?

Petaling Street or Jalan Petaling is well known as the Chinatown of Kuala Lumpur. However you can call it Chinatown ten years ago, today the Chinese in Petaling Street is getting lesser and I really not sure Chinatown is still appropriate for Petaling Street. When i went there few weeks ago, i really can't get any Chinatown feel but what i can see is a lot of Bangla, Indo and all kind of foreign labour, also some DBKL people standing there. I think less than 30% of the people in Petaling Street is Chinese.

From what I had see is 8 out of 10 stalls in Petaling street are using foreign labours. Some even leaving the whole stall to their foreign workers to take care. So will you call a place Chinatown when majority of the people are not chinese, or we should just call it international town or the Truly Asian street.

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