18 food markets across 2 cities. All Malaysia guides.

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Air Itam Market

Air Itam Market crowds the lanes under Kek Lok Si temple, the Penang wet market whose surrounding laksa and duck-rice stalls justify the trip.

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Chowrasta Market

Chowrasta Market has traded on Penang Road since the 1890s, Penang's oldest wet market, ringed by jeruk stalls selling pickled nutmeg and mango.

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Chow Kit Market

Chow Kit Market, also called Bazaar Baru Chow Kit, on Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman is Kuala Lumpur's largest wet market, a maze of produce, fish and meat stalls.

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Pulau Tikus Market

Pulau Tikus Market runs a dawn wet market that hands over to an evening hawker centre, the two-shift engine of Penang's most food-proud suburb.

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Petaling Street Market

Petaling Street Market in Kuala Lumpur's Chinatown runs under a covered canopy from morning to late evening, with stalls busiest from 11:00 until late.

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Pasar Malam TTDI

Pasar Malam TTDI takes over Jalan Tun Mohd Fuad 2 in Kuala Lumpur every Sunday evening, a night market where every hawker works under matching canopies.

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Lot 10 Hutong

Lot 10 Hutong gathers well known Kuala Lumpur hawker names into one air conditioned basement food hall under Lot 10 mall on Jalan Sultan Ismail.

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Campbell Street Market

Campbell Street Market fills a Victorian hall from about 1900, likely George Town's oldest market building, with stalls spilling down Carnarvon Street.

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Pasar Besar Pudu

Pasar Besar Pudu on Jalan Pasar Baharu in Kuala Lumpur is a working wet market with its own breakfast hawker corner that draws a loyal crowd.

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Pasar Besar TTDI

Pasar Besar TTDI is the wet market anchoring Taman Tun Dr Ismail in Kuala Lumpur, its produce stalls ringed by a busy breakfast hawker section.

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Central Market

Central Market, known locally as Pasar Seni, on Jalan Hang Kasturi in Kuala Lumpur began in 1888 as a wet market and is now an Art Deco hall of craft stalls.

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Batu Ferringhi Night Market

Batu Ferringhi Night Market strings stalls along the beach road nightly from 19:00, Penang's pasar malam of grills, satay and souvenir haggling.

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