{"id":13170,"date":"2025-06-16T16:08:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T14:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conmochila.com\/en\/?p=13170"},"modified":"2025-06-16T16:09:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T14:09:13","slug":"petaling-street-kuala-lumpur-chinatown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conmochila.com\/en\/petaling-street-kuala-lumpur-chinatown\/","title":{"rendered":"Petaling Street, Kuala Lumpur’s Exotic Chinatown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What great city doesn\u2019t have a Chinatown? Surely, any city without one wishes it had one. But that\u2019s not the case for Kuala Lumpur<\/strong>, because Petaling Street, or Jalan Petaling in Malay, is the heart of its Chinatown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A street flanked on both sides by two imposing Chinese arches and crowned with a green roof designed to resemble a large Chinese dragon. It\u2019s worth noting that these \u201csmall decorative details\u201d are much more contemporary than the history of the neighborhood.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Petaling Street<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

They are the result of a remodeling in the 2000s, a facelift for a neighborhood that dates back to the late 19th century, when Chinese immigrants settled in that part of the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Petaling Street (Chinatown)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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