China Town, or Petaling Street in Kuala Lumpur is the traditional hub for Chinese New Year countdown every year. Many Malaysian Chinese are coming here to buy dried foods, flowers and decorative for the festive season. I came here every year mainly to buy Bakkwa (Rougan,肉干) or dried meat as new year gifts to relatives.
I blogged about the same trip to Petaling Street last year. The scene is similar. This year I shot with my Nikkor 35mm f1.8 instead. You may spot the difference! Haha.
This year, a new version of Bakkwa came out. Instead of using minced or sliced meat, they are using bacon! It tastes marvelous but more costly. These smoky scenes are seen everywhere in China Town!
If you’ve seen how it looked along the covered terrace at Petaling Street last year, this is how it looks this year. Any difference?
These are some traditional Chinese candies made from ginger, melon, plums, lotus seeds and etc. A must in Chinese New Year!
Red means happiness in Chinese culture…. so everything must be in reds! 
Another season delicacy, Chinese styled waxed meat! They are mainly from China or Taiwan and could be in the form of waxed sausage, waxed duck or waxed meatloaf. Chinese waxed sausage is made of either minced or sliced pork meat and both are also my favourites.
Chinese chestnut. I missed this last year and managed to capture it this time. Look at the little photo within. Is this called the Kung Fu chestnut??
Also missed out last year, this little hawker stall selling Longan (Dragon eye, 龙眼) herbal drinks is the most popular drink stall in Petaling Street. For only RM1.20 per cup, every traveler to China Town deserves a try!
As usual, we went to China Town last weekend to have a walk at night. We bought many many bags of dried meats or Bakkwa, waxed sausages also some Chinese candies for Chinese New Year gifts to our relatives. Before we go off, we had a cup of Longan drink to ease our thirst. Not showing in photos here (but you could spot in in my last year post) are also those many seafood restaurants with roadside seating which are the foreign travelers’ favourite eateries. Come here to visit this China Town aka Petaling Street in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This is the only place where you could really appreciate the festive feel of Chinese New Year in K.L. See ya! – Travel Feeder, your ultimate travel photo blog
Subscribe to Travel Feeder's RSS Feed For FREE Updated Stories!
Chinese New Year 2010 is around the corner. Another 6 days on 14th February (double celebration together with Valentine’s Day), all Chinese around the world would be celebrating lunar calendar’s new year. Chinese ethnic in Malaysia is busy preparing their houses, clothes, foods and decoration at this final moment. Shopping malls are decorated for this festive season.
I posted some of the photos on CNY celebration recently in one of the local mall. Since you love it, I shoot more Chinese New Year celebration photos around town in Malaysia. These is Chinese New Year celebration art performance organised in MidValley shopping mall.
Chinese cultural drum musical performance.
Dragon dancing is one of the ‘must see’ performance during Chinese New Year. Have you seen it before? It dance with the drum music. There are actually 2 persons in the ‘dragon’; One is holding the dragon head and moves its eyes and mouth; The other less ‘important’ actor is holding the dragon tail and acts as the 2 rear legs of the dragon…
People like this kind of performance here. See the crowd? Photographers like it even more. Look at those cameras held up in the air!
Not enough? Subscribe to this travel blog via RSS or email. More CNY celebration photos in Petaling Street is coming up next. – Travel Feeder.
Subscribe to Travel Feeder's RSS Feed For FREE Updated Stories!
If you come to Malaysia this year, one of the top 10 places to visit in Malaysia would have to be Melaka, the UNESCO world heritage city. When you are in Melaka, you must drop by (or you would definitely be passing by) the Christ Church, the red Spanish architecture. Behind it on top of the hill would be the abandoned St. Paul church built by Portuguese 489 years ago in 1521. Beside it there is a statue built in 1952 to commemorate the famous spanish jesuit, the late St. Francis Xavier.
This is a photo taken on the statue with St. Paul church behind it. It was processed with some PS action to create a HDR (High Dynamic Range) effect.
I don’t like HDR photography with too much action that makes the photo looks artificial or like oil painting. However, I like HDR photos of landscape that made every part of the scene looks perfectly exposed and colourful (especially high contrast scene or lighting) which could never be achieved even you are shooting with a Nikon D3x! How do I do HDR? Shoot 3 to 5 photos to a scene with different exposure value (EV) setting from +3 to -3. Then merge them into HDR image with either PS CS4 or Photomatix. Software would combine the best exposure of each part or object of these photos and turn it into 1 perfectly exposed HDR photo with incredibly high dynamic range!
Still not convincing or attractive to you? Look at the original photo right out of my Nikon D60 below and compare it to the above…
Sometimes, we need photo editing software to do some wonders for us and to our photos. I prefer natural lighting and colour. I prefer shoot more to get the best photo right from the camera without much post processing. We are photographer not graphic designer. However, if some appropriate and moderate editing actions could bring out more substances from a photo, why not? – Travel Feeder.
Subscribe to Travel Feeder's RSS Feed For FREE Updated Stories!
Lunar calendar Chinese New Year which falls on the Valentine’s Day of 14th February this year 2010, is around the corner. It also marks the start of Tiger year in Lunar calendar. Many believe that the Year of Tiger will be to harsh for marriage so they rushed into marriage before the end of the year [...]
After all the determination, I managed to make up the lag! Unlike January 2010 wallpaper calendar which was only released in the middle of January itself, you can now download your February 2010 wallpaper calendar here! Yes, I mean NOW, a reasonable 16 days ahead of the month of February 2010 (I think so… [...]
I have to write this post. I might get questioned after this but I have to let travelers from worldwide knows about this incidence to protect our travel industry of Malaysia. I need to comfort fellow Christians worldwide that Malaysia is still safe to visit, though the recent dispute over the issue of using the [...]
If you ever have the chance to visit to Malaysia for a week or so, one city you must not miss for your travel photography portfolio is Melaka. At about 150 km south of Kuala Lumpur, Melaka is one of the 4 heritage sites of Malaysia inscribed by UNESCO, other than Penang. It features all sorts [...]
Happy New Year 2010! Let’s celebrate! Bid farewell to the bad’s of Year 2009 and welcome the best’s in year 2010! I’ve photographed the last sunset scene of Year 2009 in Port Dickson of Malaysia when I was there yesterday. Unfortunately it wasn’t quite the sunset scene but only the late evening sun above sea level. I [...]
What did I do on Christmas day this year? Tidying up my blog layout. You could see a refreshing new look of Travel Feeder’s header block! What about Boxing Day? I had a photo shooting session with my friends in KL Butterfly Park. The whole idea of the session was for my friends to try out [...]
3 days to go! In case I miss the exciting moment, allow me to wish you and all readers and fans of Travel Feeder….
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Though we are an Islamic country officially, Christmas is an important holidays in Malaysia. No only fellow Christians celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ on Christmas Day, non-Christians or other Malaysians, in [...]
Plan for your perfect travelling period of the year
April 2010 Travel Photo Wallpaper Calendar download
March 2010 Travel Photo Wallpaper Calendar Download
Travel Snapshot - Group photo at Phuket FantaSea show
Top 5 Travel photography equipment In My Wish List
South Yangtze China Tour Finale - Shanghai Maglev Train
eunice (4)
David (3)
Mei Teng (2)
Ali (1)
Alterity (1)
Athens Flights (1)
Che-Cheh (1)
Recent Comments