Pudu Market

Kuala Lumpur


Arrive early to experience KL's largest wet (produce) market at its most frantic and visceral. Here you can get every imaginable type of fruit, vegetable, fish and meat – from the foot of a chicken slaughtered and butchered on the spot to a stingray fillet.

Squeeze your way through the shoppers that clog the narrow spaces between stalls, absorbing the sights, sounds and smells of exotic fresh produce and vendors drumming up business between draws of their cigarettes.


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