The ultimate #throwback guide to KL

Relive the good old times now

Wednesday 14 September 2016

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Click on a feature below to revisit some of the oldest restaurants and shops in the city, nostalgic places where our parents used to hang out, colonial cocktails and childhood games on this trip down memory lane. Now, every day is Throwback Thursday.

Restaurants

Best kopitiams in KL

This is a tribute to the humble kopitiams, aka the city’s original cafés. Always the dependable option for a morning coffee, roti bakar and half...

Shopping

Kedai runcit in KL

Before the never-ending mall invasion in the Klang Valley, these were the neighbourhood institutions, the go-to places for grocery store staples, snacks and...

Shopping

Traditional Chinese medicine halls in KL

Despite the advancement of medical science, Chinese herbal medicine remains relevant today. This traditional medical practice is all about balancing the energy...

Things to do

Old shops and attractions

A bumper list of your favourite places from the past, including boutiques, supermarkets and attractions.

Things to do

Vintage vantage: Old aerial photos of KL

The late amateur photographer Gordon Hutchings was a chopper pilot from New Zealand stationed in KL from 1963 to 1966, on secondment from RAF UK to the Royal...

Things to do

Old hair salons and barbershops

Looking for a snip(pet) from the past? Look to KL's old-school barbershops and hair salons that have stood the test of time. As part of our #Throwback theme,...

Bars and pubs

The best retro cocktails in KL

Drink it like it’s the ’70s (or the ’20s, if you like) at some of the oldest bars in the city. For more great bars, see our list of the best...

Shopping

The top nostalgic games, childhood snacks and household items

Happiness used to be inexpensive and life was much simpler back then. Check out our list of childhood snacks, household items and nostalgic games you grew up...

Restaurants

KL’s original food trucks

Long before food trucks became hip and Western, food trucks in KL were mostly all about pisang goreng, rojak, nasi lemak and tau foo fah. Here, we get to know...

Things to do

KL's old cinemas: A long goodbye

Cinema is the biggest fraud in human history. At twenty-four lies per second, every film is an elaborate scheme of make-believe by a cabal of fabulists:...

Things to do

Pudu: Behind the scenes

‘I remember our neighbours. There were two boys who made appam, so we just called them small appam and big appam. The same with another family who ran a...

Things to do

10 things you can find on a roti man bike

If you hear the roti man honking away in your neighbourhood, stop him for these treats.