Get a taste of Malaysia’s finest foods on this guided, 3- to 4-hour, small-group walking and riding tour around Kuala Lumpur. Stop by three or more street vendors and hidden-gem restaurants off-the-beaten path to sample the best Malaysian cuisine. Learn about Malaysian customs and culture and visit food spots like mamak stalls and round-the-clock hawker centers (open-air food courts). All food tastings, including beverages, and any necessary transportation are included.

3- to 4- hour food tour in Kuala Lumpur
Experience KL's lively food culture at one or two of its popular hawker centers
Sample street food from local food stalls and discover hidden gems with an expert guide
Learn about Malaysian customs as you meet friendly locals
Try Malaysian delicacies from at least three different vendors/restaurants – and feast on as much as you can eat!
Enjoy air-conditioned transport between all food stops
Small-group tour limited to 4 people ensures a personalized experience with your guide

What's Included

All food tastings, including drinks (non-alcoholic)
English-speaking guide
Round-trip transport between original meeting point and tour location

Hotel pickup and drop-off
Alcoholic drinks (available to purchase)

Meeting And Pickup

Meeting point

PJ297 LRT Taman Paramount
Taman Paramount, 46300 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia
Our guide will wait for you at this relatively small train station. If you are there early, you can hang out at the entrance or at the bus station just outside.

Start time

07:00 pm

End point

Kuala Lumpur City Centre
Kuala Lumpur City Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

What To Expect

Meet the guide and the rest of the small group at the Taman Paramount Light Rail Transit (LRT) station in Petaling Jaya. Hop aboard a comfortable, air-conditioned vehicle for a quick trip to a Kuala Lumpur neighborhood of the guide’s choosing to begin this evening food tour.

One possibility would be the Bangsar area, boasting a wide variety of food spots like mamak stalls with traditional Tamil-Muslim cuisine, plus South Indian banana-leaf restaurants and Malay warungs, or small, family-owned restaurants offering both local and Western food.

Also, visit some of the food stalls in a round-the-clock hawker center (an open-air food court) in Petaling Jaya, or head to Brickfields to see some of their South Indian restaurants and Chinese coffee shops serving traditional Chinese fare like dim sum.

Allow the knowledgeable guide to make the selections of local favorites. Try dishes like nasi lemak (coconut rice with chili paste, anchovies, peanuts and vegetables; stir-fried Chinese noodles; Indian breads with chicken, fish and mutton curry; desserts like ondeh ondeh (rice balls with palm sugar and coconut shavings).

Little India Brickfields

1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
A minimum of 2 people and a maximum of 4 per booking is required
Please note that this food tour is a non-halal tour
Wheelchair accessible

Near public transportation
Infants must sit on laps
No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
Most travellers can participate
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 12 travellers

Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.

Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
This experience requires good weather. If it’s cancelled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.
This experience requires a minimum number of travellers. If it’s cancelled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.

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Featured review

Beverly B

Wow! Probably the best money I've ever spent on a tour. Charlie, our guide, was so enthusiastic about the food, history and cultures of Malaysia. He showed us three different areas of Kuala Lumpur while taking us to three eating places and then through a street food market while having us taste samples of noodles and fruit. He then drove us to our respective hotels as the metro was closing. This is a must do for visitors of KL and I hope you have Charlie as a guide. You won't regret your decision! Beverly Bradley USA

Reviews

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166 reviews

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We so enjoyed this evening food...

Yvonne L, Mar 2018

We so enjoyed this evening food tour. Charles was an excellent guide, so much fun. We particularly enjoyed the Malaysian food night market. A fabulous and full in more ways than one! evening.

This is a very late review as I...

Clemma T, Feb 2018

This is a very late review as I actually completed it in July last year, but this is quite possibly the best food tour I have ever been on! Even now I dream of Malaysian carrot cake, it was that good! We tried a whole variety of Malaysian foods with roots in Indonesian, Indian and China, and we would never have seen or tasted half of this food if we'd been out alone. The markets and hawker center was amazing and all of the food was prepared in front of us. We were the only two people on our tour and we must have eaten for about 50 people! Do not eat before going on this trip as you need room to try everything. You will not be disappointed! Charlie was very informative too and knew all of the vendors at the market we went to and were all very happy to show us how they were cooking and preparing food and pose for photos! I would go back to Kuala Lumpur just to do this tour again I loved the food that much!

Highly recommend this tour. Farah...

Jackie_W, Jan 2018

Highly recommend this tour. Farah our guide was the best, her food and cultural knowledge amazing, she was hilarious and we had a lot fun!! Good instructions for the meeting place, lots and lots of food and drinks. Anything we liked Farah would order more. Detailed explanations of what we were eating. We drove in Farahs car to 3 significant local food eateries and then she drove us back to out Hotel. A must do if you're in KL

Wow! Probably the best money I've...

Beverly B, Jan 2018

Good to get out into the suburbs and...

Winsome S, Dec 2017

Good to get out into the suburbs and be taken to three different eating places to experience Malay, Chinese then Indian food. Ken was an enthusiastic guide and the conversation was stimulating. Gave piece of mind to try new dishes. A great night.

Our guide Charlie was amazing! I...

allisoneeson, Dec 2017

Our guide Charlie was amazing! I would highly recommend this tour, we discovered hidden gems we would never have found on our own. The food was fantastic. Malay curries are the best!

What can I say that hasn't already...

Scott_B, Oct 2017

What can I say that hasn't already been said? Gerry and Jo were phenomenal hosts! Our group was small and the setting was intimate. It really felt like Gerry and Jo were long time friends who happened to take us out and show us where the locals hang out and eat. It was such an amazing experience! Highly recommended! This food tour is not to miss!

This tour was a gastronomic and...

Robin C, Sept 2017

This tour was a gastronomic and really fun experience from beginning to end. Our tour guide Ken was fantastic, with excellent local knowledge and a lovely sense of humour. We visited three food markets - open air Malay and Chinese, and an Indian restaurant. The food and local drinks were divine fragrant goat stew, melt in the mouth skewers of marinated chicken and beef with satay sauce, delicious coconut rice with boiled egg, crunchy peanuts, and spicy sauce wrapped in a banana leaf, local vegetables cooked in scrumptious spices, melt in the mouth banana coconut pancake, spicy dips with roti, and much more! Not only was the food amazing, but the opportunity to eat with the locals in the atmosphere, colour, and buzz of the food markets was a delight in itself. Plus, learning how and what to eat set us up beautifully to enjoy the local cuisine for the rest of our stay in Kuala Lumpar. Being dropped off at our hotel after the tour was much appreciated. Don't miss this!

What a full stomach tour. The guide...

Henry Tse, Aug 2017

What a full stomach tour. The guide has taken us to taste the local delicacy of KL the local way. We were 2 traveller al together, if not join the tour, we wouldn't be able to taste all those local food Chinese, Malay, Indian dish all in one night. The tour offer a pick up and drop off service, so we didn't need to walk too much.

This tour attempted to take us to...

Andrew N, May 2017

This tour attempted to take us to try the different ethnic cuisines around the foodies heaven that is Kuala Lumpur. In the end the experience was somewhat disorganised with the guide spending rather more time talking than getting us around the city. This came to bear particularly when we came to return to our hotel - very late.

Farah is an interesting and...

JoseJr_T, Apr 2017

Farah is an interesting and knowledgeable tour guide, and she infuses her introduction to the local culture with her own experiences. The food is good, and I especially loved the satay, which was surprisingly the best I have ever tasted. I would have given the tour a full five stars if the price of the tour was a bit lower. But other than that, I highly recommend this tour.

Fantastic experience - tried lots of...

Bernard S, Mar 2017

Fantastic experience - tried lots of different foods that we would never have dreamt of eating. Our guide Charlie was very, very good - and even dropped us at our hotel at the end of the tour. Would throughly recommend.

Charlie was informative and a...

David_J, Nov 2016

Charlie was informative and a fantastic guide, tour was a great gave us a look at the different cultures of KL

We really enjoyed the tour. We...

Nicholas D, Oct 2016

We really enjoyed the tour. We sampled local food we would never have tried otherwise. Charlie did a great job in taking us around and pointing out different things as we went round four different markets. Well worth it

What a wonderful evening with Fala...

Anne_G, Oct 2016

What a wonderful evening with Fala, our food guide, as well as Geraldine and Lois from NZ! Sampled the 3 different main types of cuisine around KL and was given the background and history of Malaysia - had a great laugh, soaked up the atmosphere, ate and drunk lots of different things we wouldn't probably have had the nerve to try on our own - it gave us the confidence to try some other dishes later on. We would thoroughly recommend this trip as a good way to experience Street food.

Our Street Food Hawkers Tour with...

Keith M, Aug 2016

Our Street Food Hawkers Tour with Charley was the highlight of our Kuala Lumpur trip. So informative and the food was really good. Never would have found or tried the food with out this tour.

I would recommend this to anyone...

Leah L, Aug 2016

I would recommend this to anyone interested in all things foodie - we would never have sampled any of the fantastic food without the guidance of the fabulous Charlie. For anyone wondering we ate everything and weren't even the slightest bit sick afterwards so go for it!

Great experience. Excellent guide...

Victoria M, July 2016

Great experience. Excellent guide who made it fun and explained where we were and what we were eating. Good to meet a varied bunch of nationalities too. I would certainly recommend.

This has been one of the best tours...

Dianne R, July 2016

This has been one of the best tours I've ever done, could not fault it at all, absolutely brilliant. Tried so much amazing food and had a great time!!!!!

Great food and very authentic...

Natalia H, July 2016

Great food and very authentic places. Charles took us in his very comfy van to the different areas. It was a great choice to do a night tour as the temperature was much nicer to go from one place to another and eat outside in the street. Highly recommend it.

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