On the first and third Sunday in the morning, a number of KL's city-centre roads are now closed to traffic. Well done, KL, for following this welcome urban trend. It's really great to see KL-ites out enthusiastically roller-blading, running, walking, cycling, and marching, and the lack of traffic made our walk to Petaling Street much more pleasant.



The recipe for the rest of the morning is as follows:

After Hakka Mee soup at the Tang City Food Court, walk on towards the Chan See Shu Yuen clan house. On the way, finally manage to photograph the delightful little pay-booth that some car park attendant has really made his own.



Pop in to the clan house, as up to now you've only photographed the outside.



Walk on to the area of graves alongside Jalan Loke Yew.

Close to the Buddhist and Christian cemeteries, you'll find hundreds of small, plain gravestones where the unknown victims of World War 2 are buried:







You'll also find (but in our case not be able to enter) the Japanese cemetery:



Take a moment to pay your respects at the little shrines along the way:



Walk to Hang Tuah monorail station, past picturesque Albukhary Mosque. In true KL style, on the opposite side of the road from the mosque you will find both a Chinese temple and an Indian temple.



Take a quick video of the monorail, before riding it to Chow Kit.

From here you take a bus up Jalan Ipoh, and have late morning coffee at Tommy le Baker. Recommended by two of my colleagues, Tommy is nothing if not an enthusiast. We shared an apricot and pistachio bread roll and a piece of Perigord walnut tart, accompanied by very decent coffee. They open at 8 am every day except Monday, so this is definitely a "must return" destination.

I love these explorations. It's too bad there's not been enough time for them recently.