Look Where You Are Going When In Taman Seri Rampai

Friend, just a word of advice: If you are going to the Pasar Malam on Thursday nights or having your lunch in broad daylight at Taman Seri Rampai, be careful about this stretch (above) in front of Guardian pharmacy and Ayam Bing.

This road divider has weak cemented part covering a big drain beneath. People have fallen in and mind you, it will be really 'suay' if should you be next.

Look at the exposed reinforcement mesh (picture below) - who made this poor quality pavement? The authorities should look into who the contractors were and who gave out the contract.

Public money is being wasted - never mind - but some innocent fella is going to lose a limb should he or she step into this lobang! Can the good Mayor or MP come do a site visit?

Gong Xi Fa Cai!

Wangsa-Maju.com wishes all our readers celebrating the occasion a Happy Chinese New Year and Gong Xi Fa Cai!

Traffic Lights Installed At Jalan Usahawan-Jalan Usahawan6

If you have been using Jalan Usahawan's extended road to get to Jalan Usahawan 6 (Selangor Pewter and Kia Service Centre), you would have been very wary of incoming traffic from either way. Well, the traffic lights is now operational. It was commissioned in December, just before Christmas, and now, you can cross this busy junction quite safely. Of course, traffic coming from Jalan Usahawan can be quite jammed up in the mornings or when the lights becomes faulty.

Air Panas Jackfruit Man

Where can you buy jackfruit on a Sunday morning? Just head for the Air Panas market. At the side entrance, beneath a large tree, you will see this man. He is the regular neighbourhood nangka (jackfruit) man.

Stationed under the shade of that old tree by the Datok Shrine, he starts business at 8am or so.

Personally I have not tried his jackfruit. If you have, tell me. Or if you have a better supplier, tell me so that I can do a story on him/her.

Air Panas Pau

If you feel the hunger pangs at night and craving for some good pau, check out the pau man near the Air Panas Market. This chap, bespectacled and a bit on the plump side, sells very good home-made pau.

You will have to try it to appreciate the dumplings. He starts at six in the evening and goes on till all are sold or 11pm or so, whichever comes first. In his repertoire are pau of various sorts, as well as some good loh mai kai (glutinous rice with chicken) as well a siew mai (meat dumplings).

His mantou (plain flour dumplings) are also good to the bite. Check him out and tell him someone out there is helping him promote his stall and that he should keep the service good.

Do You Know Where Kampung Kuantan Is?

Drive with care - traffic can be a little crazy in the mornings in this area.

If you think that Kampung Kuantan is located near Jalan Kuantan, you could not have been mistaken more.
No, it is actually located in Gombak 4rd Mile, specifically, at the back of the 13-storey Teratai Mewah low-cost flats at the end of Setapak Garden.
There is a morning market here and things, according to locals, are pretty cheap. From breakfast to market produce, you can practically get all sorts of things here.
If you are driving by this area, go slow. Old ladies walk and children dart across the roads like they own them. Drive with care.

Rats, There Are Simply Too Many In Wangsa Maju!

The arrow points to the roadkill. Inset shows the rodent having lost its head before meeting its tragic end.

Rats, this one didn't make it. It must have been raiding the dustbins of the hawker centres near the Prima Setapak and Genting Court Condo when it met its maker. With its head blown off, it would appear that it could be done by the ratworld mafioso.

But I suspect it got its head crushed by passing car. Just look at the clues on the enlarged inset. Boy, Quincy ME would have been delighted to analyse how this rodent met its end.

Hope this picture did not spoil your meal - and if you have not taken twice, perhaps you might wanna consider eating at home.

Anyway, one wonders: with all the rats running around, are the hawker centres safe?

I mean, rat urine has been known to cause high fever and death if untreated or wrongly treated. Do we have any guarantee that at night, when the hawker centres close, these rodents do not party on the kitchen utensils as they much on leftovers?

And one wodners, too, how hugienic the hawkers here (or anywhere in Wangsa Maju for that matter!) are. Do they make it a point to clean their equipment thoroughly before preparing and serving their food?

Many of them today employ Banglas, Myanmars and Indons to serve, with some Vietnamese and China nationals thrown in for good measure. How many are healthy?

Scary, don't you think? Better cook at home and eat safe, and save huh?

Whose Are These Godowns?

Along Jalan Gombak lies these two godowns. If you have passed the road often, you would have noticed them. The lie nextdoor to the BHP station.

According to stories residents shared with me, these godowns date back to the time of the Japanese invasion. they were used to store goods such as foodstuff. No one knows for sure.

But if the tales were to be believed, then Gombak would have had historical buildings that worth preserving - but the effort would have been a little too late considering the facade had been completely demolished.