Moga Punjab, if you love Punjabi food

Moga Punjab opened in June, 2011

Delicious potato prata (aloo pratha) served with mint sauce and mung bean dhall curry. 

Looking for authentic Punjabi food? Check out the Moga Punjab Punjabi eatery which has just opened at Platinum Walk area, behind the Columbia Hospital, adjacent to the Ayamas outlet. It serves a variety of Punjabi bread (pratha) with fillings such as potatoes and cauliflower. Since the restaurant is new, the owners said that they are still trying to organise stuff. We will be going there again for a better write-up. If you have been there, post your comments below, ya?

Where Are The Trees?

Gone: The trees have been completely removed.

I was shocked when I drove by this row of shops that form the lower ground of the Pelangi Apartments along Jalan Genting Kelang. What used to be a lovely row of trees in front of the shops have been cleared out. The shopfront look bare and since many of them are restaurants, I wonder how they are dealing with the dust and din!

Genting Kelang road divider a potential cause of more jams

IF you have been driving along Jalan Genting Kelang near the Pizza Hut junction, you would have seen that a divider has been built from the junction into Jalan Perusahaan until the traffic lights leading into Taman Forlong. The City Hall planners must have thought of this as a short-term measure to curb jams along Genting Kelang in  the mornings for traffic heading towards the city because if turning is allowed near Pizza Hut, then traffic would be held up.

The traffic lights junction at Genting Kelang-Jalan Perusahaan.
City-bound cars make U-turns here.

However, they did not realise that by closing the breaks in the road, cars on Kenny Rogers/Pelangi Condo side of the road wishing to head to the city would have to make a U-turn at the Genting Kelang-Jalan Perusahaan junction. Since the traffic lights there have a habit of turning red too fast, jam is created here. It is only a matter of time when a long bottle neck happens to frustrate everyone.

The junction near Pizza Hut into the slip road to Air Panas now clear of traffic early in the mornings. Note the divider at right. 

Great Fishballs, Where?

Ladies, if you are into cooking and want to get some very nice fishball, check out the stall inside Genting Kelang Wet Market. This lady sells a wide variety of fishballs and stuff you need for making steamboat meals or young tau foo. Prices are reasonable. Her stall is located in the centre rows, opposite some green grocers.

Rice of All Types at Genting Kelang Market

If you are looking for organic rice, or brown rice, you can get them quite easily at Genting Kelang wet market. There is one chap who sells it at the wet market near some vegetable sellers. We wished we could take a good shot of him but apparently he is from the old school - despite reassurances to help himpromote his business, he didn't take it quite easily. In any case, here are some photos - excuse the quality, though.

Anyone Knows What This Is?

Construction work is going on at a feverish pace, but I doubt this building facing the Genting Kelang traffic lights is going to be ready for Chinese New Year. They say it is going to house a giant shopping complex. Which, we are not told. But truth be told, Genting Kelang folk and those using the stretch going home in the evenings better brace themselves should a sale happen when the complex is open. The two lane main road is definitely not able to take all that traffic overspill. We wonder if MP Wee Choo Keong is aware of the hardship this is going to cause - or if alternative routes have already been planned?

Candy Man

They call him Tok-Tok Man or the ancient candy seller. This fellow is hardly 40 and he is plying a dying trade in candy. He can be seen at Genting Kelang market on Saturday mornings. A packet of peppermint candy costs RM4.

Please Clear This Log Pile

There is a pile of cut tree trunks along one of the parallel roads along Genting kelang which have been left there for about 2 weeks. Somehow, the contractors have yet to remove them. I am wodnering why. Should children play around the log pile and it collapses on them, I won't want to imagine what would happen. Is the MP's office checking this? Please do get the contractors to remove them,

Genting Kelang Trees - All Chopped Down

These are the sacualty of development. The brownish trunks of angsana trees piled on the shoulders of Jalan Genting Kelang awaiting to be collected. Will City Hall plant more trees? I hope for the sake of road users and nature lovers, they will spare more thought in trying to provide shade along this stretch. No point planting huge trees only to chop them few years down the line. Might as well have potted trees or bonsai. At least they can be moved without harming the trees.

Handicapped Unfriendly Buildings In Wangsa Maju

Took this picture at Jalan Genting Kelang, near the Pizza Hut. See what the poor old man who has been confined to his wheelchair had to go through just to visit one of the shops there? It is ridiculous how buildings can be made to be so handicapped unfriendly. Even the pavements are sometimes not wide enough to accommodate a wheelchair to pass.

Perhaps future plans for any commercial development in Wangsa Maju can take into consideration for the less fortunate? Might we hope for the MP to bring this up in Parliament?

Egg Lovers Should Check This Out

Egg lovers, take note. If you are looking for wholesalers in Wangsa Maju, especially if those of you are operating business, go to CenterMart at Genting Kelang and check out this outlet. There are various offers weekly and if you choose wisely, you might land something worthwhile.

No Time For Prying Eyes, I am Hungry!

This man was spotted loitering around Genting Kelang Market amid the hawker stalls, going table from table after the diners have left. He checks out the leftovers and when something strikes his fancy, he grabs the leftovers and eat it (inset picture), without worry or care of prying eyes. From the looks, he appeared to be Chinese, about 70. When the stomach is hungry, sometimes we have to let go of pride and other concerns and fill the stomach first. To many, he could be an eccentric. Sadly, one wonders where his family is.

Prawn Fishing In Genting Kelang

This blogger was told that the operators of CenterMart at Genting Kelang are looking for ways to attract shoppers to the multiconcept shopping mall and one of the ways, including hosting a fun-fair, is to have prawn fishing in its grounds (see picture). The announcement has been made in the form of banners too. So, intrepid anglers, you might want to quench your thirst in this recreational past time activity which was popular in the 90s.

Crazy Bus Driver Again!

Everyone who uses the lane parallel to Jalan Genting Kelang knows very well that the traffic is one way and comes opposite to that of Jalan Genting Kelang.

But because of the jams on Jalan Genting Kelang, bikers zip pass on this lane, breaking the law and endangering lives of the people using the stretch, mostly pensioners and other pedestrians, for the morning cup of coffee at several restaurants there. Of late, the public buses have also thrown their weight around and use these lanes just to get to their destination.

As can be seen in these pictures, the conductor even dares to grin as is posing for his picture to be taken. I wonder what Metrobus is doing to control their errant drivers illegally using the slip roads as well as the parallel lane beside Jalan Genting Kelang. And what are the JPJ and traffic police doing about these daily happenings?

Mind Your Steps At Centermart

Mind these!

If you are visiting Centremart in Genting Kelang, don't be too excited over your shopping or what you might find there cheap. Be careful and look where youu are going.

Apparently the owners did not pay good attention to safety where the building joints the other end. Look at the picture and you will get my drift. These steps are not so well indicated under the dimly-lit interior and if your kids are running around, they might find themselve tmbling all over if they miss this step. Older people, too, should be careful.

Tell your friends, will you?

Good Greens Grocer

If you go to Genting Kelang Market, there is one stall by the side which itemises the prices of its greens and other stuff. I thought it was kind of thoughtful of the green grocer and his/her dilgence should be widely emulated. While everywhere prices are displayed, small wet markets are still getting away with not displaying price tags of any kind. As a result, consumers like you and I are disadvantaged, not knowing if we are being cheated or not.

You Don't Have To Go To China For Jades

You heard right - you don't have to go to China to buy jades or any Chinese stuff. Just visit the Genting Kelang market and chances are you might come across this chap at the entrance, trading his ware on the tarred road. Feng shui stuff, ornaments and almost anything. He looks local and sounds local, and could be a local.

Sale at CentreMart

If you are looking for cheap clothes in these hard times, visit Centremart at Jalan Genting Kelang. There is a sale ongoing now with children's attire going as cheap as RM5 and towels down to RM1. The quality is nothing to shout about but still they are usable. But if you are fussy, then you can save up for other sales which should be coming soon.



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Where Is The Best Siew Yoke Stall In Wangsa Maju?

If you like barbecued pork as much as some people, try the pork selling section behind the Jalan Genting Kelang market. There are a couple of stalls selling pork here and two are selling barbecued pork - char siew as well as siew yoke.

What boggles the mind is that why both selling cooked food are allowed to sell their stuff beside the raw pork sellers. Isn't this unhygienic?

If you like barbecued pork, if you purchase them here, I hope you will cook them again before eating. Else you might risk a stomach upset if they are contaminated by flies.

New Shopping Mall In Wangsa Maju - Centremart@Setapak!

Centremart@Setapak - will it last?

We just checked out the Centermart@Setapak, a new concept in warehouse shopping set up in the middle of January 2009 across what is known as Danau Kota - across the road from Platinum Point - along Jalan Genting Kelang.

In a nutshell, it is a Makro-like kind of shopping here except that this one has many shops under one roof, with several restaurants, a car dealer, a children's playground, sundry store as anchor, several wet market stalls, and some cubicles for trading ala trade expo.



The sundry store, Pasaraya Shuang Lim (above), looks promising with prices pretty cheap. Rice and some household items are pretty cheap compared to the nearer Jaya Jusco. Even the bags of brown rice was cheaper than Carrefour when we last checked. Ecobrown brown rice went for RM19plus for a 5kg bag against Carrefour's RM20plus. Garlic went for RM5.50 for 7kg bags. And there were too many.

Other things are the same price and if you are looking for beer, forget it. The price is just about the same even if you purchase in dozens.



Another shop within Centermart