This document provides snapshots of different people and businesses on Petaling Street in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia through short descriptions and stories. It describes tourists on the street, various street vendors and stalls selling items like garlands, ice cream, drinks, peanut pancakes, and vegetables. It also shares stories about people who have been running family businesses on the street for decades, including a cendol business and a fish monger. While the spaces are narrow, the document suggests the street brings people happiness and is full of different supplies to meet consumer demand, with all leaving physical traces of their presence in their footsteps.

1. S T O R Y B E H I N D T H E F O O T S T E P S O N T H E S T R E E T .

2. PETALING STREET
Petaling Street is a Chinatown located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is infamous for pirated clothes and
accessories along with bootleg DVDs and CDs. Petaling Street however does not exclusively offer pirated
products. Haggling is a common sight here and the place is usually crowded with locals as well as tourists.

3. Petaling Street. there are people which categorize into customer and seller.
Theres also different type of races gathered over here.
All of them busying pursue what they wanted
But all of them leaves a same things, Footsteps
Those footsteps Imprinted their memories which stay there forever.
S T O R Y B E H I N D T H E F O O T S T E P S O N T H E S T R E E T .
AUTHOR - ANG AVERLLEN

4. A tourist wearing a hat to at least
have a shade to resist the hot sun.
Couldn’t adapt to foreign country’s
weather so quickly.

5. A couple standing in the narrow space looking at the map,
looking for direction at the place that they doesn’t know, exploring places that they doesn’t gone before.

6. Came to a foreign country and couldn’t resist their weather so
she ‘do in roman as romans does’

9. Standing in the centre of crowded in a narrow spaces may attrract more customers espe-
cially Streets Ice Cream brings joy and refreshment With brands like Magnum, Paddle Pop, Blue Ribbon,
Cornetto, Calippo, Bubble’o’Bill.
People are willing to stop by and get some Ice cream to chill them self especially in such a hot weather.
Besides, kids who crave for ice cream can’t get their eyes off them.

10. Pirated beg can be easily found in here. Tourism are usually attracted by all this
products. A man here slowing down his footstep as he was attracted by one of those beg as
well.

11. In coincidencely met there old friend while walking the tight space.

13. Garland. In India, where flower garlands have an important and tradition-
al role in every festival, the Gods are decorated with garlands made from different
fragrant flowers (often jasmine) and leaves
Both Lovely ladies here have been selling their self-hand made garland since
morning and they have been running their business for 15 years and still counting.

14. A Lovely women here trying hard to sell of her beutiful hand made garland.

15. The Man busy shifting his product for a business setup at the corner of the street.

16. Peanut Pancake
Never miss this especially when u come
to this uncle. His peanut pancake has
a crispy outer edge (like a crepe) and
then a chewy soft middle and it’s also
kind of sticky. Then you have the crum-
bly peanut sugar mixture that provides a
pinch of sweetness to your taste buds.

17. It’s common to get
those people who selling drinks
around the street where they usually
had a trolley of soft drinks or cold
drinks that were tuck in a bucket of
ice to keep them cold and refreshing.

18. Mr.Teo have been running
his father’s Cendul business for 7
years. The business was that suc-
cess as the businees back then, but
he never give up and still trying hard
to bloom the business up.
He was currently the second genera-
tion of his family’s business.

19. A man here selling his handmade garland
together with his brother. Its common to
see girls making garland but hardly found
a guy making garland.

21. A Small Vegetable stall located in side the narrown
back alley where people named the place ‘‘The Little Market’’. The
stall sells fresh vegetables everyday from monday to sunday from morning
8am to evening 5pm.

22. Ms. Tan is a fish monger in her late 60’s, currently runing her business by her own for the past 23 years.

23. Mr. Wong has been running his
own business in the market as a meat
seller. He had been running his business
since he was young at the age of 20
together with his father back in the 80’s
and now handling over his father busi-
ness perfectly.

24. Small Spaces
Narrow Passages
Big Happiness.
Although their grocery store is small but both of them enjoy the way they live.
Although what they earn every day is just enough but at least they never ask for more and be grateful for they have.

27. Women loves handbag
Girl’s loves backpack
Female tourists love travel backpack.
Everyone loves cheap stuff
When there’s a demand so there is supplies
That’s the reason this place, here is full of cheap pirated bag.

28. Beggar they choose not to earn money by both of their hands but decide to beg
Would Rather to kneel down and wait but not go out to give it a shot and tell himself ‘at least i tried’.
Would Rather get look down by others but not tell himself that ‘maybe i can’.