Thursday, September 10, 2009

Been To This Famous Street?

I noticed a new eatery in KLIA lately with the name of the famous Jalan Alor. "Jalan" is in the malay language which is "Street" in english language.

I didn't check what they were selling but I assumed that the food served in it would be those found in the actual Jalan Alor. Same quality? Will try when I go overseas next round.

Even the airport management has agreed to have such restaurant with a famous name known to locals and many tourists who frequent this street.

Somehow and somewhere, this famous street name was changed without people knowing. Who changed it? It was the local council, DBKL.

When the news was published, it created an uproar from the business owners, restaurants, stall owners, traders, residents, locals and even tourists requested for the name to be maintained.

People's power won! Never consult and didn't even think properly before doing something, that's the consequences. Name was reverted to the famous Jalan Alor with no choice. This street name was there even before I was born ........... and I was born near Jalan Alor .... at Chinese Maternity Hospital (if you know where lah and yes, I'm a 101% local boy).

Imagine the street name was changed, this restaurant at the airport won't be there too but maybe under a different unknown name.

Reading: Famous Jalan Alor - Backpacking-Asia.com
Tags: Jalan Alor, KLIA, DBKL, Chinese Maternity Hospital, Famous Street Name

5 comments:

Borneo Falcon said...

Have not been using KLIA for ages now. Kind of miss the airport

TZ said...

hmmm... it's a long time i haven't been to Jln Alor. It's popular with lots of different food. :p

Kev said...

The City Halls are fond of changing street names at their fancy; they've nothing better to do I guess.

foongpc said...

It's a good thing they didn't change the name. Jalan Alor is so famous it'll be silly to change the name. Why fix it if it's not broken right?

Johnny Ong said...

borneo - u really travel a lot till u can miss an airport?!?!?!

tz - same with me but been to that place many times b4

kev - can change if it was relevant or need to but shld do some homework b4 proceed to change

foong - they fix so that it won't be broken for long long time to come???? hehe

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