Taman Connaught Pasar Malam

Last Wednesday, we went to the famous Taman Connaught pasar malam in Cheras. It was my 1st time there and by 6pm, the traffic was already jammed up until the housing area. By 7pm, everybody seemed to be there despite the rain. We walked from the so-called starting point, which is near the park. As we stroll along, we noticed that this pasar malam is full of fried stuffs and also 'Taiwanese food'. Nevertheless, there are also a mixture of local food such as crispy tauhu bakar, mee / meehoon goreng, kuih-muih and etc.




We planned to buy different food with different styles and choose a makan place with table and chairs. So, we got the crispy tauhu bakar and then some Taiwanese fried pieces chicken (made popular by Uncle Bob).










After settling down in one place to have our dinner (together with bubble tea), we decided to continue to jalan-jalan at the pasar malam. Towards the end, we found something that probably most people will want to try to eat not because of the smell but of the taste. It was chau taufu (tauhu busuk). It started when we noticed that there was a long queue to buy some 'sort of food' but we didn't know that it was tauhu busuk. So, we approached the stall and still didn't notice anything smelly.

The board of the stall also didn't write clearly what it was selling. Then, we heard some people saying that it was tauhu busuk. So, we decided to 'locate' the smell. When we moved to the front of the stall, there were 2 people frying tauhu and it was that time when we noticed the smell. It smell like 'longkang stuffed with years of rubbish' and we wonder how come people would like it but we have no answer to that.

It was a truly experience for us to know that there are so many fans of tauhu busuk. We moved on to walk back to the 'starting point'. Along the way, we bought a piece of Taiwanese pizza for a try.



Even though the rain was not that heavy, a lot of people continued to walk and makan-makan. Probably, this is one of the truly Malaysian culture.