Brickfields

We took a tourist office tour of Brickfields, a largely Indian area of KL. It started under Vivekanada's statue. The British decided that buildings should be built of bricks to prevent fires. Brickfields was where the bricks were made. The workers were mostly Tamil, from Tamil Nadu in India and also from Sri Lanka. The buildings behind Vivekanada are called the Hundred Quarters,built to house civil servants. They are about to be demolished.
The tour was great. It started out with the tour leader taking us to street food vendors and describing the food and how it was made. Samosas, dosas, satay, with peanut sauce, nasi lemak, the Malaysian breakfast, milk tea. Fabulous.