Have Perut Will Travel...: KT Day 4 │ Pasar Kedai Payang!

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Sunday, 4 May 2025

KT Day 4 │ Pasar Kedai Payang!

Market Hunt!

Despite the drama with Titan Cafe last night we managed to get a relatively good night's sleep and woke up at half past seven. We woke Brendan up but he opted to continue with his beauty sleep.

As is always the case we got ready and walked over to the home at eight to get a load of laundry going. No trip to Kuala Terengganu would be complete without a visit to my beloved market, Pasar Kedai Payang (PKP). I had very fond memories of the old market, accompanying my mother to this market as she shopped for groceries back in the day when a cluster of five ikan kembung (Chub Mackerels?) cost only RM2.00 (approximately USD0.50/EUR0.40) while a hand of banana was barely RM1.00 (approximately USD/EUR0.20)!

We arrived at Pasar Kedai Payang 1 (PKP1) at half past eight then walked in and went in search of breakfast. There were several food stalls on either side on the aisle and we opted for the first and nearest one, sweetly named Kayu Manis (or Cinnamon). We scanned their diminutive menu and quickly settled on their:

Nasi Dagang
Nasi Minyak
2 Sugar-free Iced Tea

for a modest sum of only RM16.00 (approximately USD4/EUR3).

Breakfast out of the way we walked over to Pasar Kedai Payang 2 (PKP2) to begin our hunt for keropok and other heavenly goodies. We took a stroll around checking the various stalls selling keropok and serunding (meat floss) before finally circling back to Kak Salmah's stall. Here we went a little nuts and bought:

10 packets of raw keropok
2 x 500 gram packets of beef serunding
2 x 200 gram packets of beef serunding
5 x 100 gram packets of beef serunding
5 x 100 gram packets of chicken serunding
2 packets of fish serunding knotted spring rolls
2 x 50 packets of Keropok Ikan Segera SEAmEQ

Our handsome bounty eventually came to RM345.00 (approximately USD81/EUR72), money well spent in our minds since most of these items will cost almost double in Kuala Lumpur.

We walked back to BiBi to store away our bounty then headed into PKP1 to see what they had to offer. Unlike the old cramped and claustrophobia inducing rows of stalls on the first floor of the original PKP the new PKP1 had spacious and organised rows of batik merchants. We toured the ground floor then went up to the first floor to see more of the same.

Truth be told Jakarta's Thamrin City has spoiled us where batik was concerned.

We then headed back to the home to begin our respective chores. A short while later Ah Seng the electrician turned up to install our solar lamp at the back of the home. He also moved the previous malfunctioning lamp to the front, to test and see if it works.

Just as Ah Seng was about to leave my good buddy Vinodh dropped by bearing gifts of Nasi Dagang. We sat and chatted for about half an hour before Vinodh took his leave, he wanted to hitch a ride with us tomorrow but thought twice when we told him we'd be leaving at seven in the morning. He's obviously not a morning person.

By two the heat was unbearable so we beat a hasty retreat to the rest house. We woke Brendan up and showered before heading down to the common area to feast on the Nasi Dagang that Vinodh brought for us. By half past three we went back to the home where I continued working on our videos, while Cat started a load of laundry.

Stay tuned for our next video as we go on another night drive!