Kuala Lumpur's Filipino Mall 🇵🇭 🇲🇾

I discovered a Filipino mall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

I had been exploring and eating in the Chinatown area of KL when the rain started. I consulted Google Maps to find the nearest mall, which was called Kompleks Kota Raya.

I had been looking for some kind of sweet dessert such as Ais Kacang out on the streets, and hoped that this mall may have a food court where I could get it. I quickly found out that the Kota Raya mall was specifically a Filipino mall so I decided to look for some Halo-Halo instead.

Halo-Halo is a famous dessert and the nearest thing to Ais Kacang that I could think of. I missed out on trying it during my only trip to the Philippines 7 years ago, but this Pinoy Mall gave me another chance to try it.

Entering the Kota Raya mall was like stepping from Malaysia straight into the Philippines.

The mall had many Sari Sari grocery stores selling food imported from the Philippines, Pinoy hair salons, clothes stores and most importantly for me, Pinoy restaurants and cafes.

I found a nice looking restaurant on the 3rd floor, ran by a Muslim Filipina called Aling Berna. She serves fully halal Filipino food.

I bought some of her baked goods, a cake called Ensaymada, a pastry bun with ube (purple yam) inside and cream and grated cheese on top.

She then prepared me a bowl of Halo-Halo and kindly allowed me into the kitchen to watch.

The Halo-Halo costs just 8 ringgit ($1.80 USD) and is made with sago, chopped banana, jackfruit, leche flan, flattened rice and ube, served in a bowl with shaved ice.

The way to eat it is to mix everything up. In fact, the word "halo" means to mix.

The Halo-Halo was a tasty treat but didn't feel unhealthy because Aling Berna makes it with little sweetness. Every ingredient she makes her self so nothing comes from a can. The canned ingredients are usually preserved in sugar syrup, so making each ingredient fresh makes a big difference in reducing the sugar content of the Halo-Halo.

I also enjoyed some of Aling Berna's Turon. Turon is a Banana Lumpia or spring roll. Crispy, sweet and delicious.

As I was leaving the cafe, Aling Berna was about to do her rounds, going all around the mall with a cart to sell her food directly to people working in the shops and salons in the Pinoy mall. She invited me to follow her around and meet her friends.

0:00 Intro
5:13 Pinoy Cafe
8:57 Making Halo Halo
13:10 Eating Halo Halo
15:17 Turon (Banana Lumpia)
20:07 Selling Pinoy Snacks

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