itinerary Jelutong lunch crawl: 4 stops on foot
4 stops · 1.2km on foot
Four stops along Jalan Perak and the lanes behind it, close enough that you can leave the car once and do the rest on foot. Jelutong rewards an early start here: the first stop is a morning kopitiam, and by the time it shuts the yam rice shop and the banana leaf shed have both opened. Do it in this order and you get noodles, rice, porridge and a thali in one long late morning.
1 07:00 to 12:00 · shut Friday
Photo: Wong Han Pin via Google Maps Jelutong Sunshine Kopitiam shuts at 12:00, so this is the stop you build the morning around. The draw is Mr Ho's three-flavour wantan mee, one plate split across dark soy, sesame oil and Sichuan mala. Madam Tan's Hailam char is at the back and a hokkien mee corner beside it. Expect a queue.
2 11:00 to 21:00 · 217m from the last stop · shut Wednesday
Photo: Google review via Google Maps Canton City Cafe Yam Rice does two things at once: Cantonese seafood porridge, and the yam rice locals call the real version. Take the rice with kiam chai tofu soup, or the steamed fish belly. The room is air conditioned now, which helps by midday. Parking on Jalan Perak is the hard part.
3 06:45 to 14:30 · 362m from the last stop · shut Tuesday, Wednesday
Photo: JAMES FROG via Google Maps Kedai Makanan Liang Seng (蠔干粥) sits under a low-cost flat on Lintang Slim, where the family has boiled its dried-oyster porridge over charcoal for generations. The counter stops at 14:30, sooner than most people expect. Build the bowl with add-ons: shark meat, pork intestines, yew char koay.
4 11:30 to 15:00 · 642m from the last stop · shut Monday, Sunday
Photo: THE GARDEN BANANA LEAF via Google Maps The Garden Banana Leaf is an open-sided shed near Heng Ee High School, beside the banana fritters stall, and the entrance is off Free School Road rather than the obvious way in. Ask for the banana leaf rice. The cooking is vegetarian, South Indian Tamil, served as a thali at lunch.