Taiping, Kuala Sepetang

Taiping&Kuala Sepetang 

The city with the most number one titles in Peninsular Malaysia. There are 33 official announcements. Isn't that enough for you to find out yourselves there?

Taiping has a longer history than Ipoh. Before tin mining in the Kinta Valley , it was the city with the most tin mines in the Malay Peninsula. (The first tin mining activity in the Malay Peninsula, 1844). The leftover tin  mine lake became the first  artificially planted recreational park (1880) is picturesque. In the city with the most rainfall (Taiping is known as the Rainy City), there are often misty and rainy scenes. When the weather is fine, the old trees by the lake with the extended branches to the lake are look so special , which is a unique spectacle.

The Taiping Mountains are beautiful, and next to Taiping Lake is the ''Bukit Larut'' Maxwell hills, (1844) the first summer resort for British officials in Malaya. It is hard to imagine that in this beautiful place, more than 150 years ago, it was a place where local Chinese gangs and Malay royal powers competed and fight for tin mining sites. The old name of this place is  (Kelian Pauh). The two chinese gang Haishan and Yixing disputes continued, until the British intervened, signed the ''PangkorTreaty'' (1874) and changed its name to ''Taiping'', and then it became peaceful, stable and prosperous. As a result, many firsts in the Malay Peninsula have been created, and many  stories have been left behind. 

A few examples of the peninsula's first title are as follows:

Government offices (1879), courts (1874), prisons (1885), telegraph post offices, clubs house (1880), railway stations (1881), museums (1883), big markets (1884), racecourses (1886), wooden sanctuaries Church (Old Saints church, 1886), Clock Tower (1890), Night Safari and more. It adds a lot of color and after-dinner topics to this old city. 

Among them, Taiping Lake, Zoo, Bukit Larut  , First Gallery Taiping (1891) and so on are famous at home and abroad. First Gallery used to be the office building of the British. After the Treaty of Pangkor, Taiping symbolized the beginning of British rule in the Malay Peninsula. In fact, the British used Taiping as the administrative center of Malaya from 1875 to 1895, and then transferred to Kuala Lumpur. This shows the historical status of Taiping at that time.

In addition, Anton Coffee factory and Sun Yat-sen Overseas Residence Memorial Hall Changchun Garden are also historical landmarks worth seeing.

The relatively new scenic spots include ''Zi Nong'' leisure farm, a duck farm, and Taiping Sprizer eco park, a mineral water production area.

Taiping cuisine has its own characteristics, such as the mighty and domineering drink ''Hor Ka Sai '' (the classic Taiping first), salty coffee, Cendol ice, soybean  and so on. There are also a variety of delicacies, such as Simpang Fried Kway Teow (Classic), Fried Fish Ball Kway Teow, Kway Teow Soup, Laksa, Char Siu, Roasted Pork, Satay, Nyonya Kuih, etc., all kinds. Chinese, Malay, Indian and British cuisines are all available.



Recently, the ''Kuala Sepetang '' mangroves have become more famous. Watching fireflies in the bushes at night, and the mangroves on the river bank are lined up, and groups of fireflies are constantly flashing at night. It is really a wonder.

Mangroves are also good materials for making hard charcoal. The quality of the charcoal is high. The Japanese concern to health  use charcoal to cook meals and purify water. They even set up a factory in Kuala Sepatang , and after production, they are shipped back to Japan and the world. Mangroves, charcoal kiln and charcoal making are special attractions that tourists must visit when they come to Kuala Sepetang . ''Black gold'' made of charcoal can also be bought home as decorations!

Come to Kuala Sepetang , watch the floating houses in the fishing port, take a boat out to sea to experience fishermen fishing, catching oysters, watching eagles hunting, and dolphins playing on the water are also authentic features.

When you come to Kuala Sepetang , when you check in and take pictures at the port Weld train station, of course you will not miss the seafood delicacies. The fish and shrimp are especially delicious. Before you leave, don’t forget to buy some dry shrimps as souvenirs. Curry noodles, prawn noodles, and seafood porridge are local delicious all must-eats.


Taiping is about 95 kilometers away from Ipoh, about an hour's drive away. Visit Ipoh, without going to Taiping is not complete journey to know about Malaya . You must go to look at Taiping Lake, the ancient capital of Malay-Asian British colonial period, Changchun Garden, Sun Yat-sen’s Former Residence Memorial Hall, listen to his romantic love story in Nanyang, go to taste Kway Teow and find out what is the difference between Taiping Kway Teow and Ipoh’s ''Sa Hor fen'' , how mighty it is after drinking the tiger bites the lion? Is the taste of Taiping Laksa similar to that of Penang ? Let m