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Shopping Area - Bukit
Bintang Area I
Kuala Lumpur Guide - Shopping
Bukit Bintang
Plaza, Sungei Wang, Low Yat and Imbi Plaza
Catering for all tastes and budget shopping - jewellery, clothes, fashion
accessories, footwear, sports goods, electrical equipment, watches, camera,
mobile phones, IT and computer related accessories.
Bukit Bintang is indisputably one of the city's foremost shopping districts
offering a multitude of merchandise to suit every taste and budget. This place
has transformed over the last 5 years to be one of the busiest tourist/local
hangout and shopping haven. Cafes, restaurant's, Clubs, Shops, Malls and more
fill up this street. On weekends, thousands of people walk pass to get to other
shopping malls within the area. Besides the wide variety of shops and outlets
along the roads, the cities major shopping outlets are located in this area.
 Bukit
Bintang Plaza (BB Plaza)
Sometimes, it can be confusing trying to distinguish between Bukit Bintang Plaza
and Sungei Wang Plaza as they are adjacent to each other. Housed within one
building are two shopping complexes, both as bustling as the next. One way to
distinguish between the two is that Bukit Bintang Plazas anchor tenant is
Metrojaya which offers items from a moderate-to-high price, and that at its
lowest floor, you will be spoilt for choices if youre looking for jewellery.
This mall is well known for its many shops selling items such as clothes,
fashion accessories, footwear, sports goods, electrical equipment, watches and
more. Good selections of AV equipment and cameras are also available here, as
are footwear and apparel, making BB Plaza a fun place to shop.
 Sungai
Wang Plaza
Recognised as one of the oldest and most popular shopping haunts in the city. s
a magnet for all shoppers in the city. This perennially popular shopping centre
houses many retail outlets offering an incredible assortment of goods catering
for all tastes and budgets. With over 500 retail outlets offering bargain priced
products and services.
Sungei Wang Plazas funky fashion styles, found nowhere else. This is fun
shopping, low-brow, elbow-jostling. Browse Giordano, Baleno, mobile phones,
cameras, computers, costume jewellery, SASA for cosmetics, and Levi's (a 501
original jean for RM 265 / US 75). It is the mall to go for a good variety of
latest fashion trends from Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan and China... Here, youll
find photography, electronics, fashion, accessories and jewellery, beauty
salons, boutiques, florists, etc. The major anchor tenant is Parkson Department
Store.
For Digital Camera and Video Shops
The shops stock an extensive range of renowned brands such
as Nikon, Olympus, Fuji, Canon, Hasselblad and Pentax. You can count on the
staff being courteous and knowledgeable.
RECOMMENDED
Foto Edar - Lower Ground Floor, Bukit Bintang Plaza
Jaya Kamera - Lower Ground Floor, Bukit Bintang Plaza
Fotokem - Lower Ground Floor, Sungai Wang Plaza
Tip - For those wearing those expensive spectacles, just go to any
optical store and show your glasses and ask how much it coat to make a similar
pair. You'll go wow and it will take about 3 - 4 working days to get it ready.
Note - There are amusement centres, restaurants and other department
stores. Exhibitions and concerts are frequently held at the concourse level.
This is one place you dont want to miss.
Low Yat Plaza
Here you can get a comprehensive mix and selection from a wide range of reputed
brands and latest IT items - laptops and PCs, PDAs, computer games, digital
cameras, mobile phones, scanners, projectors, home theatre systems and IT
peripherals. A popular place to shop for IT products in Kuala Lumpur, the mall
is several stories-high. Though dedicated mainly on IT items there is also a
good range of camcorders, cameras, cell phones and other electronic products.
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IT section of the mall attracts a huge crowd of shoppers, both local and
international, who want good computer parts at bargain-bin prices. Because of
the sheer number of dealers, competition is extremely intense, and you wont
find prices for computers any cheaper in the whole of Malaysia than Low Yat
Plaza.
Shoppers can get the latest graphic cards, LCD monitors, motherboards, RAM
chips, printers and processors to build up their computers. There are also a
wide range of laptops to choose from, such as Asus, Fujitsu, Toshiba, Sony, Acer
and Macintosh. On another note, the floor also has many shops that retail
pirated computer games as well as those for the Playstation and Xbox. This is
another pulling factor for international visitors who want cheap games!
 Imbi
Plaza
Located beside Sungei Wang Plaza along Jalan Imbi. The mall is a little
run-down, but avid computer geeks will enjoy a wide range of computer products
on all three of its floors. This was the IT products hub in Kuala Lumpur for
many years until Low Yat Plaza dethroned it. This is the place for those who are
interested in computer hardware and software. Take your time to check out the
latest computer products at the numerous shops here.
Still, the mall is popular, and you can get virtually the same computer products
along with the same wide rage as Low Yat Plaza. In fact, some of the shops are
opened by the same dealers retailing in Low Yat. The mall is full of shops
retailing pirated computer games as well, besides an array of flash drives,
routers, hard drives and other computer accessories.
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