Food, shopping destinations to check out along the Putrajaya MRT line

WITH the to start with period of the Putrajaya MRT line now working, commuters can effortlessly entry various areas of the city and check out the several neighborhood points of interest alongside the alignment.

To persuade use of the new line, customers of the community have been made available a thirty day period of cost-free rides setting up June 16.

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The 12 stations on the new line are Kwasa Damansara, Kampung Selamat, Sungai Buloh, Damansara Damai, Sri Damansara Barat, Sri Damansara Sentral, Sri Damansara Timur, Metro Prima, Kepong Baru, Jinjang, Sri Delima and Kampung Batu.

The very first 3 stations – Kwasa Damansara, Kampung Selamat and Sungai Buloh – had been developed through the construction of the Kajang MRT line and experienced now been officially introduced as portion of the Putrajaya MRT line.

All 12 MRT stations are supported by feeder buses, along with Quick KL and GoKL buses (for the Kampung Batu MRT station).

StarMetro hopped on the trains plying the new MRT line to find spots of desire to check out.

Kwasa Damansara

Kwasa Damansara MRT station is the initial joined interchange station involving the Kajang and Putrajaya lines.

It is the initial station together the Putrajaya line to have a park-and-experience facility, with 500 parking bays for automobiles and 100 for motorcycles, according to MRT Company.

Sungai Buloh

Sungai Buloh MRT station, positioned northwest of Kuala Lumpur, is joined to the KTM Komuter Pelabuhan Klang line and KTM ETS (Electrical Teach Provider).

Hospital Sungai Buloh is a 13-minute journey (6.7km) absent.

There are no feeder buses servicing the station as still.

Damansara Damai

This station serves the suburb of Damansara Damai.

Gardening lovers and people with a inexperienced thumb can now travel on the new line to stop by several plant nurseries working alongside Jalan Kuala Selangor.

Potters Back garden is a plant nursery that is a quick push from the Damansara Damai station.

From the station, it is a five-moment taxi trip to a variety of nurseries.

One particular of them is Potters Back garden, which is 1.2km absent.

Leu Ping Hui, who frequents the nursery, explained he appreciated the assortment of plants bought there which could not be uncovered somewhere else.

“Plants and gardening resources are fairly cost-effective here,” included the 50-12 months-outdated.

Sri Damansara Barat

All those seeking for a deal can shop to their heart’s written content as there is a thrift store that is a 5 minutes’ stroll from the Sri Damansara Barat MRT station.

Suliana will now be using the MRT much more generally to take a look at the thrift retail outlet around the Sri Damansara Barat station. – Photos: IZZRAFIQ ALIAS and MUHAMAD SHAHRIL ROSLI/The Star

JBR Bundle sells 2nd-hand merchandise this kind of as dresses, sneakers and baggage aside from even larger products like bicycles.

Nor Suliana Mohammad, 26, likes procuring at JBR due to the fact she can extend her ringgit right here.

She also enjoys the element of surprise, as “you in no way know what you may possibly uncover while sifting via the racks”.

“I will certainly take the MRT now to get to this thrift shop as it is a great deal far more hassle-free than before,” she added.

Sri Damansara Sentral

If you are craving dim sum, you can now delight in plates of these freshly steamed little bites at Restaurant Ful Lai in Bandar Sri Menjalara, Kepong.

Cafe Ful Lai in Bandar Menjalara is a 10-minute stroll from the Sri Damansara Sentral station and serves freshly steamed dim sum.

The cafe, which has been in business for additional than 10 years, is an eight-moment feeder-bus ride absent from the station.

Open from 6.30am to cater to the breakfast group, Ful Lai has a large assortment of dim sum.

Be expecting classics such as har gao (prawn dumplings), siew mai (meat and prawn dumplings) and steamed buns with an assortment of fillings.

Cafe supervisor Danielle Loi, 39, mentioned shoppers would normally appear for the freshly built char siew pau (steamed buns with barbecued meat filling).

The MRT feeder bus also stops at Waterfront Parkcity and Plaza Arkadia shopping mall.

Metro Prima

Seamless vacation: The Metro Prima MRT station’s proximity to Aeon Shopping mall will make it handy for family members outings. – IZZRAFIQ ALIAS/The Star

A hassle-free position for a grocery run would be Aeon Shopping mall in Metro Prima complicated, which is now conveniently connected by a new bridge to the MRT station that shares the exact same name.

It is positioned just 160m from the MRT station and Sing Yung Kit, who lives in the vicinity of Batu Caves, reported the new line would facilitate his family’s weekly browsing journeys.

He appears to be like ahead to keeping away from street website traffic and skipping the stress of looking for parking.

“The new MRT line is family members-welcoming, with performing lifts and escalators that make it accessible to the elderly, those in wheelchairs and mom and dad with newborn strollers,” stated the 34-year-old who took the teach with his household to the searching centre more than the weekend.

Similarly for college student Hee Kar Huan, 20, the MRT is her go-to transport manner as the Kajang MRT line connects to her university and the Maluri station.

“Now with the Putrajaya line, I am able to travel to spots that are around my dwelling in Sri Damansara,” she mentioned.

Kepong Baru

If you extravagant a plate of nasi lemak, rojak or other area specialities, head in excess of to Large Tree Corner which is just a five-minute stroll from the Kepong Baru station.

The spouse and children-operate business enterprise is well-known with locals who typically pop in for a brief food.

Tzu Chi Foundation Malaysia, across the street from the Kepong Baru station, has serene grounds.

“We have been operating in this article for above 13 a long time and have many typical customers,” said proprietor Dennis Reddy.

Throughout the street, on exiting Gate C of the Kepong Baru station, commuters can also head to the large gray constructing housing the Tzu Chi Foundation.

The serene grounds are open up everyday to the community.

Within just the compound is a local community corridor as properly as the Jing Si Publications & Cafe the place website visitors can search by means of the looking through resources even though having light refreshments.

Sri Delima

Fish-head noodles are generally well prepared with snapper, but there is an eatery that employs salmon.

Norway Salmon Fish Head Noodle is situated immediately guiding Brem Shopping mall in Kepong and is a four-minute walk (280m) from Gate B of the Sri Delima station.

Brem Mall in Kepong is a a few-moment walk from the Sri Delima station, which is also shut to the (correct) Norway Salmon Fish Head Noodles Cafe.

As the shop’s title indicates, the fish made use of is imported from Norway and it specialises in a wide variety of noodle dishes.

Owner Adam Cheong, 60, endorses the eatery’s Primary collection.

Other soup flavours incorporate bitter gourd and scorching and bitter, while consumers can opt for toppings these as salmon fish head, fillets, fishcake and prawns.