The Ayer Itam Market Foodcourt has two stalls that are very popular: (1) a duck-rice stall that has been there for ages - I’d never ever did a write-up on it since the guy running it is so busy, I’d never gotten to speak to him; and (2) an economy rice stall which I’m told is “newer”, i.e. perhaps opened in the last couple of years, but has snatched some of the evening/dinner business from the duck-rice stall.
Or, if you want to have a good view of the Kek Lok Si Temple complex like I did, just go to DeView Hotel’s rooftop bar, order some beer. I heard they no longer have the hawker take-outs from the stalls on the ground level, but you can order food from the roof-top’s own hotel-run kitchen - I’m told by a friend who went there last night that its “char koay teow” is pretty decent.
DeView Hotel is about 10 minutes’ walk from the pagoda.
