Built in 1936 as a wet market, this pastel-blue art deco building near the Klang River was rescued from demolition in the 1980s and converted into a crafts and cultural market. Today it sells batik, pewterware, shadow puppets, woodcarvings, and other Malaysian handicrafts across two floors, with live demonstrations of traditional crafts running through the day.
The quality varies — some stalls are genuinely good, others lean tourist-generic — but it remains one of the more pleasant places to shop in central KL. The building itself is worth a look regardless. Directly behind it, Kasturi Walk is a pedestrian lane of outdoor stalls that spills toward Chinatown.