Malaysia's best-known destination for street food has been renamed, in a surprise re-branding that has created an uproar among the dozens of traders who sell local delicacies there. Jalan Alor, which comes alive at night with more than 100 stalls selling everything from famous chicken satay, BBQ chicken wing to frog porridge, has been renamed Jalan Kejora by city authorities. 
Critics say the change is pointless and will only confuse tourists, who nightly flock to the crowded street in the capital's Bukit Bintang district.
"There are no notice, no explanations. They just replaced the street signboard and the only explanation we got from the mayor was in the newspapers." Traders said.
For 50 years this street has established itself as a very famous hawker centre, it is almost a heritage to city folk and to just remove the name is a very uncalled for and irresponsible act by city hall.
International media has also pick up this controversy over this renaming issue. For exmple, Singapore's The Straits Times online, AFP and Frnache24.Popular search engine such as MSN, Yahoo and Google posted the story on their news sites as well.
Since they like to rename the street , why not change other street as well, example:
Alor Star to Kejora Bintang
Alor Gajah to Kejora Gajah
Jalan Alor is already a brand name. We cannot accept the explanation from city authorities saying that want to rebranding the street name to make it more well know. We are not 3 years old boy lah!!
source from https://news.msn.com.my
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