Jelutong Market

Jelutong Market, Penang (19 August 2012)


Jelutong Market (GPS: 5.3896, 100.3124) is a popular wet market in Jelutong, Penang. The actual market building faces Jalan Penaga, but the stalls line up much of Jalan Penaga and Ipoh Lane.

In addition to selling fresh produce, the Jelutong Market is a popular venue for breakfast, with many hawker stalls selling food. The market takes place in the morning. By evening, much of the market stalls have closed for the day, while a new set of food hawkers do the evening dinner business.

Perhaps the most popular beverage at the Jelutong Market is the Chinese sweet dessert, Mat Tao Yau. The business has an outlet at the corner shop along Jalan Penaga facing Jalan Ipoh. Other popular food at Jelutong Market includes the famous wan tan mee (which I selected as the Best Wan Tan Mee in Penang) in the morning, and the nasi kandar in the evening.

Jelutong Market is on the map

Jelutong Market Narrated Walking Tour

What to eat at Jelutong Market

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Coffee Shops at Jelutong Market

Selected Stalls at the Jelutong Market

Visitors' Guide to Jelutong Market

If you are a visitor wanting to see how the locals in Penang go about their daily lives, Jelutong Market offers a wonderful glimpse of it. The best time to visit the market are Sunday and Saturday mornings. You should go very early, before 7:00. Then you see the market gets more and more crowded. The biggest crowds are between 7:30am and 8:00am, after then it starts to plateau off.

Jelutong Market is on the Map of Jelutong

Getting to Jelutong Market by public transport

To go to Jelutong Market by public transport, take Rapid Penang Bus 11, 301, 302, 303 and 401. Ask the driver to drop you near the market.

Updates on Jelutong Market

17 May 2021
The Star reports that the Jelutong Market had to close after four traders were tested positive for Covid-19.

8 August 2012:
The Jelutong Market was refurbished by the Penang Island Municipal Council (MPPP) at a cost of RM800,000. It is part of the exercise to upgrade the markets in Penang that have not been refurbished in the past forty years. According to Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng during the opening of the refurbished market, other markets to be refurbished include the Kuantan Road Market and Tanjung Bungah Market.

Jelutong Market on Saturday morning (18 August 2018)


Jelutong Market on Saturday morning (18 August 2018)


Pulasan sold at Jelutong Market on Saturday morning (18 August 2018)


Elongated lemon sold at Jelutong Market at RM1.00 a fruit. (7 November 2020)


Cempedak at Jelutong Market on Saturday morning (18 August 2018)


Buah Rambai at Jelutong Market on Saturday morning (18 August 2018)


Mongosteen at Jelutong Market on Saturday morning (18 August 2018)


Dukusat at Jelutong Market on Saturday morning (18 August 2018)


Coconut water seller at Jelutong Market on Saturday morning (18 August 2018)

Members' Recommended Stalls

Members of my Penang Hawker Food Facebook Group were asked to recommend their various favourite stalls, and recommendations that include the Jelutong Market is listed here.

Sights in the vicinity of the Jelutong Market

Jelutong Market Sio Bak Stall, on the eve of Chinese New Year (27 January 2017)


Jelutong Market in the evening (12 October 2012)


Interior of Jelutong Market (19 August 2012)


Jelutong Market (19 August 2012)


Jelutong Market on a sunny morning (17 April 2009)


When market is in session, Penaga Road is impassable to cars. (22 September 2009)


Jelutong Market, before the restoration (17 April 2009)

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