Little India

Brickfields, known as Kuala Lumpur's Little India, is a neighbourhood on the western side of central Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with Jalan Tun Sambanthan as its main street, next to the KL Sentral transport hub. Its large Indian community runs spice, textile and goldsmith shops and banana-leaf rice and thosai eateries, and the area has many places of worship, including Sri Kandaswamy Temple (built 1902) and the Buddhist Maha Vihara (founded 1894). The neighbourhood takes its name from the brick industry established there after the 1881 fire and flood, when Yap Ah Loy bought land for brick-making.