Kuala Sepetang

Coordinates: 4°50′17.2″N 100°37′50.9″E / 4.838111°N 100.630806°E / 4.838111; 100.630806

Kuala Sepetang (Chinese: 十八丁) is a coastal town located in Larut, Matang and Selama District, Perak, Malaysia. The town was formerly known as Port Weld (Chinese: 砵威) after a former Governor, Frederick Weld. It is a thriving fishing village, and the main jumping-off point to the river mouth community of Kuala Sangga, which is a Chinese fishing community at the river mouth which specializes in fish breeding in cages. The Port Weld railway station was located at the centre of town. The whole railway line from here to Taiping, which was the first railway line in the Peninsular, is now dismantled, and now only the ticketing booth and the Port Weld railway signboard remain. The ticketing booth is now a Chinese coffee shop, and the shopowner has been maintaining the railway signboard

Kuala Sepetang has excellent seafoods and it has a famous restaurant situated on the upper floor of a shop lot overlooking the river. Kuala Sepetang is also well known for its mangrove swamp reserve park which is open to the public daily. It has a boardwalk built over the swamp for tourists, and chalets in which tourists can rent to stay the night on the riverfront. There are also charcoal kilns, some of which are open for tourist visits.

The village is very popular with its Curry Mee (Only sold at afternoon time) and Baozi


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