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Port Dickson allows you to shop for souvenirs and handicrafts that serve as a remembrance of your visit to PD. These include beach-themed T-shirts, engravings, bags and caps. Besides shopping, the areas around town are a fantastic place to get great seafood at reasonable prices! Shopping
Port Dickson has some nice shopping opportunities for Malaysian souvenirs and handicrafts, especially those with a PD theme. Teluk Kemang is by far the most popular place to shop for beach-themed T-shirts, traditional handbags, caps and slippers woven from traditional material, recreational items such as beach balls, boards and floats as well as a wide array of toys, fabrics and kites.
The shops are in no particular order, and they are scattered along the beach in concrete structures, where you can find food and water sport operator stalls bunched together with them. On Saturday evenings, a ‘Pasar Malam’ or night market takes place at the 4th Mile of Port Dickson. Here, you can get a wide variety of traditional food and drinks, with other stuff like knick-knacks, fruits, utensils and more souvenirs.
Finally, there is a nice shopping place called the Central Market, which is located in the centre of town. The Central Market is actually more or a food court, but there are also shops which sell antiques, ornamental items and decorations for the household. Stop over here for pleasant window shopping or to try some of the town’s culinary delights. Dining & Restaurants
Port Dickson is popular with locals for fresh seafood cooked in traditional ways. The most popular place for eating out is in Teluk Kemang, where hawker stalls roasting fish are a frequent sight along the beach. This dish is called ‘Ikan Bakar’ which literally means ‘Burnt Fish’; but really, the fish is grilled just nicely in banana leaves over hot charcoals. Along with this dish you can get other seafood cooked in a variety of styles such as curry, fried, baked etc.
The stalls along the beach are also wonderful places to get ‘Kuih-Muih’, which are Malay pastries and cakes. Most of these delicacies are fried in hot oil and then drained on paper towels. Some of the local favourites include ‘lekor’; strip-shaped morsels made from fish paste, ‘Kuih Kedok’; ball-shaped pastry made of bananas, sugar and flour; and ‘Cucur Udang’, which is a round flour cake mixed with pieces of fried shrimps.
For truly good seafood, explore the Chinese restaurants that are abundant along Jalan Pantai, from 4th to 8th Miles. These shop lot restaurants offer tasty seafood dishes cooked upon ordering, which diners eat together with bowls of rice and chopsticks. There are a few international restaurants too, such as El Cactus which served Mexican food located at 2nd Mile from PD town. Thai open-air restaurants are another popular occurrence serving Siamese delights such as ‘Tom Yam’.
Finally, be on the lookout for fruit stalls along the main road. You can get a buffet board of local fruits such as ‘Longans’, which are small grape-like fruits covered with a thick light brown skin that’s sweet with a bitter kick; Durians, Malaysia’s most popular fruit, the thorny green ball that has succulent yellow flesh inside; and ‘Rambutans’, hairy red ping pong ball-shaped fruits that’s extremely sweet in the inside. |
