What is CHRISTMAS Like in MALAYSIA? 🇲🇾 (all questions answered!)

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  • Опубліковано 26 гру 2024
  • I moved to Malaysia almost three years ago but this was the first Christmas I experienced in Kuala Lumpur! In this video I answer common questions about Christmas in Malaysia, and share my Christmas dinner experience at one of Kuala Lumpur's best boutique hotels, The Chow Kit.
    I compare what's different about Christmas in Malaysia to Australia, what to do at Christmas in Kuala Lumpur, common misconceptions about Christmas in Malaysia, where to eat and the best ways to socialise if you're missing a taste of home as a traveller, digital nomad, retiree or expat in Malaysia.
    Do they celebrate Christmas in Malaysia? Watch to find out in this Christmas vlog, and please leave your thoughts in the comments below.
    0:30 - Does Malaysia celebrate Christmas?
    1:09 - Is Christmas a public holiday in Malaysia?
    1:42 - What are the main differences between Christmas in Malaysia vs Australia?
    2:10 - Do Malaysians celebrate Christmas if they're not Christian?
    3:01 - Do they have Christmas lights & house displays?
    3:53 - What about the Christmas food & socialising?
    4:01 - The Chow Kit Hotel, Restaurant & Bar
    4:45 - Are there Christmas buffets at hotels & restaurants?
    5:36 - How to celebrate Christmas as a solo traveller
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  • @JackAlderton
    @JackAlderton  23 години тому +23

    I hope you got at least one valuable takeaway from this video and it opened your eyes to another part of the world. Please let me know by leaving your thoughts or questions as a comment below right now (I'll reply to all!)
    Have a more in-depth question? Please send me an email, it's in my channel's About section.

  • @joe2606
    @joe2606 20 годин тому +19

    next month end will be Chinese New Year and end of March, will be Hari Raya or Eid al-Fitr . the first 3 months of this year gonna be super busy. The malls will be decorating for both CNY and Eid Mubarak

  • @norzilahaziz6695
    @norzilahaziz6695 17 годин тому +6

    TQ Jack 4 having Mlysia your second home..appreciated..haha

  • @tombulek5231
    @tombulek5231 21 годину тому +7

    Merry Christmas Jack 🌲🌲🌲🎉 In east Malaysia, Christmas is a two days holiday 😊 . Christmas tree decorations in house & shopping malls. Family gatherings also. Going to church on Christmas eve as well as on Christmas day. Some held a Christmas open house party where anybody can attend. 😊

  • @MeLodiCarAma
    @MeLodiCarAma 16 годин тому +4

    Merry X'mas , Mr. Alderton 🎇🎆🎇🎄

  • @Warm-u6n
    @Warm-u6n 16 годин тому +2

    Merry Christmas, Jack!

  • @emdynizar
    @emdynizar 16 годин тому +4

    Seasons greeting to u. You should check out Portuguese settlement in Melaka coz every Xmas time they will decorate and light up their houses just like u showed in the video.

  • @idrisabdulrahim7322
    @idrisabdulrahim7322 12 годин тому +1

    Season's Greetings Jack 🎄🎄🎄. Have a wonderful holiday.

  • @VirtousStoic
    @VirtousStoic 2 години тому

    Tysm for being an ambassador for MY. I hope to one day move there

  • @MALAYSIAKualalumpur-f7r
    @MALAYSIAKualalumpur-f7r 6 годин тому +1

    Nice Christmas in Kuala Lumpur ....❤❤❤😮😮😮😮😮

  • @Yasin_Affandi
    @Yasin_Affandi 21 годину тому +4

    Hope that you have had a great Christmas in KL yesterday. Happy Holidays & Happy New Year 2025.

    • @Yasin_Affandi
      @Yasin_Affandi 21 годину тому +1

      I thought you were going to celebrate Christmas in Sydney with your family.

    • @Yasin_Affandi
      @Yasin_Affandi 20 годин тому +1

      Hope that you enjoyed your Christmas dinner. Wow, I didn't know that it's that expensive nowadays, wonder how much it would cost in MOKL, St Regis, Four Seasons, Ritz Carlton for a Christmas dinner set or buffet.

    • @Yasin_Affandi
      @Yasin_Affandi 20 годин тому +1

      Glad to see you enjoyed keropok, fish crackers. You can buy raw keropok and fry it at home. Keropok ikan (fish crackers) comes from keropok leko (fish sausage), it's thinly sliced and sun dried to become raw keropok. Keropok leko is a very famous snack in the east coast of peninsular Malaysia but nowadays you can get it at almost any pasar malam, night markets around Malaysia. Good to see you back in KL, you look fresh coming back from Sydney.

  • @Shirley-r7r
    @Shirley-r7r 6 годин тому

    You look handsome gorgeous Jack, enjoy your Christmas day in Malaysia 🤩

  • @decTac
    @decTac 20 годин тому +1

    Season's greetings and happy new year Jack! 🎉🇲🇾🌺

  • @Claudiaamor777
    @Claudiaamor777 13 годин тому +1

    Wish Uand Ur Family
    Merry Christmas
    And
    Happy New Year Babe❤🎉🎊🎉🥰🎅🇲🇾

  • @irischeng9946
    @irischeng9946 10 годин тому

    Yes, we do celebrate Christmas and exhange gift with colleague, friends and family regardless with our belief. Its a seadon of greeting and sharinh🎉🎉🎉 Wishing u and family a blessed holidays and a great year ahead🎉🎉🎉🎉

  • @ShaqShaq-mf5ys
    @ShaqShaq-mf5ys 7 годин тому

    Merry Christmas jack and happy New year.🎉🎉

  • @hagridlemonhead611
    @hagridlemonhead611 8 годин тому

    We had Turkey, stuffing, mashed, cranberry, cornbread, Apple pie, cheesecake, cinnamon rolls, corn and invited family over. Christmas tree, do miss a real one, decor as well. Merry Christmas

  • @kefarakefara9034
    @kefarakefara9034 4 години тому

    Happy celebration merry Christmas days in KL city 🇲🇾 Malaysia bro Jack ' selamat menyambut merry Christmas anda dengan ayah anda . .. selamat menyambut juga tahun baru 2025 juga .

  • @kylek2623
    @kylek2623 20 годин тому

    Wishing you have a very Merry Christmas in Malaysia.🎉🎉

  • @RamansSon
    @RamansSon 8 годин тому +1

    January will be celebrating CNY and then for the whole 2 months majority Malays will have festive mood , 1 month for Ramadan and 1 month for Eid

  • @ThisnametaKenny
    @ThisnametaKenny 20 годин тому

    Happy holidays and season's greetings.

  • @albertaffendi
    @albertaffendi 16 годин тому

    Wishing you merry Christmas and happy new year 2025....do enjoy fing food and love the content brooo... The quality of your video so amazing... Next time go to explore sabah....semporna...other place...

  • @shaidaghazali8049
    @shaidaghazali8049 20 годин тому

    Happy Christmas and Happy New Year.

  • @MilinBiokJunior-qj6jh
    @MilinBiokJunior-qj6jh 15 годин тому

    Merry Christmas & Happy New. Please share qualify of life working & live in Malaysia compare working & live in Australia

  • @justinmoey7059
    @justinmoey7059 19 годин тому

    Merry Christmas to you 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤

  • @OppoA3x-l8u
    @OppoA3x-l8u 18 годин тому

    Not to late wishing you a merry Christmas and happy new year 2025..love you bro..

  • @zariqafsha
    @zariqafsha 20 годин тому

    Merry Christmas, Jack..

  • @veronicafoongngoliew1437
    @veronicafoongngoliew1437 5 годин тому

    To celebrate you also can consider going to church and attend the evening or morning service 😊

  • @ahmadjohanahmadtajuddin4791
    @ahmadjohanahmadtajuddin4791 20 годин тому

    Merry Christmas mate

  • @adlymibrahim
    @adlymibrahim 20 годин тому

    KEROPOK !! 😂 Do more content in Bahasa Malaysia please ! HILARIOUS!

    • @EGO0808
      @EGO0808 20 годин тому

      Where I come from, The Netherlands, we say ‘kroepoek’. It’s a Dutch word by now😊.

  • @jonidjoharijonidjohari5385
    @jonidjoharijonidjohari5385 18 годин тому +1

    Malaysian love holidays

  • @mikewestwood567
    @mikewestwood567 13 годин тому

    Speaking as someone who also lives here albeit not at long as you I have a slightly different perspective as I work in Retail not Corporate. For me Malaysia certainly go all out on decorations for Christmas, they really are amazing but it sucks the country never closes, and Christmas Day for Malaysians is let’s all go to the mall which is basically what they do every day so it’s not significant in that respect. Even the opening hours remain the same at 10-10 (TRX).
    I did my best to stick to my own way of celebrating which was a Roast dinner I made at my apartment and a real Christmas Tree which was pretty easy to find. Although next year I might follow your lead and eat out.
    Thanks for shaming me to go gym more often with your pool video 💪🏻

  • @gohgoh4941
    @gohgoh4941 21 годину тому +4

    What a handsome man you are Jack. Wishing you a Happy New Year! 🎉🎉🎉😊. We love all your videos. Looking forward to your next video. Thanks. Love ❤from Malaysia!

    • @shastrihabib1382
      @shastrihabib1382 9 годин тому +1

      Ohhhh4448 am i poof???😱🪭
      🇲🇾🇸🇬

  • @SBExplores0
    @SBExplores0 19 годин тому

    Very nice vlogs 👍

  • @KxemonPlayz
    @KxemonPlayz 18 годин тому

    Merry Christmas

  • @elalnux246
    @elalnux246 20 годин тому

    Welcome to malaysia ❤

  • @madammayon7820
    @madammayon7820 Годину тому

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @Mansiang978
    @Mansiang978 18 годин тому

    Sabah is the only place is Malaysia having two days Christmas holiday starting from 24th & 25th! How is that?
    Our jihab muslim sisters wear red with reindeer headset over retails, fast food chain, hotels and even inside the hospital emergency ward!!

  • @madammayon7820
    @madammayon7820 Годину тому

    👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🇲🇾🇲🇾🙏🙏🙏♥️👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

  • @geodarnodan6750
    @geodarnodan6750 19 годин тому +5

    We have a Christmas procession every year in Sarawak, the only state in Malaysia where it is allowed. It is banned in West Malaysia. Recently, a state-of-the-art Gothic church was opened in Kuching, again making Sarawak the only state in Malaysia permitted to build new non-Islamic religious buildings. Nowadays, any new religious settings in West Malaysia are only allowed in shop lots.
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    • @razif92
      @razif92 8 годин тому

      Do not spread lies!!!! In my hometown in rural Johor,,,specifically Tangkak we got multiple very huge new church!!! Not in the shop lots!!!!

    • @razif92
      @razif92 8 годин тому

      in my rural hometown even got multiple new Buddhist and Hindu temples…very huge one…what are you talking about??? and suprisingly,,,in Tangkak…for such along time we havent build new mosque or surau…

    • @geodarnodan6750
      @geodarnodan6750 6 годин тому

      @razif92 the temples were preexisting. To build new one difficult to approve.

    • @razif92
      @razif92 5 годин тому

      @ in my place it NEW…NEW NEW NEW…

  • @ninjaturtle6106
    @ninjaturtle6106 14 годин тому +1

    Christmas decorations are expensive. Those lights aren't cheap.

  • @Mansiang978
    @Mansiang978 18 годин тому

    Mate, introduce the lady sit opposite you!

  • @jaytanjung2820
    @jaytanjung2820 19 годин тому

    Sabah has maybe 35% plus christian...yes, swak is over 50% christian...

  • @christinachee7697
    @christinachee7697 20 годин тому +4

    Majority Muslims are in West Malaysia only , our East side big no ! Actually canot said that the entire Malaysia's Muslims are the majority .

    • @mikihana2057
      @mikihana2057 20 годин тому +4

      What do you mean a big no? That is not a nice thing to say. FYI 63.5% of malaysians are Muslims. I don't know what you learn in school but 63.5% is a majority.

    • @christinachee7697
      @christinachee7697 19 годин тому +6

      @mikihana2057 Half of 65% Bumiputera that are from Sabah Sarawak , so West Malaysia Malays Muslim is majority ? U must be kidding me ! and yes the Islam is a official religion but based on our consistuitional law. Malaysia still a secular country ! U need to study well hello ! Not me !

    • @KJ-yises
      @KJ-yises 19 годин тому +2

      ⁠​⁠@@christinachee7697east Malaysia has 5 million people. West Malaysia has 30 million people. There are 17 mil Malay Muslims in Malaysia. So yes you would think Muslim Malays are the majority.

    • @christinachee7697
      @christinachee7697 19 годин тому +1

      @@KJ-yises non Muslims in Malaysia 23% Chinese , 7%Indian , 15% Sarawakian tribes and 3 % lainlain . Total almost 50% , so u think Malays muslim still the majority ?

    • @KJ-yises
      @KJ-yises 18 годин тому +4

      @ yes Malay Muslims 18 milI of Malaysian population of 35 mil. So yes more than 50% therefore majority.

  • @90taetaeya
    @90taetaeya 3 години тому

    Illegal to be gay there

  • @akasiakasya6351
    @akasiakasya6351 7 годин тому

    Whyy people like Malaysia soo much My God, please go to Singapore, Singapore is better.

  • @suhanjayalian5044
    @suhanjayalian5044 21 годину тому

    Di malasia Budaya Asing sangat diagungkan disana jika Kamu berada di malasia tentu antara lagi berada di China di India dan di Bangladesh Karena memang negara ini unik ada negara didalam negara.
    Terlebih bahasa utama dinegara ini adalah bahasa Inggris Chinese dan Tamil.
    Datanglah ke Indonesia dapatkan pengalaman luar kental dengan identitas lokal dan keindahan alam Serta tempat sejarah ada disini datang ke Bali,, Lombok,, Bandung,, Labuan Bajo,, Yogyakarta,, Gili Trawangan,, Borobudur,, Prambanan. Dipastikan anda menemukan kekayaan Budaya pribumi Indonesia 😊

    • @shastrihabib1382
      @shastrihabib1382 20 годин тому +2

      Maaf yaEnggak mau!!!! ,,,😮 nanti dioknum dipungli,,,,ramai warga kamu jelek ahlak dari kecilan sampai embah tua✅️
      🇲🇾🇸🇬🇧🇳

    • @shastrihabib1382
      @shastrihabib1382 20 годин тому +8

      Maaf. ,,enggak mau wisata ke sana,,,!!! Nanti dipungli di oknum😟

    • @shastrihabib1382
      @shastrihabib1382 20 годин тому +5

      Deleted by Google staff (some) control particular account,,,enggak mau wisata ke konoha,,nanti dioknum dipungli 😮😊

    • @shastrihabib1382
      @shastrihabib1382 20 годин тому +3

      Deleted by google nantiwisatadipunglioknumjelek😊

    • @ZamriZ2024
      @ZamriZ2024 20 годин тому

      Ngak mau ke Indon....Polri sudah jadi Pungli!!!!😢😢😢

  • @shastrihabib1382
    @shastrihabib1382 10 годин тому +1

    G day jack❤ my ex neighbour!!!
    Have a nice day n whispering to prophet jesus alaihi salam ( peace be upon him),,,son of virgin Mary @maryam..a human being,,a messanger n continuing by prophet mohamad( PBUH)
    🇬🇧🇲🇾🇸🇬🇧🇳🇦🇺🇳🇿

  • @superhorses7738
    @superhorses7738 Годину тому

    Hi Jack, thank for all the information you have been sharing about Malaysia. My family and I are thing to move and we still have a couple a questions we need to ask you. Can you please share your email. Merry Christmas!