Betong, Perak-Thailand Border Town..worth visit? anyone been there can share a bit?

This post has been edited by outsiders_86: Nov 30 2016, 10:32 AM

is it Betong, Thailand? if i not wrong, perak dont have a place called betong.

There is a bentong in perak?

Betong = thailand south
https://www.google.com.my/maps/place/Betong...3;4d101.0372376

bentong = perak

bentong jikan rice sedak.
but nothing much to see...except the gua.

yay, this one

Not much to look forward to. Just saying.

bentong dekat pahang la

Not that Bentong la....Betong...

banyak ayam

huh? what ayam?

all the food at there is quite nice. especially the steamed chicken with soy sauce (this one must try), the dessert at there also nice (tong shui), roti canai quite special, pulut inti must try (the taste is 10000 times better than malaysia)

Oh ok ok....u have the food stall name? Plan to visit there 1 day.... still can visit those communist hideouts?

Betong town - ugly

Malayan commie tunnel - not much to see but can chat with those ex pkm commie, good experience

Hot spring - meh

Food - not bad, old school style food

Nightlife - low key, expensive and not worth nowadays

Bentong (Chinese: 文冬) is a town, a district and a parliamentary constituency in western Pahang, Malaysia.

you can drive up to Hatyai from Betong. Scenery quite good though but a lot of army roadblock.

According to an old story, Bentong was previously known as Kapong. It was changed from Kapong to Bentong before World War I. In earlier times, the center of Bentong was around the market area, at the meeting point of the rivers Repas and Perting.

The most important transportation way at that time was the rivers by using perahu (small boats). The jetty was situated in front of current rest house (near current Bentong Police Station).

Bentong became a focal point when tin ore was discovered in the two main rivers, Repas and Perting. Tin developers constructed ‘ban’ to extract more ore, hence more profits. The practice became a talking matter to the people outside Bentong, who referred to it as the story of ‘ban untung’ (the Profitable Ban). ‘Ban Untung’ became more well-known than Kapong that later people began to call it Ban Untung. From the name ‘Ban Untung’ was what the name for the district of Bentong derived from.

From other story, according to Pak Zek (Budayawan Dato’ Haji Zakaria bin Hitam), the name Bentong originated from ‘Bapong’ (meaning float). Bentong was once used as a fort by Dato’ Bahaman. The British army sent over the Gurkhas mercenary to defeat Dato’ Bahaman to take over the area. However, a number of the Gurkhas were killed after they were ambushed by Dato’ Bahaman’s men. Their bodies were thrown into the river and floated in the water. Following the incident, the site was known as Bapong, and later known as Bentong. The exact date of the name change was on 31 August 1957.

like hatyai but smaller stock

forgot the name. normally i just hantam only.. u can follow this link : http://bigandsmallworld.blogspot.my/2011/11/betong.html

the food they having at there almost same as i having at there before except the siam restaurant. the malaya communist hideout still there.. u need to drive to there.. quite near to betong town.

where got place name betong in perak