Is this a chinese thing or what?

I dont remember hearing my malay friend associate a place with a certain food.

Like going to shah alam need eat chicken rice. Going to bangi need eat ikan bakar or something.

That sate samuri got branch all over the places. So people dont go to kajang with pure intention to eat sate.

I dont know others but at least none of my friends do. And even in /k you rarely read malay post about this place is for this food.

i see what you did there