The Street Cobbler
April 9, 2008 – 5:45 pmWhen I was young, mom will never fail to visit the street cobbler at Jalan Taiping, Klang every month to mend our broken or torn shoes. Her heels being the most as she was working last time.
I remember those times when we will always go to KL every weekend just to walk around and maybe shop, she will always drop of the torn shoes to the cobbler there at the corner of Jalan Taiping, Klang. We will collect it when we come back towards the evening or the next day.
We will then take the bus all the way to KL and walk around Chinatown. Well yeah, that’s where I would go always mostly every week just to go around Chinatown and mom will shop while I just follow suit. I will not forget the time that we MUST buy a bowl of ‘Mata Kuching’ and also my favourite ‘Apom Balik’ for dad. Then, the ‘Chee Cheong Fun’ which is at one corner is a must not miss back then. I can’t remember which corner but when I’m there I know. I hope it is still there…
Well, back to the street cobbler. My shoe has a ‘mouth opening’ on the sole and I am too stingy to buy a new one. Then I thought that hey, I can get it amended by the street cobbler.
It has been in my mind map that there is one pakcik cobbler who sits at the corner of Wisma Cosway (formerly Wisma Stephen) and wait for his customers all day from morning till late afternoon. His business is always brisk and nearly 70% of his customers are women.
See the big mouth there?:P
Pakcik putting on the glue…
In KL, you can mostly find one or two in busy areas and they have been there for quite some time. They are expert in what they do and it is always cheaper to get them fix your shoe rather than the more expensive cobbler in some shopping malls. Well, unless you have your Prada or Jimmy Choo then, might as well get it fix at the shopping mall cobblers.
a cobbler’s cari makan tools…
As I packed my lunch back to office to eat, I thought, why not I send it to him. It took not more than 30 minutes to get my shoe done. All he does was just paste a new layer of sole onto the worn out one and I’m good to walk…
cut out the excess sole…
It was cheap and well, I can’t complain for being stingy although his work was jus to scrap, apply glue, knock it together and cut excess patch. It was just for a mere RM 10 for a pair of shoe.
Do you patron the street cobblers?
Or you just throw your shoe away and buy new one?
One Response to “The Street Cobbler”
Throw away and buy new one!
By Liv on Apr 10, 2008