A viral TikTok shows a Rawang Ramadan bazaar so long, netizens joked they accidentally brisk-walked 5km shopping for iftar.
IF your Ramadan weight-loss plan has been looking a little shaky, perhaps what you need is a trip to the Ramadan bazaar in Bandar Tasik Puteri, Rawang — because according to amused netizens, a single visit might just count as your cardio for the day.
A video uploaded by TikTok user @sweetcheesecake9, captioned simply “Apa ke panjang nau bazar Ramadan” (“This Ramadan bazaar is ridiculously long”), has been making the rounds on social media and drawing waves of laughter from Malaysians who clearly found the footage all too relatable.
The clip shows the bazaar — set up across a stretch of open space in Bandar Tasik Puteri — featuring row upon row of vendor stalls arranged in what appears to be one extraordinarily long straight line. While a lengthy bazaar might sound like a shopper’s dream, visitors quickly discovered that navigating it from one end to the other was a workout in its own right.
The comment section did not disappoint.
One netizen jokingly declared that the bazaar was doing more for their fitness than any gym membership, quipping that by the time they’d strolled from one end to the other without realising it, they’d already racked up an accidental 5-kilometre brisk walk. “Alhamdulillah, tiap hari pergi mesti kurus tahun ni,” they added — loosely translated: “Thank God, if I go every day this year I’ll definitely lose weight.”
TikTok user Ai Leen broke it down with impressive precision: walking from one end to the other already clocked around 1,000 steps, and factoring in the return trip to the car park brought the total to roughly 3,000 steps. “Alhamdulillah, puasa pun boleh briskwalk,” she wrote — a cheerful reminder that even while fasting, one can apparently still get their steps in.
Another user, meanwhile, offered perhaps the most creative — and slightly exhausted — assessment of all. He joked that if you committed to visiting every single stall at this bazaar systematically, you’d start at the first stall on Day 1 of Ramadan and only reach the last one by the 29th.
Whether the bazaar is truly as vast as the internet claims or whether the scale has been cheerfully exaggerated for comedic effect, one thing is clear: it has captured the imagination of Malaysians in the most wholesome way possible.
After all, if you’re going to spend the entire fasting month hunting for the best kuih, rendang, and air tebu, you might as well get your steps in while you’re at it.
The Sun Malaysia
