The town is still in its original settings. The village structures are from the early days of the town. Most of the buildings are built from wood and the pathways are narrow. There is also a modest century-old
Chinese temple ( 仙四師爺廟(新街場) ) which is founded in 1901 inside the town area. The vibrant area of Sungai Besi is located within the shops and the area near with the police station. Sungai Besi has many street vendors and traders in
wet markets who sell mostly food items and fruits. The Sungei Besi Tin Mine site was once upon a time the largest and deepest open cast alluvial
tin mine in the world, as deep as 100 metres in some parts of the pit and with dangerously unstable slopes. Today, the site has been developed and occupied by
Mines Wellness City. Sungai Besi is also known for the
Sungai Besi Airport (Simpang Airport) which was once the main airport for
Kuala Lumpur until 1965, where it got relocated to
Subang International Airport. The airport then housed the RMAF Museum and the
Sungai Besi Air Base. It was used by the
Royal Malaysian Air Force as well as the Police, Fire and Rescue services for
aviation purposes until it ceased operations in early 2018 to make way for the construction of MRT stations and
Bandar Malaysia development project. A refugee camp for
Vietnamese boat people was set up in Sungai Besi in 1982. It was consisted of two camp sites, one of which the location was approximately where Astro Bukit Jalil is situated today. The camp was officially closed in 1996 with the repatriation of 22 boat people to Hanoi, the last batch of refugees to leave Malaysia. ==Accessibility and transport==