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Malaysian Food. Must Try!

MUST TRY FOOD!!

Enjoy a Sumptuous Array of Tastes and Flavours


Malaysia has some of Asia's finest cuisine, given the wide variety of cooking styles and cultural influences. Here, visitors can savour not one, but an irresistible variety of tastes and flavours. enjoy the best from the kitchen of various  communities such as Malay, Chinese, Indian as well as the indigenous people. The successive colonial influences and intermarriages have led to the birth of unique communities such as the baba & Nyonya and malaysia Portuguese, famed for their gastronomic delights and specialties. The gastronomic journey is endless in malaysia!

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1. Malaysia Culinary Scene

    International events such as Fabulous Food 1 Malaysia
    Countless dishes and cooking styles
    Availability of halal food
    A variety of dining experiences, from exclusive gourmet creations to hawker fare
    World famous local specialties such as satay, nasi lemak and roti canai
    24-hour restaurants

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2. Must Try Items on the Menu 


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3. Nasi Lemak

A Perennial favourite, nasi lemak is rice cooked in coconut milk and enhanced with spices such as ginger, star annise and cinnamon. This wholesome dish is served with fried anchovies, boled eggs, a spicy sauce called sambal, fresh slices of cucumber and cruncy groundnuts.


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4. Rendang

Rendang is a thick, dry Malay dish that is made of beef or chicken. It is usually eaten with white rice or glutinous rice (sticky rice). Rendang is a must have specialty during Hari Raya, a major Muslim festival.

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5. Chicken Rice

Coming from the Chinese kitchen, this delicious rish dish features roasted steamed or poached chicken. It is served with ginger paste, chili sauce and soy sauce
 

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6. Yong Tau Foo

Yong Tau Foo is a Chinese soup dish with a variety of ingredients such as fish balls, crab sticks, ladies finger, bitterground and chili. Vegetables such as bitterground and chili are stuffed with fish or pork. It can be eaten by itself or with a bowl of steamed rice or noodles.


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7. Mee Rebus

This is a noodle dish with a thick frangrant gravy. The gravy is made of potatoes, curry powder, salted soybeans and peanuts. It comes complete with hard-boiled eggs which are cut into two halves. Th dish is garnished with spring onions shallots as well as chili.


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8. Char Kuay Teow

An iconic hawker dish, char kuay teow is a type of flat noodles that is  stir-fried over high heat with cockles, prawn, chicken and bean sprouts. There is usually a long queue for a plateful of sizzling char kuay teow, but food lovers say that it is well worth the wait !
 

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9. Nasi Briyani

Rich and satisfying, nasi briyani is a great choice for rice lovers. Briyani is a special type of rice grain, infused with saffron and turmeric. It is a sensation of aromatic flavours and tastes. Briyani rice is  served with curry and a traditional yogurt salad.


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10. Rojak

A traditional fruit and vegetables salad, rojak consists of chopped cucumber, young mangoes, pineapple, turnip, deep-fried tofu and fritters. It is  served with a thick sauce made of shrimp paste. Another variation of Rojak, known as  Mamak rojak, consists of prawn fritters, boled potatoes, cuttlefish and hand-boiled eggs. It is savoured with a peanut gravy.


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11. Roti Canai

Roti canai is a crispy  Indian pancake which is made from  wheat flour. it is easily one of the most popular choices in Malaysian restaurants at any time of the day. Other Indian delicacies include  thosai and capati. When you order roti canai, don't miss the chance to watch the experts pound, stretch and loss the dough before it is cooked on a griddle.


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12. Teh Tarik

Teh tarik literally means 'stretched' or 'pulled' tea. It gets its name from the art of 'pulling' (or pouring) the tea from one mug to another, to increase the aroma and cool its temperature.



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13. ABC

Air Batu campur or ABC is easily one of the most popular desserts in Malaysia. It is filled to the trim with shaved ice and variety of condiments such as red beans, crushed groundnuts, creamed corn and colourful jelly. It is sweetened with condensed milk and sugar syrup.

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Malaysia Nature

An Italian's Adventurous Food Trip to Malaysia (By Happysuffer)


Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Cinzia Greco, who loves travelling made a trip to Kuala Lumpur recently and enjoyed it so much that she wants to share her wonderful experience.

Food, good food at that, elevates a travel experience. Here. Cinzia (Cynthia) shares the food she eat at her friend's new outlet. And if you are in Kuala Lumpur, you may want to give the Gastro Project in Section 17, Petaling Jaya a try and be blown away by their food, the decor, well, the whole experience!

Cinzia also shares some travel booking sites that she uses for her travel needs.  Images are also courtesy of Cinzia.

Thank you, Cinzia, for sharing your experience. I hope you enjoyed yourself here in Malaysia and will be back soon.

Read Cinzia's travel story:
One visit to Malaysia is enough to make you fall in love with it and to inspire in you the desire to travel there again.

However, if you are expecting a post describing the countless natural beauties of this country, you should not be reading this as I would rather focus on a specific aspect of my most recent experience in Malaysia. So, keep on reading if you like to find it out.
 

What is so great about Malaysia is the extraordinary melting pot of races and cultures, the balanced mash-up of traditions and religions where diversity is seen as something positive, an enrichment rather than a limitation.

Perfect evidence for this is the local cuisine, an explosive combination of gastronomic ingredients that, if combined together in the right way, can create exquisite recipes and dishes.

During my last trip to Malaysia, I got the chance to have an excellent guide: a good old friend of mine I met in UK several years ago.

I was really excited to see him after so long (unfortunately, in my previous visit to Malaysia we could not meet up as he was abroad for work).

Plus, I was particularly excited as I knew he and his family had open a new fusion restaurant and bar in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, near the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur, just for the sake of their shared passion: food.

I could not wait any longer to go there and try what they describe as a sublime culinary experience and not only.


 

This time, I did not have to bother with accommodation search as my friend was putting me up in his apartment. But just to provide readers with useful information, during my very first visit to Malaysia I checked the various accommodation options listed in the main hotel booking portals, such as Booking.com and Expedia. Eventually I ended up choosing a nice hotel through the HotelsClick website simply because they were offering the best price. Before booking my room, I gathered some information about this site that was previously unknown to me and, although opinions were different and not all positive, I just clicked the book now button… And I have to admit that everything went great!

For my next trip in general, I’d like to use this site http://www.homestaybooking.com/ that put travellers in contact with local host families: I think it could be a different way of travelling.

But let’s go back to my latest trip. My friend couldn't pick me up at the airport and, to tell you the truth, that was better for me as, when I travel on long distances, I tend to suffer from jet-lag quite a lot. So I was happy to have some time to recover and to meet my friend at the top of my shape.




We had arranged to meet the day after my arrival at The Gastro Project, their restaurant. He didn't tell me much about the place so it was a great surprise to find out that, apart from food, they had conceived it almost as a movie sanctuary with plenty of photos and posters from the film-making industry (loved the Godfather series!). That was a goal for me considering my passion for movies: the combination between food and cinema is a winning one! (They also have a wall screen projecting movies on a daily schedule).

Cocktailing at the bar

So, on my friend’s tip, I started my experience at The Gastro Project at the bar with a cocktail, of course. I had Hmmmm which is made of fresh strawberries, almonds, brown sugar, dark rum and midori liqueur. Sublime!

They also serve beers and different types of wines. To make sure you have something to taste along with your cocktail, finger foods and canapés are always handy.

Chatting with my friend made me hungry: time had come for dinner!

Dining at the restaurant
So we moved to the restaurant area where, you know what… I could not make my mind up while I was reading the menu. So I had to trust my friend once again. According to him, one of most popular dishes, something The Gastro Project has become famous for, is the Japanese salad. And after tasting it, I understood why!

I don’t think there is a better dish to begin your dinner with: your belly will be grateful to enjoy this delicate salad made of greens, avocado, pomegranate, pine nuts and edamame with a delicious topping of sesame dressing.

After the salad, I opted for a selection of two pasta dishes: spaghetti aglio e olio with crabmeat andorecchiette with lamb and cumino sauce.

My friend had pumpkin ravioli: of course I tasted them and I must say they were excellent.
Being a lover of lamb meat and couscous, my second course choice was obvious: lamb stewed with carrot and apricot and served with aromatic couscous. The meat literally melt in my mouth as though it was butter.

I was ready for dessert, but first I need to refresh my palate with a mint sorbet.  I have to say that I am not passionate about dessert, but still I had to taste their offer. So I went for a trio of dessert including:

• an English strawberry trifle with layers of fresh cream, custard and strawberries
• some chocolate cake balls with rum cocoa sauce (a must for chocolate lovers)
• a truly original cardamon pannacotta with a caramel sauce

I don’t need to say that every dish was paired with the most appropriate selection of wines.
I am Italian and the passion for good food is ingrained in my DNA. Also when I am travelling, I’d love to enjoy the most typical local recipes or, as in this case, the combination of different influences merging into the same dish.
So, it was a pleasure for me to discover that we Italians have this passion in common with the Malaysian people.

By Happysuffer

http://all-about-malaysia.blogspot.com

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