Malaysian Food

I live in Malaysia and I like Malaysia very much, especially the food. Let's take a look at Malaysian food, may be you will like it. Generally, Malaysian food can be separate into three different cuisines. In Malaysia, about 70% is Malay, 25% is Chinese and the rest is mainly Indian. Malay, Chinese and Indian each have its own distinct style of cooking.

Malay Food
The main food for the Malays is rice. Usually, they served it with meat, fish, rendang and vegetables. They like sambal. Meat and fish are usually prepared as sambal or curry. Most Malays are Muslim, pork or any food that comes from a pig is never used in Malay food. Even the plate used to serve Muslims must not have been used to serve pork before. Muslims can only eat meat that is halal. Malays like to used the local ingredients (rempah) in their foods so that will be more delicious. Another ingredient commonly found in Malay cooking is the coconut milk (santan).

Nasi lemak is one of the popular Malay food. It is a simple but very tasty meal. The rice is cooked in coconut milk with pandan leaves. Then add on some sambal ikan bilis, eggs, peanuts, sliced cucumber, prawns and fried fish. It's very delicious and you should try on it. If you don't like rice, may be you can try on mee bandung. It's totally taste good.

The traditional Malay way of eating is by using the right hand. The use of the left hand is considered bad manners. In eating stalls or at homes normally will provided with a pot of water to wash their hands before and after the meal.

Chinese Food
Since Malaysia's Chinese can be group in Hakka, Hainan, Hokkien, Teochew and Cantonese. So there are various type of Chinese foods in Malaysia. Chinese from the north of Malaysia are mostly Hokkien and Teochew. But in Perak and Kuala Lumpur, they are mostly Cantonese.

One of the economical Chinese food is the Hainanese Chicken Rice. Just rice, some chicken meats with special sauce on it but the taste is nice. Another famous Chinese food is known as Bak Kut Teh. It's made of many chinese. Many taiwanese come here just to taste this delicious food. The Bak Kut Teh can be eat with rice or mee. If you visit Perak, must not forget to try the Bean Sprout Chicken there. Other examples of Chinese foods are Hokkien Mee or prawn soup noodles, Hokkien spring rolls, Char Kwey Teow and also Yong Tau Foo.

Indian Food
The Indians like spicy foods. As in accordance with their Hindu beliefs, they do not eat beef. Indian food in the North-West part of Malaysia can be categorized as Southern-Indian, Northern Indian and Indian Muslim (mamak).

Usually Indian food is sold at the various local stalls and often ordered with a glass of teh tarik. Teh Tarik literally means "pulled tea". The preparation of teh tarik involves passing the tea and milk from one big metal mug to the other with a "pour and pull" action. This has become a style of them and there are also some competition held base on teh tarik.

When we talk about roti canai, there is bound to be murtabak. Murtabak is roti canai with sardines or chicken. Indian mee is a combination of Chinese fried noodles with prawn fritters, potato, squid, bean sprouts and egg. Mention North Indian food and what comes to mind is tandoori chicken and naan bread. Both are cooked in clay oven called tandoori.