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Malay Food

  Variety is the spice in Malay food. The traditional culinary style has been greatly influenced by the long-ago traders from neighboring countries, such as Indonesia, India, the Middle East, and China. Malay food is often described as spicy and flavorful as it utilizes a melting pot of spices and herbs.
 
Rice is the staple diet in any Malay meal. It is often served for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and supper too. Most meals are eaten by using your fingers, and eating utensils are kept to a minimum. All dishes are served at the same time, accompanied by a refreshing drink. Fish is popular in Malay cooking, as with other seafood such as shrimps and cuttlefish. Beef and mutton are very popular choices but never pork as it is against their religious beliefs to eat pork. The other popular white meat is chicken.

Nasi Lemak

  
Nasi Lemak - a rice cooked with coconut milk and served with anchovies, nuts, cucumbers, a chili paste knowan as sambal and a choice of curries

Kangkung Belacan
Kangkung belacan' is kangkung wok-fried in a pungent sauce of shrimp paste (belacan) and hot chilli peppers. Various other items are cooked this way, including petai (which is quite bitter when eaten raw; some older generation Malays still eat it as is) and yardlong beans.

Ketupat and Rendang

  
Ketupat and rendang is the most delicious cuisine which is served normally on Hari Raya festival.

Nasi Goreng Kampung
Nasi Goreng Kampung a type of fried rice, traditionally flavored with pounded fried fish (normally mackerel), though recently fried anchovies are used in place of it.

 Lontong
Lontong is a yellowish creamy soup mix with mee hun and ketupat.

Soto
Soto Soup with mee hhun or ketupat

Nasi Dagang
Nasi Dagang is the Nasi Lemak of east coast Peninsula Malaysia, in the state of Terengganu and Kelantan.

Keropok Lekor


Keropok lekor, a specialty of the state of Terengganu and other states on the east coast of Peninsula Malaysia, is a savoury cake made from a combination of batter and shredded fish. Sliced and fried just before serving,it is eaten with hot sauce.

Pulut

Pulut- Glutinous rice serve with either rendang or coconut and brown sugar


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