Dishes must try in Malaysia

Dishes to try in Malaysia

Malaysia is a paradise for food lovers and various oriental cuisines. Indian, Chinese and Portuguese influences are not only noticeable in the streets but also in dishes.
If Thai, Indian or Chinese cuisine is known all over the world, few people know that Malaysia is one of the countries with the highest culinary culture in the world. So what Malaysian dishes should you not miss? Through this article we have chosen for you:

- Nasi Lemak : Consists of rice cooked in coconut milk and accompanied by fish anchovies And boiled eggs and sambal sauce This dish is a symbol of Malaysian dishes.

- Satay : Famous and delicious Malaysian chicken / beef skewers grilled and accompanied by peanut sauce, cucumber and sticky rice croquette.


- Chicken rice (Hainan style): a dish of rice delicious chicken simple delicious.

- Laksa You will notice that Malaysian dining options do not lack soup (there are meatballs soup, prawns, pasta, vegetables, ...) but if you have to choose one you should be Laksa !
There are two types of Laksa usually: vermicelli cooked in coconut milk and vermicelli cooked in fish and tamarind soup.

- Rojak : You should try it at least once, a salad of pineapple, cucumber, turnip, pepper with tamarind sauce, lemon, peanuts, sugar.
- Ice Kakang This is a huge mountain of wet ice with a drink rich in colorful flavors and some surprises (corn, beans, jolly ...).
- Teh Tarik : We can not conclude this article without encouraging you to try teh tarik It is a tea with condensed milk that is prepared by pouring it from one pot to another. It is said that the more foam there is, the better the taste.

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Ethnic and cultural diversity in Malaysia gives its cuisine a unique distinction and flavors.On the table, a variety of dishes combine the tastes of Malay cuisine in Indian, Chinese and Indonesian, and the European taste of the Portuguese and Dutch colonization of the Malay archipelago is not lost.

Malaysian .. European

The Malaysian cuisine is characterized by a variety of flavors such as spices, especially turmeric, curry, various herbs and peppers, coconut enters in many meals, and Europeans added their own flavors such as peanuts, pineapple, avocado, tomatoes and pumpkin.

Influenced by Thai

Each state of Malaysia has its own dishes, and its neighbors from other countries impose their flavors. In the north and east the population has been influenced by Thai cuisine as they prefer spicy and sour tastes.Tom Yam spicy soup, rice with pineapple and cashews are famous.

And Indonesian cuisine

In the south, they were influenced by Indonesian cuisine with its sour and sweet flavors as well as spices and peppers.The Chinese moved their flavors and dishes to the states where they lived, such as Malacca and Penang.Tamil Indians from South India also had their own dishes they added to the Malaysian table.

Sampal Sauce

Rice is the main dish on the Malaysian table along with chicken or fish cooked with coconut milk and tamarind, as well as fried and boiled vegetables, and the table is not without the Sambal sauce, a pepper powder with multiple flavors optional such as ginger, lemon and dried fish.