Lunch or Brunch?

well typically, businesses will use the standard word "lunch" when referring to the noon meal to avoid confusion due to the cultural domination of standard English. When a luncheon sized meal is eaten before 11:30 a.m., it is generally considered either brunch or breakfast. Brunch is a meal eaten between or instead of breakfast and lunch. The word is a pormanteau between breakfast and lunch.

Normally the lunch hour for Malaysian is 12.00 noon to 2.30pm. Well a part of Malaysian usually take brunch, just like me..hehe.. and believe it or not, some stalls open for lunch meals at as early as 10.30 am!
here in Malaysia, u have no worries in getting foods. We're 24/7 foods' heaven...

Let me start the kick with LUNCH... Malaysian love lunch, normal lunch is basically rice which served with various type of side dish which we call Nasi Campur in malay or as translate to english its Mixed Rice/Ricebox. as u may know, Asian country is the largest rice consumer and producer. so majority food that serve here is rice. no matter its indian, malay or chinese, they all love rice (except runaway models, they hate it..haha). these side dishes can be as minimum as 5 types and can go up to 50 types! crazy huh?
normally these dishes is mild to spicy taste as malaysian eats chillies a lot. but, no worries, if u cant have spicy food, they're also prepare like chicken soup etc.
the mixed rice stalls usually look like this:

you may get this at street hawkers, restaurant, or even in hotels' coffee house!! well hereby i will give you the top 10 side dishes which Malaysian love:

10. Kurma Kambing

*or as known as mutton cream curry

*not spicy, usually the curry mixed with potato and tomatoes

*its taste so creamy as it made with cocnut milk and herbs

9. Sayur Campur

*or mixed vege

*the most popular is carrot,oyster mushrooms & cabbage stirfried with shrimps and oyster sauce

*not spicy at all

8. Ayam Masak Merah

*direct translation to english is Red Chicken

*have two types: cooked with tomato sauce or chilli paste

*sometimes the hawkers will put in raw tomatoes,peas or potatoes in

7. Daging Masak Kicap

*direct translation is Black Beef

*cooked with dark soy sauce and black pepper

*normally potatoes or french beans will add in

6. Masak Lemak Cili Api Rebung

*or as known as Bamboo shoot in spicy creamy soup

*the soup made from coconut milk,turmeric, thai chillies and shrimp paste

*its really spicy but i bet u will love it!

*can be found in various type : cow's tummy, prawns, cockles or fish etc

5. Ikan Bakar

*or char-grilled fish wrapped in banana leaf

*nice to eat with 'kuah assam' or tamarind juice with shallots and chillies

*lots of fish types

4. Ayam Goreng Berempah

* or fried chicked with herbs

*the chicken will be marinated overnight with lemongrass, ginger, shallots, garlic, honey and soy sauce

 

3. Ulam-ulaman dan sambal belacan/ Cencalok/ tempoyak/ budu

*its mixed malay salad

*the side sauce is sambal belacan (shrimp paste sauce), cencalok (salted fermanted shrimp), tempoyak (fermanted durians) or budu (fermanted anchovies sauce)

*its a MUST HAVE for malays

2. Various curries

*chicken/beef/fish/mutton curries

*potatoes,brinjal or ladiesfinger will add into the curries

 

 

1. Sambal Udang Petai

*its prawns cooked with chilli paste and Petai beans (Parkia speciosa)
*Petai beans is bears long, flat edible beans with bright green seeds the size and shape of plump almonds which have a rather peculiar smell, characterised by some as being similar to natural gas but believe me its taste good!

BIG BREAKFAST...to start the day

breakfast is important... in Malaysia, breakfast being served with something will full your tummy and make you back to sleep again..haha.. its true!
lots of variety u may found in Malaysia's breakfast, sometimes u may see the food that usually ate at night on breakfast,vice versa.
here's the Top 10 breakfast that u must try :



  

10. Roti Jala

*Roti Jala which means Net Bread is Malay's traditional food

*made with flour,eggs and water and cooked on flat pan

*normally served with beef/potato curry, if its Durian season, u might get it wit Durian sweet sauce (yummy!)

*standard price MYR0.40-MYR0.60 per piece

9. Traditional cakes

*a lots of variety and the most famous is currypuff

*u can found at the street or in restaurant

*standard price MYR0.40-MYR0.60 per piece

8. Pulut Kuning & Rendang

*which is glutinous rice cooked with tumeric and normally served with spicy chicken/beef 'rendang' (coconut milk + galanger +lemongrass & coconut paste)

*some eat this with curry

*standard price MYR2.00 - MYR3.50

7. Rice Porridge/Congee

*basically u may find this at local chinese stalls

*served with condiments such as fried anchovies, salted eggs, etc

*standard price MYR3.00 - MYR 5.00 per

6. Tosai / Chapatti

*indian ethnic traditional food and very famous in mamak stall

*main ingredient is wheat flour

*normally served with fish curry

*standard price MYR1.50 - MYR2.00 per piece

5. Laksam

*its a local dish from East Coast of Malaysia

*flat pan noodles serve with fish soup (made with fish & coconut milk) and garnished with lots of greens and sambal belacan (hot shrimp sauce)

*standard price MYR2.50 - MYR3.00 per serving

4. Nasi Dagang

*also originally from East Coast

*glutinous rice cooked with herbs and its dark brown color/light brown

*normally served with skipjack fish curry which is the must-have ang vegetable pickles

*standard price MYR3.00 - MYR 8.00 per serving

3. Kopitiam style breakfast
* kopitiam or kopi tiam is a traditional breakfast and coffeeshop found in Malaysia. The word is a portmanteau of the Malay word for coffee (as borrowed and altered from the Portuegese and the Hokkien dialect word for shop (店)
*Menus typically feature simple offerings: a variety of foods based on half boiled eggs and toast

 

2. Roti Canai
*or Paratha bread in english
*served with Dhal curry or Sambal (malay's spicy chilli paste)
*can easily been found at Mamak stalls/restaurant
*u can choose your own fillings like banana, sardine, eggs etc.
*standard price MYR0.80 - MYR2.50



1. Nasi Lemak - its everyone favourite!!
*its malay traditional breakfast which is rice that cooked with coconut milk and fregrand 'pandan' leaves (screwpine leave)
*normally served with hard boiled eggs, fried anchovies, fried peanut, cucumber and sambal (spicy chilli paste)
*u may choose your own sambal as nowadays a lot of varieties like squid sambal, prawn sambal etc
*some Nasi Lemak hawkers will sell it with banana leaves wrapping
*standard price MYR0.80 - MYR 5.00

street food is the best : PASAR MALAM

PASAR MALAM : means night market in english, is the most popular place to get fast food. in Pasar Malam, usually it will be sooo crowded with all types of people. U can find fresh seafoods, vegetables, clothes, and importantly, FOODS !! in short Pasar Malam is a non-concrete SHOPPING MALL.
U can found Pasar Malam all over Malaysia.
For the info on Pasar Malam location & the days ---> click here .
Credit to pijut

TOP 10 : MOST FAVOURITE PASAR MALAM FOODS!!

10. Nasi Kerabu

(Salad Rice-Originally from East Coast of Malaysia)

*this rice is BLUE in color coz its been cooked wit 1 kind of herb leaves (unsure the name) but nowadays

people just add up some artificial color.

*usually served with salty duck egg, fish crackers, variety of greens, budu (anchovies sauce), chillies and dried coconut. extra dishes like solok(green chilli stuffed with coconut) or fried fish will cost u extra $$

*standard price is at around MYR4.00 - MYR7.00 (depending on the side dishes u take)

9. Laksa

(rice noodles in fish soup, originally from North Coast of Malaysia)

*the fish soup usually made from sardine fish which been blend and cook with tamarind juice

*additional flavour: mint leaves, galanger flower, petis (shrimp sauce)

*standard price is MYR3.00-MYR4.50

8. Kebab

*originally from middle east - we has made it Malaysian style which after grilled the meats, we're stir fried it wit tomatoes,onion,and chiilies

*normally served in a pita bread/buns with mayonaise

*u can choose beef/chicken filling or u can have them combined!

*standard price is MYR3.00 - MYR5.00

7. Murtabak

(beef/chicken with eggs and curry flavour wrapped with pastry)

*normally served with pickled onion (in pink color)  or beef curry

*its popular among students as its cheap and full

*standard price is MYR3.00 -MYR4.50 per piece

6. Variety deep fried

*a very popular and must-eat dishes

*u may found chicken skeleton ,bishop nose,chicken heart,chicken lungs, oyster mushroom, all in deep fried

*standard price MYR 3.50 - MYR 5.00

5. Variety of Satay - chicken/beef/lamb/chicken organs

*served with spicy peanut sauce, cucumber, raw onions & ketupat(rice cooked in coconut leaves)

*if u're lucky, u may find rabbit satay or deer satay

*standard price MYR 0.80 - MYR 2.00 per stick

4. Keropok Lekor (Fish Chips)

*originally from East Coast of Malaysia

*made from fish and flour

*serve with sweet chilli sauce

*standard price MYR1.00 for 5pcs

3. Giant Wok Style Noodles Variety

*u can try yellow noodle,rice vercimelli or flat noodle, all fried in giant wok

*usually served with pickled green chillies

*standard price MYR2.00 MYR3.00 per pack

2. Ayam Percik

*as known as Char-grilled chicken

*cooked by putting the chicken meat in between of bamboo stick and grilled to the perfection

*normally served or been dipped in special sauce made with coconut milk,chillies and lemongrass, but some served it with peanut sauce,similar like satay sauce

*standard price MYR3.50 - MYR5.00 per stick

1. Yong Tau Foo

*its Mix steamboat with darksauce

*u will be given a small basket for u to choose what item you want

*after choosing, pass back the basket to the hawker and they will boil the items into hot soup & cut it to small pieces

*standard price can go up to MYR20.00 depending on the item u choose

the episode begin

I ♥ foods so much... when i eat, i will close my eyes to enjoy and deeply explore the taste and flavour in that food! hahaha sounds crazy to you guys rite? but its true! thank God that he had created such a wonderful sense, which is our tongue!! Syukur Alhamdulillah..
on this journal, i will bring you to the phenomenon that what Malaysian eat everyday and what kind of speaciality that u may find if u're in Malaysia...
so, enjoy!!!