Malaysia Restaurants in Malaysia Restaurant
A guide to the most popular Restaurants in Malaysia. Here you will find an extensive list of the best Malaysia Restaurants. Whether you're looking for a particular cuisine, or just looking for a nearby place to eat after a night out, you'll find the right Malaysia Restaurant for you right here!
Malaysian cuisine reflects the huge mix of cultures that make up the country, with influences from the many Malay, Indonesian, Chinese and Indian ethnic groups. Staples such as rice, noodles, bread, curry, fruit, coconut, seafood and chicken tend to dominate most dishes that you will find in restaurants throughout Malaysia.
Satay (meat kebabs in spicy peanut sauce) are a Malay creation and they're found almost everywhere. On the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia, satay is served as a breakfast dish while it is eaten in the evening elsewhere.
Perhaps the unofficial national dish of Malaysia is nasi lemak, which translates as rice in fats but is really rice cooked in coconut milk and is a surprisingly delicious meal. Traditionally, this it is served with cucumber, small dried anchovies, kangkong (water convulvulus) hard-boiled egg and a hot spicy sauce (known as sambal) or as an accompaniment to curried chicken or beef.
For breakfast, the Indian influence comes through - there is roti canai (also known as roti chennai or roti prata), which is layered Indian bread served with curry fish gravy, or tosai, which are thin wheat flour pancakes.
Some other popular dishes include fried soybean curd in peanut sauce, sour tamarind fish curry (gorgeous), fiery curry prawns and spiced curried meat in coconut marinade. Many mamak (or Muslim Indian) dishes have developed a distinctly Malaysian style. The variety of wonderful tropical fruits and fruit juices available is huge, and strange some of the dishes made from them include cendol (sugar syrup, coconut milk and green rice noodles) and ais kacang or air batu campur (a mix of beans and jellies topped with shaved ice, syrups and condensed milk - a lot more pleasant than it sounds).
If you're feeling particularly daring, then you may want to try out rojak, which is a fresh fruit salad with a topping of thick dark prawn paste.
Eating out in Malaysia is superb value for money, and the restaurants in cities such as Kuala Lumpur offer a wide variety of dishes to browse until you find something that you really like.
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