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September 13th, 2009 by Rose

Remembering Malaysia

I’ll be off for a two-week holiday in Malaysia on Friday. It’ll be the first Aidilfitri celebration I’ve been able to participate in since migrating to Australia 7 years ago and I’m very much looking forward to it.

The last time I was in Malaysia was two years ago – a short trip to Kuala Lumpur and then a longer stay in Kota Kinabalu, my hometown. I pretty much ate my weight in dishes I can’t get out here. Some highlights:

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Breakfast with my partner and a friend in Kuala Lumpur – roti canai with curries, dhal and sambal. My friend had this disgusting concoction of tea and coffee with condensed milk (I forget what it’s called).

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A must-have for me every time I’m back in KK – chicken soto. I love it with hot chilli sauce and a squeeze of lime. Chicken soto in KK is very different from the sort that you get in West Malaysia. Here, it’s a light, clear broth with vermicelli. In West Malaysia it’s a heavier broth similar to Indonesian style soto served with nasi himpit (“pressed rice”).

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Selection of Malay kuih at Bits & Bites, one of my favourite places to get a quick snack. I always get the rightmost kuih on the bottom shelf – glutinous rice flour mochi-like thing stuffed with peanuts and sugar.

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Friday lunch at Restoran Seri Malindo. You can get lunch here for about AUD $2, and this place is the more expensive one around.

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I had ikan asam pedas (hot and sour fish), stir fried long beans and bamboo shoots in chilli coconut sauce.

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Another must have – ngiu chap mee hoon (beef soup with rice vermicelli). It has beef balls, tendon, liver and miscellaneous cow bits. Kind of similar to pho.

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Sneaky photo of the ngiu chap mee counter. This is just down the road from my family home.

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Durian stall – this is in the same area as the ngiu chap mee place. Fuck I love durians. These are proper ones that actually smell like how durians should smell (I know some of you bastards will say “awful” but I love this stuff OK).

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Sunday lunch. Food bought from Restoran Seri Melaka. We’ve been going to this restaurant since I was about 10. Clockwise from top left – deep fried squid, Chinese beef steak, stir fried veggies with black fungus and lemon chicken (no yellow food colouring in this one, bitches!). Not shown: sweet and sour fish.

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Beef rojak for breakfast. Yellow noodles, cucumber, beef slices, hardboiled egg and tofu topped with spicy peanut sauce.

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Mee bandung at the Marina Resort. Yellow noodles in tomato-based spicy sauce.

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Curry laksa at Marina Resort.

I can’t wait to be back!

Comments

3 Responses to “Remembering Malaysia”
  1. I feel like I’ve gained weight just looking at these photos. YUM

  2. Biatch, what is with this moderation bs?

  3. It’s a default wordpress thing bb :( LHam and FFY are technically different blogs so you needed to comment once on both. Should be all good now, comment and abuse away!

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