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As mentioned before in the previous posts, Malaysian food has been influenced from a variety of cultures. Coming from a Chinese-Malaysian background, my family has a tendency to eat the 'main stream' Malaysian food such as Nasi Lemak, Roti Canai or Dosa. Nonetheless, having a dad whose culinary expertise surpass 30 years, allows me to experience the side of Malaysian cuisine not many people know about.

From my frequent travels to Malaysia as a young boy, I have noticed that the lifestyle in Malaysia is extremely different to our home town of Sydney Australia. Malaysians would eat dinner around 5:30pm and have another 2-3 meals after until the early hours of the morning. The Malaysian cuisine is apart of the lifestyle, it's an art, it allows people to express themselves by being creative and inventive, in saying that, from time to time, my dad enjoys busting his moves and flipping his own Roti Canai. It's hard to replicate good Malaysian food, and currently, I have yet to find any restaurant who can replicate the authenticity of REAL Malaysian food. Hopefully, embarking on this adventure with my class mates will allow me to find a restaurant that can give us real Malaysian food.

- Derwin

This is my dad flipping Roti Canai
(an Indian influenced flat bread) he thinks he's the greatest.

Above is my dad's home made Nasi Lemak,
served with anchovies, cucumber, egg,
chicken curry and sambal belacan.

To "Break-Fast"

In this post, I would like to introduce what do people in Malaysia eat for their first meal of a day! You must have already known if you have read the previous post of our blog, malaysian cuisine is very rich, full of flavours and probably mixture of tastes of different cultures!

In Malaysia, very seldom you will see people eating cereals and oats as breakfast at home. In fact, people eat out at stalls or food markets and most of the time, breakfast must be very filling and full of tastes. Nasi Lemak(coconut rice), Roti canai, Char Kuey teow and Teh Tarik are some famous "malaysian breakfast". Only in Malaysia, together with the people and environment, you will experience a totally different kind of eating manner!

Teh Tarik

 Char Kuey Teow

 Nasi Lemak

Roti Canai

What to expect from Malaysian food?

 

What to expect from Malaysian food???

If you never heard anything about Malaysian food you might not be able to answer that, but don't worry because after you read this post you will know the answer.

First, let me tell you something about Malaysia. Malaysia is geographically located at 3°08′N 101°42′E. This location has made Malaysia located near the equator line which separate earth north and south. And because of that Malaysia has a tropical climate. As a result, Malaysia got a warm and humid temperature that is perfect for plants to grow.

A tropical climate is just perfect for some great spices and herbs. These herbs and spices are so great and delicious that they are the main reason why Europeans came here decades ago. These fantastic spices will give a great and unique taste that is not available anywhere else. Great spicy and rich taste maybe one of the greatest strength of Malaysian food.

The greatness of Malaysian food is also affected by the its culture. Malaysia is a place where many culture meet, it is affected by British culture from when England came and colonized Malaysia. Not only affected by European culture, but Malaysia is also affected by Chinese and Indian culture because of the foreign trading that occurred for decades. This rich cultural diversity again has affected the taste of Malaysian food, making it more complicated and unique.

So, from Malaysian food you can expect deep, rich, spicy, and strong flavors from Asia’s best herbs and spices. Expect some multicultural flavors, Chinese, Indian, and European. From Malaysian food, expect greatness.

We like to Makan all day and all night

Hi! Welcome to our blog Makan. "Makan" means "eat" in Malay; you should know what this blog is about by now... eating Malaysian food errday errday! Our group is diverse and we'll each provide insight and review Malaysian food that we eat together.

We have 2 Malaysians (shocking...), an Indonesian (basically Malaysian), and a Vietnamese (the lone wolf).

As you may have already noticed, the group is not as diverse as I said, and is actually 3 Malay/ Indo's and a lonely Vietnamese boy. We'll each introduce ourselves in the following posts!

What we all have in common though, is that we all love Malaysian food; some alittle more passionate about it than others, but we can ALL agree it tastes amazing. So we hope you enjoy your journey with us if you love malaysian food, and if you don't like malaysian food then follow us anyway cause there's something not right about you!

Don't forget to follow us on Twitter @malayfood101  and we will keep you updated wiith all the interesting information we got!