we're in Johor Bahru in Malaysia and today we're taking you on a massive
street food tour
there is going to be a ton of street food in this video and the
first place is right behind me so let's go and eat
Malaysia is a food paradise
and the city of Johor Bahru has a number of unique and famous foods to eat we're
going to be exploring six mouth-watering foods in this video and they are so
tasty so make sure you watch the whole video to get a good look at this epic
Malaysian street food, I'm Thomas and I'm Sheena and we're Chasing a Plate, we hope
you're hungry, let's eat!
we're starting this massive street food day off with a
roti canai for breakfast, roti canai is an
Indian flatbread and it's made up of a very simple dough with water, ghee and
wheat flour and they mould it into tiny little balls and then spin it on this
big stainless steel bench, once it's spun they fold it up and then dump it onto
the hot plate with a ton of ghee so ghee is clarified butter so it gets a really
oily but buttery taste from that being in the dough and being cooked on that
hot plate, it's really crispy when I touch it so I'm just gonna rip into
this little guy, oh yes, it's all fluffy inside because of how it was folded up but the
outside is super crispy and then that comes with a little bowl of curry sauce
so let's just dunk it in there, give it a really good bath in that sauce let's
get that down
whoa oh that sauce, that gravy I mean
that curry gravy wow I think it's like a mutton taste I'm just gonna have a little bit by
itself, it's quite spicy
oh yeah that's really good it's really thin but it's got a mutton taste and a
lot of heat, of chilli spice oh that is nice
let's wrap off a bit more of this roti bread so it was really crispy on the
outside it was nice and soft on the inside and it wasn't too oily it just had
the perfect balance of that clarified butter versus the cooking time so it's
dried out a bit, right another big dunk
the softness in the middle, the crispy bits on the outside, the hot chlili spice from this
gravy, this is the perfect way to start the day
awesome
we've come to a really local neighborhood for our next snack, behind us
is an alleyway and there's a cluster of stalls and we're after the one which
is selling Hong Kong style chee cheong fun or rice noodle rolls
let's go and grab a plate
we've got our plate of chee cheong fun and they've sat us down on these little stools on the corner of one
of the vendor's tables, there's action all around us people are chatting, people are fixing things,
there are other vendors selling their food but this plate of chee cheong fun looks so good so
chee cheong fun are rice noodle rolls and this lot here is filled with both
barbecued pork and also prawn and when the lady was making them it was so cool
watching her she takes this really thin rice batter and pours it into a sheet
and then she adds a few prawns some of the barbecue pork she then steams it and then
once it's done rolls it up, quickly chops it and slides it onto the plate
sprinkle some sesame seeds, a dollop of chilli oil and then just sloshes tonnes of
sweet soy sauce over the top and then you have this plate of beauty I'm going
to just give this a big old bite because it looks so good
all right I'm gonna go without the chili for my first mouthful this one's got
prawn in it I think
ohhh that is so good, the rice noodle roll is so thin, it's really smooth and it's really slippery
and that light soy sauce just adds a touch of sweetness and a hint of savouriness, it is so simple but it is so delicious
I'm gonna go for a piece which has got some barbecue pork, so really bits of barbecue pork so really
finely chopped up but that I reckon is gonna be a winner, might grab a bit of that
chilli as well, alright, let's give it a go
mmmm mmmmm mmmmm
oh it just has enough flavour that barbecue pork so it's a little bit sweet, salty
and just like really small bits and it just works perfectly with that rice noodle roll this is one hell of a
breakfast snack
next stop on this huge street food tour is Johor laksa now
laksa is a dish you'll find all over Malaysia the most interesting thing
about the Johor laksa is that it uses wheat noodles or spaghetti as the noodle
normally you'll find this as a rice noodle in most of Malaysia but here it's
spaghetti it's all languishing in this beautiful broth oh look at that, it's a
fish broth so they use tuna you can see on my fork just
how chunky those fish bits are sort of flaky, so it's a fish broth and you
can see the orange and red on there so that looks like it'll be nice and spicy
and then on top of all that we've got some little slices of fresh cucumber some...
we'll just spin it around, some red onion, we've got some sprouts or some some mung
bean sprouts and this green leaf on top is laksa leaf and then
on the side is this sambal and look how fiery that looks it's bright red
and one little lime, I'm going to eat this spoon without any of those noodles
on so I've got some onion, some cucumber for crunch and then that
beautiful broth
mmmm, ohhhh
ohhh that is good, wow that is good the broth has a beautiful texture I think it
must have coconut in it so t's a little bit creamy right let's get a proper spoon
because these noodles and all these ingredients have to go in together oh
look at that, look at that the noodles are coated in those fish
flakes
mmm oh it's got a really good heat or spice from the chilli and it's
just perfect the noodles are not cooked too much
so they've still got bite they're not all squishy and overdone oh that's good I'm
gonna dump some sambal on though because while it's spicy it needs a bit more
of a kick for me so I'll get this beautiful red sambal
this looks fiery, put a spoon on, let's get a bit more, dump that all in there mix it
through, oh look at the color of that sambal
it's just really coating everything nicely, I want a really good spoon so I want
some onions, some cucumber, some of that laksa leaf oh yeah, covered in that
sambal, let's go
mmm
whoa that added a really good kick but it's actually really sweet the sambal
I thought it was gonna be much more fiery I'm loving this, is a really good laksa
look at that oh what a spoon, so we've got
lots of cucumber and lots of onion on there
mm mmmm wow it's good the flavors all sing so you've got the sweetness and the tanginess
of the onion, the fresh crunch of the cucumber, that fish in the broth is just
the perfect level of flavor and then the noodles are obviously so simple like
spaghetti you know, they just take on flavor perfectly so they work really
well adding that sambal and that lime, that is a really good dish of Johor laksa
next up what can be better than a fried little snack so we're gonna
get some pisang goreng or banana fritters and they do it a little bit
differently here in Johor so I'm really excited to have some in Johor
we've been served up our pisang goreng and we've got two different styles and
whoa do they look good so this one here is the pisang goreng Raja so it's like the
Royal Family's pisang goreng and these are their top grade bananas so those
should be really good and we've also got these plantains so you can see these big
slices of plantain, watching these being made was incredible, there's quite a thick
batter, the bananas are dumped in covered in that batter and then put
into these huge woks of oil to get this golden, golden finish and I love the
look of all these small little crispy bits that are all over the dish now to
go with this, this is the thing that makes pisang goreng or banana fritters a
bit different in Johor this black sauce so it's kicap manis which is a sweet
soy sauce and some chili all cooked down to make this little sauce so I'm gonna try
this, this pisang goreng Raja first, just dunk it in that sauce whoa the crispy
bits are falling off just give it a little dunk and let's try
ohh oh it's really hot oil oh my god, mmm the banana it's gone all dark yellow and sweet cause
it's been cooked the outside's kind of, this part of the batter is a little bit
soft and this part of the batter's really crispy but it's very dry it's not oily
at all and then the sauce is spicy, it's much more spicy than I expected it's got
a sweetness but a spice, let's have some more
Oh, mmmm
whoa so hot in there, that sweetness of the banana mixed with the spiciness of
the sauce is the most perfect combo that is a beautiful, beautiful banana
fritter I'm gonna grab one of these plantains so look at this ,this is super oh
no this is super crispy feeling on the outside so I'm gonna give that a dunk in
the sauce as well just a little coating, let's bite into that mmmm whoa it's actually
much sweeter than I thought it would be look how yellow it is in there so
once again really crunchy on these top bits and then the inside is really sweet
these are such a good snack
this is turning out to be a massive food hunting
day but we're still hungry so let's go and get some bak kut teh or meat-bone tea
so this is bak kut teh or meat bone tea and it's
a really popular breakfast dish with the Chinese basically it's made up of this
rich looking herbal broth and a lot of pork ribs and
some braised garlic so the kitchen is pretty open at this restaurant and the
team out the back are just chopping up spare ribs, we've heard that they go through
about seven or eight racks a day and this restaurant is actually the only one
that is still cooking their bak kut teh over charcoal so hopefully that really
imparts a smokiness to this dish, I've just gotta get in and try this broth because
it looks so good, so the broth is cooked using a tonne of aromatics and herbs so
hopefully it's super flavoursome, let's try it
oh wow that has got so much flavor in it
it's really intense with pork flavor and in terms of a herbal taste it's quite
light, so this dish actually originated in Klang in another part of Malaysia
and there the stock or meat bone tea is really thick and dark and really punchy
in flavour but this is a lot more mellow and it's actually really, really
delicious just a little bit lighter what I'm gonna do is just grab some of the
broth and pour it over my bowl of white rice and then give some of these
pork ribs a go, so we've also got a bit o umm it looks like
dark soy sauce and some chilli so I'm gonna get a little bit of that pop it on that
pork rib
mmmmm whoa the meat is so tender but it still has a bit of bite oh that's so flavoursome
just gonna get a bite of this rice which has got all of that broth actually I'm gonna just dunk some
more broth into that rice and let's see what that tastes like
oh I could literally take this whole bowl of meat-bone tea and just go like that and drink it all
in one go that is delicious as well as the pork ribs we've also got
these pickled mustard greens here
oh wow, that has got such an intense
vinegary hit, so they're actually served hot, there's a little bit of crunch but it's quite
sour so that's gonna go perfectly with the richness of that broth and of the meat, this is turning out
to be such an epic meal
our next stop is a bit of a Johor Bahru institution this
bakery behind me which has been operating since 1919 and they're using
the same wood-fired oven that they used back in the day and there are so many
people queuing up for one thing, their famous banana cake, look at it, it looks
so moist I have got to get into this I love a banana cake, it's just, it's got no
icing, it's just plain and what was really awesome was watching them putting
those giant slabs of cake batter into that wood-fired oven whipping them
out, cutting them up, delivering them into the hands of the customers and this is
still warm, it looks good
mmmmm mmm mmmm mmmmmmm
that is so delicious as I put it towards my mouth I could really smell that
banana flavor and you can see all those bits of banana in there so the mashed up
banana that cake is really light it's really moist, all we need now is a
cup of kopi or a teh tarik to enjoy this with, this is a winner
whoa JB has some really delicious food we had an awesome time on our massive
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we'll see you next time, jumpa lagi