Hungry?
I’m starving.
I’m starving!
We are starving and so we are heading to what I’m kind of calling our local restaurant in Malaysia.
Oh, it definitely is.
We’ve been there a bunch of times.
It was actually the first place that we went
and it was so good that we’ve been back almost every single day.
Yeah.
So we wanted to go and show you some of the traditional Malaysian foods that we love
and I can’t wait to order pretty much all the things.
Bigfoot crossing?
Shall we walk through the mall so there’s air conditioning?
Yes.
Are you starving?
I’m starving, hot.
I’m so hungry.
Can you reveal any of the things you’re about to try or is it a secret?
It’s kind of a secret but I’ll tell you we’re going to have different drinks,
different savoury foods, and a really, really delicious hot drink to end.
Ooh.
I see it.
Maju Curry House.
Place of dreams.
There it is!
How are you?
Hi!
High five.
Ok.
Thank you.
How excited are you right now?
So excited.
They have Malaysian food and also North Indian and South Indian food.
Such a big menu here.
Like the first three pages, this is just drinks.
Drinks, drinks, drinks.
Actually this is also drinks.
So four pages of drinks.
So thirsty.
Hi!
Yes, hello.
We’re just trying to decide what to have.
No, no, I think I know.
Ok, we’re so hungry.
Oh hungry?
We’re going to order a lot of food again.
Ok can we get a roti cheese?
Roti cheese.
And a rotai canai.
Roti canai.
Nasi goreng ayam.
And the mee goreng ayam.
Mee goreng ayam, not spicy.
You know we can’t handle the spice.
We’ve learned our lesson in other places.
We have.
And a sirap?
Plain sirap.
Yes.
And one with lychee.
Exactly.
And do you want to order a soto as well?
A soto?
Yeah.
Can we get a soto ayam then?
Why not?
I mean we’re ordering everything else so..
I’ll be back.
Thank you.
He’s so lovely.
We were actually here…so they’ve just celebrated the end of Ramadan this week
and he was telling us before how he was going on holiday for a few days so
we were comparing notes about what the last three days have been like
because they closed the restaurant for three days so I am very happy to be back.
Wow!
Thank you.
This is for this one.
Ok.
And then condensed milk for the cheese one.
Perfect.
And that’s daal, right?
Daal, yeah.
Ok, amazing.
Thank you.
This is roti canai.
By the way, I should tell you it is super loud in here
because they’re listening to a Bollywood film over there
and then wrestling in English behind me
and it’s super loud so if you hear anybody screaming that’s what you’re hearing.
And also the lighting in here is crazy because there’s a fan going
which is good because it’s really hot but
if you notice crazy lighting or crazy sounds that’s what it is.
So here’s the roti canai.
So it’s roti with daal which comes on the side.
It’s not spicy at all and
this is just so delicious and,
for Marc and I anyway when we’ve been here, the perfect way to start the meal so
I wanted to show you.
It’s not spicy.
It’s a lot of flavour
and the roti’s just so good.
Tears perfectly.
Why have one roti when you could have two roti, right?
Oh yeah.
So this is roti cheese.
It’s exactly what it sounds like:
it’s cheese inside this folded roti
but what is cool to me is that they serve it with condensed milk,
which some people might find a bit strange
but, at home, I love eating like jam with cheese
and I love the saltiness of the cheese with something sweet.
So, for me, this is perfect.
One of my new favourites.
I could probably eat five roti cheese just alone
without any help from Marc.
It reminds me a little bit of the cheese melts you used to get at him Chi-Chi’s.
Does anyone remember?
All you gotta do is rip it,
dip it,
and then slip it into your mouth.
You have a way with words, sir.
When it’s super hot in Malaysia as it often is, this has been my favourite way to cool down.
It’s called sirap laichi.
It’s an iced drink and it’s basically rose syrup with lychee in the bottom
so when I stir this nice ice around
at the bottom you can see these lovely big chunks of lychee fruit
and it tastes sort of like…
Let me take a sip and then I’ll tell you.
The best way I can describe this drink
is if you imagine taking a rose flavoured Turkish delight candy -
one of my favourite candies -
and bashing it all up into a syrup and then adding it to ice,
that’s exactly what this tastes like.
It is pure decadence.
It’s so rich and sweet so I don’t think you’d want to have more than this at a time
but so good.
Definitely one of the best desserts, I’d call it, slash sweet treats I’ve had in Malaysia.
This drink is the same as Eileen’s only it has no lychee.
It’s just the rose and it is pure heaven, especially when it’s hot like it is today.
Doesn’t get any better than this.
This dish is called nasi goreng ayam,
ayam meaning chicken,
and it’s just basically fried rice with mixed vegetables and chicken
and it’s sort of a staple of Malaysian cooking and cuisine and it’s absolutely delicious.
We requested this one with no curry
‘cause usually the spice level’s a little bit crazy.
But, yeah, it’s just a nice, hearty dish.
Perfect.
I thought you said, ‘Nice party dish.’
It’s a nice party dish.
That’s the mind frame I’m in.
It’s very…it’s very ‘party.’
Oh…oh, it’s delicious.
I feel kind of bad for Marc because the reason we have to order things with ‘no spice’,
which doesn’t mean no spice here,
it just means an acceptable level of spice for me,
because Marc has a higher tolerance than I do for sure.
A bit better.
And if you’ve seen our videos in Mexico,
you know that I worked very hard to build tolerance while I was there but it’s been too long.
It’s still burning!
Ahh!
It’s like a dragon.
It’s like a stalker.
So I feel like I’ve slipped down the tolerance ladder
so they’re very nice here and they actually put like a relatively small amount of spice for me.
I can handle that.
This is sort of the equivalent of the nasi goreng ayam with the rice,
except this is with noodles.
It’s mee goreng ayam
and this is a total staple of Malaysian food.
You’ll see this everywhere.
Mee goreng is noodles and it comes with different things,
so the ayam is with chicken
and again this has mixed vegetables so tomato, onion, carrot.
It’s not too spicy, again,
because we’re here and they know that we can’t handle too much spice, or I can’t.
The noodles are just the perfect consistency.
They’re not too mushy, they’re not too hard
and they put so much flavour in the sauce.
Oh, that’s a good big bite.
Now it’s me time for mee goreng.
Now it’s my time for mee goreng.
This dish is called soto ayam.
I’ve actually never tried it before.
It’s a traditional Malaysian soup that has chicken broth,
chicken, cucumber, lime, and cilantro, isn’t it?
Yeah, I think it is cilantro.
It also comes with lamb and beef and I’ve been really excited to try it.
It’s supposed to be a very hot soup.
Considering how how it is today, I don’t know if this was a good idea but
I figure why not?
Soto ayam.
Ok new favourite.
Love this.
It’s kind of like Lipton noodle soup.
I mean, how could you not like that?
It’s always comforting to have chicken soup, eh?
It’s so comforting.
When I hear Marc say that this is so good, I obviously need to try some.
I’ve never had this before either
and now it comes very highly recommended.
Ooh, the noodles are hard to get.
I’ll try some broth first.
Oh, that’s good.
I’m going to use a fork and cheat to get the noodles.
You’re right, this is really good.
Yeah.
It tastes like chicken noodle soup.
It’s so easy to eat, do you know what I mean?
Like that chicken soup for the soul.
Yeah, comforting.
I’ve never put cucumbers in soup.
It’s really good.
They actually keep the crunch more than I thought they would.
All this food worked up a little thirst so we ordered Milo drinks
which, if you don’t know, Milo is sort of a chocolate powder similar to Nesquick
and, when we used to live in Australia, I ordered this all the time.
So it’s kind of a nice throwback to order it again here in Malaysia.
So here we go.
This wrestling is so funny.
I don’t know if you guys can hear this or not
but the announcer keeps being like, ‘Judo chop! There was a judo chop!’
and you can hear women screaming.
It’s just…it’s not quite the soundtrack I imagined when dining in Malaysia but
cheers to Ronda Rousey or whatever her name is.
It doesn’t look like we’ve eaten a lot but we have
but there’s always time for dessert.
Oh yeah.
Right?
Yeah.
Universal truth.
For us, anyway.
Wait, that doesn’t make any sense.
This little roti dream otherwise known as roti bom.
It’s a roti, obviously, that’s sorted of twisted
and it’s filled with margarine and sugar
and then it’s fried until it’s this beautiful golden colour
and then they serve it with condensed milk.
It just absolutely melts in your mouth
like those kind of Original Glazed Krispy Kreme donuts.
Like you just put it in your mouth and your tongue just evaporates so
I could…I’ve been trying to consume as many of them as possible, to be honest,
in Malaysia and at this place.
There’s no polite way of eating this.
I don’t know even how many courses we’ve had at this point
but I will tell you this is an amazing way to end things off with the roti bom.
Absolutely one of my favourite things that we’ve tried here in Malaysia.
It’s not even fair to other foods.
This message brought to you by roti bom dot com.
Looks good!
Yes!
Thank you.
This is what I have been looking forward to through all of the food.
This is teh tarik, which is considered the national drink of Malaysia
and teh tarik literally means ‘pulled tea’
because it’s black tea usually mixed with either condensed milk or evaporated milk,
so it’s very sweet,
and the name ‘pulled’ comes from the fact that when they’re actually preparing it
they have two cups and they pour the tea between the two cups and kind of pull it and stretch it
and that’s why it’s so lovely and frothy on the top.
It's delicious.
I honestly feel like I have to close my eyes
or I just compulsively close my eyes ‘cause it’s so good
and I just want to concentrate on the sense of taste.
So good.
The tea Granny inside me is delighted.
Marc doesn’t understand why people drink hot drinks when it’s hot.
No.
And I tried to tell him that it’s not that weird.
Peop le tell me that hot tea cools you down.
I have not found that personally.
But we’ll see.
We should ask them:
do you guys ever drink like a hot drink when it’s hot out
or do you only like cold drinks like Marc?
Right.
So let’s see if this cools me down.
Ooh cold.
Cold all of a sudden and this hot tea on a hot night.
We thought we were finished with the roti bom but
then our friend who works here brought us another treat to try
because he knows how much we love trying Malay food.
This is called kulipis - nasi kulipis -
and it’s very, very traditional he says.
This is a banana leaf
and it’s wrapped up in the banana leaf
and inside is rice
that has been steamed in the banana leaf.
He says it’s extremely traditional in Malaysia, especially this part of Malaysia in Borneo,
and we have never tried this before so he brought us two to try.
Let’s do it.
Ok.
I love the texture.
Super, super moist sticky, like, glutinous rice.
It’s really good.
I love it.
You love it?
Thank you.
If you go anywhere in Malaysia you cannot get it because now the season only.
I just called to some place to need a lot of things like this like to eat.
Yeah.
Now two days before, now they make it and send it to me.
Really?
Too hot now.
Wow!
Thank you for sharing it!
Thank you.
Thank you for everything.
Thank you sir.
Wow, that’s so cool.
We’re stuffed.
That was a lot of food.
I hope you guys enjoyed seeing our local spot here
and trying all the traditional Malay dishes.
That last one was a total bonus.
The kulipis?
Yeah, I’m glad we got to try that.
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We are going to sit here and finish off these last little sips of teh tarik.
Do you still have a sip there?
Not really.
And we’ll see you in our next video.
Cheers anyway! -Cheers.
Bye.