So we have the kaya and the egg right here. That fat is so luscious and creamy
It's also slightly caramelized in the end and got those charred bits oh
Big catfish - this thing is huge! Nice soup totally reminds me of a Thai beef noodle
soup - I really like it. Kelantan has their own type of laksa.
It's breakfast. We are at Kopitiam Kita and wow look at
this. This roti for breakfast. There's two eggs over easy. So soft and it's
just wiggling. And the toast is
really thick.
So Kopitiam Kita is a very popular place
here in Kota Bharu. When you look up places to eat, this is
always at the top of the list and their main special dish here is
called the Roti Titab. It's so famous that it's even
copyrighted by the owner. Who the owner is really friendly by the
way. He came by took a picture with us. Roti Titab
it's basically like your kaya toast but everything on it all in one.
It's a really thick slab of toast. We actually ordered two types. We got the
original and we got the pandan. The pandan looks
a slight bit hue of green. Looks like they probably put pandan in
the bread and they put four dollops of kaya the lovely jam we cannot get enough
of out here made with the coconut milk and the pandan and the sugar and eggs.
It's four dollops perfectly on each side in all four corners.
But we got the special. We asked what the special was like with two eggs.
Why not for one more ringgit, right? It's got all-in-one sweet and savory all in one
toast. So excited to try it. We also got our -
I got a hot kopi-o here. Kopi-o panas, just a plain black coffee
to pair with the sweet and Jumi has her nice foamy
kopi tarik.
Gonna take a bite of the classic first. I'm gonna cut it right down the middle
Quite sloppy I could tell, got the yolk all over the place. Oh here we go
Scoop a little yolk, so we have the kaya and the egg right here.
One big bite
It's so good. The toast is perfectly toasted here, got that slight bit of char
taste on the outside of the toast. And what I really like about it is that
kaya already has egg in it and then you have this soft boiled egg to go
with it. So you have basically double egg in here to go with that sweetness
of the kaya. I could really eat this every day, that's how good it is.
That boiled egg is just so creamy and luscious.
Now I'm gonna try the pandan version. So I'm curious to see if there's a strong
difference in taste between the pandan toast and the classic toast
Taste it. I've never seen a green hue toast like this with the pandan in it.
So when you cut it, you see that slight pandan. I like it's not too green, so it's
probably using real pandan, not exaggerated color.
Subtle.
Now
Here we go
I love that salty sweet combination you get here.
You get that slight saltiness from the butter on that toast, that creamy
luscious kaya, the creamy eggs. Man it's a textural flavor
mash up to perfection here. So good
Want to get that pandan and then egg and then with kaya let's see
Sweet, salty and toast. I mean why not?
I was looking around and this place the space is huge, it's like a basketball
court right here. It's 11 o'clock in the
morning. I can only imagine how it is early in
the morning. It must be very packed. That's why
this place is huge and there's a reason for that
Of course when you're in Kelantan, you've got to have nasi kerabu. So
we're about 10 minutes north of Kota Bharu city in a spot called Jijah's. I love it
because we're outside. It's like we're outside of
a house we're like in the backyard eating. It's beautiful. If you remember we had
nasi kerabu in Terengganu, we had it with the blue
rice. This one actually comes with the yellow rice.
This one looks beautiful. I love it's got the yellow rice it's got the ulam -
the fresh vegetables all chopped up, it's got the
grated coconut. It's got looks like some gulai here and some sambal
and then you have that beautiful grilled lamb.
Don't even know what to eat first. Think I'm gonna go with the lamb first.
It smells so good. It's so tender, It's juicy, it's got that nice
lamb flavor but it's also a little yellow i wonder if
it's some turmeric in here. But it's really
like if you're a lamb lover like we are, this is where it's at. And now i'm going
to try this nasi kerabu all mixed up.
Wow! This is just incredible. You got that creamy gulai, sambal, that grated
coconut those fresh ulam. And you got that yellow rice - wow this is
incredible. Now I'm gonna take it with a piece of the
lamb. Going for that mega bite, the money bite.
It's just incredibly good. So you get that richness of the lamb, you got that
fresh flavors of the ulam - the veggies in here.
And you got that creamy like spicy. There's so much flavors going on here.
And I like the different textures too. You get the crunchiness, you have some
cabbage here, some chopped up long beans and you have that slightly chewy lamb.
It's an incredible nasi kerabu here. A must.
Char
How can you not want to stop when you see that grill and all that chicken just
smoke. The smoke billowing, that aroma just lures you in no matter what.
Ayam percik is a specialty here in Kelantan state. It is the grilled chicken
and it's covered - it's actually smothered. There's the grilled chicken and it's
smothered in this percik sauce.
This percik sauce is a nice orange color and it's supposed to be made with
coconut milk and other spices. We're gonna get into those spices.
We also ordered hati, the chicken liver also smothered in the percik sauce. We
also got the daging bakar - the grilled beef. This one's
not smothered in the percik sauce, which actually is good so we can taste
it on its own. And we also got this beautiful plate of
nasi kerabu another Kelantan specialty. That's what I like about here is you can
just get - when you order a plate of rice you're going to get this nasi kerabu.
Just like this. It's just covered in this ulam, all these herbs.
You have that grated coconut, you have some green sambal here
and more. This looks amazing so excited to eat this. That smoky aroma we walked in
that door
Gonna try first the ayam percik. So try this right here
This is the drumstick. Oh it smells so good
Smell so many spices, I smell that aroma from the grill. Let's take a bite
Mmm. Creamy percik sauce. There's a nice coconut milk flavor. It's
got a strong kick of lemongrass a little bit of spiciness in there with
slight sweetness. There might be some cumin in here too
some turmeric. There's a lot going on in here.
You get that really excellent smoky flavor from that grill, that charcoal.
We're all about that charcoal life when it comes to barbecue. That's the way to
go. This chicken liver I'm going to cover it
in the sauce. Take one piece of this chicken liver
cover in the percik sauce take a bite.
Strong liver flavor. Very very livery. Jumi's gonna love this.
This liver is so good. You've drenched it with percik.
It has lots of lemongrass, but definitely liver taste.
Now I'm going to try a piece of this daging bakar, the grilled beef. So we
walked by, it's really cool they actually have
like a bowl of the beef and he puts it underneath the grill so the smoke is
just billowing up just permeating this strips of this meat.
I'm not even gonna try it with any sauce. I want
to try it just by itself first. Smells super smoky.
Whoa. This beef just has so much of that amazing smoky flavor. A slight bit of
sweetness to it a little saltiness a little slight peppery taste.
But you really just taste that smoky beef, that's the dominant flavor here. It
is amazing. And I love how on this plate they actually give you some pieces of fat
like this
Oh that fat is so luscious and creamy. It's also slightly caramelized in the
end and got those charred bits. Oh. The daging bakar is a must order here.
Now gonna try some of this nasi kerabu and we've already had it.
We've had it - we've had a white one before, we've got a yellow one
now we're back to the classic blue that's colored with the butterfly pea
flower. Mix that all up.
Nasi kerabu is nice and mixed up here. Got all these different veggies - the
cabbage, the bean sprouts the herbs, everything in here. Take a nice
scoop. Take a bite
Oh ulam flavors. You get some sort of citrusy kick.
I'm not sure if maybe this is the green sambal.
Oh it's in that green sambal. It tastes like there's a lot of lime in there, but
they also put a little bit of the percik sauce. So you get that creamy
lemongrassy percik sauce mixed in here. That's their little twist, so that's a
smart idea. Man this nasi kerabu is amazing.
Definitely order this along with your grilled meat, it goes so perfectly. Now
try a piece of beef, get a little piece of chicken in there too. Let's get a
little frisky. One big mega bite here
Nice fragrant nasi kerabu just pairs so well. It complements that
smoky meat so well. The place is incredible, very
famous for reason. You got to come to Yati
Ayam Percik whenever you're here in Kota Bharu. Must try
We're at Nasi Ulam Cikgu right in the middle of Kota Bharu and it's very cool
because it's in the Kampung Kraftangan. It's like
craft village and it has a real kampung vibe here. You look around it's
like the old buildings it's beautiful. Nasi
ulam - ulam is the vegetables and we have lots of those. You can grab as much as
you want. They have whole buckets over there. This
is more like a grab and go serve yourself style like a steam table and we
love that style of dining. We got a lot of seafood - ikan keli, the
fried catfish. It's huge actually. Looks really crispy. Got
some different things here. We got the asam pedas fish, we
have cincaru fish, which looks like it's stuffed. We have this thing here, not sure what it
is. It's like a cabbage with tripe and herbs in there. We actually had
this in Terengganu in a place we didn't film. Really good
Here they didn't have any label on it at all, but it looked incredible.
These look like some sort of snail and this really nice looking yellow gravy it
looks like a masak lamak cili api, kind of like what we had at Itik Salai
Masthar in Kajang, Malaysia. Let us know in the comments
what this is, we'd like to know. Guessing that's what it is, but we're not sure.
Ooh looks great. Terima kasih.
The famous Kelantan and Terengganu, this is the Kelantan style very excited
to try it, the fermented anchovy. We added our lime, we have our cili
padi in here. Let's go. Ready to dig in. Actually what I'm going
to do first, I'm going to take some of this ikan keli right here
Big catfish - this thing is huge. It looks so crispy.
Hear that crunch.
Piece right here try it. Oh so good - perfectly fried.
I could easily eat this whole catfish right here wow.
Let's just take some of the fish, dip it in the budu
This is excellent budu right here. This ain't your
southern American style catfish right here. This is a really crispy
This is excellent budu right here. A little salty, but that lime really
cuts through. It just gives such a nice flavor. Throw the ulam as well.
I'm not sure what this one is. Looks interesting, it has purple. Let us know
what all these ulam are, we have no idea.
No idea what this is. Well I have an idea maybe like some sort of snail or sea snail
in this gravy and try it.
Whoa that gravy is incredible. Definitely tastes like masak lemak
cili api. Try this actually now. It's the catfish but it's stewed in
gulai. In this gravy here.
Mmm that coconut milk gravy is so flavorful. There's some laksa leaf in here.
Amazing. It's another must. I think both catfish dishes here
are must orders. Really good. So we got here the cencaru fish. Looks
like it's stuffed with something in here. Not sure what
It's very crispy with the onions in here. Very spicy. Really good though
It's another must
It's fresh mango juice
Got noodles, meat, perut
Being in Kelantan means we're only less than an hour away from the
Thai border, so we definitely want to try a dish that has some Thai influence to
it and this is one of them. It's called mee celup.
So mee is noodles and this comes with yellow noodles. It's in a broth. It's
not a dark brown broth, but at first glance it actually reminds
me of Thai beef noodle soup broths. Smells like it too. And it comes with red
chili flakes in a very Thai style. They have three types of meat here. So
normally this is the special, comes with beef and chicken, but we also asked for perut,
the beef stomach - the tripe. And also what's nice here it comes with this
beautiful half boiled egg. It's very - this yolk is about to burst. That's how soft
it is. And they give you lime. Squeeze some lime
on it. There's also some chopped up greens here, not sure
what it is yet looks like it could be morning glory we'll take a look.
And they even give you the condiment caddy here like a Thai restaurant.
Chili flakes, hot sauce, looks like pickled chilies here. So
might have to go to that in a little bit, depending on the flavor of this. So
gonna take a sip of the broth first.
Very nice broth. It has a little of that five spice flavor. Definitely got some
heat to it from the chili flakes. I love the crunchy greens too. Might be
morning glory but it has almost like a celery taste to it.
No, those are celery leaves. Try a little bit with the beef
tripe the chicken all together
Nice soup. Totally reminds me of a Thai beef noodle soup. I really like it.
Now i'm gonna crack the egg in here - make it extra creamy.
Have it with some noodles.
That celery leaf really gives it such a nice refreshing flavor to cut through some of
the richness of it.
That's got a nice heat level to it and we have this lovely mango smoothie to go
with it
I gotta stop myself, I'm about to just down this whole thing. It's so good, so
refreshing. Some good stuff right here. It's nice to
switch it up a bit. We've been eating a lot of rice, so it's nice to get some noodles in
here and soup. Even though it's like 90
degrees outside and it's really hot. Noodle soup in the heat there's always
something right about it.
We're here about 10 minutes outside of the center of Kota Bharu for a Kelantan
special. Kelantan has their own type of laksa.
It's called laksam. And there's some real key differences to
this laksam. The spot we're at is called By-T
Laksam Special and that's what we ordered. So you get the laksam but you can get it with
the special. We got the special. Have this creamy grayish broth
that's made with coconut milk and fish. Then their noodles are really what makes
it stand out. So they're the flat rice noodles
they're rolled up. I love these type of noodles. And the special also comes with
two quail eggs, serunding, it's like a floss. Not sure if it's fish floss
or beef floss, we'll find out. Some ulam, the fresh vegetable and
sambal. Sip of this broth by itself first
Oh it's so creamy. Very coconutty, nice fish flavor.
Doesn't taste fishy, but you definitely taste the fish.
Now let's try the noodle
Really interesting noodle. Very thick, slightly chewy with a little bit of
softness to it. I love the texture
I'm gonna try it with the ulam
Love the flavor of this ulam. Reminds me a lot of the ulam you get in the nasi
kerabu. Very similar. Mix it all together. The floss has a little spiciness to it.
Still not sure what meat this is, but it's dry, spicy. Adds a totally
different texture and flavor to this laksam. This is
that's pretty mild and creamy. Go with the money bite, get
everything - the floss, the quail egg, the sambal, the ulam,
the rice noodle, the broth.
Really nice. It definitely makes sense for the region being on the coast to
have this type of laksa. Very different. Never had laksa like this
before. Definitely you must try when you're in Kelantan.