Wow Really intense chicken aroma here.
In this episode, we are going to showcase one of Malaysia's
medan selera, or hawker food center. The diversity in
Malaysia all here in one stadium food court here in Ipoh. Medan Selera
Stadium, just outside the city center where there's as
many as 70 stalls that caters to non-Halal
and Halal eaters. Let us know in the comments below if there's
any other hawker food center like this in Malaysia.
For now, sit back, relax, grab some snack too.
You might get hungry.
We're at Min Cheei Wantan Mee here in
Medan Selera Stadium at Perak Stadium here. What's awesome is that
there's different shifts. You can come here during the day
like now and they have certain stalls that are open, but you come at night you
have different stalls open. That's the beauty of this. There's like 70 stalls
here. I'm really excited to try this one this
one's got the uncle making the we got the fresh wonton fresh noodle
peeling the shrimp over there. Let's give this one a go it looks
delicious. It's good noodles here it doesn't have that like funky taste
that some wantan noodle may have. It's really good. We have the char siu
here. I'm gonna add some of these chilies though.
You gotta add those pickled chilies. What's
nice too is that the sauce is not too salty
I really am curious about these wontons. Really like petite small looking
ones
Slight sesame oil flavor in the broth, it's nice very nice like
simple good kind of noodle breakfast to start us off here
Chicken. Fish. Dhal
So excited for this! We love banana leaf rice. We're here at Sri Asoka Corner
and you show up here everything just happens fast. They put down the banana
leaves, they scoop up these greens, they scoop up I'm not sure if it looks like
potato. They give you rice, your pappadum
and they give us the whole thing of curries on the side
self-serve we love that. So excited it smells amazing here
This banana leaf rice is ready to go. I just banjir'ed the rice probably too much but
why not? On the side we ordered some black pepper chicken
and some mutton curry. A big bite of this banjir'ed rice. It looks so good
Great flavor in this curry. Creamy Curry's got nice spice to it a little
kick. Grab piece of this black pepper chicken
The woman here very nice she highly recommended black pepper chicken
so I'm gonna give it a shot. Oh that's good flavor here. Let's try this
mutton curry. Always have to order mutton any banana
leaf rice place we go.
Got a nice cinnamon flavor
Definitely taste the mutton here though - mutton lovers only!
Up next we're having nasi dagang for this breakfast edition here and we just got
back from east coast so which means we're kind of craving a
little bit of east coast food. So here we are at
stall number 59 Sudut Selera and look at that oh I like this plate
The beauty here of this food court you can get
Malay food like this, you can get Indian food, you can get
Chinese, Nyonya, you name it. It's the diversity of Malaysia all here in one stadium
food court here in Ipoh. It's beautiful. The rice looks good
it's like a mix there's some reddish brown grains.
Very coconutty flavor, there's a little lemongrass in here too.
Very fragrant rice. Already happy with that.
Now gotta add the fish
Let's take a bite. Mmm. This is good. A lot of flavor in this fish. I like that
it's on the spicier side. The nasi dagang we had in Terengganu was
more on the sweet side, this is more on the spicier side.
Kind of like a more of a curry flavor other spices in here.
Really good
Nice bite here. Everything. Rice, achar, fish.
I love how the achar adds like that pickle flavor. It's crunchy
it has a whole different texture and cuts through the richness of it. Really nice
My first bite yes it is definitely on the spicy side
Okay? It's really good very good. This place is huge! You may need to have
like a week here just to eat in this stadium because there's 70 stalls here.
Seven zero. We're gonna come back here for dinner.
We're back here at Medan Selera Stadium. Another feast. This time it's for
dinner time. Of course, clearly. This one is from
Yoon Kee. So let me hand you over to Greg to know more
details about the food.
Of course when in Ipoh, gotta eat as much ayam tauge as possible because the tauge is just
spectacular. Now I'm going to try this one here.
I'm really excited for it's a big plate of chicken here. You got a
nice plate of tauge and this is a portion for two. And instead of noodles we
actually got the rice this time we'll switch it up.
And it also comes with this cup of broth. It's a really
cloudy tan broth. Wow really intense chicken aroma here, as opposed to
some of the other ones that have more of the prawn aroma.
And you got two sauces here. We have the chili sauce and we have looks like a soy
sauce with cili padi chopped up. First i'm gonna go with the chicken.
Looks nice. Plump.
Juicy chicken this one. I like that this sauce has much more of a
sesame oil flavor to it as opposed to some of the others that we had a little
higher on the soy sauce. And of course I love the cilantro. I'm
excited to have cilantro here. So there's a lot going on in this plate
a little more than some of the other shops that we've tried here in Ipoh,
which is nice. It's a nice change of pace. Let's try the tauge.
You can't go wrong with the tauge here in Ipoh. I think just - I love that they put it
in so many things. We even got some dry curry mee from here earlier
and we demolished it. It's our little snack and they have some tauge in
there too, because why not? Tauge's so good, you gotta add more tauge.
That rice.
Oh that's good rice! It's that really gingery
chicken fat kind of rice oh I love it.
Up next in this food tour stadium style. We also have otak-otak. It's from Jason's Food and Drinks Corner
Jason's homemade otak-otak actually
So as I was strolling around here in the hawker center, I was looking for the next
bite and saw a few stalls but one thing
really caught my eye was this homemade otak-otak
from a stall that just has a very generic name, Jason's Food and Drinks.
Seems like the specialty here is drinks and ice kacang,
but this otak-otak really caught my eye. So banana leaf here
and then there's a layer of fish meat underneath and on top is the puree fish
mousse you can call it. Smells absolutely incredible. We're huge fans of otak-otak
very curious about this one. Let's take a
bite. Wow there's so much flavor in here.
It really tastes - it's coconutty it's very tender it's got
lemongrass definitely taste some lime leaves in here as well.
So I love the contrast and textures of that soft
mousse layer on top and you have that more substantial
and chunkier fish meat underneath it. So good
It's just amazing. It's so beautiful inside your mouth. We've had otak-otak
a few times. This is the style that we really enjoy, this kind of flavor.
It's really good, definitely a sleeper here
at this food court. Check it out
So excited for this fish head curry. So again strolling through the food court
did not notice this place existed till we saw it.
The sign says nasi ayam. There might have been a previous stall, but just look at
the sign at the actual stall itself you can see curry fish head. It says "Asam
Kari Fish Head." So this one looks so rich and
thick curry. It looks phenomenal. Oh that that's the kind of aroma I love
in a fish head curry. This is the really rich curry aroma. You have the
tofu puffs, they're going to soak it all up.
You have eggplant, ladyfingers, long beans in here.
I can't even talk about it any more. Take a sip of the broth first.
Whoa that's thick, that's rich, that's spicy.
Glad I got some rice to go with it but man I really - I could just drink
this curry right out of the bowl like I said a few times in other dishes I can
just drink it out of a bucket that's how good
this is. I haven't even touched the fish head yet.
There it is. I'm using the big spoon. I haven't even gone and taken the little spoon on
the side. That's how excited I am for this. I'm
just using the big spoon. That's the beauty of a fish head that it's usually the
most tender meat of the fish
Fish meat's got a very clean taste. According to the menu they use grouper,
which is nice since it's not doesn't have any strong overwhelming flavors. It lets
that curry shine. So you mix that fish with the curry and
it's excellent. This tofu puff's been soaking in here for quite a while.
It's gonna taste great - let's try it out.
It's nice we actually got a smaller size here instead of the larger because we've
eaten a lot already. This curry fish head's a flavor explosion. I
love it. So glad we stopped and got this. Wow