Hi I'm Thomas and I'm Sheena and we're Chasing a Plate, today we're in Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia and we're in Kajang and we're going on a satay crawl these
juicy char grilled meat skewers are a favourite in Malaysia and we can't wait
to get stuck in. Let's eat!
First up Willy Satay in Kajang, so we've come to Kajang because it's known as
satay city, the first recorded satay stall was started in 1917 by a Javanese
entrepreneur and now Kajang is just filled with really famous satay vendors so
first off if you don't know what satay is or you've never had it before
it's basically a skewered piece, skewered pieces of meat so the meat has been
marinated and then it's popped on the skewer and then it's cooked usually over
charcoal. It's marinated in this delicious blend of aromatics like turmeric and
lemongrass and the resulting stick of meat is just absolutely
mouth-watering and you can find satay vendors all over Malaysia they're
everywhere, they're recognisable from the huge wafts of
billowy smoke that you see in the air and the delicious smells. So a tonne of you told us
to come to Willy Satay and you said that they were really really good so we
ordered a selection- we've ordered satay ayam which is chicken satay, satay daging which
are beef satay and satay kambing which is mutton satay and
we've got these beautiful pots of delicious looking peanut sauce. Now they're called Kajang
satay I heard because the chunks of meat are generally bigger or chunkier
and also the peanut sauce generally involves a dollop of spicy chilli sambal
as well so I'm super excited to get into that. I'm just going to dive it I'm going to try
satay ayam or chicken satay. Swirl it about in this peanut sauce, it looks heavenly, the meat is so crispy and
charred and almost looks quite sticky you can see like the bits of lemongrass and the herbs on
there. The chunks of meat are definitely bigger than the other satay we've had in KL
the meat is super tender and there's a really beautiful bit of chicken skin on there
as well that's just sort of burst in my mouth with flavour that peanut sauce is
amazing so the peanut itself is quite sweet
but then you've got a little bit of a fiery kick from the sambal we're not
gonna have any trouble polishing off this plate. I'm gonna try the kambing
or the mutton satay, it looks incredible so I'm not gonna blab on I'm gonna eat
get it in that satay sauce that sambal on top it just gives it so much
life, the way it looks
that is so tender it's not as fatty as I thought, I thought it would have big
bits of fat to cook up on the grill but it's actually just really lean meat covered
in the lemongrass that's really strong in the flavour this is incredible
this is such good satay like such a good tip by everyone to tell us to come
here because that is wildly good. The sauce is amazing the sambal
gives it a really good little spice and then the peanut is all really sweet and
got a little bit of texture
like Sheena said we're gonna have no problem finishing this plate of satay
I've gotta try this beef satay next. What has really enchanted me is that it's
got a huge piece of fat between those two bits of meat and what I'm loving
about the satay here at Willy Satay is that the meat has a lot of texture so
you know you feel like you're eating me it's not just a piece of
mush, there's just a real sort of like, you gotta chew, there's real flavour coming out of that
I'm gonna dunk it in that sauce
which incidentally is amazing we can't get enough of it
and just go for that piece, I think I'm gonna go for the fat and the meat all in one
that fat looks hard on the skewer but it's so soft
and it just dissolves in your mouth that's one good satay
and what's really cool about Willy Satay, is the environment. So we're situated right next to this massive highway,
there's cars roaring past, it's hot, there's smoke everywhere, it's awesome
Haji Samuri, arguably the most well known spot for satay and
a tonne of you told us to come here too- lets go and see what all the fuss is about
Haji Samuri offer different types of satay than the usual so we have
ordered satay ayam which is chicken satay, satay perut which is tripe, satay ikan
which is fish and satay hati which is chickens liver what we've also
got is this huge pot of peanut sauce and rather than having the sambal in the
sauce already we've got a separate pot of sambal to add to create our own sort
of flavour this looks more like a chilli oil to me but what I'm gonna do is just
grab a ladle of this peanut sauce which is super thick and then add a tonne of this sambal in, should be nice and
spicy I'm gonna give the fish satay a go. It looks very delicate just on the face
of it these satay don't look as luscious as the ones that we had at
Willy Satay they look a little bit stock standard there doesn't look to be as
much marinade on it and then don't as appealing so they're not as shiny and
crisp and gleaming but we'll try it, I'm going to give that a bit of a whirl
that's nice, the fish is really really delicate and it's um really soft
a really light flavour, like the marinade doesn't overwhelm the fish but it is a
little cold so it doesn't add to the flavour so much but still tasty
I'm gonna grab this tripe one and give it a go so it's beef stomach I believe
lets get it straight in the sauce and sambal mix
hmm really good flavour, really soft
once again cold I don't think they're making these to order I don't know I
can't see the kitchen but I reckon they're batch making them because this
place is humongous it's like it's huge
we can't even see most of the restaurant and it's still massive it's right by the new
MRT like 20 meters that way so I think it's got a very popular and I have no
idea but I feel they're probably making these in big batches and then just
sending them out as necessary it's beautiful it's really tasty but that
coldness is is not ideal for me hot would be much better. Time for the liver
next so there was also rabbit and venison on Haji Samuri's menu and we
tried to order those but they'd actually run out so satay what's it called? Hati
or liver is the next best thing
it's quite crunchy I was expecting a really soft piece of liver,
slightly caramelised like you know really creamy but that's not the case here and
this one is cold as well so it's not really adding to the whole experience
I've feel like with Willy Satay's satay, the marinade was so flavoursome
you didn't even need the peanut sauce to dip into because
it was so good on its own whereas these satay and feel like you
really do need the sauce to give it a bit of flavour oomph, it's okay not my favourite. The last one of the
selection chicken or ayam so this has got to be the benchmark satay
everywhere does chicken it's the most common one you'll see it's got smallish
bits of chicken and the bit of fat in the middle again
it's echoing everything Sheena just said the actual satay itself so without that
sauce is pretty plain, cold again so the fats not that beautiful like
squishiness from just coming off the grill
the sauce is incredible it's got a beautiful spice because of adding that
sambal which like Sheena said is definitely like a chilli oil
it's so thick and the sauce itself has got spice in it so it is amazing the satay
sauce the skewers they're not totally doing it for me
still tasty but not mind-blowing.
Stop number three and we've had to have a bit
of a change of plans we got our timing a bit wrong so the place that we were going
to go to in Kajang, Medan Satay Kajang was closed so we've come to a place where
most visitors to KL will come to Jalan Alor the Disneyland of food
streets but if we're eating on Jalan Alor we will only ever eat at Wong Ah Wah which
is right at the end of Jalan Alor- it's mostly locals and they have the
best chicken wings and really good satay so here we go. We got a plate of chicken
and beef to try and we thought actually it's probably a pretty good idea we can
compare these ones that are very accessible to visitors and the ones out where
we've been this morning they look very different to the satay from Kajang so
that the meat is a lot smaller, much smaller
and the peanut sauce doesn't have that dollop of sambal that we found in the
satay Kajang eateries and it's a tiny bowl of sauce and the fat I've got the beef one
here the fat is attached to the beef it's not a separate piece . I'm gonna
dive in and give this a stab the sauce is not as thick as the ones that we've had
I'm going to go for the chicken
it is very nice though. It's a bit tougher than what we've been having especially
the Willy's one. The Willy's one was so tender this is quite chewy but the
flavour is pretty immense but I feel a lot of fllavour is coming from the sauce
it's quite spicy and it is very nice. The chicken is very well marinated and super tender
and it has that crispiness again like that beautiful charred grilled like sticky
crunchy bits that I absolutely love and as Thomas said the flavour in that
peanut sauce is amazing really good so it might not have the sambal dolloped in
there but it definitely has a bit of spice. This is a pretty cool thing to do
actually I think it's worked quite well doing this comparison because even for
for myself it's quite cool tasting the one in the tourist area versus Kajang I
quite like the comparison but without a doubt Willy's is the winner today. Same.
But followed by this definitely but Willy's has blown everything else out of the
water that place is incredible if you're visiting KL it is a car ride or you
can get the MRT close by and then get a car but it's, it's not easy access but
it's not hard definitely definitely head there and try
it out awesome place. I loved it too- great meat, great marinade, great like style of
charcoaling, chargrilling I should say. Charcoaling hahaha. And the meat was
just full of flavour like but it was fantastic. Haji Samuri the peanut sauce
was really good I really enjoyed it and the huge bowl of satay sauce, yea they were very generous but
the satay were a bit of a letdown. If you enjoyed this video we
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