Hi I'm Thomas and I'm Sheena and we're Chasing a Plate. Today it's an exciting
day we're in Selangor in Shah Alam and we're meeting up with some of our
subscribers and they brought us to this amazing little eatery to try some
traditional Kelantanese dishes. We can't wait, let's eat!
We're about to tuck into this incredible looking breakfast we've ordered
laksam which is a traditional noodle dish that's eaten in Kelantan
we've also got nasi dagang which is one of our favourite dishes ever, more
about the food later, but we're here with some of our subscribers who
contacted us and said that they knew that we hadn't been able to try laksam
when we were in Kelantan last and so they wanted to bring us here we are so
excited to be eating breakfast with everyone,
back to the food, so laksam is this noodle dish but the noodles are like these thick
rice noodle rolls and Aunty has just cut the noodle rolls into bite-sized pieces
and they're sitting like little, almost like cinnamon scrolls in the bowl and then this beautiful thick,
creamy fish gravy which is made from sardine has been poured over the top and
then we've got a little bit of sambal, some vegetables, some cucumber, some herbs, so there's torch ginger in there
and also daun kesom. Daun kesom? Girls what's daun kesom?
Daun kesom is something to make some food delicious hahahaha
that was the best explanation, basically just really tasty stuff is in here so I'm gonna get
in because it looks absolutely delicious and the rice noodle rolls, they are slippery and
wobbly, mmm mmm mmm oh my gosh that is just so good the broth is super creamy, it's got a
really strong fish flavour, an oily fish flavour
and then the vegetables are really crisp, really crunchy, I got a bit of cucumber
it just cuts through the heaviness or the intensity of the flavours
that broth though, I just want to grab
this extra broth that we've got here and just slurp it right up it is so good.
I have to try this laksam, anyone who has been watching our videos will know that
we went on a huge laksam hunt up in Kelantan over Hari Raya but because it
was the holiday everything was shut all the fishermen were having a break all
the shops were shut so we couldn't find it in a restaurant, we couldn't find the
fish so we could make it ourselves so it was a real hunt but ultimately a
failure so so good to finally be able to try this dish if you haven't seen our
videos from up in Kelantan we'll link them up there because we had such a fun
time we're looking forward to heading back up to the those states and
Terengganu is really high on our list in fact everywhere is high on our list so
don't forget to hit subscribe so you can follow our journey through Malaysia
oh this looks good the smell is incredible the broth is very thick, much
thicker than I was expecting and the herbs the way it's all been mixed up so
the herbs and the the chilli and the cucumber is all coated on everything
I've just got one big noodle and some broth or some sauce
hmm there's sardines in there and they're so strong but not I think sardines get a
bad name because people especially Westerners we know sardines as tinned
sardines so in oil and just so strong, so strong in flavour which I love but I can
understand why some people don't, this is fresh sardine so it's much more
subtle it's a very oily little fish and you can taste that in there but it's
subtle it's got just beautiful fishy flavours, ocean flavours, the herbs, the
chilies not too hot but it's got a nice nice little kick it's sort of just coated
the top of my mouth so it's not burning it's not killing me, so I'm not
sweating because of it but it's added a great little kick, there's crunch from the
cucumber and then that array of other herbs is just, the flavours from those
is one of the strongest flavours actually the fish flavour's sinking away and now
the herb flavour is just strong. I'm gonna try just a bit of the, bit of
the broth- wow, wow, that is so good Sheena and I are gonna be fighting over
this although the nasi dagang which is one of our favourite dishes of all time
is sitting right in front of Sheena and I can see her shaking with desperation
to get into it. Hahaha I totally am!
nasi dagang is from the East coast
states of Peninsular Malaysia and it is a really popular dish there and I can
absolutely see why this dish is a marriage of flavours you have
the rice which is made up of both normal rice and sticky rice and then you've got
some coconut here this is fresh coconut and it looks quite powdery I've never
seen the coconut look like this before but they've pounded it after
it's been grated and then you've got this beautiful fish it's called tongkol
which is the local tuna and when you break it away it just flakes off in
chunks, and it's really meaty and then we've got these beautiful fresh
cucumbers and onion and chilli which has been pickled that I think will add a
real beautiful sweet vinegary kick I'm just gonna get in because this looks
absolutely mouth-watering, I'm gonna grab a bit of everything, the fish is just so
meaty, oh wow
it's heavenly it is just the perfect combination of ingredients and flavours
you've got the sourness or vinegariness from the pickled vege, the
meatiness of the tuna which has got a beautiful creamy coconut sauce,
the coconut or toasted or fresh urgh
toasted, grated, fresh coconut Thomas? Is that right? Yea and then toasted.
Toasted and pounded fresh coconut adds such a beautiful sweetness
and then that rice has got such a great texture like the stickiness of the
pulut or sticky rice and then the fresh rice which sort of has this
really chewy kick. This is just the best breakfast ever!
don't forget always down below in the description details on where we're
eating because this place is totally worth the visit so check in the
description if you want to know exact details on where we're eating, we're now
going to enjoy our teh tarik, enjoy this food because it's really really good and
it's getting way too cold, I'm loving this are you guys enjoying your breakfast? Yea!!
I think it's got a thumbs up from everyone so let's eat Sheena
we're just having a good chat to Aunty, who's
been here for how many years?
Your stall- twenty years! Twenty years and she's selling these amazing dishes so the laksam
the nasi dagang, nasi lemak, is that all? Nasi berlauk, nasi
kerabu there is so much amazing food you have to come and eat here we'll put
directions to her eatery down below in the description
Woah that breakfast was good. So good and now we're going to find more food we
love it, whenever we're with locals and subscribers on these food hunting
missions it always turns into more food so today has been filled with selfies and
food hunting.
We jumped in the car and drove about thirty meters to this nasi
campur or mixed rice restaurant, we've totally beaten the lunch rush we're the
first people here and thank God for that because there is so much amazing looking
food there is all sorts, we've got curry fish head, there's catfish cooked in some sort of
spicy looking sauce, there i bawal fish so whole panfried fish
there's kambing or mutton/lamb curry, there's vegetables, there's just so much to get in and try
some of our group has had to head off but the eating continues, now we didn't want to
be too greedy because we're pretty stuffed from breakfast but we just had
to try these two dishes we have got kambing masak korma which is a mutton curry
of sorts and then pajeri nanas which is a pineapple curry and it
was actually cooked with brinjal or eggplant the sauces look so rich and
honestly I can smell the lamb from here the beautiful spices are just wafting
up into my nostrils and I have got to get in, the kambing or the mutton is on
the bone and I love meat on the bone I reckon it just has so much more flavour
than just a huge hunk of meat and you can see you've got the the bone marrow
so you can see that little bit of marrow that we can suck out there I'm just
gonna, actually I'm gonna get in and try that bit there, mmm mmm mmm that piece of meat just
fell off the bone there's a little bit of tendon there I'm gonna give
that bone marrow in there a big ole suck wow that just shot out of the
bone, it was so creamy, this pineapple wow,
we've never had pineapple curry before but we did try it in a recent video when we had
nasi kukus, we'll link the video up there so I'm really desperate to give
this a go, it looks absolutely scrumptious
mmm beautiful coconut spicy sauce and that nanas or pineapple is
so intensely sweet that is beautiful. So good but we're gonna dive in, not spend
been too long talking about this one because there's been a lot of chatting and
we just want to get on with eating there is gonna be another stop after
this.
last stop of the day we think, this tour just keeps going and going I think
we're gonna try and get some dessert here because we've had a lot of amazing
savoury stuff so a little bit of sweet would be good remember details as always
down in the description so you too can find these places it's time to hit the
desserts and boy have we got a selection to choose from we're at the bubur
station, bubur is porridge but these are sweet porridge so we've got a pulut
hitam bubur which is a black sticky rice porridge, we've got some mung bean
porridge and we've got corn porridge and I think that there's a lot of
coconut milk in some of these so I'm excited to try them we've never had
Malay bubur before so it's time to get in
it's dessert time I'm really ready for some sweets and this one I've seen this
around before but I was never actually sure what it is, it's called ubi kayu
and it's tapioca so it's a root vegetable this is the actual vegetable
that is covered in sugar and coconut and it's very beautiful it looks like snow and
ice so kind of looking at it it looks like it's gonna be cold but it's not
because it's just the coconut and sugar it's got this nice
snow look to it the the tapioca root is I've just broken up some of it, it's kind
of potato in texture, like a boiled potato, let's just eat it
hmm wow the texture is totally like potato
there's a little bit of crunch from the sugar the coconut's not too strong it's
kind of floral sort of banana-ry sweet, there's a little bit of saltiness I think there
might be some salt in here that's really really nice. I'm the designated
porridge taster I'm gonna start with the corn bubur, it looks real good, mmm oh
the flavour of that coconut milk is so sweet and creamy the corn has real bit
and then there's this tiny little sago in there, that sort of pop in your
mouth, that's beautiful, I'm going to give this mung bean one a go
mmm very earthy, sweet from coconut milk again, that's a lot heavier I think
because of the bean, I'm moving to the bubur pulut
hitam so black sticky rice and look at that the colour of it is absolutely
beautiful it's almost glistening
anything with rice I'm a huge fan of and that is just incredible. The rice flavour
is very intense and then that creamy coconut milk I can see why everyone
raves about bubur we're definitely going to be eating more of these in the
future.
and that is another food hunting day done and dusted absolutely love
these days where you just go out and all you do is hunt down amazing food, do you
guys do this? Do you go out like we do and just hunt for food and spend your
weekends eating we'd love to know if you do and where you love doing it
awesome. These are my favourite types of days, traveling, meeting
locals, eating with them, having great conversations, there's just nothing like it
thank you so much to our new friends who took us around all their favourite spots
we absolutely loved it, thank you, terima kasih! We hope we inspired you to eat and
explorer like a traveller, not a tourist, if you enjoyed this video please
give it a thumbs up ,thank you so much for watching and we'll see you next time
jumpa lagi!