Hi I'm Thomas and I'm Sheena and we're Chasing a Plate, today we're in Malacca
Malaysia and it's time for a Malaysian breakfast, we've come to a real local
spot to try charcoal cooked roti canai and also it wouldn't be a Malaysian breakfast
without nasi lemak, we're starving, let's eat!
We've ordered a spread we've got rroti canai, we've got a nasi lemak with chickens rendang and
we have a nacho roti which is pretty out there so the amazing thing about
this place which, I can't remember the name of the restaurant so as always
details down below it's got quite a long name, that's why I can't remember it,
Roti Canai Kayu Arang, that's wrong again but details down below in the description
box we always lists the places we're eating at and don't forget to subscribe
while you're down there. Now we ordered the roti canai because it's cooked
over charcoal like Sheena said earlier well all the roti here is cooked over
charcoal which is super unusual normally it's cooked on a gas hotplate but here
the giant hotplate is over red-hot charcoal which hopefully
will give it a slightly different taste it's definitely very crispy but I'm gonna
try that second, first I'm gonna try this roti
nacho so what it is is roti or bread with I can see red cabbage, green, yellow
and red peppers I can see chicken mince which has been cooked in some sort of
spice, I can see at least two types of cheese, seriously crazy and not what I
expected to find at a restaurant like this because we've come quite a way out
of Malacca City to a little kampung or village so this is quite an out-of-the-way
restaurant but not hard to get to so it's definitely worth a visit but let's
try this Mexican nacho roti
it's got mayonnaise too so the mayonnaise is giving it a real twang then
you've got the peppers, the mince is cooked in like a very Mexican tasting
spice mix, and the bread because it's sort of crispy it's kind of like nacho chips
or corn chips when they've gone a little soggy but they still have a little bit
of a crunch. I'm gonna try some more because this is one of those dishes that you can't
help but giggle when you eat cos it's just a bit, a bit crazy
It's really good, like really really good, I wasn't expecting it to be that great
to be honest but it's amazing I can't for yout to try that one Sheena.
let's try this this roti canai though because I'm
really interested in tasting the flavour of it when it's in its basic
form like this so that roti is still cooked over charcoal but because of all
the added ingredients with the Mexican one it just tastes like normal roti
so let's rip some of this plain roti off what makes it roti canai is it
comes with some dal or some curry in this case just a dal with some sambal
but I'm gonna try the bread by itself just to see if it's got a flavour, oh that is such good roti,
it doesn't really have any charcoal-y or barbecu-esque flavours it's just a
beautifully cooked roti and I imagine cos of the perfect heat they'd get from the
charcoals it must be able to just cook them really well in and controlled. Let's
try it with the dal and a little bit of sambal
that dal is full of flavour, really punchy, the sambal has a tiny spice and that
dal is not watery sometimes I find dal can be much too watery that's
really creamy, this is really good both of those are
amazing that's a great roti canai it's so simple
so tasty and they are just going to make me laugh every time I eat this nacho
roti hahaha. It wouldn't be breakfast without a nasi lemak we are absolutely
addicted to this dis. This one comes with the coconut rice so rice cooked in coconut milk and pandan leaves
there's a dollop of really dark red sambal or chilli on the side, there's some
roasted peanuts and some ikan bilis which are the fried anchovies, there's slices of
cucumber, there's also some kankung or water spinach or Morning Glory that looks like
it's just been maybe just boiled and then cooked in like a really
light gravy and then there's a fried egg on top and I also added some chicken
rendang which looks really good too because the sauce is sort of gonna meld
in with sambal and then give that rice a bit of a kick I'm just gonna
get into this, the rice looks really fluffy and soft I'm just gonna go for
sambal, rice and some peanuts maybe a little bit of egg and see what that
tastes like
it is such a satisfying dish! I know a lot of people can't get used
to eating rice in the morning but trust me once you jump on that bandwagon you
will never want to get off it is so filling, so satisfying and this one is
really good. I've got to get into this roti, now with
all this filming that we do often we get to eat a lot of cold food so I'm
looking forward to seeing how this roti stacks up against the passing of
time because it's been a while but like just from picking it up it's still
really crispy I'm just gonna dunk it in that dal
dal all over my face oh my god that is really really good a lot of the
time if you leave roti for ages it gets really dry and hard to eat, not so
with this one, it's still really crispy, soft and it may be like a little bit cold
because we've left it sitting there for so long but it is no less tasty and that
dal like Thomas said has got a lot of flavour. I'm a huge fan!
we were just speaking to the Aunty here at the restaurant and she said we had to
try the roti tampal which is an egg roti but the more famous well not more
famous but well known egg roti is the roti telur where the eggs are inside
the roti, this one, the basically fried eggs are on top of
the roti so they're on the outside and when you wiggle the plate you can see
that the eggs are just cooked so the yolks are all wobbling about as I wiggle
the plate around, this looks so awesome I can't wait to rip into it because those
yolks are just gonna explode I reckon I'm gonna stop talking cos this
is gonna be some epic slow-mo so let's film some slo-moes of ripping into this
thing
how good did that look? Those two yolks just exploded like a volcano so
awesome so a lot of subscribers have told us to try this dish so it's pretty
exciting to finally get to try it and we really love it when we get food advice
from all our subscribers it helps us so much in our food hunting
because people like us are giving us tips and we hunt food we go places for
food, we travel for food and getting advice from other people that go
through life like we do, hunting food it's invaluable to us so thank you for all
the tips to all the subscribers, it's very very helpful and this looks like one
heck of a tip
oh
perfectly cooked egg with that incredible roti underneath, which is I think
the best roti I've ever had in Malaysia it is texturally just incredible
that's such a good combination it's really simple there's no spice, no
peppers there's no anything it's just roti and egg such good flavours they go so well
together and it's I mean roti is just bread so it's like egg on toast
but the roti's got that beautiful texture that bit of crunch
so it's like egg on toast to a whole other level
that's really really tasty. I can't wait to try it it's like this beautiful
yolky eggy mess, I'm gonna dunk this into the sambal and dal mixture and give that
a go
that is heavenly
Wow Wow Wow, if you are in Malacca you have to come here for
breakfast that was like the most epic breakfast ever, it was, like mind-blowing
it's amazing how something ohhh back it up we're about to get run over
it's amazing how something that you can have every day here in Malaysia has such
a variance and that was just next-level roti particularly having it in the
canai version so the basic just roti by itself that really showed the quality
of that, totally worth the trip it's not far out of Melaka town we just got a
Grab car here and it was pretty inexpensive, do it, directions down below
or restaurant name and so you can find this place too
if you're staying here, travel here ,eat here, incredible loved it and if you have
any suggestions as to different types of roti that we should be trying let us
know in the comments below we hope we inspired you to eat and
explore like a traveller not a tourist thank you so much for
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