- My lamb is very famous in the town. - Is it?
Yeah.
What's up and welcome to another episode of Chopstick Travel.
Today is day 2 here in Kuala Lumpur.
If you didn't check out yesterday's episode, we just got to KL, and we had an awesome day of eating especially
some roast fish, ikan bakar.
That is definitely some fresh fish, and it's can taste that super super smoky.
I like that sauce. It's a little bit sour and a little bit spicy too.
Let me go in for another bite here.
Peel back a little bit more skin, and I think if I get some of this stuff down here, there probably is less bones.
Mm.
And we finished off the day with an incredible satay feast.
When you cook it low and slow over those charcoals, it just tenderizes that meat so incredibly well.
It just infuses it with the flavor of that charcoal.
This is instantly the best satay I've ever had.
So today we have a whole day of eating planned once again.
We are heading to one of our favorite restaurants that's downtown here in KL
and this is pretty much one of the only authentic Malaysian restaurants that is easy walking distance
from some of the main hotels where we usually stay in KLCC.
So let's head there now to R.A. Nasi Lemak.
So here we have our breakfast, and this is the nasi lemak.
So basically, the main component of nasi lemak is the rice.
But this isn't any rice, this is rice that has been cooked with coconut milk, and also pandan leaves
so it's very fragrant rice.
I have a piece of beef rendang which has been called the best food in the entire world.
It is one of my all-time favorites.
A big dollop of chili sauce, sambal sauce, with looks like some onions in there.
I've got some cucumbers over here just, raw cucumbers, and then some roasted peanuts.
This is a very typical plate of nasi lemak.
One thing that they didn't have that I usually get is the ikan bilis, which is little fried anchovies.
But that's okay, this still looks really good, so let's dig in.
So let me get my first bite here. Get a piece of rendang.
Oh, that's a pretty big piece. Rip that in half.
Small piece of rendang,some peanuts in there, a little bit of sambal, and lots of that--
I'll just get a cucumber so I get everything, and lots of that rice.
That is full of flavor.
That sambal is quite spicy actually, wow.
That rendang is just soaking in that curry, it is very very flavorful.
It's kind of tough but also tender at the same time.
It's almost like halfway between a really tender piece of steak and some beef jerky.
And it's got sort of like a nutty coconut aroma to it.
And then I love the crunchiness of those cucumbers, and then the peanuts.
And then that sambal, it's very very spicy.
We've also odered up the teh tarik, my all-time favorite drink here in Malaysia. Let's try this.
Oh.
They didn't serve it too hot, and that is my favorite, because when you're eating super
spicy sambal, and then you drink a really hot teh tarik
it doesn't quench that spiciness. But that is good.
That is very very delicious. Let's go for one more bite of this rendang.
That was definitely the highlight of a meal for me here.
So that dish nasi lemak is the national dish of Malaysia.
So if you are coming here for the first time, and you want to eat some breakfast that is the dish to have.
So that particular restaurant, R.A. Nasi Lemak, is very easy to order. You just order your plate of rice first
and then you go to the self-service counter, and then you just kind of pile on whatever ingredients you want.
So it's really easy for someone who might be here for the first time to order and get your food.
All right. We just took a quick taxi ride to somewhere we've actually never been before.
This is called the Kuala Lumpur Butterfly Park.
So we're gonna go inside and hopefully see some butterflies.
This place is so cool, like I'm already blown away. This is way better than I expected.
So it's just enclosed with a big net, and there's gotta be thousands of different butterflies.
All different species, they're all flying around you and they're also like, domesticated I guess?
Or just bred here. So they're kind of used to people being around.
They don't fly away. You can get up close take a good picture, and this is just really beautiful.
So this park actually is a lot cooler than we thought it was going to be.
We thought it was gonna be a little bit difficult to see some of these butterflies.
They might be hiding in the bushes, but they are everywhere.
Really cool. We definitely recommend coming to check this out.
There are all kinds of other different types of critters around here too.
This place isn't that big, but it's definitely worth the visit.
It was only 24 ringgit per person to come in here.
I think we're done now, we're gonna head out and go get some lunch.
- This guy! This is a giraffe, actually. - It's a giraffe turtle.
[Sabrina] Holy moly, he's interested in us. [Luke] Yeah.
[Sabrina] Hey bud. How you doing? [Luke] He's creepy, man.
[Sabrina] He is very curious, isn't he. [Luke] Look at his face.
[Luke] He looks like a dinosaur. [Sabrina] He's cute.
[Sabrina] He is really excited about the camera. (Laughs) He wants to be on camera.
[Sabrina] What happened?
[Luke] Well, if you can't tell, there's a butterfly on my chin. [Sabrina] (Laughs)
[Sabrina] Oh, there he goes. (Laughs)
For lunch today, we are at a restaurant that is popular for selling clay pot chicken rice.
We have ordered ours up. We are waiting outside though, because this place is packed.
And the way that they're cooking it is really unique.
They've got the clay pots directly on charcoal
but then something I've never seen a clay pot rice place do before, is actually put the charcoals directly on top of
the pot so they're kind of completely
smothering it in those charcoals to cook it wholly. And there is just sparks flying everywhere
outside of this restaurant. Really cool atmosphere.
We're gonna go inside here in a little bit, and eat our clay pot chicken.
We are sitting down in the restaurant and our clay bought chicken rice has arrived.
The way that this place works is you stand outside if there's a line and place your order first.
They'll call your number and then you can come inside and order up.
They didn't have a whole lot of options on the menu, we just got the most
original type clay pot chicken rice, and it has arrived.
It looks absolutely incredible. It's a very simple dish you can see it's served
right in this clay pot. Huge clay pot. We ordered the medium size.
On top here we've got a little bowl of I think that's like a
salted fish, with a little bit of oil.
I'm actually just gonna take that out for now so we can see what's underneath here.
So you can see there is pieces of Chinese sausage there.
Huge chunks of chicken. I did not expect the chicken to be so large.
And then it's all sitting on a bed of rice.
And I'm just gonna mix this up a little bit so that it doesn't burn to the sides of the bowl
because if you leave it too long, it will start to burn.
And there's tons of chives in there as well. It smells super smoky, super fragrant.
I love that there's Chinese sausage in there as well, and you can see that the rice has
turned a dark color from all the soy that he's added.
And man, I just can't get over the size of those pieces of chicken.
Look! That's an entire chicken wing right in there. That is crazy.
So I can feel that rice starting to stick to the sides, and you can see
like right here, it's kind of getting burnt a little bit from sticking to the sides.
So let me mix this up, and then we'll dig in. My mouth is absolutely watering.
Okay, so I mixed up the rice this looks so good. It is time to get a bite. So I'm just gonna go in here
and try to get a piece of chicken.
Actually let's just try the rice by itself first.
And see how that tastes.
Oh it's steaming hot.
Oh yeah, oh.
That is not overcooked at all.
There's a light saltiness from that soy, but it's super super hot, and really smoky too.
Okay, let's go in for a piece of chicken. I'm gonna get some of that burnt rice off the side. Get a piece of chicken.
Put that on my plate over here so I can pick off the chicken.
Oh man, that is a meaty piece of chicken. Okay, let's try that.
Oh, man.
A lot of times when you get big pieces of chicken in a clay pot chicken rice like this
you'll find that the chicken gets really dried out from all that charcoal heat.
Not at this place. That is seriously juicy.
I can taste a little bit of Shaoxing wine, a Chinese white wine, in there.
Nice little chive flavor, and man, I love that burnt rice. I'm gonna go in
for another bite here. Get some that Chinese sausage to try that out.
Oh, man.
This is really good.
This has gonna be the best clay pot chicken rice I think we've ever had.
And also on the table we've ordered up some stir-fried veggies, just with some garlic.
Pretty basic, but it goes along really nicely.
And also on the table, they have some chilies, red and green chillis, if you do want to spice things up.
And we also ordered this lime drink.
- What was it? [Luke] Lime with plum.
Lime with plum. I have yet to try it, so, actually let me give it a try now.
[Luke] Salted plum. [Sabrina] Whoo.
Ooh. Quite nice.
Actually you don't taste the salted plum at all, you just taste the lime juice.
This goes along really nicely.
[Luke] This is definitely my new favorite clay pot chicken rice restaurant, probably in the entire world.
That was so ridiculously good. We completely polished it off. Only the most burnt little pieces of rice remain.
And I would recommend this place to anyone and everyone coming to KL.
It's in the area in KL called Pudu.
It's a little bit outside the city, but it's totally worth it.
We are pretty stuffed after that. That was filling but delicious. A lot of rice.
I think we're gonna head back to the Airbnb, take a little break
and tonight we're gonna head out to the night market.
So tonight we are at one of the more central night markets here in KL.
This is called Jalan Alor. It is quite touristy, but we did want to show you something that's really
easily accessible to tourists, and has some pretty good food.
We haven't been here in probably two years
so this is gonna be their first time in a while to walk through and check it out
but I'm sure we're gonna be eating something delicious.
It is absolutely packed here at Jalan Alor, like this has gotten even
more touristy and full of people in the last two years since we've been here last.
But there is a couple of stalls that are serving some pretty good-looking food, and one thing
we spotted is a roast lamb. So we're actually going to order something that up right now.
My lamb is very famous in the town. [Sabrina] Is it?
Yeah.
If I put on, you cannot eat. Because spicy Malaysian, very spicy.
[Sabrina] Too spicy? - Very spicy. Like me lah, spicy. (Laughs)
[Luke] We just ordered up our first food of the night.
As you saw, he is roasting like a whole half of a lamb over charcoal.
He's got it on a split and then, yeah, just cooking that all over charcoal.
And this is how he serves it up, with quite a bit of sauce.
You can see this is glistening in sauce.
There's lots of little charred bits, and then a little bit of tomato and cucumber on the side.
But actually this is quite expensive.
We payed 30 ringgit for two servings of this. Let me try it, hopefully it's good.
The sauce is like a sweet and spicy sauce.
The meat is a little bit kind of chewy.
It's not as tender as I had hoped. It does have a nice smoky roast flavor to it.
And there's a little bit of spiciness going on in there, so it must be some chili in that sauce. Try another bite.
Yeah, it's pretty good.
So we've got two portions. This is the second box here.
Something to know when you're eating here is that there's a lot of bones in the meat.
So just watch out, don't just shove it in your face. There's a lot of bones. You might have to pick through it.
I would say that was a rip-off.
Pretty much, the price was outrageous compared to the amount you got, and the quality was just so-so.
Hopefully this next roast meat, we're going to have some chicken wings, hopefully those are better.
We are at the chicken wing stall now, and the way that they are cooking this is so cool.
They've got this kind of dedicated chicken wing sort of rotisserie oven that they're cooking these in.
So all the chicken wings are perfectly laid out on these metal splits, and then they
can put them right into this charcoal oven.
The guy is brushing them with a nice looking, kind of dark, I'd imagine it's a little bit sweet sauce.
And he's also using a hand bamboo fan to keep that charcoal nice and hot, and keep that fire going.
It is quite exciting to watch him cook it, and it smells absolutely incredible. Super smoky in here.
Our wings have arrived and these looks super good, they're actually glistening in that
oil, and also I think it's a mixture of honey and soy that they're rubbing these with. They smell super smoky
and it was 21 ringgit for six wings, which is still a little bit expensive, but better than the price of the lamb.
So let's try these out.
Oh, yeah. Oh man.
Super super smoky, and nice and sweet on the outside.
But man, that is super juicy chicken on the inside.
They've also provided us with what looks like a chili sauce, so I'm gonna dip this in
and try that. These are so juicy, like really really juicy wings.
Oh yeah.
That's a little bit spicy. Ooh.
It's actually quite spicy, but it's nice and sweet too.
Well this is already so much better than that lamb.
Finished off with our chicken wings. We actually ordered fried rice from there
but you don't pay until they bring it to your table, and I think we waited for 30 minutes
and they didn't bring anything so [Sabrina] They never came.
we actually just left. I don't know. Maybe we're gonna get some dessert now or something.
So we have come to something that is very famous to get at Jalan Alor. It's the coconut ice cream.
Look at this! I mean these portions are tiny for what you pay for.
But that's just what you get when you come to a touristy night market.
So we're gonna give it a try. Should be coconut ice cream with some coconut husks.
And we've actually sprinkled a little bit of roasted peanut on top, as well as some Oreo bits
just to add a little bit more.
Get our money's worth. So let's give it a try.
Oh wow.
Yeah, that's got a really strong coconut flavor.
It's light. Kinda tastes like coconut water. It's really good.
It's pretty cool how this is actually served right in a coconut shell. Now let me try this out here.
I do love coconut.
Yeah. It's actually just like coconut water.
With a little bit of sugar added. Yeah.
I like the peanuts on top.
But I think that's gonna be it for this market, because
we are spending a lot of money and not getting very much food.
If you are easily annoyed by very slow-moving crowds like me, this is not the place for you.
[Luke] This place is absolutely packed with people. [Sabrina] Yeah, you got single files going in each
direction, so be prepared to kind of browse around.
Finished off with our night here at Jalan Alor.
Today was a really good day of eating.
Maybe Jalan Alor, you can just visit one time and one time only.
But we still had a lot of fun.
And I hope you guys enjoyed watching today's video. This is gonna be our last video from Malaysia
so expect European videos very soon. We're going to Turkey.
[Sabrina] Whoo! [Luke] So stay tuned for that, and if you haven't already
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[Both] Bye!