Hi I'm Thomas and I'm Sheena and we're Chasing a Plate, today we're in Bandar Baru
Bangi in Selangor and we've come to an eatery to try a dish which is famous
in Negeri Sembilan state it is masak lemak cili api a dish which is made with a coconut
milk and turmeric gravy with a number of different proteins cooked with
it we can't wait to try it, we're starving
let's eat
the eatery that we're at Itik Salai Masthar serves their masak lemak
cili api with a range of smoked meats and you can see them all smoking here
they look so good, there's ducks, there's ikan keli which is catfish, there's beef, there's
chicken and wow like the wafts of smoke smell so delicious we can't wait
to get in, let's go and order some food
we have got a feast masak lemak cili api on this table so we have
ordered smoked catfish or ikan keli, we've got some smoked duck or itik
and some smoked beef which is daging
salai, oh my gosh, that plus some ulam which are fresh, raw vegetables which we will dip in sambal
to accompany our masak lemak cili api spread I cannot
wait to get in basically this place is just a visual feast you can walk right
up to where the staff are cooking this incredible dish you can see them with
their big woks, the spice mix bubbling away with that coconut milk and then them
adding that beautiful smoked beef or smoked meats into the spice mix and coconut milk
it looks incredible I'm just gonna get in and eat because
these dishes are just calling out my name we have actually tried masak lemak
cili api it was one of the first Malay dishes that we actually sampled we'll
link the video up there and that was when I fell in love with the ikan keli
version so that's what I'm gonna start with so they've just grilled and smoked
the fish whole so I'll just peel Wow I've just peeled back that skin look how tender that
flesh is, holy moly, some I'm going to grab a little bit of
that it peels away so easily, dip a little bit of that in the sauce and I'm
just gonna eat that by itself without any rice just to see what the flavour's
like
mmm mmmm mmmm wow oh my gosh Thomas we're gonna have to
order more catfish that is sensational the smoke flavour is very strong, quite
salty and then that maska lemak cili api sauce I've just got to
go again it is really strong in flavour too - very creamy, quite spicy like it's
got a really good chilli kick and that beautiful fresh turmeric like it's
just got given the sauce that stunning golden colour, go again with some
rice
oh wow that is one of the best dishes we have had in Malaysia so far
I'm desperate to try these dishes sorry if it's a bit noisy now a band's just
started up so hopefully you can hear us over that, they are really good
now this sauce it's just, it's runny but it's very creamy, it's thick, thick and
runny if you know what I mean so it's got texture it's a coconut base and then it
has some chillies and turmeric, ginger just other aromatics and herbs I'm gonna
try the sauce by itself so this is the sauce from the from the duck but all the
all the dishes have the same sauce on them let's try this
Wow it's really spicy oh that's a really good spice, the coconut is
incredible it's got a bit of oil on top I'm gonna try the one from the beef
because for some reason it's it's not quite as oily that one
ohhh that flavour it's so fragrant ohhhh it's really spicy that is good but a really
good spice, let's get in and try this actual dark so I'm gonna grab some of
the sauce and just dump that on my rice, look at that colour of that sauce
from the turmeric wow that looks so good and look at this duck so, big chunks of
duck and duck isn't a meat you see that we, we haven't seen very much in
Malaysia so I'm not sure how prominent duck is here but this is really exciting to
try so let's go rice, sauce and some duck
so the ducks all just been cut up, it's still got the bones in there
that is incredibly tasty, it's taken on the sauce being cooked in the sauce
wow, it's still quite pink
it's juicy and it just falls away from the bone and the rice soaked in that sauce
that is heavenly in flavour, the chilli is definitely the overriding strong flavour
but it's not a type of chilli that you just think arghhhh that's so hot I can't taste
mouth or I can't feel anything you can taste everything else all those
fragrant things, the coconut, it's all there.
time to try this daging salai
or smoke beef, neither of us can get over how creamy sauce or
gravy is and I heard that or one of our subscribers told us that the family were in
the business of coconuts beforehand well before they opened this eatery and
that's why they're really well known for their super, ultra creamy coconut-y
sauce, let's just give this a go the beef is really thinly sliced
and it's just coated in that beautiful masak lemak cili api
I've also got a selection of ulam here ulam are fresh raw vegetables that you eat with
your meal we've got some pennywort and some winged bean, we tried pennywort
the other day in our tempoyak or ikan patin tempoyak video
we'll link it up there and a lot of our subscribers told us that I was eating it
incorrectly because I was just grabbing the bunch, dipping it in the sambal
eating it like this but in fact you're supposed to grab like some leaves and then
eat it with your meal so that's what I'm going to do and our subscribers also
told us that the pennywort has heaps of really amazing health qualities and
benefits like it's anti-aging so I'm gonna be devouring this bunch of
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videos okay enough talking let's just eat, so I'm going to try this smoked beef
and get a little bit of that pennywort as well
mmm mmm mmmmm, the beef is really tender but it's still got a bit of chew to it which I love
and it's so smoky and again that gravy is super creamy, that pennywort reminds me a bit of arugala or rocket
it's quite peppery, quite spicy and it adds such a refreshing zing to each mouthful
holy moly, we've just got to get eating and stuck in because this is such an amazing spread
this is all going down so so well the rice is incredibly fluffy we forgot to
mention it came with so you got a basic plate of rice but with that you got a
little fried fish which I haven't tried yet, oh it's like a salted fish that's
really woah, woah that's so salty, okay I'm gonna have tiny bits of that as I
have the spicy stuff but also they gave us these cucumbers which are perfect cos
it's so spicy and that's really good to just break
through the spice freshen up your mouth unbelievable meal I've been up watching
them cooking and on that huge grill the smoke billowing out of it you've got all
the fish laid out, huge bits of beef being put on there and the meat all has
a really smoky taste because of it particularly the fish because it's much
more delicate in its overall flavour it's really taken on the smokiness of being
on that that smoker or that grill unreal, absolutely unreal meal, as always
directions in our description or restaurant name etc this one is totally
worth the trip this is a very special and very memorable meal
that was sangat sedap or very delicious so we are gonna grab some takeaway and have it for dinner
Wow Wow Wow so many wows that was incredible if
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