Hi I'm Thomas and I'm Sheena and we're Chasing a Plate, tonight we're in Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia and we've come to TTDI night market or pasar malam to
explore there is a brilliant mix of fresh produce and a lot of street food
we're starving, let's eat!
Thomas and I love visiting pasar malam or night markets and we've been to quite a
few ones whilst we've been in Kuala Lumpur we'll link them up in a playlist up there
but this one looks really interesting because there's a range of different
food that we haven't seen at any pasar malam before let's go and explore
we got a bag of hot curry puffs to start us off we couldn't resist we walked past
and they were bubbling in the oil really really fresh so we've got ten of them so
we're not going to go hungry let's see they're quite a nice size quite little
curry puffs look really crispy hmm so filled with potato it's like a mashed
potato which is all filled with the curry powder very simple
I can see one little green leaf it's a dried leaf I'm not really sure what it
is you can hardly see it but apart from that it's just potato and curry so a
really simple way to start us off and when we saw them bubbling away like that
we could not go past this will set us up for a night of eating at this market
it's boiling hot today so we're going to grab a drink to cool us down
I got a big refreshing cup of air mata kucing which is made up of lo han
guoh which is monkfruit, winter melon and longan and it is really good for cooling
you down in the heat, so refreshing I'm gonna go to a different drink stand because I love
these stands that they have where all the different drinks are lined up in these
huge tubs and I'm gonna try something I've never had in Malaysia- hello
satu ais milo, terima kasih
it's just started to rain so we've snuck under the shelter for a bit but I've got
my iced Milo to try now Milo if you're say from America or a country that
doesn't have Milo it's a powdered, sweetened chocolate drink you make hot
drinks cold drinks out of it we're from New Zealand so Milo is a real thing of
our childhood let's try this one in Malaysia it's so good it's like a sweet
chocolate milk with much more of a sort of a caramel-y, malt-y taste than
normal chocolate milk that is not going to be the most refreshing choice I could
have made but it's going to make me very very happy
the rain has stopped and we've got our eyes on the next snack let's go
I've got my little parcel of pulut udang,
so pulut is glutinous rice and udang means prawn we've never had this
before but these are selling like hotcakes so basically the little parcel
is wrapped in banana leaf and then they're being heated up over charcoal
they look really interesting so I've got it open right here okay so it's made up
of pulut so that's the white glutinous rice there and then there's what I think
might be coconut and then the pawn must be mixed in with that and then it's red
possibly from sambal let's just give it a go, I'm just gonna pull a bit off
and pop it in my gob
mmmm it's really tasty so the sticky rice is quite salty and then the coconut
mixture is actually very sweet and the prawn flavour is not very strong but
what it reminds me of it otak otak which is almost like a grilled fish paste or grilled fish curry it's got
those flavours so I can taste lemongrass and there's that hint of chilli it's a really
good snack
there's lots of stalls which offer more substantial meals at this pasar malam or night market
so we have come for a bowl of chicken noodle soup
and it looks pretty interesting so I can see rice noodles, the thin type which are
called bihun, there's fried shallots, bean sprouts, I can see some spring onions
there's poached chicken, there's some chicken bones in here as well which will
give the soup so much flavour and I think there's a little bit of chilli as well
let's just give this soup a go mmmm
it's really intense in chicken flavour, it has a little bit of spice but a really strong peppery taste
as well I'm going to add a bit of this chilli which is just sitting in a huge goblet here
I can see a lot of so chilli there's
green chillies I think and it's quite watery so I'm just going to dump a whole lot in
there, both Thomas and I are real chilli fiends so hopefully it's not too crazy
or pedas or spicy, let's give that a go, that's not crazy hot it just adds a really nice fiery kick I'm
gonna give some of those noodles a go too
so slippery I got a bit of chicken in that mouthful as well and that's
really tender and honestly adding that spoonful of chilli has just really ramped
up the soup a notch, it's very tasty
there's something really fun about coming to
night markets all over the world my most memorable ones are from Taiwan when we were there
the night markets were crazy and interestingly we've seen a lot of
Taiwanese street food at pasar malam or night markets in KL not this one
though really there's only one little Taiwanese thing here everything else is
much more traditional at this one which I quite like
but where are your favourite night markets we want to know because if you
can tell us your incredible stories we'll put them on our list and we'll
make it to those countries to go eating at night markets our favourite thing
next up we've grabbed some apam balik which is a dessert I love and this one
feels really hefty, I'm just going to rip open this big paper package now
this is a bit of a special apam balik because it has banana and corn
and it's sort of green so I think it might be a pandan flavoured batter but it's a
rice flour batter which is cooked in a big almost skillet pan and they dump
lots of sugar on it traditionally it's sort of just sugar
and peanuts but this one obviously has the banana and the corn and then it's
all just cooked in this big skillet folded over cut into triangles so you can
see there's two pieces here but it's all been cut into shapes so let's just
grab one and give it a go you can see how green it is, big bit of corn sticking
out big bit of banana
Wow, I got it on my nose
wow the banana's really creamy, wow
the corner's got a little bit of crunch I think it's canned corn so it's got whole kernels but then that
sort of that almost sauciness that is with canned corn
you get like a crunch where it's been on the pan but then because the other half is above that's all aerated
like a crumpet so the top side's all aerated the bottoms crunchy this is
going to be super filling because of the corn and the banana that's really tasty
I love this desert you'll see these at all the pasar malam and you have
to try apam balik, it's amazing that apam balik was really sweet we each had one
piece and then we had to pop it away to save for later I'm not sure if Thomas
mentioned but it had like a green tinge to it and a really strong pandan flavour
it was very tasty there's a one more thing we have to try tonight and that's
one of my new favourite sweets or desserts and it's called putu piring
let's go and find it
these are putu piring they're essentially a steamed rice flour cake
but in the middle is a dollop of gula melaka which is a coconut palm sugar
and it's just so soft and so sweet we made the mistake of trying putu piring
the first time when it was cold and it tasted like sawdust so make sure that
you eat it fresh, when it's piping hot so I've got my little packet here and we're
gonna dig into this, let's open this baby up so it was a set of 5 for 3 ringgit, look at
that they look so moist they're sitting on like a little bit of banana leaf
I'm just gonna get right in, wooo they're pretty hot and grab one there's a little
bit of coconut on the bottom too which is how they traditionally come
that just melts in your mouth it's quite a a basic flavour so the rice flour's
really plain but what really stands out is that hit of coconut palm sugar it
is to die for we've got to get into these Thomas before
they get dry and cold
while we're here in the market we're going to do some fruit shopping for home
but there's one fruit that lots of subscribers have been telling us to try
in a video which is jackfruit or nangka
nangka in Malay and it's actually a fruit we eat all the time most days
actually because I love it I can't get enough of it but we've never thought to
put it in a video so let's grab some and I'll eat it for you
all right we've got the jackfruit I can't find any shops where the jackfruit
is in its entirety so all we've got is the the little lobes I think they're
called that are inside so these things can be huge
absolutely spectacular, they're sort of knobbly, giant fruits that hang off trees
but this is the end result when you break them open let's give it a go
oh as a flavour it's quite hard to describe I find because it's not really
comparative to anything but to me it kind of tastes like a mango crossed with a
really mild durian and then a really sort of a nice like a Fuji apple like a
more sweet, watery apple it's crunchy, it's got a little pip inside as well it's crunchy
but it's not really really crunchy so it's got a bit of juice a little bit of
crunch and bite to it but it's it's just when you bite through it, it's kind of like
eating a really hard bit of cake, jackfruit is the best, this is the best
way to start the day I eat this every morning tummies are completely jam
packed but we've had a great time at this market remember if you enjoyed it
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markets in KL or pasar malam which are quite different to this one like I said
earlier this one seems to have much more traditional local style foods no outside
influence so this one is a really cool one to visit so if you're a local do you
like this one have you been here if you're a tourist I reckon come along
check this one out during your holiday because it's got a much more local feel
to me I like it, so do I, we hope we inspired you to eat and explore like a traveler, not a tourist, thank you so much for watching
we'll see you next time, jumpa lagi!