this video is sponsored by squarespace we've only just arrived in kuala lumpur and today
we're going on the ultimate malaysian street food tour we've got a guide that's going to
show us 10 amazing street foods and drinks and we can't wait to experience malaysia through food
in the past we've done loads of street food tours and challenges in vietnam and thailand since we've
only just arrived in malaysia and we have very limited knowledge about the cuisine what better way to
spend one of our first days here in kuala lumpur than on a street food tour with a local foodie
this is May a true foodie from kl and our local guide for the day she's lived here her entire
life and knows the city like the back of her hand before diving into the food she showed us
some of the beautiful temples in the area like the sri maha mariaman hindu temple which was
unfortunately closed as well as the guandi taoist temple in chinatown after asking the
gods for permission we thought of a question whilst shaking the chinese fortune sticks
also known as chien tung once one stick had fallen out we got our numbered fortune and looked at
the translation it was very enlightening and an interesting way to start the day
so the first stop of the day today as you can see by all the lovely red everywhere is
chinatown now in malaysia there are three main ethnic groups of people here it's
the malay the indian and the chinese now let's see what kind of food the chinese have here so we've
just sat down in our first food place and we are having our first dish which is very very simple
sort of in the heart of chinatown here in kuala lumpur and we are having a dish called 'chee cheong fun'
and it is basically just rice noodles with a sauce on top which is fermented beans
and then just toasted sesame seeds it looks. and chili just there on the side
so you've got to mix everything mix everything together
it's very simple but it's really good sweet yeah sweet sauce yeah they have the
savory version but you know what do you try this very well oh that is actually really tasty
it's a bit spicy because we mixed in the chili but it's like sweet a little bit soury
quite spicy and then you get those toasted sesame seeds are like whoops
so it's a breakfast thing it's a breakfast food okay very very simple i like it so this dish it's
only five ringgits which which for a whole dish is a really good price feel like this
very simple very light something to have in the morning it's actually gotten a little
bit spicy now but super super delicious but to wash it down we've got a nice
cold glass of soy milk from just across the street there a little stall that does soy desserts and
just fresh soy milk i mean can't complain with that right
well that's different to the soy milk that i'm used to yes it's really fresh
and like most businesses in malaysia i mean malaysia chinatown it's a generational thing even
this one a general generation business second or third generation okay and they make they make it
fresh every day every day over here uh they can't make it here
they make it and then they bring it here yeah so generation so soy milk is one of my favorite milks
i love to have it in coffee but now i know why our coffees in malaysia have been tasting quite
different because the soy milk here tastes quite different to what i'm used to back in the west
no girlfriend no money no girlfriend no money okay you have to try this
very quick how long have you been here 42 year. so yeah he's a master. 42 year
one thousand money one hundred thousand sorry one hundred thousand
yeah by malaysia yeah yeah yeah you wanna hold this okay yeah so uh this
is a peanut pancake oh and this one is coconut oh i love it i know you
It's called abom bale. It means turnover pancake
so you can see there's two layers to this pancake oh there's so many peanuts in there and we saw
him making it you can see him pour the mixture in and then all like sugar and peanuts all over
and we're told to eat this hot and it's very hot right now oh look how squishy it is
oh my god
that is the best pancake
you wanna try the coconut one yes i would love to try it so i really wanna try the
pinot one but first i'm gonna try the coconut one cause i'm the first one to try that one
it's nice and squishy as well smells nice
it's almost a little bit like kanom krok oh yeah in thailand but drier like a nice
batter and coconut in there so it's really sweet oh it's just like wholesome delicious
now compare both i'm really looking forward to this one oh this smells so good
i love peanuts i love pancakes peanuts and sugar go so well together. i know this is delicious
and how much were these how much were these uh this is uh 2.40 for both 2.40.
wow two ringgit and 40 cents for these two wow that's fantastic wow that's such a big like
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curry wonton noodles okay so it's basically chicken curry and then the noodles is it's
a type of noodle that's called one time you know like if you want to remember it it's w
like one two m one time but the two yeah yeah one time yeah so it's w a n or w o n yeah
not spicy more curry tasting this is really nice actually
it wasn't the flavor that i was expecting but i think it's nicer
than what i was expecting i'm so scared i'm gonna make a mess of my t-shirt with this
soaks up all the flavor wow that's good
so while may has gone to get us a dessert i want to show you the street that we're on right now
it's like every every street you turn is completely different this one here
is stranger things themed so you can see at the top there the stranger things and netflix stuff
and there's a there's a grandfather clock there but if you turn around
here there's a cuban inspired building right here which the colors are awesome yellow
and blue and then in here is a little chinese garden that is playing stranger things music so
it's super quirky but it is super fun although i have to say i'm most excited about
what she's buying right now because i have no idea what she's bringing back
so this is a very famous uh pastry shop this one here yeah yeah this is egg tart okay now this egg
is it is vegetarian but what it's made of it's made with pork lard oil so okay egg tart i'm
assuming this is inspired by the fact that there was portuguese here in the past so this is like a
pasteis de nata yeah yeah it looks exactly like the one that they have there but portuguese this is
does it have a chinese name uh your asking the wrong person
i think almost how many years uh two generations at least i'm sure family business again
wow the outside is so flaky inside is soft
wow that's actually really really nice i think the smallest bite and i got so much flake there
this is good i love this when i see you enjoy your life
it's just very similar to portuguese i say the portuguese one's better this is called a kaya puff
oh my god it's like a coconut jam on the inside look at that bite
perfect. Put it in front your mouth
it smells really good
oh it's nice like the pastry on the side is like
quite thin almost and it's not as thick as the um egg tart i just had but the jam i was expecting it
to be kind of like runny like jam more runny jam but this is quite thick nice it's like a paste
yeah it was really tasty really sweet perfect desserts cannot be wasted nope
you eat this one don't drop it i'm just gonna finish this one off camera because it's quite
messy so we'll see you guys in a second up to now the food that we've tried has been so varied
it's kind of like a very nice thing actually because if you don't like
one cuisine then you can just have something else and it's not like when you're in a country and
some restaurants do different cuisine from a different country here they're
actually making it by actual people from that ethnic group so the food is always really nice
the first thing we had to try at this indian restaurant was obviously the coffee this coffee is
the most popular in india it's called bru coffee it was very sweet and very delicious just how we
like it then for our main dish we had a dosa or as they say here malaysia at thosai this came with
two curries and a very randomly spicy yogurt dip which was super delicious since we had to
eat this with our right hands i really struggled since i most definitely left-handed so just as we
were leaving we had to pass the desserts counter and she was like guys you love dessert and we
said yes yes we do May we do love desserts so here we have a ghee based dessert it looks like
a huge piece of fudge it does not smell like a fudge what did you say what this was just ghee
like soft and crumbly it like just i don't know if you can see that just crumbles off
what just melts in your mouth yeah it's crumbled right nice we must
have eaten over 10 different things today and i'm feeling
quite full now but we actually have to go on a train now to the other side of town to a place
called kampung baru where we went the other day to try some laksi was it laksi? or laksa? laksa
okay maybe maybe not we'll see
look at it
oh it smells really citrusy i can't tell if those are limes limes i think
What do we have here?Laksa johor. From the state of johor. Smells quite fishy
so the fish is blended in with the sauce and it's going to be spicy but there is spice yeah very
spicy of course this one yeah they use spaghetti spaghetti yeah so malaysia's spaghetti for you
it's a little bit of italy yeah press the press this. Press the kalamansi. it's nice when you press it
I don't know what to say about this dish. it's very tasty
Very tasty. it's a bit sweet a little bit sour
a little bit spicy as well a little bit like a tom yum kind of flavor
No. really different than tom yum smell quite fishy doesn't it
taste like tuna
right yeah
Bye nice to meet you
if you go on a food tour with May you will not go hungry oh my god i i feel like i've actually got
a pregnant belly right now i'm so full i haven't eaten that much in so long probably like 12 13
dishes all together was it i stopped counting but there's definitely a lot there was more than 10
i know that much and then i was like you know what i give up we're just going to keep eating until we
until we pop so if any of you guys are interested in booking a tour with may we'll put her details
in the description box below we are super full right now we ate so so many delicious foods from
basically every corner of the different cultures within malaysia now if you liked this video then
we think you really like the video that's on the screen right now where we went on our first
day in kuala lumpur and ate some delicious foods there as well and just explore this beautiful city