A piece of the dosa take some of the potato ultimate bite right here. We're
gonna take it with the potato, dip it in that sambar, go with the chutney let's get it
all. One bite. The magical bite. We don't always do mock
meats, but with the flavors here, I trust it.
Here in Brickfields, Little India here in Kuala Lumpur.
And we are about to dig in to one of our favorite places to eat in here.
The amazing thing about Kuala Lumpur is that there's so many
different cuisines especially there's a lot of great Indian food here in Kuala
Lumpur. So in this video, we're gonna take you to some of our favorite spots and
fittingly we're gonna start here in Brickfields, which is Little India in
Kuala Lumpur. So be sure to watch to the end for lots of delicious vegetarian
food, banana leaf rice, dosas and much more. We're so excited - let's go!
It's one of our favorite neighborhoods here in Kuala Lumpur the Little India.
It's amazing - you see temples there's great street food around.
There's a large South Indian community here
We're at Lawanya Food Corner. It's one of our favorite places that
we've been so far to eat here in Kuala Lumpur.
And oh my gosh oh my gosh look
at that. This is just our plates. And they have more food piled
piled on the corner. We have Masala chai.
Here's my plate. I have fish, squid, chicken,
vegetables all over. Jackfruit, think this is pumpkin, cauliflower,
and mock chicken. And pappadoms. Don't forget your pappadoms.
So what's special about Lawanya Food Corner is literally down an alleyway here in Brickfields.
So it's tucked in an alley. There's a cab passing by right now in this alleyway.
We just love this setup. So you have all these different bowls of food. Lots of
vegetables available. There's some meats as well you have these long row tables.
And this place we've been dreaming of coming back to after the MCO.
Our first time trying here this place. Lawanya Food Corner. It's a really special spot. One of our favorite meals so far.
We came here the last day before MCO came into place. so there's just so much here but the
key is you gotta come early. You gotta come here around twelve o'clock or one
o'clock or earlier even. Because if you come late - we've come a few times two
three o'clock they run out of most of the food already. So what's cool you get
your rice and you can add yourself what vegetables you want and then you pay - they
just give you a price. So vegetables, meat, seafood whatever you want - just pile it on
your plate. So it's almost like a buffet style in a way.
Got the hands here. I think this jackfruit is really calling my name first. That was
the first dish that really caught my eye from everything, so let's get in there.
Quite firm. Looks like it's young jackfruit. It's yellowish I bet there's some turmeric. Mmmm wow.
Spice to it too. So there's chopped up onions in here, you see the curry leaves,
mustard seeds. It really has that nice Southern Indian flavor. Could just eat a whole plate of
this jackfruit. Young jackfruit is a dish we can eat anywhere anytime any
preparation it's that good. A dish I'm really intrigued by here it looks like
kangkung but it looks like it's a beet color. So looks like maybe they put
this in beet juice. The color is really intriguing - so let's give it a shot.
So you get that kangkung flavor. It's got a nice crunch to it, but it definitely has
that beet taste too, so it's a slight bit sweet. Really interesting. It's gonna stain my fingers.
Now this gobi, the cauliflower.
Nice and fresh. There was only a little bit of this less left.
Looks like there's dhal and greens mixed together.
Yeah it's like a bitter green in here, but the bitterness is kind of tempered down
by that dhal and it's also gives it the interesting texture. A mix of the crunch
with a little of the creamy and soft so we also saw they had some squid here in
a red sauce. Looks like it's gonna be spicy. Gonna try that out
mmm
Yeah the squid is nice and tender. It's got a kick. Now I'm really feeling that kick
coming in. Yeah it's spicy. It's delicious though. So I just picked this
without asking what it was. Afterwards we asked what it was. He said it was mock chicken. We don't
always do mock meats, but with the flavors here, I trust it.
Mmm wow!
That's got some serious flavor. You even see there's a whole cinnamon clove right
here. So it tastes it's got a really nice curry flavor. It's got cumin, a lot of
other spices in here. Probably some clove, cinnamon Really really tasty. I'm shocked. If you ever eat
mock meat, this is the one. We saw this plate here of mutton curry and instead
of just asking for a little bit, we just asked can we just have the whole plate? He was like
yeah sure. Very friendly owner. They're really
nice. So we're gonna take that. It's quite saucy. Take a couple of pieces here
You definitely get that mutton flavor. It's definitely not one of the ones where it's
like you don't taste it at all. You do and we like that. It's also got a nice
spicy flavor. A lot of flavors from that curry. The curry that it's soaking in
here. But if you're not a mutton or lamb lover, maybe this is not for you. But if you
love it, this is your dish. We've got some more veggies here. It's like some bean
sprouts or cabbage.
We got this masala tea right here, or masala chai. I'm gonna mix it up because I see there's a lot of
sediment at the bottom. Take a sip.
Mmmm oh my god!
This one's got so much flavor in there. Like that cardamom hits you right away. I
don't know how much cardamom they put in here, but it's a lot and we're all here for it.
Oh this is one of the best masala tea we've ever tasted. It's absolutely delicious
Can drink about three of these that's how good it is. Wow. Gonna try some of this
chicken
Very tender. Got curry leaf on here too.
This is such a special place. You see there's so many locals here too.
Even the first time we came here before
MCO, it was packed. So you could tell it is definitely a local
favorite here. We think it's an absolute must-try when you're here. It's excellent.
So much flavor in here.
Pappadom
Love pappadoms
That fancy coffee. We are at MTR, which stands for Mavalli Tiffin Rooms.
It started in Bangalore, India.
They have multiple locations around the world.
In Dubai, Singapore and now their first location in Malaysia.
It is a pioneer of so many things.
The founder pioneered many beautiful delicious things and we're about to dig in to our
first order of business
We got black masala tea.
And filter coffee.
Look at that. They call it four yards of coffee.
Why's that? Because they just pour it four times like this.
We have a really unique lineup here of dishes. You know we made a
whole video about South Indian food in New York City you can check the link up
here gonna put a card. My stepdad hails from South India, so you know he's
taught me a lot about the cuisine. But we wanted to switch it up today. Gere at MTR
they have some really unique dishes here. So we got a bunch of them actually
with rava, which is semolina. And one of them right here is the rava idli. So
even in the menu of they tell you an interesting story how during World War
Two, India had a rice shortage and usually idli's made with the rice and
gram dal. So instead with the shortage, they use the semolina instead. So this
one really interesting so it has curry leaves it has mustard seeds cashew a lot
more in here. It looks really interesting. So it's the spongy cake texture
it's quite dense from that semolina flour. Smells good.
Gonna rip off a piece and take a bite. Wow you could see all the curry leaves
when you cut it open that I see is a little bit of cashew there let's take a bite.
Could really taste the coriander or cilantro in here. Sorry, Jumi. And
texture kind of reminds me of a Greek semolina cake actually. So it's much denser than
a typical idli that has the rice flour. It's like that one's a little more spongy.
This one's more dense. Yeah that coconut chutney's always nice with idli
because it absorbs all the flavor and it adds a little kick. Nice. It's a nice change
of pace this one.
And now for the dosa. So we got some really unique dosa here. So one of the dosa we got
right here is called a pudi masala dosa. So this one actually doesn't look like your
crisp dosa. It actually looks more like a pancake.
It almost looks more like a uttapam. You can see there's a lot of holes
in it, but it's made also with the fermented rice flour and gram dal, so
this one actually comes with a lump of masala the potatoes here and it's covered
in a masala spice. So it looks really interesting like this one just
looked fascinating and we had to try it. So and they even give you on the side for all
these a little cup of ghee, the clarified butter.
Alright so now we're gonna try this pudi masala dosa. It looks so interesting. It looks
more like a pancake actually, even when you flip it like this it looks like a
pancake on the bottom
Smells really good. Now let's take a rip. Try it by itself first before I try it with the
potato
Wow yeah it's just like a pancake like this one doesn't have that crispy
texture it's much softer
Definitely has a lot of ghee in it already. You could taste that buttery
flavor. I love that spice on top. So what I'm going to do, gonna dip it in the chutney
and the sambar
The sambar is really where it's at. That sambar's just full of flavor that sambar's got the
cumin in there. It is exploding with the flavor. And with this kind of texture,
you could really absorb it like a sponge. As opposed to the more the crispy style
of dosa, which we also have and gonna get to right after this. So what's really
interesting too - a lot of times when you order a dosa with masala in it like a masala dosa,
usually the masala, or the potatoes, are inside the dosa, but because of this
setup here because it's the style of this dosa, it's actually lumped
on top. It looks like it was just plopped on top of it so I'm gonna scoop up a
little piece of it to try by itself
And it's really chunky potatoes that you can really taste the actual like chunks
of potatoes in here it's yellow so it probably has a lot of turmeric in it. A piece
of the dosa take some of the potato then we're gonna
get the ultimate bite right here. We're gonna take with the potato dip it in
that sambar go with the chutney let's get it all in one bite. The magical bite.
That's what you gotta do. Our other dosa here is the onion rava dosa. So we
actually had ordered from this place during the MCO here in Malaysia and we
actually ordered this specific dosa and the reason why? They said there's cumin seeds
in it. So if you follow us from long enough or even if your first timers here we are
cumin fanatics. So anytime we see cumin, we have to order it. So this one it's also
with rava, so it's made with the semolina so it's another different
that's alright it's it's different than the traditional dosa that has a
fermented rice and gram dal so this one looks extremely crispy. Can't even talk
about it anymore, I need to take a bite of this. Ohhh you hear that crunch. Even when you look
at it, so when you lift it up you could see the cumin seeds right there. Let's
take a bite.
This is incredibly crunchy. You can see when you look really closely at this
it's almost like translucent when you put it the light you see the cumin seeds
see there's actually coconut in here as well there's green chili there's
onions it's a lot going on in this. It's very buttery, so you have the ghee is
definitely been - they were not shy with putting the ghee in this dosa.
So like the last one, I'm gonna go for an ultimate bite. I'm gonna scoop up here
this looks like a thicker sambar and then we're gonna put in some of that chutney
So you get the more savory. This actually is a much thicker type of sambar right
here. So you get that really savory element and you're mixing it with that
coconut chutney you get it all in one bite. You get the coconut, you get the cumin all
the spices and combine that already with the heavily spiced dosa here. The
traditional Indian filter coffee. It's got that lovely foam on top. Let's give it a try.
Wow it's very strong. Then it has that froth milk on there but the coffee is
nice and strong. Can definitely see why this place is very well known. And they were doing
this in 1924 - a lot of history here. That's what's nice about this place, you have
signs and in the menu they give you all the stories and little things behind it so
you can really learn more about the cuisine and the history of this place as
you eat so that's what we've been doing like looking at the pictures
here on the side referring to the menu. This is also a great place too if you are in
Malaysia or anywhere that there is an MTR, you can really educate
yourself on South Indian food as well
We ordered the banana leaf rice here. We ordered two types. We ordered the classic with the white
rice, but we could also never say no to biryani.
So we got two types of banana leaf rice. We also got the chicken biryani rice. Can't say no to biryani.
When that's an option, you gotta get it. So we wanted to switch it up and get two
types. So we got with all three curries on top. So we got the fish curry, chicken
curry and the dal just mixed together on top. That's the way to go to get all
those flavors. And what they serve you with the banana leaf
rice, they give you the three veggie options.The cucumber with raita, so
looks like it's covered with the yogurt, you got chopped up long beans and there's fried bitter gourd. First let's try this chicken
biryani rice before we even get into the sides. This is calling my name.
Drenched in these curries here too. I'm ready to go.
You can already tell that biryani has a lot of flavor by itself, but add those curries.
Adds all that spice and flavor to it. You get that cumin, the coconut milk in there.
Now gonna dig out this big chicken leg.
The chicken is crazy tender. Wow. This is a must-order here. You gotta get
this chicken biryani rice. If there's two of you, order at least one.
Even the first time we came here, we ordered two of these. This is awesome, but we want to
switch it up
Let's try the dry mutton curry.
Nice aroma.
This dry mutton curry's got a nice kick to it. It's got some sauce there, but the meat
is very tender. Really flavor packed. That's another one of those for anyone who's skeptical about lamb or mutton, this is the
kind of dish you have to order because you won't taste any gaminess at all.