Hi I'm Thomas and Sheena and we're Chasing a Plate, today we're in Jeli in
Kelantan a state on the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia. We're with our
friends Aida and Amry and we're going to be eating traditional Kelantan food
today. Let's eat.
Woo hoo we've got a feast of breakfast dishes in front of us. We have got nasi kerabu,
nasi dagang, nasi berlauk, pulut pagi and some
traditional Kelantan kuih which are snacks or sweets called akok to try what
a feast I'm so excited. So I'm gonna start with the nasi kerabu it's a traditional
breakfast dish it's made up of blue rice which traditionally is coloured from
the petals of the butterfly pea flower more common than not now people use food
colouring I'm not sure what they've done here but it's very beautiful
there's some kerabu which is salad, sambal which is chilli, keropok which are fish crackers, half a
salted egg, some fried coconut and also some budu which is fish sauce the
first time we had nasi kerabu was in Kuala Lumpur and we were in Kampung Baru, we will link the video up there so I am
so stoked to actually be trying this in Kelantan where it is from. So I'm
gonna give it a big mix-up just go for gold, get all those flavours going
mingling and give that a huge bite
that one mouthful is so intense in flavour
there's a beautiful freshness from the salad there's that gorgeous chilli which is quite
fiery or pedas as the Malay would say and then there's that
beautiful toasted flavour of the coconut and the rice is really sort of springy and
has great texture. I'm going to try that kerepok too. Mmmm
it's like a prawn cracker, but fish! There's also some ayam goreng or fried chicken on the side
so I'm gonna add that into my mouthfuls later. This one here is the nasi berlauk and it's just umm white rice or coconut rice guys?
white rice, there's some slices of cucumber some sambal or chilli sauce and there's some
chicken gulai which is sorta cooked in the style of a coconut milk curry but
without the curry leaves so let's give this one a go. Gosh it looks good, I'm going to
add a little bit of that Sambal to give it a bit of heat
it's really creamy and that chilli sort of gives it a tang, that is amazing, this is a
breakfast of champions.
I'm gonna jump in and try the nasi dagang so it's got
sticky rice and normal rice it's got a piece of fish on top which is kind of
like a tuna it has a half boiled egg this is just a normal egg not a salted egg
like Sheena had, it's got some toasted coconut
it's got like a pepper or big chilli and some sort of vegetable, what is that?
Cucumber! Ahhh it's like a very soft like cooked cucumber
let's dive in and just get some. I'll grab some fish off here this is quite a
beautiful dark fish looks quite oily, we'll grab some of the rice, we'll grab some of
that coconut I'm gonna do that for my first mouthful
Wow that sauce is so deep in flavour and the fish the fish looks like it's going
to be really fishy but it's really subtle and the texture of it is
incredible you can see how it just folds off or ust crumbles almost it's got
an incredible texture the flavour is just so subtle let's get some more I'm gonna
have some of the egg some of the fish some of that amazing rice with the two
styles of rice so the sticky rice or pulut and the normal rice you get
these two textures in your mouth as you eat
Oh the egg gives it this creaminess because of the yolk, the fish I had a much bigger piece
of fish next time and it's got real by stunning flavour this is awesome it's the
flavours are so deep they keep evolving so I'm getting even that first mouthful
I'm still getting flavours like real sweetness is coming along and there's a
real tang not a spice tang like almost acidic tang
it's not spicy at all. That is unbelievably good oh and the flavours are coming out of the
fish still it just bursts this really like sea sweet flavour. Unbelievable!
As Thomas said the
flavours in those dishes keep evolving and I can still taste the salty
creaminess of that salted egg yolk in my mouth. So tasty! Have you tried nasi
dagang, nasi kerabu or nasi berlauk, if so let us know
which is your favourite. I think mine was the nasi dagang I just love that
combination of the sticky rice and the normal rice, so let us know what your
favorites are in the comments below and whilst you're down there we would love you
to subscribe if you're enjoying our food and travel content but now time for the
pulut pagi so we've got both a savoury version
and a sweet version so the savoury version is just plain sticky rice
there's freshly grated coconut and there's a tiny salted dried fish on
top so I'm gonna give that a go grab a little piece of that salted fish and
then some of that sticky rice and coconut. Amry was saying that this dish
was actually eaten during times of flood because there was no sort of fresh
rice available so they'd have the sticky rice or pulut instead.
That fish sure packs a punch like you only need the tiniest bit because it is
very salty what I love about the pulut is that it's not overly sticky
it falls apart in your mouth really easily but it's still that glutinous rice
texture and it's not hard it's very soft. I'm going to try the sweet one this has been
flavoured with gula melaka which is coconut palm sugar, it's made from the nectar of
the coconut palm and it's just got the toasted coconut on top of that as well
it's like a really different flavour, really caramelised, sweet, nutty, gula
melaka flavour's come out in that rice. Now let's give these akok a try
these were picked up from a different vendor, so we'll pop details below in the
description they smell really eggy, so they're made with
eggs, wheat flour and pandan leaves and they're quite a soft consistency, oh they're still hot,
so quite floppy
really eggy, really soft sort of like the consistency of scrambled eggs but sweet
scrambled eggs, it reminds me of the texture of French
toast because of the egginess and the type of soft batter consistency that's sangat sedap
Can we just say Kelantan is absolutely beautiful,
beautiful scenery and beautiful
people. Kelantan is amazing, look at this view
that we've had while we're eating lunch, look at that. So we're sitting here with this view
incredible and now we're hitting the road again and we're gonna find another
famous dish in Kelantan, laksam. Change of plans so we drove all around
town trying to find a restaurant selling laksam but to no avail as everything
was closed because it's the long weekend here in Malaysia for Merdeka Day and Hari
Raya Haji the Muslim celebration for the feast of sacrifice we actually filmed a
couple of videos of our time here during Hari Raya Haji so check them out we'll
link them up above. That way hahaha. So instead we grabbed some
roadside snacks and we've come back home for a cold drink because it's
absolutely stifling it is so hot and we have got our etok which are some clam
like shellfish and they've been boiled with salt and lemongrass so Aida and
Amry said that you've got to crack into them with your teeth like they're not
open as you can see so hopefully I don't go breaking my teeth lets give it a go
Ahhh they're tough, real tough, oh here we go, I've got a little flap open and I can really
taste that salt, look that not gonna come out I might have to suck it out, nah
okay there we go, cracked open the rest of that shell it's
really like soft and tender it tastes quite similar to a clam
and that salt and lemongrass is really tasty hmm yeah really juicy it's a nice
little snack hard to get into that little sucker but worth it
we've also got some bahulu which are like a sponge cake and these ones I
think have been flavoured with pandan if you've never tried pandan it's like
the vanilla of the tropics it's a really fragrant beautiful leaf that's used to
flavour a lot of the desserts here in Southeast Asia. Hmmm really good, just like a sponge cake it's really
really tasty. That's another huge day of eating done what a weekend we've had
like Sheena said check out the other few videos we've made from this weekend
because it has been incredible being up here in Kelantan checking out all
these sights we've had numerous amounts of durian, we've been on scooter rides,
I got leeches for the first time, we've had so much good food, we've seen
amazing things happen that like just outside of our normal thing like
sacrificing of animals, we've learnt so much about the culture up here, the
religion, the people have been so welcoming it has been absolutely
incredible. A whirlwind of amazingness and it's all thanks to our incredible
friends. Aida and Amry. Get over here you two. We haven't featured them much because they're so shy
These are our incredible friends who have made everything possible so so nice of them
best tour guides in the world these two we hope we've inspired you to eat and explore
like a traveler not a tourist, thank you so much for watching if you
enjoyed this video please give it a thumbs up and we'll see you next time. Jumpa Lagi!!