Hey I'm Thomas and I'm Sheena and we're Chasing a Plate, tonight we're in Kuala
Lumpur and we're exploring Jalan Peel which is a well-known food street
and there's a tonne of amazing street food we can see satay, we can see
chicken wings, we can see rice, noodles there's a tonne of stuff to chow down on. Let's eat!
We have nabbed a table and we're going for our first round of eats so we've got
satay, we've got chicken wings and we've also
ordered a Cantonese Mee Hoon. This satay looks absolutely mouth-watering
the guy has been turning those satay on on the grill, fanning those flames and
the wafts of smoke have just filled the air and I mean we ordered beef and we ordered chicken
we've got a pot of peanut sauce here and I am just going to go for it and dunk this
bad boy in
so this is the beef satay and it is so tender but there's a beautiful ratio of
meat to fat on there so the meat melts in your mouth
and then the fat just bursts and gives you that charcoal-y flavour
that peanut sauce is a little bit sweet but there's just a tiny
gentle hint of chilli so a small hint of spice that coats your mouth.
That is so good, what I also love is that there's fresh cucumber and fresh red onion so that
totally cleans the palate so I'm going to dunk that in a bit of that sauce and
go for that as well. Mmmmmm
so fresh start. Satay is one of those things like when someone says Malaysian food. I think of
satay straight away and that is amazing
We've also got chicken wings. Now I am like a massive chicken wing fan. I'll eat them
anyway they come. These have been grilled, they look like they've been
basted with some sort of sauce we've also been given a bit of chilli to dip it
in but I'm just gonna go for it naked and see what it's like
mmm there's like a honey marinade on that, it's so juicy, the skin is nicely charred and
meat's really tender, like I could snack on these all night long.
So I'm going to try the chicken satay it was such a show he was putting on
like Sheena said I got so much b-roll so sorry if there's a million overlays of
that guy just fanning those flames and giving it heaps it was so exciting to watch
look at this chargrilled piece of chicken it looks like there's a whole lot of fat
in there, there's some chicken skin interlaced with the chicken pieces
which is really cool I'm just going to give it a huge dunk in the satay sauce
so that's like a little bit of chilli, peanuts
it's really good chicken because the fat has been completely separated from each
piece so you get a piece of meat that's completely meaty it's got a
little crispy bit from being charred but then you've got the fat because that's put in there
separately the skin and so then you get the juicy fat layer which is even more
charred because obviously the fat has taken on that grill and just the flavor
in that it's absolutely stunning and the sauce is incredible
it's a tiny bit spicy, really peanutty, it's a great texture it's quite quite thick
that is absolutely beautiful now we also have this mee hoon which is a noodle dish
so mee means noodle it's got pork, prawns some greens I think choi sum and then a
really thick gravy with it so let's just dive in and try some. To be honest we
kind of got this dish because we wanted the greens we just needed a little bit of
green on the table so let's try
I didn't really get any that time I'm gonna have to try again
that's nice, an egg has been cracked through it also it's quite plain
tasting it definitely feels like a dish that we got just because of the veggies
it's not blow your mind like these satay and I can't wait to try those chicken
wings because they look ace this is just a good meal I'm not going to go on too
much it's not that exciting let's get back into the exciting food. I'm washing it
all down with a freshly squeezed sugarcane juice so the sugarcane is rolled through
these massive heavy rollers and the juice is pressed out of it that way
it's really sweet and it's very refreshing in this heat. This food has
been absolutely epic and I just love this style of eating it's my favourite
sitting on the street with the traffic roaring past, just on a little stool, people
talking, locals coming, just popping by to grab a bite to eat for dinner. It's like my
favourite bit about Asia. Like Sheena was just talking about how she loves this
type of dining so do i and when you're in Malaysia if you're a tourist looking
to visit Malaysia or to KL or if you have been but you're coming back
everyone knows Jalan Alor that is the most famous street food street in KL but
there are so many other and better options like places like this. For starters
it's going to be next to no money compared to Jalan Alor because Jalan Alor is
very expensive and Jalan Alor is like the Disneyland of street food it's
packed with tourists but you can find these types of places so Jalan Peel where we are
which full of food options, full of locals, it's such a nice place to eat
let's try these chicken wings Oh
so tender I got some chilli sauce on there as well, it's really sweet it's got a little like
sour tang and then a good little kick is just coming in now but nothing
too major. The chicken just slips off the bone, the skin is
all slippery and silky oh my gosh
everyone has been ordering nasi lemak so we had to go and get a plate too
this place is really heating up, if you know of any other food streets that we
should check out whilst we're in KL please let us know in the comments below
and while you're down there we would love you to subscribe if you're enjoying our food and
travel videos. Nasi lemak is basically Malaysia's national dish and
it is made up of coconut rice, sambal, which is the chlili sauce, slices of
cucumber, boiled egg, ikan bilis which are fried anchovies and also roasted peanuts I
have added ayam rendang which is like a curry chicken and have also gone
completely off piste I know that a nasi lemak should not traditionally have these
two salads so I've added a bean sprout salad and a chopped bean salad but I just
couldn't resist because they just looked so good so please forgive this
untraditional version of nasi lemak that I have in front of me but
boy does this look good I'm just gonna try a bit of the rice and a bit of the
sambal with some ikan bilis and also some peanuts
I could eat nasi lemak all day long, it is just a really comforting dish all the
elements on the plate work together so well, that sambal has got a bit of a
fiery kick to it, the anchovies are really, really crunchy.
That was a great
stack of savouries, super fun love this eating on the street
I reckon we need some sweet stuff to finish up. It's time to find dessert I'm
gonna go get some. Sheena's picked up some Chinese dessert so soup basically but
sweet soup, there's an iced one and a hot one I've got the iced one in front of me I'm
going to give it a go it's full of bits and bobs so it's going to be really interesting to see
what's in here. It's got a really sort of a light brown colour
it's really sweet like almost some sort of cane-y sort of sugary sweet really
prominent but in a really nice way you can actually taste the sugar it's not just
a sweetness it's got quite a caramel-y, burnt flavour going on
which is really nice. I'll try and find... I got a little pink thing, what's that...
just some sort of pink jelly, it's all full I think there's longans so some fruit in here
as well. Mmmm so fresh longan ooo that's got a real burst of flavour that's
awesome I then there's like these really like jelly like noodles I for the life of me I
don't know what those are. They don't actually have much flavour but they're a
really cool texture each mouthful I'm taking I'm getting all these weird
little noodles, this is an awesome way to finish because it's really refreshing
because it's cold, the sweetness like I said it's not just a huge kick of sweetness
like a chocolate bar or something it's really got flavour in that sugar, that's super tasty
I'm gonna get Sheena to try the hot one and see what she thinks. This really is a bowl filled
with treats so I can see longan in mine as well, there's barley and I think she
said that there was white fungus in there
Like Thomas said it's very sweet but it does have a real beautiful mellow
caramelized flavour, great texture with the white fungus it's really crunchy and
I'm going to try a longan
wow that's a real burst of freshness you can really taste that fruit that is really
really good. It's really interesting I've just switched and I now have the hot one
and on my first bite now these are the same dish so that one is on ice this one
is out of a hot hot pot but it's exactly the same thing this now tastes
very spicy it's got a lot of flavour going on whereas that just doesn't at
all it just tastes more like that beautiful sugar and it's just to me it's
like having an apple out of the fridge or an apple out of a fruit bowl the one
out of the fruit bowl is going to be really floral and interesting whereas
the one out of the fridge is going to be crisp, crunchy and really refreshing it's a
really cool difference. I prefer the hot I feel like it just has a lot more flavour the
cold one now after having it after the hot one just feels almost bland. I
prefer the cold ah perfect! Swap ya!!
We are done and we cannot
recommend enough doing that if you're a tourist
definitely track down if it's this one so Jalan Peel so there's multiple
places like this but we really loved this place it was really good but like we
said earlier step outside Jalan Alor, see something different, the experience
is fantastic and your wallet will be very happy you did so and any locals
let us know down below where's your favorite place like this
where we can sit on the street get a range of stuff and just really enjoy these
balmy evenings. If you liked this video we would love you to give it a thumbs up we
hope we've inspired you eat and explore like a traveler, not a tourist we'll
see you next time, jumpa lagi!!