we're in Melaka, Malaysia and we're taking you on a breakfast food tour
there is gonna be tonnes of delicious food and we're filming with another food
YouTuber Luke Martin, I'm Thomas and I'm Sheena and we're Chasing a Plate we hope
you're hungry, let's eat
first stop on the breakfast tour is mee goreng, fried noodles
but the locals call it mee bodoh which means stupid
noodles it's made up of these wok fried yellow
noodles, I can see bean sprouts, there's a dollop of sambal on there which looks
super fiery and then some beautiful shredded cucumber which is fresh and then
there's this incredible looking egg
it was deep fried in like a huge ladle of sambal and it is just fiery
red I cannot wait to get into this, so we're here with our mate Luke Martin
who also has a YouTube channel- hey guys!
and we are so excited to be eating this, bring it on
these noodles look incredible let's give them a huge old mix up
the noodles are just glistening with that sambal, like the oil from the sambal has just coated the noodles
and it looks so good, I'm going to get a spoonful with noodles and a bit of
cucumber for freshness
I've gotta get some cucumbers in there too
Do it
Alright? Alright, go!
that sambal is quite fiery!
a little bit salty too but really spicy like that is just a whole
mouth spicy
yea like your whole mouth is just tingling
that is so beautiful
yea that is delicious
it's a really simple dish though
Yeah, yeah but it's really just you can taste the wok in there and the way that
he's cooking is just amazing let's try this egg, oh my gosh it just looks
incredible and I reckon if we break into that yolk it's just gonna explode
everywhere look at that, that is a perfect egg, it is gorgeous!
alright I'm gonna chuck some cucumber and a bit more sambal on there as well,
lets do it, cheers, that's a big mouthful!
that yolk is so creamy! That is so far from over-cooked, that is perfect egg.
I want eggs like that every morning! Yea.
On the table there's also some kicap manis
which is sweet soy sauce and some vinegar and we've seen the locals sort of add
bits to their noodles so I reckon we give it a go. I can imagine the vinegar would sort of
cut through the heaviness of the noodles so let's taste and see. I love vinegar on
anything is good, yeah absolutely
you need that! Vinegar is a must on the mee bodoh. That is a sensational start to our breakfast tour. Definitely!
these are incredible, incredible they're very spicy, the sambal just coats the
noodles these are like no mee goreng I've ever had, that amount of sambal that
crazy, good egg it just goes together so, so well remember down
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I love these noodles and watching them cook them here this place is absolutely ragingly
busy it's really early in the morning we've come here at 8:30 in the
morning the locals are piling in, there's a guy with a
huge wok just cooking, cooking, cooking those noodles and tossing them
in that huge wok, getting that real wok hei through the dish and that
flavour you can tell that that that wok has been cooking noodles for years and then
there's the eggs cooking, just sitting in the oil, bubbling away and they're
just so soft and perfectly cooked covered in that sambal and in that oil match
made in heaven and we can see why this place is raging because it is so
good and if you're in Melaka you have to put this on your list of places to
try, incredible dish. Oh I forgot to say the stupid noodle thing we don't actually
know why it's called that, I asked the staff here and he said it's because of
the customers but I don't think he was meaning the customers are stupid I think
he meant the customers came up with the name, we're not really sure why, Luke had
a really good option though he thinks it's called that because it's stupidly
good so I'm gonna go with Luke's decision because it is stupidly good
next stop Malaysia's national dish we're heading in for a nasi lemak
on to our second stop the nasi lemak so to break this dish down we have the sort
of the centre of the dish and one of the most important parts the rice, the rice
is always cooked in coconut milk so it has a really fragrant coconut taste and
there'll be pandan leaves in there while it's cooked to really give it a
fragrant, fragrant taste, second most important part of this dish
the sambal and this one is quite dark so it might be a little bit sweeter
although it has a real fiery sort of oil coming out of it but often when they're
darker it's because they've cooked down a little bit more so the sugars come out
of the, out of the sambal, but we'll have to taste that to know for sure
we've got the half boiled egg we've got the cucumber's just to freshen it up we've got
ikan bilis which is the fried anchovies but the really exciting thing on this
plate is this entire quail so deep fried whole quail that's going to be really
interesting to try, it looks like it's really juicy still, let's just get in and
try I'm gonna try the rice and the sambal the rice is quite dry oh and nice
but it falls apart so it's not a little gluggy, let's get some rice and some sambal
oh it is really sweet that sambal, it's got a little like tingling kick afterwards
or lingering kick but it's not that spicy at all oh and the rice it's so
soft and fluffy let's rip open some of this quail though
Wow so there's not much flesh on it really just go for a bit of this leg
meat it is so juicy, so we have some quail, let's get some rice and some
sambal, now Luke is filming his one at the moment so we're gonna eat this
together in a minute so don't worry we haven't lost Luke
oh the quail, that is perfectly cooked sometimes with whole deep-fried things
like this they can go over I find like get a bit too overcooked but that is so
juicy, this is great I can't wait to get right in, pile all these ingredients
together and try this out and to see what Luke thinks, Luke has jumped in
and tried his first bite, what did you think? Oh it's so good this quail is unreal
it's super juicy on the inside, he just suggested that we go for a big bite just
to try the quail and Luke, Luke was mentioning in this video that the quail
is breaded or has spice on it, some sort of mix so it's got some
flavouring so we're just gonna go in, yeah, for a big bite of quail, yeah, by
itself right on the breast, all right cheers!
it's got a bit of a gaminess in that breast meat and it's a bit darker than
the leg meat I had. Definitely. And the spice is very mild there's no like punchy
flavour from the spice, it's the overriding taste is quail
I'd have to say
the breast meat is a little bit drier than the leg bit I had, yeah, but still really good. Yum.
mm-hmm now I think we should try everything, yeah, because before obviously I
just had the rice and the sambal, let's do a bite with these ikan bilis or
these anchovies, so they had a real nice saltiness to the dish
we'll get the rice, we've got the sambal
rip off a bit of that quail, you going for some leg meat? Yeah good to go? Yep
oh that saltiness of the ikan bilis just gonna pop another one of those in
those are awesome little crunchies, how they add the texture, yeah, they give a
saltiness and a textural element to the dish and then you've got these cucumbers
that you can chase it all with so there's a bit of sweetness and spice and then that
everything together it just goes so well each component has its own unique taste
saltiness, spiciness, sweet everything it just goes really well together perfect dish
yeah and that quail too! Loving it eh? The quail really adds to this dish and it's
so different to anything we've seen, yeah, these are gonna be devoured
very quickly, very quickly
our final stop for the day is Aunty Koh's famous cendol, so we have been here before
we'll link our video up here but we just had to bring Luke and his girlfriend
Sabrina because this is a must eat when you're in Melaka, yeah I'm super
excited let's go, let's go!
so as I mentioned before we have visited Aunty Koh previously we'll link
the video up there, the ice is melting rapidly in this cendol and we have
got to get in quick smart so we're gonna be filming for Luke's channel, now what
makes Aunty Koh's cendol so special is that she makes the coconut milk fresh so
she got up last night at 1:00 a.m. to press 30 coconuts, yeah she said 30 coconuts, this is fresh as fresh gets so
this is bout as fresh as it gets, it looks amazing. What have we got? We've got the little cendol
noodles right? And they're green from pandan which she actually also has right
over in the back garden over here so it is extremely fresh
so there's also shaved ice and then there's gula melaka syrup which is sugar syrup from the coconut palm
let's just get in you, we can't let it melt
Woah that coconut, so creamy right? Wow it's so creamy and just you can just taste this it's
so fresh and those little kind of like worm like noodles in there those have such a
cool texture along with that shaved ice, but man oh man that coconut flavour it's like almost like
you're drinking coconut water but super super, super, creamy too - that's amazing you
can taste like we've eaten quite a bit of cendol, you can taste that is as fresh as it gets really. This is quality right here
another incredible day of food hunting we've had so much fun hanging out with Luke remember his
channel is down in the description make sure you pop over there hit subscribe, he is
so worth following an amazing food channel, 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, jumpa lagi!