We’re in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia and we want to try some different foods here.
We’ve heard amazing things about the street food in particular.
Of course, one of the best things about street food
is that it’s everywhere, it’s cheap, it’s cheerful.
So in this video you’re going to see us try a whole bunch of them,
starting with this.
This is bandung and she made this special for me.
It’s rose cordial with ice and evaporated milk.
It’s nice and cold in my hand ‘cause it’s really hot.
That’s good.
This is a really popular dessert in Malaysia.
You’ll see it all over.
It’s called an ABC, which means mixed ice.
ABC is an acronym for Air Batu Campur, which means ‘mixed ice’,
and it’s really, really popular
and traditionally the ice shavings come out of a machine that you can either
sort of churn with your hand or, more often now, you see motorized ice machines.
They come with all sorts of different toppings but this particular ABC
has sweet corn and sweet milk, which is a mix of evaporated milk and condensed milk
and then there are orange jellies and rose jellies and on top this hot pink syrup is agar agar syrup.
And I love the pink spoon to match.
And when it first came out my first thought was,
‘Oh my god, this is what I would order at Malibu Barbie’s House.’
Anyone who grew up playing with Barbies,
this is what you imagine them eating on their little picnic table by the beach,
I swear to god.
I am so excited to try this.
I mean, have you ever?!
Like look at how beautiful this is.
The shaved ice is like a snow cone.
It’s so hot here and this is going to cool me right down.
Ok I can’t wait anymore.
I don’t even know where to start.
Maybe I’ll…maybe I’ll take a sip first.
I got a piece of sweet corn stuck in the straw.
There is definitely corn in there.
Wow, I have never thought of putting sweet corn in a dessert,
especially like an iced dessert.
It’s really good actually.
It doesn’t…like it tastes a bit odd at first
because I’ve…I don’t associate it with a dessert but it’s really good.
And the crunch as it comes up the straw is so good.
It’s kind of like an iceberg if the ocean were hot pink coloured.
The pink syrup, because of the sweet milk that’s in it, it’s like a rose bath.
Like if a rose bathed in condensed milk.
That’s what I’m picturing right now.
In Barbie’s Malibu house.
I was afraid that it would just be beautiful and not taste good.
Definitely both.
I’m always a fan of being able to slurp or scoop.
Lots of options.
This, you would never guess, is the arch villain of street food.
This little guy is banned almost everywhere.
This is durian fruit
and it looks kind of like the backpack of a Ninja Turtle
and this is what you find inside.
It is the craziest, weirdest texture.
It kind of looks like a liver or something
and it has such a spongy...
can you see how it just like moves under my finger?
It doesn’t, like, break it just sort of moves around.
It honestly feels so, so strange.
I’ve never had durian fruit before despite travelling through lots of parts of Asia
where there are big signs that say ‘NO DURIAN’
and always wondered like, ‘What’s wrong with this little guy?’
So I’m finally going to try it now.
Apparently it’s the smell, it’s the smell of the durian,
and I have to tell you I have a really good sense of smell, right Marc?
Yeah.
As my Mom says, ‘I smell smells that don’t even smell’ so you can trust me.
I gotta tell you there’s nothing offensive about this smell.
Like I’m not about to, like, rub it all over myself as a perfume or anything but
I really don’t understand why this is such a… perceived to be such a foul-smelling fruit.
I really don’t get it so…
Oh.
Oh that’s weird.
That’s…that’s real, real weird.
It tastes like a mashed up banana with less flavour.
Actually it doesn’t have a strong flavour.
Whoa, that’s bizarre.
I can’t say I like it.
Like I don’t…I’m not loving what I’m tasting right now
but, again, there’s nothing offensive about it to me.
I can’t figure out why this is such a villain.
It’s so cute!
What’s wrong with it?
Like I’m not loving it but I’m certainly not hating it either
and it is a crazy texture.
Look at this!
Look at that weird texture.
Final verdict about durian: don’t love it but definitely don’t hate it.
Oh yeah, that’s the face of pure ecstasy.
Not…not a fan.
Is durian your new favourite fruit?
Not a fan.
But it is fun to play with.
Final verdict?
Absolutely horrible.
Like stinky socks.
Harsh.
But it is fun to play with.
This is Nasi Lemak.
It’s usually a breakfast food but they’re selling them to go here so we couldn’t resist
and normally this is served in a banana leaf but because it’s to go…
and they even gave us two spoons ‘cause we’re going to share which was really nice.
It’s rice with egg and bean.
The red sauce I’m not sure.
I think it’s chilli but I’m sure I’ll figure that out once I put it in my mouth
and then fish.
This is very traditional and they’re selling like hot cakes over here so
we were lucky to grab one.
This rice has this beautiful golden colour.
It’s kind of camouflaged with the yellow spoon right now.
It smells good.
Whoa, there’s a lot of different flavours in that one bite.
I was expecting to not like the fish but it’s very mild
and the bean gives this great crunch
and that rice…oh, so fragrant.
I actually think…I think this is peanut.
I don’t know even what I’m eating anymore.
It may have got lost in translation there because it’s so crunchy and it tastes like a peanut.
That’s a peanut.
Ok takes that to the next level because I love peanuts.
So it’s peanuts with their skins on.
That’s why they were disguised from me, concealing their true identities as peanuts.
Mmm that’s good!
Man, I could down this bag in…real quick.
I can see why people are ordering like five or six to go at a time.
I found the egg.
I LOVE boiled eggs.
This is like my go to cheap travel protein.
Yes.
Nasi Lemak, I love you.
I can’t stop looking at how cool this drink looks and feels in my hand.
This is called Cendol.
It’s really popular in Malaysia.
This is a drink form.
I’ve also seen it served more with a spoon and a bowl
but this is more portable so I prefer this
and it’s so cool to see how she was making it.
She starts with these little green almost blades of grass looking things.
They’re grass jelly and then this dark molasses coloured syrup elixir at the bottom is sugar.
Basically just pure sugar
and then she adds shaved ice to cool it down
and on top two types of sweet milk.
So first a creamer, a sweet creamer,
and then condensed milk
with a big ‘ol straw
and I haven’t tried this yet in this form but it is really popular in Malaysia
and it’s very hot so I cannot wait to try this.
Oh!
Oh my god, that’s good!
I guess it doesn’t hurt that there’s, like, this much sugar in it
but…this nice big straw.
It’s like for, you know, like a bubble tea straw almost
and the grass jellies come up as you’re sipping and it is cold.
It’s like pouring maple syrup on snow in Canada or something.
This is like the Malay equivalent of that.
It’s so refreshing...
and that shaved ice?!
Wow.
Wow, that’s good.
I wish I could just hand this through the screen so you could just try it too.
That’s how good it is.
Cool and sweet.
Exactly what I wanted.
Oh, it’s so sweet!
It’s so cooling though.
But, oh my god, I don’t think I’ve ever had a drink this sweet before.
I love it.
There must be a litre of condensed milk in there.
Well you saw how much of the dark sugar she put in.
Kids would love this!
Parents, get your kids Cendol.
And then leave them at someone else’s house.
Kacang Hijau also known as fried green bean.
I love green beans but I’ve never had them fried in this sort of patty form so
I’m curious what it’s going to taste like.
Oh, it’s really sweet.
It tastes like a dessert.
I wasn’t expecting that at all.
Oh man, I thought it would be really savoury.
To be honest, I can’t detect any green bean in this fried green bean.
Let’s try it again.
No.
It’s really good.
It has kind of a…a mealy texture.
It’s very sweet.
Doesn’t taste like green bean at all, which isn’t a good or bad thing.
It’s just very unexpected.
A street food I think everyone can get behind: this is a samosa,
also known here in Malaysia as a curry puff,
and this particular one has curry and potato inside.
It’s not crazy spicy, thank god.
I was a little bit worried.
You can see inside little chunks of potato and that beautiful curry.
I wish they lasted more than a few bites.
Marc and I love trying street food and in Malaysia we’ve eaten some really tasty things.
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