Hi I'm Thomas and I'm Sheena and we're Chasing a Plate, it's dinnertime in
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and we're about to try a food that a lot of our subscribers
have said that we need to get stuck into and that is the Roti John, let's go see
what this sandwich is all about, we're hungry, let's eat!
We're with our friends Amry and Aida and they have brought us to Roti John Titiwangsa
which arguably has one of the most famous Roti John's in Kuala Lumpur and we
cannot wait to get in, it looks sensational to be honest it is blowing
my mind, there is so much deliciousness on this table so Roti John is
basically an omelette sandwich so they take a baguette they smother it in egg and then they
fill it with things like cabbage, cheese and then your choice of protein so we've
ordered a beef one, a tuna one and a chicken one, let's just eat it, it looks so
good. Like Sheena said these look so good we've heard a pretty cool story
about why they're called Roti John so Roti is just bread but the John bit is
pretty hilarious but it looks so good I'm gonna eat it first and we'll tell you
the story a little bit later on we love to give lots of information with the
food we eat so if you enjoy that too make sure you hit subscribe so that you can
follow along on our journey through Malaysia, so I've got some of the tuna
one here I've got a french fry how good is that when it's piled up with french
fries covered in sauce, it is so saucy I've just cut in and there's nothing but
sauce I can see a tiny bit of tuna I actually think there's quite a lot of
tuna but I just can't see it through the sauce
oh wow it's so eggy, so the egg was just laid on the grill and
then the breads on top of that it's stuffed so I can see definitely a lot
of mayonnaise, a lot of sauce, there's red cabbage
there's obviously tuna, as it's the tuna one, there's some sort of green vegetable but I'm not
sure what it is, it's like savoury French toast I'm so excited I'm
dropping all my cutlery it's like savoury French toast cos of that
egg on the outside let's have some more
omg crispy bits around the outside where it's got really hot on the grill,
all the sauce, a little bit of tuna flavour the bread or the roti-- what a
combo Sheena you the one closest to you is chicken I reckon you get into that
quick smart.
I'm gonna try the chicken version but first I've gotta get in and
try these chips covered in like a sweet chilli sauce
they're so good so this chicken one I can see chicken mince, there's cabbage and
you might notice that the chicken's a little bit dark and I said to Amry are you
sure this is the chicken one cos it looks like beef to me and he said it is
because the chicken is sunburnt, he's such a joker but actually in fact the chicken
has been marinated so it's minced and there's a lot of mayonnaise I can see
there and what's really cool is that the actual sandwich has been cut up into
sections so it's really easy to eat you're not actually having to grab it and like eat
one big whole piece anyway
very eggy and I can see what Thomas means when he says it's like a savoury
French toast but so much better than that the mayo is so creamy and actually
quite sweet and the bread is really soft it's not like when you think of a baguette
you sort of think of a crusty piece of bread but it's not at all like it's
just been soaked in that egg and then it's quite soft and then you've got the
crunch of the onions and some cabbage and that is one heck of a dinner.
I got
lucky and get to try the beef one first now I was expecting little bits of minced
beef but it's actually quite, quite reasonable sized bits of beef still
still kind of like a really thick mince but more like beef chunks which
surprised me and also there's just so much sauce in this one again is there cheese
in this one Amry? Yeah ah so there's cheese in there as well
hiding underneath and like I said earlier there's so much sauce it's kind
of hard to to pick the ingredients so let's try and taste the ingredients
oh yeah hahaha oh it's so good it really is all about the sauce the beef flavour's not
overly strong you can definitely taste it, there's some sort of sweet marinade
on the beef but it's all about the sauce and the egg I can't taste the cheese at
all but it's all about that sauce it's crazy it's spewing out the sides,
it's covered my plate, I'm eating with a knife and fork and I somehow have sauce
on my hands, it's just sauce everywhere these are gonna go down so
quick because the bread's also really soft, I thought this was gonna be like
a baguette style bun so a bit crunchy and tough to eat but it's actually like
a big long soft bun kind of looked like Subway buns up the front so big long
ones really soft and squishy and so because of all the sauce they're just
squishy and so so good to eat and then french fries what a combo loving it oh
yeah.
I'm gonna give this beef Roti John a go
this is going to become a new favourite it's just really satisfying, really hearty
street food so we are basically eating on the street
Roti John Titiwangsa is just a street stall there's traffic roaring
past it's open-air this is our kind of dining we love eating on the street and
this is so tasty, it's actually really light, for all the amount of sauce and the egg and the
fries it's actually really easy to eat, you don't take a few bites and go oh it's
gone straight to the bottom of my stomach it's just- actually it's
probably pretty dangerous because we're just gonna keep on eating
it's really it's like a burger so it tastes a lot like a burger and what I
heard going back to what I said earlier about the story of these I heard that
they used to call all Westerners or mat salleh, John in Malaysia this is back
in the 60s and they were all called John and so a guy called 'John' wanted a
hamburger but they didn't have hamburgers here then and so the seller
made him this Roti and then said basically said here eat this John or
eat this bread John or eat this roti John and so me the mat salleh or
the white man having his bread Roti John I like that story who knows if it's true
you never know with those stories but they've always got a cool tale
behind and this is just, it's so good oh, it's so good, it's
definitely worth trying if you're visiting Malaysia and if you are
Malaysian whereabouts do you like going for your Roti John, we've been brought
to this place by our friends and they have impeccable taste but let us know
where you go to have your Roti John where else should we try it?
Wow Wow Wow, so good, Roti John is amazing it's high on my list of fun
foods definitely not something you'd want to eat every day but super fun,
super tasty and super different to anything I've had anywhere in the world
let alone in Malaysia great, amazing, if you enjoyed this video please give it a
thumbs up we hope we inspired you to eat and explore like a traveler not a
tourist we'll see you next time, thank you for watching, jumpa lagi