Whenever I am getting ready to travel somewhere food is the first thing that I think about. Am I going to like it? Is it going to cost a lot? What is it going to taste like? As soon as I found out that I was going to Malaysia for a month I had to learn more about the food. After doing some reading and watching some you-tube videos. I thought that it looked
a lot like Indian food. I thought that I have cooked some Indian food before so why couldn’t I cook some dishes served in Malaysia. After spending
some time trying to find a recipe that I thought that I could find all of the ingredients for I decided to do a google search to try and find a restaurant. I found Jenny’s Kuali. I made a phone call to one of my adventurous friends and we were off.
Little did I know that I just found one of the best restaurants in the area. When we arrived it was packed! The restaurant was filled with the smell of curry! Once we got a table we looked over the menu and I started to get worried. The menu was filled with a lot of little chili peppers next to the descriptions of each menu item meaning spicy!!
Normally when I see those I do not order them because I do not like spicy food but I figured that I am going to have to eat it for one month I can eat it for one meal. We ordered Dim sum and Roti Canai for appetizers, Mee Goreng and Nasi Goreng for entrees and followed up the end of the meal with banana fritters and black rice tapioca pudding. We were clearly hungry. We were really surprised at how good all of the food tasted. Some of the food was a little spicy for me. I did learn how to handle some of the spice though. You can always order white rice and mix the food with rice to cut down on the heat. I noticed that the hot tea that we were drinking really helped to cut down on the heat as well.
Pictured from left to right, Roti Canai with curry dipping sauce, Nasi Goreng with Shrimp, Mee Goreng with Chicken and one Dim Sum, black rice tapioca pudding, banana fritters
Overall we loved it and if anyone is ever in Allentown, PA and want to go out to eat I will go with!!
The next thing that I did was try to cook at home. I made beef randang. It took a long time to make but made my house smell so great. When I was done cooking I was so excited to eat it! When I started to eat it my mouth was on fire!! I ate a lot of rice that night but my husband really liked and did not think that it was to spicy.
After eating and trying these things I summarize the food in Malaysia to be a cross between Chinese and Indian food. I am really excited to see if the food will be as good as I think it will be! Since trying some of the food, doing some research, and increasing my tolerance for spicy foods I feel that I am ready to take on eating in Malaysia!