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Cuisines in Malaysia

Malaysia is a food paradise. Regardless the nature of your events, there will be myriad variety of food features and meets the need of your events.

Different states in Malaysia have its own specialty dish, reflected from the culture and traditions from different ethnic community.

In Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia incorporate all of these flavours, including International and fusion cuisine.

A popular dish of Malaysia includes Satay, meat on skewers barbequed over flaming charcoal and served with peanut gravy.

Another popular local food is the Roti Canai. The action of flipping the Roti canai is a sight to behold as the chef flip and turn the dough to make it fluffy and crispy as the pancake sizzled over the hot metal plate.

Other famous must try in Malaysia is Teh Tarik, literally translated to be "tea pulling". The tea is poured to and fro between each cup, to cool the beverage and also form a frothy top of the delicious tea with milk, to be enjoyed during any time of the day.

Further south from the capital, is the state of Malacca, another foodie haven; which brings you cuisine influenced by the European culture.

Peranakans, the descendants of Portuguese and Baba-Nyonyas or Straits-born Chinese had brought in their traditions of cooking 400 years ago, as they colonized or migrated to Malacca.

Peranakan cuisine, with its unique blend of spice paste, pounded herbs, lemon grass and shallots, which makes the traditional food rich in flavours.

As the peninsular of Malaysia is surrounded by water, abundant marine life and variety of fishery would attract any guests to indulge in a banquet of fancy seafood, cooked in any way you requested for.

 

 

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