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Gorham Bridge, Darien, CT.
Need to go to Charlottesville again sometime.
Someone take me to Hainan pl0x.
I wanna go to Nantucket.
Oh and by the way, at the restaurant where I was eating my nasi goreng, look at what just happened to fly by my table. AMAZING.
(via chinatravels)
I figure now that I’ve returned from Malaysia, and I’ve had a chance to try everything, now’s the time for…wait for it…
…THE FOOD POST.
Let me just start off by saying that I love, LOVE, LOVE Malay/Indonesian food. So many combinations of flavors in a dish: Sweet, salty, savory, and spicy!
1.) I’ll start off with the dish perhaps most associated with Malaysia. Satay. I had satay on multiple occasions in Kuala Lumpur. Simple grilled meat on a stick, what could be better? The perfect street food.
2.) Roti Canai. Pretty simple, but still very tasty. Flat bread with curry and sambal (a chili paste).
3.) Perhaps my favorite dish in Malaysia: Wonton mee. A soup with wonton, char siu (a sweet bbq pork) with noodles in a rich broth. Mmm, my mouth is salivating right now.
4.) Mutabak: An Arabic dish known as Murtabak, that came to Malaysia via India. Thin pastry dough with curried mutton, onions, and cabbage. Really tasty, but a bit too rich to eat often.
5.) Nasi goreng: Fried Rice, Malay/Indonesian style. I make this dish all the time back in Virginia, but I prepare it a little differently. Here it’s served with fried egg, satay, papadums, and ayam goreng (fried chicken). I was really impressed by the presentation, and the taste was really good as well. The way I make at home is basically the same, except I add a boat-load of garlic, as well as garam masala to the rice.
6.) Kuey Teow: Stir-fried rice noodles with bean sprouts and meat, done in a Cantonese style. This was also really, really good; probably my second favorite dish here.
7.) Hainanese Chicken Rice: Pretty self explanitory. Chicken + rice. Back in Singapore this was my favorite dish, and I perhaps my most favorite dish EVER. The version I had in Kuala Lumpur was great, but it just didn’t compare to the one I had in Singapore.
I hope you enjoyed!
