Hi I'm Thomas and I'm Sheena and we're Chasing a Plate tonight we're at a night
market or a pasar malam in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia we've visited night markets all
around Asia and we're super excited with to explore this one. Plus we've heard there's
something really smelly that we have to try and eat tonight
Let's eat. So we're at Sri Petaling night market and it is so buzzy there's so many people
around, it's really loud and there's a tonne of street food to sample and lots of little
different stalls to shop at. We've got our first snack. Fish sate. I've never seen
fish sate ever and I'm a really interested to try it it's
been doused in chilli sauce I think
It's been cooked over charcoal and it tastes a bit like fish cake, it's quite chewy. I wouldn't pick
it as fish if I didn't know what it was
it's got a really beautiful flavor from the charcoal and that sweet chilli sauce
works perfectly with it. Really interesting. So we just walked past these steaming baskets of dim sum
or Chinese or Cantonese dumplings that you see when you go and have yum cha
at a Chinese restaurant for lunch. This is a shui mai it's pork and
it's just encased in a dumpling skin it looks really tasty so they've all just
been steamed in the giant bamboo basket and they were all so colorful we just couldn't resist
That's a really good shui mai. Sometimes I find shui mai a little bit boring
because it literally is just pork in a dumpling skin but that one has got lots and lots
of flavour and its really tender and soft. That's good. We also got
this one here. I must have misheard him because I asked
him what type it was and I think he said wine flavoured which doesn't make
any sense because it's a dumpling but I thought why not it's wine flavoured I'll give it a
go
It's definitely not wine flavoured. It's got pork in it, it's got some mushroom and again that
dumpling skin around the edges- it's really good these are some great snacks
This market or pasar malam is awesome there's just a whole range
of cuisines we've been walking around we've seen Taiwanese food, there's Chinese, Malay all sorts
can't wait to eat more, lets go and find some more food.
So when the street vendor told me that he had a
wine flavored dim sum in my head I was thinking a Sauvignon Blanc or a
Riesling but then as we kept eating it Thomas of course said hey it tastes
exactly like shao hsing cooking wine so Chinese cooking wine duh of course. If
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we upload. This market is so exciting let's go explore some more
next up we've found a popiah stall, we're not entirely sure what this is but we're
going to try our best but while we're onto trying very traditional, different
things we want to know what we should be trying and we need you guys to help us
with that so let us know in the comments while we're in Malaysia and we're here
for two months at least, what we should be trying there's so much amazing food
in this country. So it looks like sort of a rice crepe or a pancake, very thin,
it's filled with looks like maybe lots of pickled vege or something I'm just going to try
it. Mmmm it's like a spring roll
it's got some real crunchiness which I think maybe garlic or fried onion so
lots of vegetables, I can see carrots, some onions and some green stuff some
white stuff maybe it's some daikon or something like that or a radish it's a
beautiful flavour it's quite a simple flavour they also put a really thick dark
sweet sauce on which I think is some sort of bean sauce this is a really
beautiful dish like I said very simple a great snack we're doing very well on
finding good snacks tonight.
We smelt something really stinky as we walked
into the pasar malam and it turned out to be stinky tofu we first had this
when we were in Taiwan and we became addicted to it, now it really does stink
like it smells like sewerage but you absolutely have to get past that smell
and eat the stuff because it is insanely delicious
it comes covered in like a chilli sauce and then there's some pickles on top
so I'm just going to dive right in and give it a go I've been missing this stuff. Mmmmmmm
the crisp shell of the tofu because it's been deep fried and then the centre is so
soft it just tastes so beautiful. It doesn't taste too much like what it smells like
you can definitely taste the fermented um fermented-ness of it because that's what
stinky tofu is, fermented tofu but that is just heavenly
now there is a definite smell of petrol in this market from all the generators
but this smell stands out above everything else
now I have a bit of a thing for bad smells and I think this is gorgeous I
don't think it's bad at all but most people think it is terrible, it looks so
good they're these huge vats over here just bubbling away where all the
fermented tofu bits have been cut up and just dumped into the boiling hot oil and
just like Sheena, I have missed this so much since we were in Taiwan
ah all the juice came out from inside it's crunchy on the outside or almost chewy
a slight like crunch and then it goes chewy, the inside is really soft just beautiful
soft tofu you get that flavour from in the centre where it's not been touched
by the by the oil, that cabbage on top the chilli sauce I did not think we'd be
finding this in Malaysia because I thought it was just in Taiwan- amazing
can we find this anywhere else in Malaysia? Let us know please because what a
dish it is awesome!
it's really hot here so we got a sour
plum, lime and lemon juice so refreshing. We're on to desserts and we walked past
this amazing vendor called Murtabak Sam whose selling this souped-up
apam balik or Malaysian pancake we first tried these pancakes a while ago when
we were last in Malaysia and we also did a videos of trying Malaysian sweets and
we try the apam balik in that video we'll link it up there. This looks
absolutely incredible because it's such got a riot of different ingredients in it
the pancake batter has been made with pandan juice as well as bamboo charcoal
and then there's
peanuts, toasted coconut, corn
It is so flavoursome that is absolutely heavenly there's so much
texture from the nuts and the coconut and the corn. It's a bit like the texture
of a crumpet. Wow.
that is magic
we've picked up our last thing but we're
too full to eat it but it's a cake for Sheena because yesterday was her
birthday and I was a useless husband and didn't get her a cake so now she has a pandan
Swiss roll. Pandan is my absolute favourite flavour so I'm excited to get
into this. Sri Petaling night market was absolutely amazing you have to come
here if you're in Kuala Lumpur they're only open on Tuesday nights but we've heard that
there there are some other great Pasar Malams around Kuala Lumpur and we
really want to check them out if you have some favorites please let us know
what they are in the comments below. If you enjoyed this video we would love you
to give it a thumbs up we'll see you next time we hope we've
inspired you to eat and explore like a traveler, not a
tourist. Selamat tinggal
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