 Malaysia
City Excitement - Malaysian Food
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 Malaysian
food is not one particular kind of food but a culinary diversity
originating from Malaysia's multi-ethnic population of Malay,
Indian, Eurasia, Chinese, Nyonya and the Indigenous peoples
of Borneo.
The two best-known places to enjoy, indeed celebrate, Malaysia's
diverse cuisine are in KL and Penang. While KL has a 'coffee
shop', filled with hawker stalls, in every neighborhood, a
good bet is to head downtown to old Chinatown and Little India
to sample the mind-blowing - and cheap - range of food Malaysians
are rightly proud of.
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Penang, visitors can dine on local dishes from hawker stalls
that appear at night along the Esplanade on Gurney Drive,
while overlooking the Indian Ocean. Penang is well-known as
a 'Hawkers' Paradise'. City dwellers from KL and even Singapore
drive for hours on weekend getaways to feast and gorge themselves
on Penang's awesome hawker food!
Reputed as having the best local food, Penang has many hawker
centers, restaurants, kopitiams [Chinese coffee-shops], Mamak
[Indian-Muslim] stalls offering satay, assam laksa, roti canai,
char kwai teow and too-many-to-mention local culinary delights!
This cosmic array of food has now come to be known all over
the world as Malaysian Food. Here are some of the various
delicious and popular dishes from this gastronomic spectrum
of each unique ethnic kitchen.
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