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Malay Cuisine

Malay cuisine is rich and spicy arising from the use of hard spices and a wet spice mixture of rempah and coconut milk. Malay cuisine varies from region to region. Kelantanese cuisine, akin to Thai cooking for example, has a sweetish taste due to liberal use of coconut milk and sugar in cooking. On the other hand, the cuisine of Kedah is spicier due to the influence of Indians who arrived here centuries ago during the spice trade. For the adventurous, there is an array of popular Malay dishes to tantalise their buds. A favourite with Malaysians is nasi lemak, rice cooked in coconut milk served with anchovies, squids, eggs, cucumber and sambal (chili paste). An East Coast favourite is nasi dagang, fragrant unpolished glutinous rice steamed with coconut milk and served with tuna fish curry. Nasi kerabu, another rice-based dish native to Kelantan, is served with local herbs and salted fish A Malay banquet would not be complete without the ever popular satay, skewered chicken or beef marinated in spices, the grilled over charcoal fire. It is served with peanut gravy, rice cubes, cucumber and onions..