The 50 sen nasi lemak at Warong Kaklong is plain and honest food. The chicken costs extra. – HungryGoWhere pic, January 4, 2016. The HungryGoWhere Malaysia foodies have voted in 50 of their favourite foods of 2015.
Feast your eyes on these delicacies, from quintessentially Malaysian dishes to exotic fare from the far corners of the earth, and then make it a 2016 resolution to try each and every one of them this year.
If you’d like to begin the year on an even more awesome note, take part in the HungryGoWhere and The Malaysian Insider’s Favourite Foods of 2015 contest, and you could walk home with a Nespresso Machine and other amazing prizes.
To give you a hint of what to expect from our top 50 picks, here’s just five of our discoveries from last year:
50 sen nasi lemak @ Warong Kaklong
Half a ringgit: need we say more? This is the epitome of plain and honest food. Stepping foot into Warong Kaklong is akin to travelling back in time when traffic jams and massive four-lane highways were a rarity.
Every morning, hundreds of packets of fragrant nasi lemak are neatly folded away and swept away by gleeful hands happy to tuck into this Malaysian comfort food. Our breakfast sojourn at Warong Kaklong typically consists of three packets of nasi lemak per person and a piece of their juicy, deep-fried chicken for a hearty start to the day.
We’ve got them wrapped around our finger here. – HungryGoWhere pic, January 4, 2016. Blanched octopus @ Law Cheang Kee
Similar to Ong Cheng Huat in Bagan Lalang, you’ll find delicious seafood at its best. Massive crowds throng this seafood restaurant in Nibong Tebal for its blanched octopus and there’s no reason not to follow the crowd.
Do not bother asking for any other cooking styles for the octopus as the waiting staff will politely tell you that nothing beats freshly blanched octopus drizzled with hot oil and fried garlic bits.
Now this is a Manchurian candidate. – HungryGoWhere pic, January 4, 2016Gobi Manchurian @ Betel Leaf
Located a walking distance from the Masjid Jamek LRT station, Betel Leaf is an extremely popular restaurant with the local working class, serving up authentic Chettinad cuisine.
You can get a set meal (RM16) of naan with six sides and papadum to start, but the gobi Manchurian is the dish served here that will change your life.
The cauliflower is stir-fried to perfection with onions, chillies and a special Indian-Chinese gravy, marrying two cuisines into one blissful dish.
The Indonesian butter prawns at Kam Kitchen swim in thick, creamy, sweet and salty sauce. – HungryGoWhere pic, January 4, 2016.Indonesian curry butter prawns @ Kam Kitchen
Picked for one of Cheras’s best hidden gem Chinese restaurants, Kam Kitchen holds its title for many things, but mainly this dish of Indonesian curry butter prawns. These prawns will have you throwing up a circular sign with your hands every time you tell your friends about them, just to show how big they are.
The sauce that these crustaceans are swimming in is thick, creamy, sweet and salty at the same time, and it will absolutely not do if you don’t have a side of fried mantau to soak every bit up.
Two fish heads are better than one. – HungryGoWhere pic, January 4, 2016Curry fish head @ Restoran Kari Kepala Ikan SG
Words do no justice to the curry fish head (RM78 for four pax) in Sri Gombak.
The curry is so rich, thick, and flavourful that you will see no issue in tapau-ing the rest of the curry home, even after the fish head has been scraped clean.
Made with the oil-rich grouper, this curry and fish combination is a foodie match made in heaven as the silky scraps of fish fall away cleanly, paired perfectly with this intense savoury curry. – January 4, 2016.
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