Malaysian Food in Melaka 🇲🇾 SPECIAL SATAY + Asam Pedas and Chicken Rice Balls | Malacca, Malaysia!

hey everyone I hope you're having an amazing day at smart Queens I'm in Malacca Malaysia which is one of the most historically significant cities in Malaysia it's an incredible City just to walk around it's a heritage city and it also happens to have some incredibly delicious food and so today we're gonna go on a Malaysian food tour of Malacca we're gonna eat a bunch of delicious food that's about 9:00 a.m. we're getting started for breakfast [Music] to begin this food tour of Malacca today we're right in the old city we're right in the heart of the heritage town on Jonker Street and one of the things that's very very famous to eat is chicken and rice but it's a it's a unique to Malacca style and so we've just arrived at the restaurant it's my guess okay so along this street and in Malacca they are famous for chicken but not just chicken rice but chicken rice balls so thank you very much here comes the chicken thank you oh my god man you'll find quite a few restaurants in Malacca that serve chicken rice balls but when I asked my friend Agnes Thank You Agnes and my friend Agnes is from Malacca she said this is where she comes to eat chicken rice balls so this is where we are to begin this food tour of Malacca starting the day with some some comfort food is the three components to this dish one is the chicken which is boiled then you have the rice which is cooked with the chicken broth and in this unique case in Malacca they're formed into little bite-sized balls before they serve them which is very unique and then the third component is the sauce and before trying that sauce and we're just going to try one of the rice balls similar to like a fish ball shape it's a much difference like much cooler texture than if you just had a plate of steamed rice much more moist and wet and then really like vibrantly chicken eat you do taste like the the real like smoky aroma of the chicken I'll grab this guy chicken appears to be quite moist and oily yeah it is I think it has a sesame kind of taste to it this is very juicy oily and it's not like ultra ultra tender it does have some like chewy texture to it which I like in a chicken okay and then finally to try that sauce I'll dip my the remaining bite of this chicken into the sauce oh the sauce is like very vinegary I wasn't expecting to be more of a sour it's nice and sour its garlicky and ginger and then just a little bit spicy from the chiles but you really the the vinegar comes in nicely I like that that kind I like cuts the the oiliness of the chicken okay moving back for a rice ball and this for this rice ball I'm just gonna submerge and let it just roll around in that sauce and I think the next test is to bike out the the rice ball so we can see the the cross-section it's like almost at this stage before it becomes a porridge yet like almost together so it's really like it's really easy to eat and like the vibrancy of the chicken new neat rice ball is is what's really enjoyable to me and their sauce is really good I think that there might be some sesame oil in there it's um it's very like chicken juicy and you want a mop-up here you want that sauce to be mopped up in your chicken you want it to absorb that all you can [Music] and that completes Hainanese chicken rice balls melaka style breakfast was excellent the chicken rice balls yeah that's just something it's its iconic but it's actually pretty good we have about 30 minutes until the next restaurant opens which by the way is gonna be one of the ultimate one of the I think it's one of the iconic representative dishes foods of Malacca but anyway right in the historic center of Malacca Malacca is a unesco world heritage site for its preservation of history and his preservation of the of the central town area but as you're walking around you notice all of the different cultures it's early a melting pot of that they have influenced them that have made Malacca what it is today the British the Portuguese the Dutch Chinese and Indian and even Malacca the name Malacca comes from Malacca tree I believe this is the real malacca tree which is also we just looked up it's also the Indian gooseberry so it has an animal fruit correct me if I'm wrong but I think this is the Indian gooseberry and this is what we we just found one on the ground okay we got to move now though it's time to go eat the next meal [Music] this is a restaurant that's very well-known for their awesome pedis which is one of the iconic dishes of melaka something you have to eat when you're here very excited to try it which one is like the specialty Sam hey Dwight sniffing okay this is Cindy love catfish [Music] okay so Hasan pedis this is a dish that I have been looking forward to for all day since this morning since I've been thinking about Malacca I ordered a couple of different fish one this one he said I believe it's barramundi barramundi it's uh Asian sea bass I think then a mackerel short head Indian mackerel and then a piece of stingray and this sauce it just looks so rich there's spice in it it's red there's a little bit of oil there's okra in here that looks incredible I'm gonna start with actually maybe I'll just try some of that that sauce first oh that's awesome it looks like really really spicy but it's actually not very spicy but the fragrance is amazing you taste like I could be wrong but to meet my like initial taste that I get is torch ginger flower I'm not totally sure but it does kind of have like a floral sour gingery taste to it it's what I like is it's not too salty it's like balanced with sourness and yeah it's not nearly as spicy as it looks but it is really incredibly flavorful and delicious and I'm gonna reach in with my fingers which is the the typical way to eat in Malaysia just kind of mix everything around and it works so well because then you get to mash up everything you mix the rice you see how you can even leave without with a fork or spoon you wouldn't be able to mix everything and get all the sauce coating each grain of rice like this it's really good it's really soothing it's not like extremely sour but it's like a balanced sour net that so that just like works well with the the floral kind of earthy taste of it and then the fish is really good you can taste the freshness of the fish moving on to the mackerel and I'm gonna take off a piece of the side of this mackerel and you're gonna want to just completely let as much of that sauce just absorb into every piece of fish and every piece of and every single bite that you take and for this part I'm gonna shut these shell my my salted eggs the salted preserved eggs so you kind of got to scoop it out of the shell and they serve this with to us on every plate of rice I'll grab a little piece of this salted egg this bite mix it into the fish and the awesome hit us [Music] like a salty kind of starchy cheesiness of the egg okay and then the final awesome dentist that we got is the Stingray you got a nice stingray steak here and again it's the same as I'm paid us with okra in it I'll take some of the sting ray I'll string it apart because there's a whole like kind of bone structure running through it onto my rice this is a gravy that's just made for rice it would it just it just makes rice complete and you know what also I potentially taste in the house I'm batters is shrimp paste you can tell piece that like complexity of saltiness and then I also ordered a plate of vegetables with sambal belacan which is the shrimp paste shrimp paste some ball some type of chunk in there to them well that is wonderful that is now that's a sharp sourness it almost tastes like I think it's actually the fuel of the lime that's the kind of pickle then then there it's very sour a little bit spicy you taste the shrimp paste in there oh man that's like a that is the jolt of lever okay I'll try one of the okras next rehydrate it bursting with that sour spicy sauce my favorite is the Asian sea bass the barramundi I believe that's what it is it is the meaty them the most meaty and also I think the most flavor absorbs into it and kind of soaks it up and that's exactly what you want to happen [Music] this is an extraordinary dish [Music] iced lemon tea one of my favorite drinks in Malaysia that was an incredible meal that awesome fit us it's something that you've got to eat when you come to Malacca and you should go out of your way to eat it this is a great place it's called pokémon they're friendly here it's a whole food court you can order all sorts an assortment of different food awesome hit us is the highlight but again you will find this dish throughout my laka that meal was so good it's one of those meals where you just want to lean back in your chair a couple of seats and if we didn't have more to eat today we would probably just call it a day right here sit in the breeze relax the ocean breeze is coming in that's just a happy happy meal one of the things a lot of people eat and just well drink when they come to Malacca is a coconut shake and there's quite a few places that are famous especially close by to the beach for coconut shakes this is a very very well known place for the original clay bung original coconut shake it almost has like an amusement-park feel to it there's a red arch that you go under to come in here they have the pile of coconuts it's it's a very family family-friendly place what is the special regulars no ice cream yeah ice cream [Music] this is one of those tables that if your knee bumps it it might collapse okay got two different coconut shakes one is the special and one is the regular they're both the same just this special comes with a scoop of ice cream on top and you've got to eat it pretty fast before the entire thing melts on you but I'm not totally sure what's in here it's a combination of both the coconut water and coconut milk yeah you taste the vanilla ice cream you the ice is like it's kind of like it's not a fine fine ice so it's sort of you crunch on it it's very icy cold and you taste the the coconut I think it's mostly coconut water maybe a little bit of coconut milk at the same time this one is a regular didn't come with a spoon because it's you just stir it up yeah it's definitely even the regular one does have a little bit of a vanilla taste to it but it's sweet tend to think there might actually now that I look at it closer there might actually be the meat a little bit of a meat of the coconut plus some of the water in here that's blended up yeah thoroughly like something you would want to be eating like after you go to the beach you're hot you come here this is a beach drink that's what it is and then just we couldn't resist one real fresh coconut look how much water is in there that's loaded yeah this is what I prefer this is my favorite just the natural coconut the slight sourness the natural sweetness the refreshment yeah for me nothing can beat the real natural just the natural taste of the real coconut okay oh yeah the sweat but that was a worthwhile stop for the coconut shake and yeah as I looked around every almost everybody ordered the nasi lemak or the I think they're fried fish cakes so that would also be something to order here but that was a perfect beach afternoon refreshing snack okay let's move on [Music] we are eating Santiago which is it's from Malacca you choose your own skewers and then you have some peanut satay sauce in the middle of your table you choose your skewers you dip them in the sauce and it's just kind of fun to eat as well as delicious at the same time so I'm gonna go to the fridge now and choose some skewers and then dip I know this is good luck boom once you get your full tray of all the different skewers that you you choose you bring it back to your table and you have very conveniently the boiling satay sauce right in the middle of your table oh and you can put that in your dipping bowl does this one need to boil for 1 grand also ok put it inside with it okay Oh two to two or three minutes thirty minutes okay thank you very much it's very aromatic yeah but it smells very nutty and a little bit fishy I'm just gonna add a number of skewers but it can it can probably the max capacity of this tub of satay sauce is about 10 skewers at once I think that's good well we'll let these coil and then eat them before we add the rest rather than many other versions of satay where you get your grilled skewer of meat and then dip it into the provided sauce this is a full satay cooking experience so you actually boil your skewer of vegetables or meat in the sauces so that like absorbs the flavor into the ingredients but at the same time you also have little orange bowls here where the owner said that you can actually scoop to the bottom where some of the sauce like ingredients like it's like pulpy ingredients have sunk to the bottom and actually read if again we're losing all oh we lost some things oh I splattered some of these things have been cooking for a few minutes I think it's time to test it but it does get kind of starts to bubble around you get like like a little peanut and oil driplets just bubbling around well and some things fall off so I know there's going to be a bunch of ingredients that fall off at the bottom of this jacuzzi of satay sauce I'm gonna try the okra stuff with fish bait wellthat [ __ ] when you boil it in the sauce it really absorbs it's quite sweet but then it's nutty a little bit fishy but it's really nice and balanced it's it's really like a it's like a snacking flavor like sweet and sour and spicy all together set the skewers aside go down to the bottom get some of that oh yeah there it is it's like a peace teller you're gonna add this to your bowl like as a dipping sauce and you can see that that you can read if it as you're so you're cooking it in the same sauce but then you're dipping it at the same time next I'm gonna move in for those mushrooms and those are Easter mushrooms and you can be guaranteed mushrooms are just gonna soak up just absorb so much of that sauteing gravy and it just kind of slides off the skewer yeah that's hot but yeah it absorbs so much of that's out they sauce it is like a sponge the motto will told you to trying to find that porky unknown quirky parts it could be snout it could be ears it could be just pure fat a good bite right now it's so gelatinous buh-buh-buh-buh-byeeeee like chewy edited cartilage II I didn't come on Oh hot I'm still taking cartilage out of my teeth 30 I think it might be snout I'll try the water morning glory set this into my bowl they've done a real like tight coiling job on this that one is good so you've got the crispness of the vegetable [Music] Oh and then they Cali up your bill and you pay by skewer I gotta admit that was a lot of fun to eat though and this I guess maybe is the the main shop but then over here it's the same name I think this is just the extra extra seating section with this side still in Malacca but just down the coast along the ocean you will find a lot of seafood restaurants especially econ Baja restaurants which are grilled fish restaurants and so I looked through the list of many of the restaurants some of the recommendations some of them are really really famous and really huge seafood restaurants but I wanted more of a kind of a laid-back smaller restaurant and so I just kind of found one that looks really good we're on our way there now it's about a 25 minute drive from the center of Malacca so we're on our way for a seafood dinner [Music] that was about a 20-minute drive from the center of Malacca but it's a fishing village you see the fishing boats there's a canal that runs an inlet of water but then we're very close to the ocean you get the ocean breeze and there's like three or four different seafood restaurants all kind of spread out together and right now it's not very busy because we're here very early it's not quite dinnertime for most local people yet so we've chosen to come to econ baccarat [ __ ] Musa yeah how'd you Mousavi they have all the seafood laying out a bunch of fish especially stingrays one of their main fish and it's actually self-service you just kind of grab what you like you you get to choose your own seafood and then they will prepare it for you and they have the grill going ah okay the whole thing yeah okay sure yeah okay big one is it okay the vq thank you everybody for the shrimp he really cleaned them up and then he dunk them in what looks like a garlic's and smells like a garlic sauce and then onto the grill and he's just now preparing the fish he's gonna add some ball and then wrap it in a banana leaf and then onto the grill for the grilled fish for the econ black are they cleaned up the fish he first really lathered it in a garlic sauce like a real garlic puree smell that garlic then he put it into the grill and put it on the charcoal that's gonna grill for a while and then I think he's gonna add the some ball at some point can we buddy nice place it's fun very good nice thank you very much and then the final step in making your econ ba car is after the fish is pretty much cooked he then takes it off the girl he puts a layer of sambal chili paste on top and then he covers that with a banana leaf and then puts it back onto the grill with the sambal facing down in the banana leaf facing down and that way the the like direct strong heat takes or comes into the banana leaf instead of burning that chili paste and then the chili paste just kind of absorbs into the fish let's go snack on the things that are already ready I know that they brought us the fried squid and the shrimp already to our table very simple it's breaded and then deep-fried hmm and further shrimp he just he literally just dumped them and like really splashed them with that garlic sauce and then grilled them yeah you can smell the garlic we're sure kill the skin off [Music] oh yeah that's incredibly good they're really firm it is so it's like pure pureed garlic it's salty and then smoky from that kind of low charcoal heat yeah that's house it's kind of sweet a little bit spicy and very oniony shallot ii we got to start with that stingray and lift the lift the lid oh you have even the banana leaf is just like it's soft in some parts but you can feel how it's like crunchy crunchy ly roasted in some parts you peel back oh did that sambal oh and just a proof over aroma oh that smells so good let's reveal the the other fish as well oh man that just smells so incredibly good and the aroma the fragrance of the actual banana leaf sambal stingray econ bakar stingray and yeah we got a small one this is an entire fish and then yeah you can see that beautiful sambal okay just gonna pull the string Eunice of it we do that you can really see the texture the strings of it onto the rice [Music] [Music] that's fantastic the symbol is a little bit sweet but it is a little bit spicy and then I think what's amazing is just how it embeds into the fish because of the way how they cook it and the garlic enos and then also the aroma of the banana leaf you really you really taste the banana leaf in there and stingray is such an amazing it has this amazing texture similar to chicken but a little bit softer but it's very firm very neutral tasting it says the juiciness of that oh I was not expecting it to be that juicy but if you put your fingers and it just you can just see the juice coming out of it I'm gonna dip this one to the into the other sauce and then onto my rice all right cool got it totally different texture equally as good but then that sauce is quite sweet but it has a nice like shallot onion acacia and then the owner was very nice to hook us up with some chilli PADI he said for that extra ohohoho just gonna slow down there Berbick okay I will Chili's are a little bit spicy but not they're not really that spicy actually but they are very fragrant all that's left now are a few fish bones and an empty banana leaf wrapper we've reached the end of this Malaysian food tour of Malacca it's been an incredible day and that was a delicious seafood meal to end the day the econ ba car was the highlight that was yeah hole in the shrimp though they were really really good as well nice friendly fishing village but today has been a fantastic day and Malacca is it's such a laid-back place it's such a wonderful city to explore to walk around the culture the history the food and the diversity of the food like in all of Malaysia it's a melting pot and I want to say a huge thank you for watching this video please remember to give it a thumbs up if you enjoyed it leave a comment below I'd love to hear from you and if you're not already subscribed to click subscribe now and also click that little bell icon so that you get notified of the next video that I publish thanks again for watching good bye from Malacca see you on the next video

Channel: Mark Wiens

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Keywords: Melaka, Malacca, Melaka food tour, Malaysian food, Malaysian street food, Malay food, chicken rice, Hainanese chicken rice, satay celup, ikan bakar, Klebang Original Coconut Shake, Asam Pedas Pak Man, asam pedas, best Malaysian food, top Malaysian food, Mark Wiens, food videos, food vlog, travel vlog, Melaka travel guide, Malacca travel guide

Id: IQw5UOVvDj4

Length: 26min 12sec (1572 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 17 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/TheRegularJosh]

imo satay celup is probably the most overrated shit in malaysia, everything else in the vid sedap tho...

[u/brainypatella]

There is no food that make him say no. I dont believe this guy. Fake. He just want views to.monetize.

[u/blek_blek]

that's so American! the way he speaks, the way he describes food.