Many locals sing praise about our food (so faptastic). But isit that good? most never seen the outside world. Thai food is major success worldwide. Tom yam half the world know. Our food? bah kut teh barely international. Got a few malaysian restaurants in europe and US, never really took off and expand wildly. interest level quite low. Compare world class sushis


Why? our food generally of low quality produce and use salty, heavy sauce to compensate. Not surprising given our 3rd world status (thanks to BN )

Mee goreng? just some fried noodles
Asam laksa? Thai's tom yam more memorable
Roti canai? oily pancake..thats all...
bah kut teh? this one more interesting...but plenty of interseting china dishes that never gone international....bah kut teh meat is consider just so-so compare to top produce from France.


Just compare our produce even!
Durians...best sent to Singapore
Mangosteen...best sent to Japan
Seafood...selects sent to Hong Kong
Left rubbish for us local.....

When a simple burger like Kaw Kaw (by western standards) can become a huge fad, we know our food need serious improve! I say our standard has dropped way below 20 years ago! Pls no more tidak apa attitude and self praise!

u like salt sugar and MSG? just dump them into mee and discard everything. oh wait thats char kuey teow! there...your kind of food.


Our gomen just dun care about the wellbeing of the rakyat....let banglas run our stalls...let rats dominate...poor cleaning practice...best stuff exported...list cant end!

This post has been edited by Squidward: Jul 10 2012, 06:20 AM

Hang tak sukak hang keluar

If not because of the foreigner that make me Wan Tan Mee, I say it's almost perfect.

ok

btw, its that time of the month for unker squidward again

good or bad dishes have nothing to do 3rd world status

speaking of foreigner...most malaysians dun realise the myanmar or nepal or bangla that make our food cause standard to drop TWICE! dirty too...

where is the integrity....best hawker fares now just become fast-food chains run by banglas..thats all...

sotong goreng mau??

That's what I'm saying.

Mi goreng is indon right?

Penang food is definitely overrated

then just cook it yourself loh, not so hard oso

got...3rd world food..think zimbabwe, lithuania, jamaica, philipines, indonesia....

now 1st world...think spain, italy, france, japan, USA....

3rd world food bcos the ppl poor, cant afford high quality materials and talented artists to make food. how many can afford 50 dollar artisan meals in zimbabwe? can use top fish and high quality meat?

thats why those 2" and newfags say this hawker food damn famous..i shake my head...never tasted TRUE hawker fare from 20 years ago.

u muntahkan all the malaysian foods u eaten since young until now

What is the real purpose of you eating food? If can fill you up then it is enough lar, no need for high-quality materials and what else.

lol at ts avatar

better than western food!!

uuuwweek!!!

low self esteem....................kesian la lo.

when u are young, do u ask around and compare bird length??

now who said best quality fruit send export? so we eating rotten fruit???
you really think rm100/kg durian is 20times better cheap durian? come on la.

burger kaw kaw & chatime is a trend, just like 20 years ago, nelson Corn in a cup.

insap la......

u got 3rd world mentality, u are best to work as slave.

not say rotten...but just disapoint after come back from great places with top food. As a meat and seafood lover, really lacking in malaysia. a decent lobster also hard to find...

Msia: Lots of salt, lots of sugar, lots of flavoring, lots of MSG = Tastes good
SG: Low salt, diet sugar, no flavoring, no colouring, NO MSG = tastes like shit

which one you choose? which is more overrated? which costs more? which is more enjoyable?

u go USA u will find papaya and pineapple is treated as GOD food!!!

so time to go eat papaya and pineapple.

lobster is not expensive food in the right country.

just like durian.

u go USA eat malaysian food of cos expensive la. eat at the right country la.

( got a malaysian restaurant in california is opened by hongkie....facepalm....with putrajaya photo somemore....) nice food, price like eat steak in malaysia

Malaysian.
Life is short, u should enjoice it the fullest.

Precisely, TS just shut up and enjoy what you have there...

SGreans are ENJOYING the SHIT while I rather eat my mom's cooking....

I consider SG food superior. you must be one of the cheap-ass who stick to their hawker fares, which is really sucky. of course, i never consider our hawker food great either...just as sucky.

Go SG is to eat their top restaurants...daniel bulud, the hotel chiense restaurants. u go try and come back hanging your head in shame when u eat at our tai thong....

one more thing...u like salt sugar and MSG? just dump them into mee and discard everything. oh wait thats char kuey teow! there...your kind of food.


This post has been edited by Squidward: Jul 9 2012, 10:48 PM

Then don't eat la, go eat grass, healthy and not overrated.

For me both also more or less the same. But singapore have more variety of foods in a single food court compared to Malaysia.

I'm eating what the majority eats, I don't eat those Oriental Mandarin daily for dinner... But I have to agree that it is more superior. Since all those good materials (bigger prawns, bigger oysters, better vegetables, fresh salmon, juicy prime cuts) comes to Singapore. It's just that because of NEA and HPB, they are forced to cook more healthily, thus showing them being "kiamsiap". You can see EVERY SGrean say that Malaysian food is nice, but I can still see a majority of Malaysians preferring the food from their own country including myself.

True, most of them are so-so... All tastes the same...

so u are talking about our hawker fares...ok la admit already both sucks...im the quality food kind of guy. not the 3 min fry noodles kind of guy

those restaurant same price with tai thong ?

that's normal practice for import-export.

even in NZ, the best cherry handpicked to be exported to Japan and USA.
even the NZ local cannot buy them
but for pickers, we eat them like not tomorrow


depends which category of food u looking for. fine dining, of course msian cant fight in that area.

sushi is easy to make... that's why can go international.. plus it is healthy.

My 2nd round durian maybe this week.

Isn't the whole point of this thread just ts showing off he only eat high class food..~~

this is so true, i so agree. Thanks for starting a thread like this. fcuk the gov

good or not depends on your own tongue lar

Good food, no nice. Nice food, no good.

i can't brain this, lion o.

best food i've ever eaten in Malaysia, when i havent eaten for like 12 hours. by then abc/cendol feels like food from heaven.

Healthy food ---> Taste shit

Unhealthy food ---> Taste like heaven

ban all those bangla and indon

nah not just high class food...gimme a simple, nice Vera Pizza Napoletana over roti canai anyday. simple, but good ingredients..not cockroach food.


for the ignorant:
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EVERYBODY THIS GUY VERY SOPHISTICATED!!!

+1

If someone dunno how to find good spot they will started whining here and there...

Its just mentalities, in this case of yours in particular, its truly a third world at best.

Everything of others is good. Ours is horrendously bad. How's roti canai is cockroach food, but vera's is not.

But then again, you did gave us a good laugh, especially with that sample.

I remember around 90s at Tokyo world food festival. Roti canai became the 2nd most popular food after pasta.

Got money, what food also you can eat.

Im amazed how TS can politicize everything. Kudos to you TS. You are no.1.

Satay = stolen from China's Xinjiang province. If u tour Xinjiang market, u can see exact same thing - the only difference is they use bamboo thin sticks and no ketupat.

Rojak = stolen from surabaya traditional delicacy.

Hainan chicken rice = stolen from hainanese people in china.

Penang CKT = stolen from hakkanese food called Pan Tiao - u see that in china. Fried in same way, except they dont use siham. They use pork strips.

This post has been edited by md11: Jul 9 2012, 11:45 PM

pasal makanan pun nak complain

just appreciate what you have to eat idiot

when we say MALAYSIA got the best food..


we meant "CHEAPEST FOOD" ....

BS lah... have you seen CNN's top 10 most delicious food in the world? #1 is massaman curry (fr thailand), msian food is not even top 20 list.

so nasi lemak from which country?

bubur lambuk>>>>>>>>>>>risotto

Nasi uduk = cooked in same way and garnished with spicy fried chicken

so which one nicer? nasi lemak or nasi uduk?

asam pedas mana

This post has been edited by Adamiquesce: Jul 10 2012, 12:02 AM

why not talk about those underrated food in Malaysia? Many merchants serves good food but somehow they can go wind up. Expensive? Location? ... it's just no one dares to try perhaps?

This post has been edited by Luminous2: Jul 10 2012, 12:03 AM

Got proof to back up your statement?

Buy air ticket and travel the world and eat like a local there street food.

ini barulah...

rice.....stolen from china. they pioneered it

pasta/spaghetti, marco polo stolen from china too.

iphone, stolen from china foxconn too, they made it first

Mcd is the best msian food

The burger kaw kaw is famous because burger is our kind of food. We don't have a lot of people who want to open Malaysia food in other countries that's why we are not famous. What do you think about, keropok ikan terengganu, kari kepala ikan, ayam pedas, ayam masak kicap, budu, tempoyak, nasi kukus, nasi dagang, nasi kerabu, rendang, gulai kawah, nasi minyak(my favourite), ayam percik, martabak. How about all this food? Do you think it is all rubbish?

lol at the guy who says food in Malaysia is stolen. there's a difference between stealing and modifying which is what the Chinese ancestors in Malaysia did like adding Malaysian chili sambal to fry CKT etc.

damn.

delicious is subjective, if u think rm1000 food is always better than rm5 food just because of the more expensive price tag, you have something wrong in your mentality. to you, cheap food = crap. bullshit. u really think raw materials so expensive? go sabah for example, the fresh seafood there are very cheap
go to restaurant, prepare to pay rm300+ for a rm50 fish.

roti canai cockroach food? LOL. why are we arguing with a troll anyway. I doubt this guy actually has the money to eat luxurious food like he claim. probably a poorfag that have no chance to taste the so called luxurious food. btw, "luxurious" steak, lobster, pasta, all are above average at best. its well known that overpriced food=overrated shit.

This post has been edited by FatalExe: Jul 10 2012, 12:49 AM

This kind of food quite low interest even among us....rarely seen ppl raving about nasi kerabu compare to say bah kut teh or asam laksa....

not much different from indonesian food too..which is not famous also worldwide...

tell me good sir...what is your heavenly food of malaysia that cost rm5?

LAKSA is becoming more and more prominent all over the world. i've seen international cuisine shows that refers to laksa as if it's a very common dish that the audience are expected to know. like for example, "this tastes almost like LAKSA, but runnier...".

now, TV show hosts dont use that sorta reference unless it's common, like PIZZA or BURGER.

interesting...i wonder which laksa are the referring to? probably singapore version (kari laksa in KL)

Personal preference... im chinese but i'll choose a good plate of malay/ indon chap fan over chinese chap fan. In fact i prefer malay food over chinese food. It's just my taste bud.

i dont know whether u are bodoh or just plain ignorant.. who cares about ranking. just because CNN said so it must be true..

BTW.... http://my.news.yahoo.com/penang-assam-laks...-015523142.html

This post has been edited by asd5139: Jul 10 2012, 01:07 AM

then you should denounce ur malaysian citizenship n moves to the said country which u said has the 1st class foods
why bother staying in malaysia anymore?

for an insolent fool like you have no right to eat malaysian foods anymore..........

if u are trolling dun ever use the foods that your parent feeds u until you are of age to taste the top food

And most people forget about nasi lemak.. lots of foreigner praise the delicious-ness of the nasi lemak and yet malaysian label it as cockroach food...

The topic is quiet nice but seeing this topic is open up by short minded TS, i rest my point.
Look at his point. Really spoil the whole discussion.

Easy TS..In my hometown you can get Mee Hailam full of fishballs, fresh squid and prawns for only RM4..then there's Mee Rebus..Chicken Rice..Porridge for only RM2 per bowl..

The best food cost nothing for me though..My mom used to cook Laksa and so many dishes and it was FREE for me

Gosh now feel hungry again...salivating for no reason thinking of all the cheap food (which I honestly enjoy more than the RM300+ dinner for 2 I had at a fine dining establishment last week). Exotic/Expensive food not always the best tasting

TS mom never give him home-cooked meal la I think..maybe for his family home cooking is too bourgeois

This post has been edited by bl@ze: Jul 10 2012, 01:15 AM

how many michelin starred restaurants are there in malaysia? zero?

most malaysians, including myself, have close to zero exposure to what good food actually is.

even the shitty shitty shitty places that serve shitty shitty shitty food like pappa rich and old town are doing very good business and growing everyday. it just shows how poor us malaysians are at telling good food from bad.

nasi lemak is my fav food with rendang chicken minus the sambal coz i cannot take heavy chillis

totally agree. look at how many deluded ppl here that got into a rage just bcos i say our food is overrated. if u first dun admit, we will never change.

Michelin Guide does not cover the whole world..how to give star if they don't even have their critics here in the first place?

In any case I don't think our eateries will lose in terms of taste but if Michelin critic comes sure lose in terms of SERVICE (which I think is non-existent in Malaysia)

This post has been edited by bl@ze: Jul 10 2012, 01:21 AM

>assumes all /k/tards have never dined in michelin-starred restaurants

u have the money to eat good foods u can go ahead, local foods does not need michelin rating coz every malaysians know their taste, no matter how much popular those restaurant like paparich or watever restaurant still they serve local foods

many of them go those cafe restaurant yet they still eat hawker stall food the next day, how much u can spend on those restaurant like papa rich or old town white coffee? even if u earn 3k a month, u will not even willing to eat at those restaurant every single day without fail?

those restaurant are getting more famous everyday becoz it was convenient for them to eat when when u are working in office, u have only 1 hour break for lunch, don't come and say that you willing to drive 1km just to eat at hawker stall restaurant?

I have tried restaurants at the top end: noma, the fat duck and still find myself craving for malaysian foods.

No they are not over-rated.

Not everyone is Sek San (God of Eatery)... some food is good because it is good, some is "good" because we have been brainwashed to think it is "good".

someone here compare nasi lemak with nasi uduk

This post has been edited by soujiro_seta: Jul 10 2012, 01:32 AM

It 'feels' the best because we grew up with it ...

We are used to our own food!! Most ppl like their home country home cooked food!! It's just a biased opinion.

i've seen people eating cheap foods before they eat hawker foods or local foods like penang nyonya foods tapau from the restaurant at the shopping mall below their office building, in fact i was there doing some servicing work for a customer when their colleague bring back the packed foods fresh n everyone come to the pantry n enjoy their meal together not only malays but chinese n also foreigner too, they enjoys eating local foods, not those michelin starred restaurant.......

lulz... The most expensive I've been to so far is Chili, that oso somebadi belanja.

^because cheap food is cheap, and good for wallet.
not because it tastes good.

i like nasi lemak with boiled egg + many many many anchovies + sambal sotong

i dunt think ppl choose nasi lemak over mcd juz bcoz nasi lemak is cheaper..

its not actually that expensive. in the uk for example, some pubs are michelin-starred. you can get lunch at ramsay's restaurant for under 100 quid (set lunch at claridge's 30 quid, in fact), but you need to enter a waiting list. it's the quality (as roughly defined by the totally subjective judgment of the judges) rather than the price.

having said that i still like malaysian food more. problem, op?

problem

fair enough...some of us have been trained to like our food since young. that is understandable. read up about pavlov conditioning to learn more...

my point is, the rather cold reception for malaysian food elsewhere says a lot about our current cuisine. not enough creativity! how many new dishes coming out? every food court i go sells the same thing

Fair enough...it's true almost every food court sells the same stuffs. TS, any idea/ suggestion what should be done to bring our food to international mouths?

start from 9:25

anthony bourdain said penang laksa is a bloody magnificent dish, that americans would love it if its served there, and is a hearty dish. If u still wanna argue about his review then u must have had a better taste and standard than him, who has probably eaten a more expensive meal in a day than the entire meal u had in 1month. Heck he even had the chance to eat wagyu beef, foie gras, truffles, and caviar, so his review must be UNDISPUTED

No picture, cant really tell how top class the food yu gaise discussing.

He just being polite.

Have you been to obscure countries like Dagestan or republic of Ghana. Their cuisine might taste gooding than those fancy restaurant that you speak of despite their shitty materials. Who knows, you've never been there.