No more negative talk! Today, I shall talk about Singapore’s favourite topic: FOOD!
Yeah! Doesn’t that make you happy? =)
When I was filming in KL, we didn’t always get to eat at popular food places. Because of our tight filming schedule, we had to eat at nearest available places.
But that’s alright because EVERYTHING TASTES GOOD IN MALAYSIA.
One night, I asked everyone, “How is it that you can walk into any random coffeeshop in Malaysia and order anything and it will taste better than its Singapore counterpart?”
I was talking about normal, everyday local favourites like chicken rice, roti prata, mee goreng, prawn noodles, ban mian, and so on.
Dean, our Malaysian host (cum actor cum camera assistant cum chauffeur cum gofer cum court jester), said, “The ingredients in Malaysia are fresher (since they’re all locally grown) so food tastes better.”
IS THAT TRUE??
I always thought that the quality of food is mainly dependent on the skill of the cook.
Divine mixed vegetables (above)!! I relegated the poor black pepper steak to the background (even though it was good, too) because the vegetables really killed me, being buttery and impossibly fragrant.
All the dishes pictured above are from a food centre two minutes’ walk away from Istana Hotel. We ordered about 10 dishes between us and they were all good.
(I think I’m going to be taxed for using the word “good” so often.)
I’m not saying that Singapore doesn’t have good food. I’m saying that Malaysia does not seem to have substandard food.
Or maybe I just need to visit Malaysia more often to get a more accurate sampling.
I took quite a bit of food photos while in KL, the first one being my squashed Gardenia bun.
I bought it at a petrol station during our drive up to KL and it got forgotten and squashed by my luggage.
Okay, that was a joke photo.
Here’s something I want to recommend. This coffeeshop in KL boasts bland-looking but very delicious dim sum.
Maybe Dean was right about the ingredients. The dim sum just tasted fresh.
Here are some pictorial clues where this place is. Sorry, I don’t know the full address.
The road sign says: Jalan Merak.
I love the free-flow sauces!
Did I mention I’m a sauce addict? Sometimes I eat more sauce than the main food itself.
Mix the garlic chilli with the sweet sauce. Heavenly!!
We also ate at Old Town White Coffee. (There’s an outlet in Singapore, at the newly renovated Big Splash, but I haven’t tried it so I don’t know if the quality is the same.)
I ordered the asam laksa. I had to, even though the other dishes were so tempting, becasue asam laksa is so hard to find in Singapore. And the ones I’ve found aren’t really worth the calories.
The curry noodles and nasi lemak are apparently killer, too.
This makes me want to visit the Singapore outlet!! Soon!!
I have a couple more food things to talk about but they belong to Ipoh and Penang so I shall save them for another day!
For now, please share your views. Does food generally taste better in Malaysia? If yes, why do you think that is?