pinkers.blogspot.com: September 2011

    Malaysia is one of the South-East Asia countries. Malaysia can be divided into two parts, West Malaysia and East Malaysia. West Malaysia or Peninsula Malaysia is attached with Asia Continent. Meanwhile, East Malaysia is appended with the Borneo Island, separated apart from West Malaysia by The South China Sea. Malaysia or better known as Tanah Melayu before 1957 was once conquered by Britain, Holland and Japan. One of the reasons why Tanah Melayu was conquered for the past 5 decades was because of its geographic coordinate.

   As time goes by, these cooking are somehow assimilated with the Malaysian local customs thus giving birth to much more diverse and uniquely different types of cooking not found anywhere else in the world. Malaysian foods which have its origin in India are the tasty ‘mee Mamak’ and ‘rojak Mamak’. The word mamak means uncle in Tamil, so the Indian muslim community locally are referred to as mamak. The curries served in ‘mamak’ restaurants are definitely Indian but yet different than those found in India. All these Malaysian Indian cooking are not found in India itself simply because the original recipes have been Malaysianize, improvised using locally available ingredients which is much cheaper and tastier.
    In this day and age, Malaysia is well known as a multicultural country. There are more than a hundred of races in Malaysia, resulting in the existence sort of foods that symbolise each race. Some of the main ethnic groups or races in Malaysia are Malay, Chinese and Indian.      In Kelantan, one of the states of West Malaysia, Nasi Kerabu is very famous amongst the local. In Malay, ‘Nasi’ means rice. Meanwhile, ‘Kerabu’ is not much different than salad. It is a mixture of salt, onion, slices of cucumbers and other ingredients. Nasi Kerabu is special because the rice is coloured with blue.

Terengganu is one of the East Coast’s States of Peninsula Malaysia. If Kelantan is very popular with Nasi Kerabu, Terengganu is very popular with Nasi Dagang. In Malay, the word ‘dagang’ means business or something that is related to it. It is called Nasi Dagang because in the ancient time, the local used to sell it from one place to another....