A FOOD TRADITION
Malay Cuisine
Malaysia's Malay cooking tradition emphasizes rice, coconut milk, aromatic herbs, spices, sambal, grilled foods, and richly seasoned curries.
Dishes linked to this cuisine
13–24 of 42
Ikan Patin Tempoyak
A Malaysian freshwater-fish stew featuring patin cooked in tempoyak, a fermented durian paste, with chilli and fragrant aromatics.
Kerabu Mangga
A Malaysian Malay green mango salad combining tart mango with chilli, shallot, dried shrimp, peanuts, sugar, and salt.
Kerabu Pucuk Paku
A Malaysian Malay fern-shoot salad made with blanched fiddlehead fern, grated coconut, chilli, shallot, dried shrimp, and shrimp paste.
Ketupat
Ketupat is a firm compressed rice cake traditionally cooked inside a woven leaf casing and served with Malay meals.
Kuih Tepung Pelita
A Malaysian steamed layered kuih made with a translucent rice-flour and pandan base, palm-sugar filling, and a creamy coconut-milk topping.
Laksa Johor
Laksa Johor is a rich Malaysian noodle dish of spaghetti served with a spiced fish and coconut-milk gravy, commonly finished with herbs and citrus condiments.
Laksa Kelantan
Laksa Kelantan is a Malaysian rice-noodle dish topped with a creamy coconut-milk and fish gravy seasoned with aromatics, chilli, and fermented fish sauce.
Laksa Sarawak
A fragrant Sarawak noodle soup made with rice vermicelli, a spiced laksa paste, coconut milk, chicken, prawns, egg, and fresh garnishes.
Laksam
Kelantan rolled rice-noodle sheets served in a thick, pale coconut-and-fish gravy with shredded herbs and vegetables.
Lemang
Lemang is glutinous rice cooked with coconut milk and salt in a bamboo tube until firm and fragrant.
Lontong
Lontong is a compact rice cake made by cooking rice until firm and serving it as a Malay staple or accompaniment.
Mee Rebus
A Malaysian yellow-noodle dish served in a thick, mildly spiced gravy based on potato, aromatics, soybean seasoning, shrimp paste, and customary garnishes.
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