Penang - Food

Penang's multiple ethnicities have their roots elsewhere in Asia,

all of them brought their exotic mouth watering cuisine with them. Mostly Chinese working in the tin mines and Indians working in the rubber estates brought along their rich culinary heritages.

As time goes by the immigrants cooking somehow got mixed with a Malay (at that time) flavor giving birth to a much more diverse cooking.

Roti Canai is a typical example of a unique local breed with Indian influence, a kind of bread the hawker prepares in front of you and sometimes enhance the process by some acrobatic performance when the dough is being
flung around.

Other types of Malaysian or Penang

foods which have its origin  in India are the tasty ‘mee Mamak’ and ‘rojak Mamak’. The word mamak means uncle in Tamil, the Indian Muslim community locally are referred to as mamak. The ‘mee Mamak’ is different from other noodles it has thick spicy flavor, while the ‘rojak Mamak’ a form of salad with the gravy made of finely pounded chilies surely will satisfied most vegetarian, be careful, the chili might let you feel like a dragon and breath fire.

The curries served in ‘mamak’ restaurants are definitely Indian but 

yet different then those found in India.

To top it all these delectable dishes are eaten with ‘the tarik’ tea with milk that’s hard to make, literally we need to pour the tea between two big glasses or mugs and increasing the heights by pulling the pouring glass or mug higher and higher to achieve that distinctive foamy rich flavors and also to cool it.

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.

But if you like to eat the pure Indian food without influence from anywhere, no problem just go to a Indian restaurant in Penang, Kuala Lumpur and elsewhere in Malysia, you wont regret.

 

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