Post by Silly Yak on Feb 13, 2011 11:15:33 GMT
Kuala Lumpar (KL)
Posted by Ayesha on 3/5/2009
GF board
A word of warning the Malaysians don’t really have a dessert culture but they are making up for lost time. Run away from fusion restaurants as their specialities tend to be mixing normal pasta with ‘asian’ flavours, or putting something that you think is ok with soya sauce. BTW they call soya sauce kecup. In street food, they sell fruit with a chocolate brown sauce which is soya sauce. Tacau is dark soya sauce. Mee are yellow wheat noodles. Nasi is rice. Nasi Lemak, is good safe food (its normally coconut rice, peanuts, sambal, and dried fried fish).
KLCC (under the petronas towers across from the mandarin oriental) – has a huge shopping centre, in the main food court area there is a South Indian ‘stall’ and they make fresh dosas (rice and lentil flour pancakes), you get the dosa meal which has the dosa, a dhal, a pickle and drink and it came for 5 ringitts. There are also loads of fresh fruit stalls where they sell boxes of fresh fruit salad. There are also loads of Malaysian stalls selling rice and noodles. Normally they set everything up for lunch time when everyone descends, but if you get there early you can ask what things are. Also you need to try local shaved ice eg ABC (shaved ice, condensed milk, syrup and sweetcorn!). Also ate an Indian restaurant here and was fine.
Petaling Street Market – Loads of Tamil/South Indian banana leaf restaurants where food very cheap and again you can see what things are. Across from Petaling (heading towards the main square there is a regulated indoor market and upstairs there is a food court where food feels ‘cleaner’ than outside and has air con.
Mid Valley Mega Mall – Downstairs is the food area, all the big supermarkets and ex pat supermarkets. For cheap meal, you can boxes of sushi for about 2 ringitts, or go to a chain eg Kenny Rogers (we had to go for the laugh) which is like a Nandos grilled chicken and sides and a muffin(??) they don’t get that you don’t want the muffin but will give it on the side. All the main chains are here. You can also go the Gardens Mall from here which has posher brands. There are also organic food shops. Ate at the Thai restaurant on 2nd floor(?) and was fine.
KL Sentral – Normal fast food. A few fruit stalls (expensive).
Sungei Wang – didn’t eat here but was mainly fast food.
Sunway Lagoon – we just went to starbucks, but if were to eat here you would probably need to take a Chinese food card or it was fast food.
Do go to Putra jaya. It is worth seeing, a bit like North Korea. Once you come out of the mosque, you go down towards the river on the right and there is a little tourist centre including restaurants and Nandos.
KL airport – you had to look really hard to find some Malaysia food and to find something plain like boiled rice else it is gluten central.
Singapore airport, was able to get a fresh salad made up for me and a nasi lemak.
Sultan Abdula Aziz Shah Airport – there was nothing here when we went, it was still very much a building sight.
At the bigger hotels breakfast contained everything and traditional thing like rice, dosa, curry etc. At smaller hotels it was more western (gluten) and some fruit.
I took individual wrapped bars - very good for being out when husband could pick a gluten snack with drink. I also took crisp bread and it travelled really well considering how damp the atmosphere is.
… Malaysians are really sweet and when you give them a restaurant card they start acting as if you are about to keel over and die!
Wheat - gandum
Barley - Barli
Oats- gandum, oat
Rice- nasi
Maize- jagung
Potatoes- ubi kentang
fruit- buah-buahan
Vegetables- sayur
Eggs- telur ayam
Milk- susu
Cheese-keju
Meat- daging (so if chicken- daging ayam, duck- daging itik, beef- daging lembu, mutton- daging kambing)
Fish - ikan
Soya-soya (i.e. soya bean).
Malay translation:-
Par.1:Untuk Pengetahuan Tuan/Puan, I sedang bercuti di Malaysia and amat menyukai makanan disini.
Par.2 :-Walaubagaimanapun, sayang sekali, I menghidap suatu penyakit (Coeliac diasease) dimana penghadaman makanan tidak akan sempurna, oleh demikian saya terpaksa mengikuti pemakanan yang TIDAK mengandungi pati yang keras. Saya alah kepada pati keras.
Par.3 :_Pati yang keras termasuk – gandum (wheat), gandum hitam (rye), barli (barley), gandum oat (oats) dan juga makanan yang mengandungi “maltodextrin” didalam persiapan.
Par. 4 :- Sekiranya, pati keras yang disenaraikan dimakan oleh saya,akibatnya menyebabkan timbulnya reaksi kebal di usus kecil yang membuat badan menyerang sendiri. Saya menjadi sakit teruk.
Par. 5 :- Saya BOLEH memakan makanan mengandungi nasi (rice), jagung (maize), ubi kentang (potatoes), buah-buahan (fruit), sayur-sayuran (vegetables), telur ayam (chicken eggs), susu (milk), keju (cheese), daging (meat) dan juga ikan (fish)- SEKIRANYA bahan mentah tersebut TIDAK diselaputi ataupun disiapkan dengan kebisan roti /krotons (breadcrumbs or battered), dan juga menggunakan perasa makanan, seperti kicap yang mengandungi gandum, gandum hitam,gandum oat, ataupun “maltodextrin”.
Par. 6 :- Tepung yang diperbuat daripada bahan soya, beras, jagung dan ubi kentang adalah SELAMAT.
English version of above Malay text:-
Par 1:- For your information sir/madam, I am visiting Malaysia and have loved the food over here.
Par 2:- sadly, I suffered from Coeliac disease, where I have malabsorption syndrome and as such have to follow a strict gluten free diet. I am allergic to gluten.
Par. 3 :- gluten includes wheat, rye, barley, oats, maltodextrin (used in preparation)
Par.4 :- In the event, I take gluten, there will be "bloating" of my small instentines, causing unbearable sickness.
Par. 5:- I can eat foods containing rice, maize, potatoes, fruits, vegetables, eggs, milk, cheese, meat and fish,PROVIDED these raw materials are not battered or using breadcrumbs or served with croutons, and also flavour enhancer, such as sauce containing wheat, rye, oats or maltodextrin is NOT used.
Par. 6:- Flour made of soya, rice, maize or potato is safe (safe in Malay in Selamat, of which I have put capital case).
TIDAK- is Malay for cannot
Boleh - is Malay for can.
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Posted by Ayesha on 3/5/2009
GF board
A word of warning the Malaysians don’t really have a dessert culture but they are making up for lost time. Run away from fusion restaurants as their specialities tend to be mixing normal pasta with ‘asian’ flavours, or putting something that you think is ok with soya sauce. BTW they call soya sauce kecup. In street food, they sell fruit with a chocolate brown sauce which is soya sauce. Tacau is dark soya sauce. Mee are yellow wheat noodles. Nasi is rice. Nasi Lemak, is good safe food (its normally coconut rice, peanuts, sambal, and dried fried fish).
KLCC (under the petronas towers across from the mandarin oriental) – has a huge shopping centre, in the main food court area there is a South Indian ‘stall’ and they make fresh dosas (rice and lentil flour pancakes), you get the dosa meal which has the dosa, a dhal, a pickle and drink and it came for 5 ringitts. There are also loads of fresh fruit stalls where they sell boxes of fresh fruit salad. There are also loads of Malaysian stalls selling rice and noodles. Normally they set everything up for lunch time when everyone descends, but if you get there early you can ask what things are. Also you need to try local shaved ice eg ABC (shaved ice, condensed milk, syrup and sweetcorn!). Also ate an Indian restaurant here and was fine.
Petaling Street Market – Loads of Tamil/South Indian banana leaf restaurants where food very cheap and again you can see what things are. Across from Petaling (heading towards the main square there is a regulated indoor market and upstairs there is a food court where food feels ‘cleaner’ than outside and has air con.
Mid Valley Mega Mall – Downstairs is the food area, all the big supermarkets and ex pat supermarkets. For cheap meal, you can boxes of sushi for about 2 ringitts, or go to a chain eg Kenny Rogers (we had to go for the laugh) which is like a Nandos grilled chicken and sides and a muffin(??) they don’t get that you don’t want the muffin but will give it on the side. All the main chains are here. You can also go the Gardens Mall from here which has posher brands. There are also organic food shops. Ate at the Thai restaurant on 2nd floor(?) and was fine.
KL Sentral – Normal fast food. A few fruit stalls (expensive).
Sungei Wang – didn’t eat here but was mainly fast food.
Sunway Lagoon – we just went to starbucks, but if were to eat here you would probably need to take a Chinese food card or it was fast food.
Do go to Putra jaya. It is worth seeing, a bit like North Korea. Once you come out of the mosque, you go down towards the river on the right and there is a little tourist centre including restaurants and Nandos.
KL airport – you had to look really hard to find some Malaysia food and to find something plain like boiled rice else it is gluten central.
Singapore airport, was able to get a fresh salad made up for me and a nasi lemak.
Sultan Abdula Aziz Shah Airport – there was nothing here when we went, it was still very much a building sight.
At the bigger hotels breakfast contained everything and traditional thing like rice, dosa, curry etc. At smaller hotels it was more western (gluten) and some fruit.
I took individual wrapped bars - very good for being out when husband could pick a gluten snack with drink. I also took crisp bread and it travelled really well considering how damp the atmosphere is.
… Malaysians are really sweet and when you give them a restaurant card they start acting as if you are about to keel over and die!
Wheat - gandum
Barley - Barli
Oats- gandum, oat
Rice- nasi
Maize- jagung
Potatoes- ubi kentang
fruit- buah-buahan
Vegetables- sayur
Eggs- telur ayam
Milk- susu
Cheese-keju
Meat- daging (so if chicken- daging ayam, duck- daging itik, beef- daging lembu, mutton- daging kambing)
Fish - ikan
Soya-soya (i.e. soya bean).
Malay translation:-
Par.1:Untuk Pengetahuan Tuan/Puan, I sedang bercuti di Malaysia and amat menyukai makanan disini.
Par.2 :-Walaubagaimanapun, sayang sekali, I menghidap suatu penyakit (Coeliac diasease) dimana penghadaman makanan tidak akan sempurna, oleh demikian saya terpaksa mengikuti pemakanan yang TIDAK mengandungi pati yang keras. Saya alah kepada pati keras.
Par.3 :_Pati yang keras termasuk – gandum (wheat), gandum hitam (rye), barli (barley), gandum oat (oats) dan juga makanan yang mengandungi “maltodextrin” didalam persiapan.
Par. 4 :- Sekiranya, pati keras yang disenaraikan dimakan oleh saya,akibatnya menyebabkan timbulnya reaksi kebal di usus kecil yang membuat badan menyerang sendiri. Saya menjadi sakit teruk.
Par. 5 :- Saya BOLEH memakan makanan mengandungi nasi (rice), jagung (maize), ubi kentang (potatoes), buah-buahan (fruit), sayur-sayuran (vegetables), telur ayam (chicken eggs), susu (milk), keju (cheese), daging (meat) dan juga ikan (fish)- SEKIRANYA bahan mentah tersebut TIDAK diselaputi ataupun disiapkan dengan kebisan roti /krotons (breadcrumbs or battered), dan juga menggunakan perasa makanan, seperti kicap yang mengandungi gandum, gandum hitam,gandum oat, ataupun “maltodextrin”.
Par. 6 :- Tepung yang diperbuat daripada bahan soya, beras, jagung dan ubi kentang adalah SELAMAT.
English version of above Malay text:-
Par 1:- For your information sir/madam, I am visiting Malaysia and have loved the food over here.
Par 2:- sadly, I suffered from Coeliac disease, where I have malabsorption syndrome and as such have to follow a strict gluten free diet. I am allergic to gluten.
Par. 3 :- gluten includes wheat, rye, barley, oats, maltodextrin (used in preparation)
Par.4 :- In the event, I take gluten, there will be "bloating" of my small instentines, causing unbearable sickness.
Par. 5:- I can eat foods containing rice, maize, potatoes, fruits, vegetables, eggs, milk, cheese, meat and fish,PROVIDED these raw materials are not battered or using breadcrumbs or served with croutons, and also flavour enhancer, such as sauce containing wheat, rye, oats or maltodextrin is NOT used.
Par. 6:- Flour made of soya, rice, maize or potato is safe (safe in Malay in Selamat, of which I have put capital case).
TIDAK- is Malay for cannot
Boleh - is Malay for can.
…
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