Traditional Malay food preparations/recipes have been influenced by early traders from Indonesia,Thailand, India, the Middle East, and China & are generally spiced with distinctive spices and herbs , with lots of lemon grass, pandan (screwpine) and kaffir lime leaves ( ...and liberally infused with 'lemak' or coconut milk flavors ).
Rice & noodles ('mee' ) make up the staple diet in a typical Malay meal and brought to a loving climax in a masterful & convenient concoction with these evergreen Malay classical all-embracing chicken , sexy fish and killer beef ( 'daging' or meat ) dishes !
You can get them in most Malay restaurants (& esp pasar malams or open air night markets), anywhere across the country, and at prices that will not make you cry or raise your Grandmothers fading eyebrows !
beehoon goreng ( fried rice vermicelli , dry with anchovies/red chilis/vegetables/scrambled chicken egg bits) , a most popular home prepared , takeaway and family parks-and-beaches picnic snack and cannot-escape side dish in many hotel breakfast buffet spreads.
nasi goreng / mee goreng (fried rice / fried noodles , dry in light/dark sauces) , about similar to counterpart beehoon goreng in availability , and definitely found in backStreet Malay 'warongs' (stalls) and pasar malams from Kuala Lumpur to Kampong Jauh Jauh Tapi Dekat (Far Far Away but Near Village) behind the Titiwangsa Range.
nasi ayam ( chicken rice , a yellowish ginger flavored rice meal with fried chickens in soya sauce) , a classy but headless 11-in-a-row unmistakeable hang-by-the-noose front shop attraction in many Malay makan ( food ) shops.
sup beehoon ( rice vermicelli in brownish chunky beef meat/bone beef soup ) + special dark chilli sauce droplet ( beware the sting ! ...more than a match for the other little-bit-rare controversial Chinese versions ) . A spin-off bull awe-&-wow crowd puller in many pasar malams with their humongous bath-tub buckets and big-as-your-arms-and-legs cross stacked 'killing field' bones.
laksa Melayu ( hot/spicy tamarind enhanced fishy oninony lemograssy soup + open-top lime with rice vermicelli + signature 1/2 of one hard boiled chicken egg , variously described as pungent and /or fragrant ), 
...and finally nasi lemak ( fragrant rice in coconut milk with fried peanuts & sharp curvy usually quite stiff but stunted fishes cast over magical top-secret recipe ) the Malaysian creame-de-la-creame Gastronomical Wonder ! Wanna know all about it just click
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**Just in case you thought team BSG has finally gone bananas the above Top 6 list was prepared after extensive ( no not yet intensive) backStreetEating ( not research ) across the length & breadth of our much maligned diversified country...
...because Malays make up 56.44 % of the total 28.1 million population and they don't eat in non-Muslim eateries...whereas the Gluttony 22.88 % Chinamen & 11.97 % Indians will 'sapu' (sweep) everything within nose smelling range that means also those 6 things lah ! ( ...understand ornot ? aiya never mind lah...).
NB don't worry too much about those sadistics ok !
Comments
i kind of agree with you on the top 6 list malay food... but is it malay food or is it food malay eat? because many malay likes to eat indian or rather indian muslim food too like nasi kandar and roti canai. (i think you meant the latter).
some food are universal - all races love them like nasi lemak!! so remember to put nasi lemak in your top list for other ethinic top food eh.
Hungry hungry...
I think Laksa Melayu (tamarind-based type) not as easily found as laksa lemak in Sg.
haha u sure love your CKT dun worry will get them soon ( with all da squids too ! )
Wennn
maybe u wannnn 6 not 4 ?
meiyen
thank you but actually V are still far away ! but v have joined u in yr countdown ( remember ? )
RM
good idea but V still owe you Lala Chong u know.
lucia
you are right those are food Malays and also non malays eat thats why together have made them Top 6 in Malaysia.
jason
food is funny tho, one man's meat is another's joke ( like halal hahaha )
jackson
u r probably right but V r not sure so we lump them into top 6 !
Wmw
if only if only but missed your adventures with all those cakes,abs,soon durians and more wine gluttons in KL !
tigrfish
ya just eat no worries ( can't be said bout many others tho ?) and laksa lemak very rare in KL
lightfl
nasi lemak is a fave order in many cafes also and multi race probably becoz a rice dish !
melting wok
kambing is a mostly Indian thing in Malaysia tho in West lamb rules right !?
tummothoz
u shud have seen our multi colored forms then .....
teckiee
East coast is pretty exciting becoz their specialities very herby and fresh tasting. Also the sea and wind perfect ! Try many and share ok !
boo
actually we are outstation but still here tho a bit slow and little late ! Amazing now many floggers and absloggers ( when booploggers ah sorry ?!) meeting up so often in KL !
thanks for kind words and make sure yours keep coming too !
lemongrass
somehow V really missed somebody the last time in WAW...probably the closest to team bsg as can be heheha ! one bsg in Riana is already thinking of something
michelle
v were also wondering where u have been ! next post on top dedicatd to you ! Hope its not too grotesque...
wennn
actually we can go on forever until reach TT means many cartons not only 6 hahaha ! V r back !meaner and badder
bro ada x gamabr restoran melayu kat melaka?
tq for dropping by. Of course laksa may be different in different localities , different shops. Generally laksa Melayu has 1/2 a boiled egg and minced fish , no pineapples and mint leaves. Whereas Laksa Sarawak has prawns , looks and and taste more like curry ! And then Johore Laksa is also different in some condiments ! A bit like women , all nice and good but tho the same but really different !