Tea break at the food stalls.

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Malaysia is always famous with its variety of foods. You can easily find any of the stalls around you for a tea break and with some traditional road side foods. I always love the famous traditional fruit mix with a combination recipe of the sweet and spicy sauce. It is also known as Rojak in Malay, where it means wild mix. It is a mixture of a prawn paste sauce which taste sweet and added with chili (it is optional) into a varied assortments of fruits, and also with crispy homemade biscuits. 

Usually the Rojak seller will add a lot of cucumber instead of more fruits, which I often requested to exclude cucumber, so that they could give me more fruits. We often discussed that maybe because cucumber is cheaper than fruits, so they put more cucumber so that the portion looks big, but actually with a lower cost of it. Perhaps, those smart seller with some business minded would do so.

I would normally requested to add more peanuts and the crispy fried chips, as the peanuts are finely chopped and roasted, which gives it an ample texture and a lovely crunchy bite.

Don’t mess up with another type of Rojak, because there are two types of Rojak commonly sold in Malaysia. One of the type which I described above and also shown on the photos above is adapted from the combination of Malay and Chinese cuisines, while the other type of Rojak is the Indian version. That’s the reason why Malaysia is a country with multiple races, and have various types of foods.

Not to miss out a great combination during tea time when having those nice foods with the combination of Ice Cendol. Cendol is a famous Indian traditional dessert that often sold on pushcarts during the old days, but nowadays, it is sold on a mobile small lorry. Sometime, it you are lucky, you might found a Cendol seller carrying the equipment around selling the Cendol on a bicycle, but it is rare nowadays. In case any of you do not know what is Cendol deserts, but no worries I could probably describe it in a simple way. Cendol actually contains the basic ingredients of coconut milk, green starched noodles with artificial pandan flavouring, and palm sugar (or brown sugar).

When comes to having such a great foods in Malaysia, I always never miss the chance to try on each of the stalls. We even ordered soya bean drinks, curry puff, keropok lekor, and some other Malay fried food, where we often called “gorengan”.