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Penang: Malaysia's Food Capital
Penang is world famous for its street food. There is a lot of Chinese food, plus Per-
anakan favorites, due to the greater proportion of Chinese living on the island.
Here you'll find
char kway teow
(fried flat noodles with seafood),
murtabak
(mut-
ton, egg, and onion fried inside Indian bread and dipped in
dhal
), and
rojak
(a
spicy fruit and seafood salad), along with classics like fried spring r olls and
satay.
Sarawak and Sabah also have their own
unique cuisines, but mostly visitors will
find typical M alay, Chinese, and I ndian
dishes, but with local twists. O ne of my
favorite purely indigenous dishes is
umai,
raw macker el seasoned with onion, chili,
and salt, “cooked” in lime juice. I t can be
found primarily in S arawak, but some-
times also in Sabah.
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