What do people eat in malaysia?

Question

im doing a project and wondered what is the most common food eaten there and if anyone can tell me what people used to eat say in the second world war you'd be a great help. I understand it was rice...did u cook it in a wok??

Answer 1

From what I saw, anything that moves is fair game.

Answer 2

they eat food

Answer 3

i went to malaysia twice and their cuisine depends on the community where you have chinese,malay and indian cuisine.

Chinese eat fried noodles ...this is their common food

malay eat rice cooked in coconut milk  Nasi lemak

indians eat  dal,porathas and different curries.

Answer 4

malaysian food

Answer 5

rice

Answer 6

Most common starch used is rice for all races.

Easiest to cook is fried rice but there's lots of variations.     - spicy, with seafood, black etc etc etc

During WW2, basically people in the villages is doing quite OK as there's lots of food surrounding the village such as corn, sweet potato, yams and also all sorts of young plant shoots. The problem is for the townie as the are scarcity of sustaining foods and most had to eat gruel (rice with plenty of water) and flavoured with soya.

Rice is cooked in rice cooker. 1 portion rice to 1 water. Once rice is cooked then u can convert it to something else like fried rice.

Hope it helps.

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Answer 7

boiled sweet potatoes and tapioca were staples during WW2, because they could be easily grown in the garden and filled one up. however over-consumption of these would lead to swelling (can't remember the reason why). Rice is an asian staple, depending on your ethnic group, it would be cooked in different ways. malaysia has three main ethnicities, Malays, Indians and Chinese. Rice would be boiled first. Nasi Lemak which is rice cooked with coconut milk is eaten by the Malays (Nasi = rice), this is eaten with a variety of side dishes, e.g. fried ikan bilis (tiny fish), omelette, bagadil (fried potato cake) and sambal (a kind of chilli). There is a wide variety of chinese food eaten in Malaysia, all kinds of noodles and stuff. (penang laksa..yum, hor fun, fried noodles etc)  Indians do their curries and pratas and chappatis and dhal etc. There really is a wide variety of food consumed in Malaysia!

oh, and you fry stuff in a wok. so yeah, if you're frying rice, you do it in a wok.