Malaysia

🇮🇩Indonesia

Durian

King of fruits with creamy custard-like flesh and strong aroma, creamy texture with balanced bitter-sweet and ripe flesh, a legendary Malaysian icon, and divisive

🇧🇳Brunei

Fermented Durian

Tempoyak

Fermented durian paste used as seasoning in Sumatran cooking, funky and complex

🇧🇳Brunei

Fermented Glutinous Rice

Tape Ketan

Fermented glutinous rice, slightly sour-sweet with soft texture and alcoholic aroma, snack

🇲🇾Singapore, Malaysia

Fish Head Curry

Kari Kepala Ikan

Fish head cooked in tangy curry with vegetables, fresh fish head with tender meat and tangy curry, a Malaysian Indian specialty, rich and flavorful

🇲🇾Singapore, Malaysia

Fish Soup Bee Hoon

鱼汤米粉

Rice vermicelli in fish-bone broth with fried fish slices or fish balls, tomato and leafy greens; the fried version gives the broth a toasted edge

🇨🇳China

Fried Dough Sticks

油条

Long twisted lengths of salted dough deep-fried until hollow and golden, eaten at breakfast dunked in soy milk or congee

🇧🇳Brunei

Glutinous Rice Rolls

Kelupis

A glutinous-rice kuih cooked with coconut milk and pandan, wrapped in nyirik leaves and steamed into a compact leaf parcel. Kelupis is a named Brunei/Malaysia rice cake made for gatherings and festivities.

🇮🇩Indonesia

Grilled Fish

Ikan Bakar

Grilled fish marinated in spices and sweet soy sauce, served with sambal and lalapan

🇮🇩Indonesia

Grilled Fish Cake

Otak-Otak

Grilled fish cakes spiced with turmeric, wrapped in banana leaves, served with peanut sauce

🇲🇾Malaysia

Grilled Stingray

Ikan Pari Bakar

Grilled stingray with sambal, fresh stingray with spicy sambal and charred flavor, wrapped in banana leaf, bold and spicy.

🇨🇳Singapore, China

Hainanese Chicken Rice

海南鸡饭

Poached chicken with fragrant oily rice cooked in chicken fat, served with chili sauce and soup, tender juicy chicken with aromatic rice.

🇲🇾Malaysia

Hakka Mee

Yellow noodles with minced pork and vinegar, simple and savory.

🇲🇾Ipoh, Malaysia

Heong Peng

Ipoh flaky pastry filled with maltose and shallots, fragrant biscuit, flaky layers with fragrant shallot filling and not too sweet.

🇲🇾Sabah, Malaysia

Hinava

Kadazan-Dusun raw fish cured in lime juice with ginger and shallots, fresh fish with tangy lime and sharp ginger and not fishy.

🇲🇾Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Hokkien Mee

福建面

Dark soy sauce stir-fried noodles with pork and lard, wok hei with smoky flavor and crispy lard bits, rich and savory.

🇱🇰Sri Lanka

Idiyappam

ഇടിയപ്പം

A South Indian and Sri Lankan dish of steamed rice noodles pressed into thin strands and formed into nests. It is served with curry or coconut milk

🇲🇾Penang, Malaysia

Inche Kabin

Inche Kabin is Penang Nyonya chicken marinated in spices, twice-fried until crisp.

🇮🇩Indonesia

Indonesian Banana Fritters

Pisang Goreng

Deep-fried banana, sometimes coated in batter, popular nationwide snack

🇲🇾Ipoh, Malaysia

Ipoh Hor Fun

怡保沙河粉

Silky flat rice noodles in chicken broth with shredded chicken and prawns, extremely smooth slippery noodles with clear flavorful broth.

🇲🇾Ipoh, Malaysia

Ipoh Salt-Baked Chicken

Yim Gai Kuk

Resulting in moist seasoned meat, moist meat with balanced saltiness and herbal aroma.

🇲🇾Ipoh, Malaysia

Ipoh White Coffee

Kopi Putih

Ipoh-style coffee roasted without sugar or margarine, lighter color and taste, light brown color with smooth non-bitter taste and aromatic.

🇱🇰Sri Lanka

Jackfruit

කොස්

The enormous spiked fruit of the jak tree, eaten unripe as a meaty curry, ripe as a sweet fruit, and its seeds boiled as a vegetable

🇮🇩Indonesia

Jering

Bitter beans (djenkol) eaten raw or cooked, requires proper preparation, crunchy texture with bitter-sweet balance, a Malaysian ingredient, acquired

🇲🇾Penang, Malaysia

Jiu Hu Char

Stir-fried jicama with cuttlefish, served with lettuce wraps, crunchy jicama with savory cuttlefish and fresh lettuce.

🇲🇾Penang, Malaysia

Kapitan Curry

Nyonya chicken curry with distinct spice blend, drier than regular curry, complex spice blend with tender chicken and thicker gravy, aromatic and rich.

🇮🇩Singapore, Indonesia

Kaya

Coconut and egg jam, slow-cooked to caramel perfection, smooth texture with balanced caramel-coconut flavor and fragrant pandan, a Malaysian breakfast essential.

🇲🇾Singapore, Malaysia

Kaya Toast

Charcoal-grilled toast with coconut jam and butter, kopitiam breakfast staple, crispy charred toast with generous kaya and cold butter slab.

🇲🇾Sarawak, Malaysia

Kek Lapis Sarawak

Kek Lapis Sarawak is a finely layered Malaysian cake with alternating colours and spiced batter.

🇲🇾Terengganu, Malaysia

Keropok Lekor

Fish crackers from Terengganu.

🇲🇾Malaysia

Ketupat Palas

Glutinous rice in triangular palm leaf pouch, compact texture with neat weaving, traditionally eaten during Hari Raya.

🇲🇾Terengganu, Malaysia

Ketupat Sotong

Ketupat Sotong stuffs squid with glutinous rice and simmers it in a light coconut gravy.

🇮🇩Indonesia

Klepon

Green glutinous rice balls filled with liquid palm sugar, coated in grated coconut

🇲🇾Sarawak, Malaysia

Kolo Mee

Sarawak dry noodles with minced meat, char siu, and spring onions, springy noodles with savory meat and crispy fried shallots.

🇲🇾Singapore, Malaysia

Kopi

Kopi C

Robusta beans roasted with sugar and margarine, brewed through a cloth sock and poured over condensed milk; ordered by a coded shorthand at every coffee shop

🇧🇳Singapore, Brunei

Kue Bangkit

Pale cookies of tapioca flour toasted with pandan and bound with coconut milk, moulded into flowers and baked until they dissolve on the tongue

🇮🇩Indonesia

Kue cucur

Kuih Cucur

Kue cucur, the palm-sugar batter cake fried into a thick ruffled disc, is a named Indonesian jajan pasar item with a distinctive form