Malaysia

🇲🇾Terengganu, Malaysia

Nasi Dagang

Served with fish curry.

🇧🇳Brunei

Nasi Goreng

Indonesia's national dish of stir-fried rice seasoned with kecap manis, garlic, shallots, and various proteins

🇲🇾Penang, Malaysia

Nasi Kandar

Penang-style steamed rice with various curries poured over, multiple curry gravies (kuah banjir), flavorful and rich.

🇲🇾Kelantan, Malaysia

Nasi Kerabu

Blue rice naturally dyed with butterfly pea flowers, served with herbs, fish or chicken, and crackers.

🇧🇳Brunei

Nasi Lemak

Nasi Gemuk

Served with sambal, fried anchovies, peanuts, cucumber.

🇲🇾Malaysia

Nasi Tomato

Tomato-flavored rice with spices, red-orange color with subtle tomato flavor, aromatic and moist.

🇲🇾Kelantan, Malaysia

Nasi Tumpang

Conical-shaped rice dish with multiple layers of different curries and sides, packed for travel, distinct conical shape with multiple flavor layers.

🇲🇾Malaysia

Nasi Ulam

Herbal rice dish with up to 44 different herbs and shoots, fresh herb variety with fragrant aroma.

🇮🇩Indonesia

Net Crepe

Roti Jala

Net-like lacy crepe served with curry, a Malay-influenced dish from Riau and coastal areas.

🇮🇩Palembang, Indonesia

Oily Rice

Nasi Minyak

Palembang-style rice with Arab-Malay influences, cooked with ghee and aromatic spices for special occasions

🇲🇾Malaysia

Pan Mee

板面

Flat handmade noodles in soup with anchovies, mushrooms, and egg, handmade noodle texture with flavorful anchovy broth.

🇲🇾Penang, Malaysia

Pasembur

Rojak Bandung

Indian rojak with various ingredients, fresh ingredients with spicy peanut sauce and variety of components.

🇲🇾Penang, Malaysia

Penang Hokkien Mee

福建虾面

Penang-style prawn noodle soup with pork ribs, prawns, and egg noodles, deep prawn broth with spicy kick.

🇲🇾Malaysia

Pengat

Coconut milk dessert with bananas or sweet potatoes, thick and creamy, thick creamy consistency with balanced sweetness and fresh fruit.

🇱🇰Sri Lanka

Pennywort

ගොටුකොළ

Centella asiatica leaves are sold fresh as gotu kola and used as a leafy green in Sri Lankan cooking

🇲🇾Penang, Malaysia

Perut Ikan

Fish stomach and vegetables in spicy sour broth, complex Nyonya dish, clean fish stomach with balanced sour-spicy and tender texture, adventurous.

🇮🇩Indonesia

Petai

Stink beans with strong aroma, eaten raw or cooked in sambal, bright green color with firm texture and strong aroma, a Malaysian ingredient, bold and acquired

🇲🇾Malaysia

Pie Tee

Kueh Pie Tee

Crispy tart shells filled with jicama, prawns, and savory toppings, crispy shell with generous filling and fresh ingredients.

🇲🇾Malaysia

Pineapple Tart

Tart Nenas

Buttery pastry filled with pineapple jam, melt-in-mouth pastry with balanced sweet-tart filling.

🇨🇳China

Popiah

潤餅

Fresh spring rolls with jicama, bean sprouts, lettuce, and sauce in thin wrapper, thin wrapper with crunchy jicama and fresh vegetables, a Nyonya street food classic

🇮🇩Indonesia

Potato Patties

Perkedel

Mashed potato patties with egg, ground meat, and spices, fried until golden

🇲🇾Singapore, Malaysia

Putu Piring

Putu Piring is a steamed rice-flour cake filled with palm sugar and served with grated coconut.

🇨🇷Costa Rica

Rambutan

Mamón chino

Rambutan, red hairy fruit with sweet translucent flesh, slightly acidic, season July-October, a popular Costa Rican tropical fruit

🇧🇳West Sumatra, Brunei

Rendang

Beef Rendang

World-famous slow-cooked beef curry with coconut milk and spices from Minangkabau cuisine

🇲🇾Perak, Malaysia

Rendang Tok

Premium version of rendang from Perak, made with specific spice blend and cooked longer for drier texture, very dry with intense concentrated flavors.

🇭🇰Guangdong, Hong Kong

Rice Noodle Rolls

肠粉

Sheets of rice batter steamed on cloth, rolled around prawn, beef or fried dough stick, and flooded with sweetened light soy

🇮🇳India

Roti (Chapati)

रोटी

An unleavened whole-wheat flatbread cooked on a dry griddle. It is the daily bread across North India, rolled thin and puffed over an open flame

🇲🇾Malaysia

Roti Bom

Dense, multi-layered roti with ghee, dense rich texture with sweet ghee flavor and many layers, a decadent mamak creation.

🇲🇾Singapore, Malaysia

Roti Canai

Roti Prata

Flaky flatbread made with flour and ghee, stretched and folded, served with dhal and curry, flaky layers with crispy exterior and soft interior.

🇲🇾Singapore, Malaysia

Roti John

French toast sandwich with minced meat, crispy bread with savory meat filling and well-seasoned flavor, a mamak street food creation, hearty and satisfying

🇲🇾Malaysia

Roti Tisu

Paper-thin crispy flatbread, often cone-shaped, extremely thin and crispy with golden brown color and sweet coating, a theatrical mamak creation.

🇮🇩Singapore, Indonesia

Rujak

Rojak Buah

An Indonesian fruit salad with a sharp palm-sugar and chilli dressing

🇲🇾Sabah, Malaysia

Sago Grub

Sago Grub, called Butod, is the large sago-palm larva eaten fresh or cooked in parts of Sabah.

🇧🇳Brunei

Sambal

Surinamese Sambal

Sambal is a chilli condiment made across Indonesian and Malay kitchens, with ground aromatics, oil, and regional ingredients

🇧🇳Brunei

Sambal Belacan

Raw condiment of fresh chilies pounded with toasted shrimp paste and lime juice, fresh chili heat with pungent belacan aroma and bright lime acidity, a daily staple.

🇲🇾Malaysia

Sambal Tumis

Cooked chili paste sautéed with aromatics until oil separates, used as base for many dishes, oil separation (pecah minyak) with deep red color and caramelized flavor.