Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

Have read about a couple places in KUL:

for the soup Bak Kut Teh
Ah Sang Bak Kut Teh
Address 53, Jln SS9A/12. Seri Setia, Sungei Way
Open 5:30pm-10pm

for the dish Nasi Lemak
Nasi Lemak Antara Bangsa
Address 4, Jalan Raja Muda Musa, Kg Baru
Open 6pm-11am

Any other suggestions ?

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I spent a week in KL long ago and far away. There are food courts in amazing places--one that I remember dearly was on the top floor of an office bldg 15 minutes from the train station. Keep your eye open for these: you can do a wide spectrum of food in a quick hurry.

Lots and lots of street food, bigtime from sundown on. Follow your nose.

Pls note that many afficianados think that the Guiness brewed in KL is the best, bar none. I am inclined to agree, even after drinking it in Dublin. It *might* just be how wonderfully it refreshes on one of the typical KL swampy nights. But I think it's simply a great brew.

There's (or, at least there used to be) an employee cafeteria at the airport that has the most amazing variety of fine local food you could possibly imagine. Oh boy.

Have a great time! Report back!

Geo

PS. You'll be able to find seasoning packets for Bak Kut Teh in the grocery stores. They do an awfully accurate job back home in our hemisphere. Amaze your friends. I've found them in an obscure Asian mkt in KC. Bought a dozen and keep them in the freezer. It's worth it.

* CT Garden for Nasi Lemak (open late)
* Chinatown food hawkers
* Little India and the hawker center north of it for various hawker foods
* Roti Boy for Krispy Kreme style roti
* Songkhla for nasi kerabu
* Daulat Tuanku for satay and other hawker foods
* Pudu wet market and Pusat Makawan Deng Hwa
* Bijan for midscale Malaysian food

First thing you have to do is get the Star Guide to Malaysian Street Food.

Had read in Savuer Magazine Jan/Feb 2005:
Malaysia is the birthplace of several regional varieties of Laksa, a vibrant SE Asian noodle soup. Our favorite? The spice-rich version from Kuala Lumpur known as curry laksa or curry mee. The city's best is at Restoran Mee Kai Kee, a street stall.

a local of KL from a travel board I frequent mentioned that this was his favorite, so I'm going to for sure hit this place.

Heading back to KL during Jan 12-13, 2008 if anyone is around.

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Nyonya cooking is not only about the blending of pungent roots but also the long marinating of meats and seafood before it is cooked. Fresh herbs such as lemongrass, lengkuas [galangal or wild ginger] and kunyit [turmeric root] are pounded, more often than not, by hand using a granite mortar & pestle. Chilies, candlenuts, shallots and belacan are a must in most Nyonya dishes. Aromatic leaves such as kaffir lime leaves, pandan or pandanus [screwpine leaves], daun salam [fresh bay leaves] and daun kunyit [turmeric leaves] add 'Nyonya zest' to it's wonderful cookery.
One can easily spot authentic Nyonya food in Malaysia by its cooking style and the word 'Nyonya, sometimes spelt 'Nonya', as a prefix, such as Nyonya Laksa, Nyonya Chicken Curry, Nyonya Prawn Sambal or Nyonya Fried Rice. Nyonya food is in a unique gastronomic realm all of it's own - with specific and subtle nuances of tastes and flavors, quite undiscovered still in the international culinary world.

Sounds delicious to me, I've read about these two KL restaurants that specialize in Nyonya food

Restoran Nyonya
21 Jin Tingkat Tong Shin (just behind Jln Bukit Bintang)

Dongdang Sayang
12 Lower Ground Floor, The Weld
Jln Raja Chulan

Anyone been to either of these or have a recommendation for Nyonya food ?

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