Malaysian Food

Malaysian food in Bahasa Malaysia is ?makanan Malaysia. The word food in Malay is ?makanan . It is a union of the verb ?makan and the suffix -an.

Basic Food Vocabulary

Basic Meat Dish Vocabulary

The exercise below requires you to think of the names of food in Bahasa Malaysia before clicking for the answers.

?Tose

?Muruku

?Papadam

?Putu Mayam

?Putu Buluh

?Apam Manis

? Akok

?Kuih Bahalu

?Tepung Pelita

?Cucur Udang

?Roti Jala

?Onde-onde

?Ketayap

?Epok-epok

?Jemput-jemput

?Otak-otak

?Ulam-ulaman

?Nasi Kerabu

?Kuih Bingka Ubi

Wade - not the English language "wade", it's a Malaysianized form of Vada or Vadai. Utusan Malaysia uses "vadai" for this common south Indian snack which I think is more easily understood than wade. Wade is available as a convenient frozen food as well. We don't have much problem with wade dal since we often meet dal sauce when we eat roti canai. The doughnut shape wade made from flour of black gram or black lentil is called wade ulundu in the so called proper Malay language. However, ulundu is Tamil. Ulundu* the black lentil was confused with green mung beans at times.

The botanical name, Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper, refers to black gram, urd bean, black matpe - "Cultivated vegetables of the world: a multilingual onomasticon edited by Stanley J. Kays"

Belacan

Malaysiabest.net kindly allows me to use many of the photos above, thanx Lilian!

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